Why won't my jet lighter turn on? - eviltoast

I have some jet lighters in my shop. I’m not a smoker but they are useful for other things too. My problem is that they seem to not work at all?

When I buy them they are fine, push the button, clear “click” sound and a fine hot jet of fire. After a while though, they simply won’t fire anymore, even though the little window shows that there’s plenty of gas inside.

Are these also using the normal propane/butane as regular lighters?

  • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 months ago

    Thank you for the tip about bleeding the air out, I will look into that.

    Yes, the gaseous version, not fluid. Cans here in Europe are typically marked as “propane/butane” so maybe it’s some mix of those gases.

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      10 months ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if the lighter gas we get here in the states is also a mix of gases, I’d be lying if I said I ever read the whole can so maybe it even says so somewhere in the fine print, but I’ve only ever seen it marked as butane here, so I figured I’d throw it out there in case someone reading it tried to refill their lighter from their grill tank