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As you say, he receives a gift of a newer Unique (plain with inscription) in License to Kill and in Tomorrow Never Dies he's shown with a gold Unique (apparently two different lighters were shown, a QL 1402 and a newer Sports Turbo) as one has a blinking LED installed in it as the two lighters look extremely similar to each other.
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No (silver) and Goldfinger (looks silver to me, but many sites like to show a gold version probably because of the movie name), he's shown with what appears to be a Dunhill unique arm lifter in From Russia with Love (he cups his hand over most of it, but you can clearly see the lift arm). I've edited the post to reflect that.ĪFAIK at this point in the movie versions, Bond has a Dunhill Broadboy MK2 in Dr. & James Bond's lighter () - James Bond Literature - Absolutely James Bond), not the movie version which typically used a few different Dunhill lighters.
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I was actually referring to the original Ian Fleming novels, which described Bond as carrying a Ronson across several novels as discussed on some other sites (e.g. Same model, different face/graphic pattern): see the wind cover on my Whirlwind after it. The Ronson Whirlwind is a model started in 1941 with a wind cover that pops up in the front see left graphic as shown on the quoted web site and one I own on the right with a slightly different pattern and then edited later with a newer one below that closely matches the one from the web site (e.g. (You can see the examples on that site I don't currently have my own Unique or Broadboys to display so I'll leave them to that site to display). No and a gold version in Goldfinger and what looks like a Dunhill "Unique" lift arm wick lighter in From Russia with Love and he's given a wedding gift of a newer Dunhill Unique in License to Kill with the inscription, "To James from Della and Felix" (Felix Leiter giving a "lighter" as a gift is kind of funny) and in Tomorrow Never Dies he has a gold Dunhill arm lighter (apparently a Dunhill QL 1402 in one shot and a much newer sports turbo (gas lighter with blue flame) in another that looks the same at a glance). The movies typically show him using Dunhill lighters (e.g. discussed here: The James Bond lighter) and at least one site speculates it could be a Whirlwind as in the attached graphic below) (he was apparently given a Zippo to use in the US by the CIA to appear less conspicuous in the Live and Let Die book the movie doesn't show the lighter where you can see it from what I can recall). James Bond apparently used a Ronson (plain gunmetal no art) in the original Ian Fleming novels, mentioned over the course of several of them (e.g. That, and certain plastics and finishes don't react well to naphtha (admittedly, probably not ones you'd likely find on a guitar, but still).(Edited for clarity/accuracy and to differentiate the novels from the movies) Though I wouldn't personally use them to clean a guitar because I think they're more harsh of a chemical than you generally need and I never let my guitars get nasty enough to need something that strong. And I use them in situations that are a lot more delicate than cleaning a guitars (like wet mounting film). They may not be technically identical (or they may be), but they work similarly enough that, to me, they're interchangeable. They both smell the same, dissolve stuff the same, and evaporate the same. I haven't noticed a difference between them.
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So just because one bottle says naphtha and another says light petroleum distillate, doesn't mean that they're different, and just because two bottles both say naphtha, doesn't mean that they're the same thing.Īll of that being said, I buy both Ronsonol and VM&P Naphtha depending on how much I need (Ronsonol is a shorter drive to get and comes in a convenient bottle, VM&P is cheaper if I need to use a lot). They're kind of generalized, generic names for any number of chemicals. And the problem is, neither one is a specific chemical compound. Naphtha and light petroleum distillate are the same thing.