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Thread: How do you fill a lighter?
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31st January 2007, 10:23 AM #1
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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
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
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31st January 2007, 10:31 AM #2
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Tip the lighter upside down. LPG is a liquid and it wont run up hill
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31st January 2007, 10:34 AM #3
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I failed physics too (got 15% in my first physics exam at Uni
Originally Posted by silentC
Tip the lighter upside down. LPG is a liquid and it wont run up hill
).
Grrr.
Thanks mate. This probably explains why I could never get my butane gas torch to work either.
Richard
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31st January 2007, 10:36 AM #4
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Originally Posted by silentC
Tip the lighter upside down. LPG is a liquid and it wont run up hill
Is that right? I would have thought that it was under pressure. No wonder I can never get the rotten things to fill.
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31st January 2007, 10:45 AM #5
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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
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31st January 2007, 11:00 AM #6
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Ah... reading the instructions!
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31st January 2007, 11:01 AM #7
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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!!
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31st January 2007, 11:08 AM #8
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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.
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31st January 2007, 11:19 AM #9
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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.Have a nice day - Cheers
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31st January 2007, 11:21 AM #10
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Like I said:
LPG is a liquid and it wont run up hill
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31st January 2007, 11:33 AM #11
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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
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31st January 2007, 11:48 AM #12
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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.
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31st January 2007, 11:53 AM #13
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Only if you want liquid LPG spilling out all over your marinated chicken skewers...
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31st January 2007, 11:58 AM #14
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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!
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31st January 2007, 12:00 PM #15
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Thats what the defibrillators for.....Stand Back....Clear.....ZAP...
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