Introduction: Fixing That Jet Lighter You lot Love

So I was fixing my jet lighter (by now a adequately primitive design but a very good one and it only cost me£i at a motorcar kick sale) I used to fix antiquarian lighters with my dad, thankfully jet lighters tend to be a chip more than standard for repairs.

So In this I'll embrace diagnosis, repair and also dismantling and assembly (most lighters designs' are a common principle... )
Ok so i got a slightly better camera than my phone, information technology'due south an ancient catechism powershot A60, only 2MP but bank check out the macro in the pics, it was top of the range once upon a time and it shows.

Step one: And so What Y'all'll Demand for This

Tools
- a small philips caput screwdriver (the tiny ones) it almost alway philips head.
-a penknife or a minor flathead screwdriver (for adjustments)
-a pair of pliers, needle nose are great her merely I can practice it with my fake leatherman outset to terminate (brand damn certain the pliers aren't magnetized it'due south annoying)
-a safety pivot or some thin tough wire or a cartoon pin (yous'll run across what I mean if it comes upward)

Materials
-some sturdy wire almost 24awg (annihilation that fits will do (again you'll empathize pretty quick) is handy
-lighter gas, really helps diagnosis, in fact try the first...
-You lot may need condom tubing or a piezo spark depending how you broke it (if y'all dropped I already know whats wrong. the lighter in this is my drinking lighter because information technology's made of metallic and I know how to set information technology)

Step ii: Ok Diagnosis Fourth dimension Dr.

Offset put gas in the lighter, you lot should accept washed this already but this helps us determine alot.

Fill it with gas and heed, information technology may leak for a up to 30 seconds simply that'due south ok every bit long as it stops.

Push button downward the button, is at that place gas coming out and is there a definite click from the spark (if yep to both this volition exist easy)

If there's no gas coming out at the nozzle but it's going somewhere then the connection has been broken probably nada more than the flexible gas line has slipped off the seat of the reservoir end (there's more than room here so it autumn off that terminate but it's piece of cake to fix anyway)

If you push the button all the way downwardly and no click go to the shop and buy a really crappy cheap electric lighter, non a bic though, their piezios accept no wire.

endeavour turning down the gas a flake (sometimes the gas tin can't ignite because information technology going also fast for the tiny arc to estrus... This ever happens if you set the lighter when it's hot because information technology starts easier only wont once it's cooled downwards again.

All of these things are curable, this lighter hasn't many original parts, at i indicate I was going to hotrod a second nozzle in but There's no room, somewhen I'll brand an instructable about how to make your own jet lighter.

Stride three: Opening Your Lighter Upward

This footstep only tells yous how to accept it all apart.

Offset expect on the bottom, at that place should be a small (mostly probable philips head) screw non far from the filler valve, unscrew information technology, usually that is the simply matter holding a lighter together, at present pull the casing downward off the residuum (concur on to the cap and carefully pull the casing off) now you should see the guts of your lighter, at that place'due south probably two pins property the assembly together. Enter the safety pin, Use the pin or wire to push the pin out of its hole.

now attempt moving everything apart, careful not to lose anything (yes my pins are made from steel wire only shh the screw came off a tiny circuit board, i didn't lose it, the screw was too long to start with.)

Check the image, the parts should be recognizable, and the note will explain all...

Step 4: Adjusting the Spark

This is easily the about mutual trouble with jet lighters because they have metal bodies...

Basically the piezo is grounding out to the torso or the chassis...

All we need to do is move the wire out and put it against the nozzle and then it'southward touching it, that'll be guaranteeing near 100% functioning in lighting. The offset picture hither shows the spark wire end pulled out and away a bit to and then we go a clear idea of where nosotros tin put it. Wrapping information technology effectually the nozzle is practiced if there are no close metal torso parts but the all-time is definitely doing it like picture 2. You lot should have kept all the pins, but actually you should hav just left it together had this been the case. Before putting the example on, come across if the lighter fires upward if so slide the case on again and see if it still goes, if yes spiral information technology back on and become light something up with it (In my case a Marlboro Red just in yours information technology may exist a fuse... )

Pace v: And then I Did That, But I'chiliad Non Getting Anywhere

Simply check where gas is going by pushing down on the lever for the gas valve on the reservoir, look carefully forth the gas line, you should see something similar to 'heat wiggles' (from the modify in desity between gas and air) if theres a leak, I y'all have a crappy BBQ lighter kicking effectually and then cannibalize that for some gas line (there'due south enough for five or six replacements) and if you needed information technology they're a great source of igniters due to the extra long cablevision.

If the gas yet isn't getting out the nozzle then the nozzle's chock-full, symptoms include the lighter bursting into flame for a second during use. accept some thin wire or a pin and put it through the nozzle to clear it.

At this point I tin't think of much else to become wrong, if the gas filler valve leaks when you lot fill information technology up and then tighten it. If everything works only the lighter won't lite or can't hold a flame turn down the gas flow a flake. If the flame sputters and has problem keeping going and then information technology'southward too weak to stay above the nozzle, turn the gas flow upward a little. Finally we put it back together.

If there's any problem I have missed comment me and I'll add steps, to be honest I can't think of anything other than components going wrong after this.

Stride 6: Putting It Back Together

Correct now we rebuild the lighter

From the picture yous should exist able to tell your own parts easily enough.

This listing goes bottom to top in stacking up the components over again, refer to the pictures to fill up sense

BOTTOM

- Reservoir
-gas valve lever (all-time put in earlier piezo for convenience
-piezo
-push embrace/southward
-lid top assembly (brand sure the gas tubes go dorsum in the right place)
-slide the cover back on and screw on

Pace 7: I Do Believe We're Washed

Once again if there's anything I missed or whatsoever questions annotate me and I'll do my all-time to help.

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