Refilling gas in blowtorch

kittykat500

Pls move if posted in incorrect place!

I've bought a chef's blowtorch at a boot sale and need to refill with lighter fluid. As I have no instructions, help!! I gather I can get the fluid from the newsagents, but do I need to remove anything from the blowtorch?

celyn90

I had this problem - I had to get my brother (who smokes) to show me. You can by the gas/fluid from a newsagent - it comes in an aersol. If you take the lid off the can, there is a little tube. The bottom of the blow torch will have a little depression on it. Press the depression onto the pipe hard and it will fill.

Sometimes the lids of the aersols you get from the newsagents have little adaptors in the cap - if it doesn't fit straight on, then you can snap these out and snap them over the pipe, but I've nver needed to do this with mine.

Lighter fluid/gas was about 1.50 last time I bought one cel x

Farway

Do take care with nomeclature, lighter fluid is petrol based, the other stuff is liquid gas

Older ciggie lighters, and todays Zippos, use the petrol based fluid, and for all I know this may still be around, so if you ask for lighter fluid you may well get a petrol based product, which could be a disaster if you can somehow get it into the chef's blowtorch, not likely as pressure is required

But you could find liquid and highly flammable / explosive vapours from the petrol based product sloshing around you

PS Petrol based product it is still around
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ronson-Lighter-Fluid-133ml-can/dp/B00298IFN0

Take care

geordie_joe

celyn90 wrote: »

Lighter fluid/gas was about 1.50 last time I bought one cel x

I think I should point out that lighter gas and fluid are two completely different things.

Lighter gas is just that, gas that comes in an aerosol can which is round. Fluid is petrol and comes in a square can.

You need to make sure you get the right one.

kittykat500

So, just to make sure, I need to ask for lighter gas.

celyn90

Sorry - mine is a gas one, not fluid cel x

geordie_joe

kittykat500 wrote: »

So, just to make sure, I need to ask for lighter gas.

I would thinks so, in fact I'm certain as you would need gas under pressure to get the required flame for a blow torch.

Butterfly_Brain

I have one of these and it is most definitely gas you need