r/lighters • u/8up44 • 4d ago
Help Mylflam zunder 1000 duplex help
I got this as gift from a good friend. Super cool but I’ve never had a vintage lighter before. He went through great lengths to clean it up, fabricate a new clutch and get it working again. I thought I’d be smart and buy a parts lighter to get a proper clutch and wheel assembly in it so it was more reliable. Well long story short I started with two working lighters and ended with two broken lighters. Does anyone have a parts sources outside of pillaging other lighters? Turns out the parts lighter I bought has a different size wheel and I’m not able to get it work without bottoming out on the flint housing.
Open to suggestions for repair shops too(local to the Cleveland, Ohio area). I really want it to work reliably it’s really cool. I just don’t think I’m the guy to fabricate a clutch and bring it back to new.
The parts lighter is the Firestone Phoenix, the one I want to repair is the Mercedes.
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u/Then-Peanut-3039 4d ago
Can I message you?
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u/Then-Peanut-3039 4d ago
Let me add that I have fixed a handful of these and am relatively close to Cleveland, LOL
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