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Sadly, no, a standard lighter won't cut it. I used ~30 sec of focused blue flame from my propane-bottle torch to get it sufficiently hot to loosen the red loctite they use at the factory.
Czroe, about those HF pencil torches. As you've discovered, they're crap. I was given one by my father several years ago and it literally exploded in my toolbox on a hot day. Thankfully there was no spark, so it was just pieces of the torch all over the inside of the box. My dad then gave me his which he'd bought at the same time and never used. I filled it, lit it with a laboratory magnesium cup-striker and used it for about 3 minutes before one of the seals gave out and it went the way of the first one. Frankly, the only thing I even sorta trust from HF are solid pieces of metal like breaker bars or impact wrench bits.
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