cigar.com cigar lighter - help
Apparently, lighters don't like me.
I refilled the cigar.com cigar torch lighter five times and now it won't light. Perhaps there were impurities in the butane?
If I turn up the dial I can hear the fuel hissing.
I can see the fluid in the glass "tube".
I can turn down the gas and I have tried small increments of turning the valve up.
I can see the sriker striking the blue spark.
I tried to light it with another flame. It actually puts out another "regular" flame lighter.
If I turn it lower, I can see a little blue flame with a stronger flame from another lighter.
I tried blowing compressed air into the cigar lighter and nothing has changed.
I am guessing their is blockage somewhere. But what can I do now? Thank you in advance. Thanks.
I refilled the cigar.com cigar torch lighter five times and now it won't light. Perhaps there were impurities in the butane?
If I turn up the dial I can hear the fuel hissing.
I can see the fluid in the glass "tube".
I can turn down the gas and I have tried small increments of turning the valve up.
I can see the sriker striking the blue spark.
I tried to light it with another flame. It actually puts out another "regular" flame lighter.
If I turn it lower, I can see a little blue flame with a stronger flame from another lighter.
I tried blowing compressed air into the cigar lighter and nothing has changed.
I am guessing their is blockage somewhere. But what can I do now? Thank you in advance. Thanks.
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Some lighters are temperamental, I've had lighters that take a refilling a dozen times and then just won't work and nothing I do can get them back on the right track.
I did turn the valve all the way down when I refilled it each time.
I hope it's not so temperamental that it doesn't work again... I had this problem with a Zippo. I hated throwing that away. But the life-time warranty shipping is as much as a new one.
Thank you for the reply.
refill as usual from that point.
I did a bit of bleeding last night, but dang, it was really full.
Someone said to bleed it and use compressed air on the filler side, is that correct?
This will blow out the possible impuirities, hopefully...
I will try.
Thank you!
No don't use compressed air the way you would butane, I'm not sure exactly kuzi's method here but I must definetly would not try to force compressed air into the lighter! Simply bleed the lighter, refill it partially with Lava and fire it up a couple times, bleed it again and then fill it all the way up.
Thanks.
But what is the big deal with these lighters costing hundreds of dollars? Why so expensive?
Is Zippo not that good?
I will drain it of the Zippo and try again.
It seems like it has TOO MUCH PRESSURE.
It tends to blow the flame out, when I try to light it with a match or a solid flame from the stove, or other lighter.
Help?!?!?!
I don't want to return if it is m fault...
I've never spent more than $25 on a lighter, actually most of mine have been freebies, and they all work perfectly fine. Mostly you are going to find those small, easily clogged parts I referred to on the torch style lighters... well, probably anything more advanced than your run-of-the-mill Bic lighter.
as far as the lighter goes the Dupont lighters are great. I hear they are very reliable. but for a 1/4 of the price i got a Xikar and for over two years now its never missed a light. so yeah, you can get a $100+ lighter if you want, but im not so sure its $100 worth of good.
...but an OpusX is worth every penny (if you pay retail)
I got a few good strikes with a large flame. I went through four refills, two bleed outs using the flame button and two complete disharges by pressing the bottom.
I also went to colibrishop.com for some more help, but eh... nope. No help there.