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Help, my Jet Lighter won't Light

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Seraph

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SWIM bought a new jet lighter and he pushes down the button-thing and it just makes a hissing noise, the jet lighter uses pure butane as fuel and there is butane in the lighter, how does SWIM make a flame with his jet lighter. SWIM does not understand how to make is jet lighter work.
 
This hapens to me on the odd ocassion. Its almost like the ignition didnt work, just click it again and it should work.
 
perhaps the wire from the capacitor dischare is not sparking in the path of the butane - try adjust the lil wire inside the flame pit with a pin or something.
 
I lent my jet lighter out to a buddy and it came back sorely mangled, missing it's cap, and having ignition issues. I struggled with it for about 2 weeks trying to figure out why the hell it would only light sporadically and stumbled upon a great solution (it's now lighting 100% of the time when I use this method). I hold the gas/ignition button down to the point where it is just prior to engaging the pizoelectric igniter. This allows the butane to begin flowing out of the nozzles. After about a second or two (it doesn't have to be long, just long enough to make sure when the igniter sparks, there's already gas flowing) I depress it all the way, spark the igniter, and the flame catches and lasts for as long as I need it.

This was on the "crappy" three-flame gas station lighter I've had for almost a year-and-a-half (since first extracting my own). It seems to function fine now as long as the above procedure is followed. I dunno if it will solve your problem as sometimes you just get a shitty jet lighter (another one I got from a gas station rarely lights, despite never being used). If you want to be assured of a flame, it's really worth shelling out $30-$50 on a Colibri lighter. I have a blue Stingray and as long as there's a decent amount of gas in it, it never fails to light.

peace
SB
 
Make sure that all the jets under the cap are clean. Mine got just a little bit of dust and wouldn't light at all.

I blew blew into the jets really hard and that seemed to do the trick.
 
hey seraph, i've never had this problem with a brand new lighter, but i kinda messed mine up and it also made a hissing noise, with butane coming out, but with no flame. I know why mine got messed up: I refilled my butane lighter with some butane, and tried to use the lighter right away. the butane is really cold when you first refill it, and you're supposed to wait like 10-15 minutes before usage so that its not cold anymore. anyways, when i tried to torch my lighter right after refilling with cold butane, the sparker got messed up.
Maybe you're just not using it right, and perhaps your lighter is perfectly fine (refer to the little guide); or maybe you just got a messed up lighter (maybe someone fucked it up and returned it).
If it doesn't work, you should try returning it if that's an option. Or else, better luck next time!:d
 
Have you considered that your lighter setting is too fuel-rich? Mine has an adjustable flame and typically only works reliably on high setting when it's nearly full, and lower settings as it empties of butane. Fiddle with that and see if it works.
 
Im just really really patient with my lighter and do it extremely slow. works like a charm.

had this issue with my first jet. I was pissed for about an hour til i realized it was just telling me "slow down, I light. You just be patient man you gir."

-gir
 
SWIM was in exactly the same boat as you, OP. He got a Colibri Firebird which are notorious for being shit (but cheap). When he turned it on, there would be an orange flame, and it would immediately be followed by the hissing butane and extinguished flame. SWIM tried everything: leaking the butane, replacing parts, adjusting the height of the flame, refilling, and what eventually made it work was

(1) leaking the butane (supposedly presence of air causes this kind of problem)
(2) refilling butane
(3) adjusting height to medium-high
(4) pressing down the button very slowly*. Almost a month after purchase, SWIM got it to work that way.

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I hold the gas/ignition button down to the point where it is just prior to engaging the pizoelectric igniter. This allows the butane to begin flowing out of the nozzles. After about a second or two (it doesn't have to be long, just long enough to make sure when the igniter sparks, there's already gas flowing) I depress it all the way, spark the igniter, and the flame catches and lasts for as long as I need it.

This is EXACTLY what SWIM did in (4). It works great!

Now, this guide is only for electro-flame quantum, electro-quartz, and flint lighters, but it's pretty helpful.

SWIM would advise you NOT to waste you time like he did, and just throw down for a different quality lighter if money isn't a problem. It's a hit or miss deal with some of these cheaper lighters. SWIM would have done that, and it would have saved him a lot of frustration. SWIM now uses the Jet 1300-C Butane Lighter because it's so cheap and it works like a charm.
 
Sounds like the ignition doesn't work.
The sound you hear is probably the butane coming out, so that means the fuel is fine.
Trying putting a flame above where it lights, and pressing the button. It should make the butane catch fire from the flame.
If this happens you'll either need to fix the ignition, or light it next to a flame. could just light a bic, then use the bic to light your jet lighter
 
g13juggalo said:
Trying putting a flame above where it lights, and pressing the button. It should make the butane catch fire from the flame.
Not at all...seriously, if you don't believe me take a bic lighter and a butane lighter and hold one in each hand. Light the butane lighter and blow it out so that the gas is rushing out but it has no flame. Now light the bic and try to ignite the butane lighter with it. It will make some very interesting patterns/designs, but the butane lighter will not ignite from this. (And yes, if you couldn't tell from this post I go through pothead and pyro stages every now and again 😉) Ooooooooooooo, preeeeetty fire :lol:
 
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