Begin to slowly saturate the cotton wadding with the lighter fluid. Beneath the felt pad, you'll find cotton wadding material. If it's too challenging to remove, use a paperclip or a similar tool such as our Fog Pin.Ĥ. If there is a screw in the felt pad, unscrew the metal screw.ģ. Turn the lighter upside down to reveal a felt pad. In most lighters, the metal chamber is housed inside a decorative outer shell.Ģ. Lighter fluid (use Ronsonol, Zippo, or a similar fluid - NOT butane)ġ.But how exactly do you refill one? Follow this easy step-by-step guide to refilling your Tsubota Pearl, Zippo, or similar cotton-wick lighter. So maybe this is the problem.Our Tsubota Pearl wick lighters are best-sellers for a reason - they're stylish, they're made in Japan to the highest quality standards, and they're endlessly reusable and refillable. I’ve found that I can only refill the lighters about 4 or 5 times and then they just won’t light, even when there’s enough butane in them. Long lighters are pretty cheap, so maybe it’s not worth the hassle, but I’ve ruined torches with low quality butane in the past. Personally, I use 9x refined Colibri for my torches.Ĭheap butane like Ronson has more impurities and it can clog up your lighter and ruin it. The brand name is less important than how refined it is. You should use a quality butane from brands like Colibri, Puretane, Vector etc. I’m still using the same can of butane to refill lighters 2.5 years after I first wrote this post. You will be able to see in the window whether the cartridge has filled up.And you’d probably want to do this on a solid surface rather than my hands in the air illustration purposes only. It’s likely that extra butane will leak over your fingers, which will be cold, so you might want to wear gloves. Hold the can of butane upside down with the nozzle inserted into the tiny hole for refilling the butane! When the cartridge is completely empty, then you can fill it up.This is an important step and I think was my problem the first time I tried this. Put your instrument into the small hole and press until there is no pressure left, no sound, nothing. Use the smallest nozzle and first use it (or a pin or a screwdriver) to completely release any remaining gas or butane that is in the lighter.So, I thought that I could help out here, for anyone who was once, like me, confused. The best advice was found on a message board, but without illustration. A video from a kid (who shouldn’t be playing with lighters) didn’t help out, and gave advice that was opposite to what eventually worked. The worst advice involved removing the cartridge from a cigarette lighter and then removing the cartridge from the long lighter, and putting the cigarette lighter cartridge into the long lighter AFTER you’ve made a few small adjustments. The weird thing is that the advice that I found was super complicated and often wrong. I thought of this task more recently and realised that at the time, it was unlikely for there to be advice up on the internet, but nowadays, there is advice on EVERYTHING. But the thing is, the first times I tried refilling them, many years ago, I remember it being a complete disaster.īut things move fast these days. I’ve always found it wasteful, though they only cost between $2 and $6, to throw them out when the butane has run out. That is why I have always used long lighters. In situations where a gas stove needs lighting, I have always had the fear that I will light the gas and my whole hand. I spin the little metal dial, get the flame up, and then when trying to light my tea lights (which is the main reason why I would use a lighter), I manage to angle the lighter so that it burns my fingers. (Originally posted 14 December 2017): Does anyone else have this problem? I’ve never liked cigarette lighters.
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