Lighter Filling Issue

urbino

urbino

Update: I found the nibs in the cap of the butane can, but none of them seems to really fit, either. They all have either to big an outside diameter to fit in the recess, or too small a hole to do any good.

urbino

kuzi16

urbino

kuzi16

naught

cabinetmaker

Take a golf tee, or something similar and use it to completely empty the lighter by depressing the pin in the fill hole. You have too much pressure in the fuel tank and the lighter fluid cannot get in. I've had the same problem with my tycoon duece and followed that advice and it filled completely in a couple seconds.

cholmes8310

nsezell

I really don't get why we have to use these special butane's. I've been using the standard red cap boring butane that you find at most B&M's for 15 years and I've never had a problem except one lighter that crapped out and it wasn't from the butane cause I never got a chance to refill it...it was a colibri firebird and it bit the dust on day 1...

kuzi16

thats fair. you were more lucky than most. I lost 2 lighters to crap butane.

zoom6zoom

cholmes8310:

I use Vector 5x refined butane on my Xikar Plunge, and it fits perfectly,

The Colibri works fine on the Plunge also. I like that lighter because of the fuel window.

jihiggs

I have a lighter that will not take ANY butane until I open the valve as far as it will go.

naught

As if my new addiction wasn't costing me enough already, I bit the bulllet on a couple cans of Vector quintuple just to be safe

bbc020

naught:

As if my new addiction wasn't costing me enough already, I bit the bulllet on a couple cans of Vector quintuple just to be safe

Good stuff