How do you fill a lighter?

No, I haven't taken up smoking. Having got thoroughly peeved by the crappy gas matches you buy in supermarkets, I bought a refillable one when I bought my new gas bottle for the barbie - it's even shaped like a huge match :D

Come time for the first refil though. Butane gas bottle sitting on the bench. Appropriate tit slipped onto the nozzle. Lower refilling point of the match onto the bottle. Press down and hold.

Some gas went in but not much, enough for about three lights.
Tried again for an loooooonnnnnggggg time - long enough to start feeling stupid. Enough for about six lights. :~

So, what am I doing wrong?

Richard
see, I shouldn't have given up smoking when I was a kid :U

Tip the lighter upside down. LPG is a liquid and it wont run up hill :wink:

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Originally Posted by silentC

Tip the lighter upside down. LPG is a liquid and it wont run up hill :wink:

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I failed physics too (got 15% in my first physics exam at Uni :-).

Grrr.

Thanks mate. This probably explains why I could never get my butane gas torch to work either. :doh:

Richard

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Originally Posted by silentC

Tip the lighter upside down. LPG is a liquid and it wont run up hill :wink:

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Is that right? I would have thought that it was under pressure. No wonder I can never get the rotten things to fill.

I don't really understand the physics of it all. LPG evaporates at normal pressure but is a liquid under pressure. I gather that it is heavier than air. I guess the pressure in the container is not enough to displace the air in the chamber of the lighter, although I could be speaking out my ####.

Anyway, I've always filled them upside down and I just went and had a look at a refill I've got in the shed and that's the way it says to do it. So if it works, it's good enough for me :wink:

Ah... reading the instructions!


CODE VIOLATION... Beep...Beep.... Beep

But in my defence, I only did it to confirm that I was doing it right, after I'd already done it a hundred times and only because Daddles asked. Those must be mitigating circumstances, surely to God. Please, have mercy!!

Just remember when you are filling that any little leaks can cause burns, same as for normal LPG, or I guess any gas expanding rooly quick.

The reason that you fill them holding it upside down is that this places the liquid over the top of the nozzle and when you push down the gas (which is now above the liquid), pushes the liquid into the container.
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This way more is transferred into the lighter before the pressures of the two vessels is equalised at which point the transfer will automatically stop.

Like I said:

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LPG is a liquid and it wont run up hill

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:D

It must be something we're supposed to know because it's not in the instructions on my bottle of gas ... the wee lighter came with none of course.

Ah well. It works, that's the important thing.

Richard

Does this mean that I now have to suspend my gas bottle above my BBQ like some enormous medical drip?
Might as well get one of those defibrillators for the steaks.

Only if you want liquid LPG spilling out all over your marinated chicken skewers...

Does this mean that I now have to suspend my gas bottle above my BBQ like some enormous medical drip?
Might as well get one of those defibrillators for the steaks.


I think you might end up freezing your steaks instead of cooking them!

Pete

Thats what the defibrillators for.....Stand Back....Clear.....ZAP...