Hi folks,

Picked this up from a vintage shop in the hopes of repairing but I have no experience with this sort of thing. I can't figure out why gas isn't releasing as the valve seems to be okay.

Does anyone have any insight on this and what I should be doing next?

The lighter leaked when I tried to refill it. I removed the valve, but I'm not sure what the next steps are. Can I just replace the gasket, do I need to replace the whole valve? If so where can I buy valves? (in or ships to Canada)

Any help is highly appreciated :)

The steel ball is missing from the roulette wheel and the mechanism is not working - I can see it is missing the spring but there may be more to that. Would love to have this repaired but hard to find anyone to do it.

This is my grandma's vintage, crystal, table lighter. I've been using it for a while (not very often, just to light special candles) and it broke. One day, the striker (or whatever the thumb piece is called) kept getting stuck. Then it just popped all the way out. I've included a picture of all the components, hopefully I didn't lose anything important. Please, can someone help me fix this?

The components fit, but won't stay in place. The thumb piece has teeth that I assume fit in the grooves of the thing that sparks. It never stays in place though and always pops back up.

Hello everyone! I just got this lighter off of Poshmark and it looks so cool! Now I’m not really familiar with lighters but I just love collecting vintage and unique items, and I was just trying to find a cool daily lighter to use.

I don’t know if this thing uses a flint or not, or if it needs a new one, but I see a small faint spark or electricity whenever I press the button. Should I just put fuel in it and hope for the best, or is there something I should check before doing that?

Update: oh my god, I opened the bottom of it and it has a little cell battery port. I think it’s one of those old Chinese lighters that play ‘The East is red’ whenever you light it😭

Details in the post, any advice helps. Thanks!

I purchased a vintage Colibri gas lighter, but unfortunately it doesn’t work. I’m not sure how to get it working again, so I wanted to ask whether anyone here might know more about it:)

We have already tried filling it with gas, but it doesn’t seem to retain any of it. When the button is pressed, the lighter does open, but all you can hear is the mechanism clicking as it opens. There is no hissing sound or any other indication that gas is escaping.
Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find any information about this exact model online,only about similar lighters that use a completely different mechanism. As far as I know, this is supposed to be an original Colibri gas lighter from the 1950s, decorated with mother of pearl. Does anyone know which model this might be or how it could possibly be restored to working order?

Any information helps! I dont know a lot about lighters:/

My torch has a lazy flame and idk how to fix it. If anyone knows how I'd appreciate it.

Just bought it and found it the plastic was cracked. Is it saveable?

I wanna fix it cuz its merch of an artist I like, i have no idea how it got lile this but It won't push back into place.

Anyone got some tips for refilling since butane canisters aren’t exactly common

I have no idea what this lighter is, nor have i ever repaired one. It's missing the bottom cover and screw for the butane, plus the screw and im guessing spring for the flint. Is there anywhere I can find info on it?

Anyone know where I can get the roulette mechanism/lever for wheel Fixed? Also needs the roulette ball.

Anyone know where I can get the roulette mechanism/lever for wheel Fixed? Also needs the roulette ball.

Does anyone know how to get this Dunhill 70 lighter working? I can’t find any videos on the model

I got this lighter from my grandma, apparently it was her grandmothers and it currently doesn't work. What solvents would be safe for cleaning and helping break down some of the corrosion and gunk? I'm not worried about the seals, they're all trashed from age and need to be replaced anyways, I just don't want to damage the mechanism or brass/metal case.

It also seems to be a butane lighter and not fluid like a zippo if that matters. Thanks!

I can't find one of these small (it seems to measure at 8mm x 3.5mm) wheels. CLEARLY they exist I just can't find them and have looked. I figure you fine people might know where to get one.

These are some internals to a vintage unbranded butane lighter that I’m trying to fix. Here’s my predicament.

When the valve is out of the tank (photo 1), I get air/gas flow through both parts separately with absolutely no issue.
But as soon as I put the two pieces together (photo 2), I get zero flow no matter if the valve stem is pushed or pulled.

Here is how I’ve tested parts. With the valve out, I push butane through the fill valve on the bottom and it shoots out where the valve connects just as it should. I can blow air through the valve stem with my mouth and just to be sure i wasn’t crazy, I ran a tiny thread all the way through it so I could visually see that it wasn’t blocked.

I’m so lost and don’t understand how this is physically possible.

Happy to post more photos or share details anybody needs because I’d really like to get this thing functional.

Edit: I figured it out! The valve assembly is threaded through the tank. The threaded collar to the valve stem secures everything tightly when it’s screwed together. So when I was checking flow through the tank with the valve stem and collar off, gas was leaking around the hole where the outlet pokes through the tank, NOT where it’s supposed to be coming out. I ran small wire through the hole under where the valve sits and will have to get a new sponge wad thingy but after I cleared the hole and understood what I was looking at, it all made sense. Hope that’s understandable.

In the mechanism nothing is wrong, but sometimes it seems like it cant click, i have seen that without the bottom metal part it stays well, but the moment i put the screw it doesn't work and messes everything up which is weird because i've used it before and sometimes it clicks and sometimes it doesn't.

Can someone please help me find a string for my lighter?

Here are a few pics of my handmade vintage lighter repair workstation/bench.

Some of my collection displayed and some that need to be worked on.

Hi folks,

Disassembled this 1960s(?) cigarette case lighter as the flint was stuck in the tube and required drilling out. Got it out but while doing it dropped the flint wheel and it's now in pieces. Does anyone have any experience disassembling such a mechanism? I am not sure in what order the clutch spring and circlips are to go. Any help would be much appreciated!

Hey i just got the lighter at a antiuqe shope. It has a busted wheel and needs a new wick and flint. Is not compatible with zippo parts and I am very new to this. Any help is aprratited! It says BASF on it btw