I bought some butane at the grocery store and put it in a new lighter. It started lighting fine, then after a while, it began sputtering and taking more and more clicks to get it lit only to go out while toasting. I finally tossed it in the ole garbage receptacle. I liked that lighter, It was single torch with a huge reservoir that was nice and clear (see through)

I bought a new lighter on cbid, you know... the one that looks like an over sized zippo with a 5 Vegas logo on it....
I filled it and it worked fine, until my next fill up, then started sputtering and going out. It took multiple clicks to light, just to sputter out while toasting. I read to purge the lighter, so I purged away nearly a whole can and kept purging til that can was gone.

So I stop at a smoke shop and pick up a couple cigars and a can of NEON 5X premium butane. I filled my new lighter and it now lights first time every time with a glorious steady blue 3 torch flame.

Moral of the story? .... There isn't one, but I will never buy Ronson butane from the grocery store again. It cost me twice as much for 1/4 of the sub standard gas.

Sometimes if u get the lighter lit and fart on the flame it will be a good purge.

Far too dangerous.

Hey cheap prick. I have been dealing with the same exact thing. Fasfil 5xrefined butane. All my lighters were /are doing the same.
I bought a can of colibri cheap my lighters are improving. They were just about not usable.
A good while back I bought an Alec Bradley “the burner” that lighter will burn anything so I’m just gonna use that can for that lighter. All my pocket lighters got screwed up though. I think the new butane is slowly cleaning them up or something. They’re working better now. Not back to perfect but I think they will be after a purge or few

I've never had any issues with XIKAR High Performance or Neon 11x.

The colibri can be had very reasonably

You are correct. I think I have around 5 for the yellow can
7 or 8 for the colibri. Considering the difference I was pretty happy. Bought two more cans of the colibri Some of that stuff is more than 7-8 bucks though.

It is considerably more expensive than the cheaper stuff that may or may not work

I'm using Xikar Purofine Premium...some of my lighters, including both tables and a couple Xikars are not lighting; one will light randomly and another will light after several clicks, but have only an half inch flame despite the adjustment screw at max +


waiting for the lockdown to lift so I can visit the cigar lounge in Glendora and see if Charlie can fix them...he's fixed a couple of my other ones...I'd like to avoid the shipping cost of sending them to Xikar...

thinking I might need to try some Colibri fuel, to see if the Xikar Purofine is the problem...

I've used the compressed air spray...didn't seem to help...

try cleaning with the butane...I guess it's like a solvent or something.

Maybe it was the new fuel that worked.....

Maybe it was the purging process...

When I purged, I completely emptied the chamber, then I re pressed the nozzle 5 or 6 additional times to make sure every bit of the old fuel was out before I refilled.

If your lighters are lighting, but the flame sux, it's probably a fuel issue... I think....

My new new years resolution.. Every time my lighter runs out of fuel, I'm going to purge before I refill to keep my lighter healthy ..

I use the neon 5x right now but only because I'm in California and getting butane shipped is close to impossible at a decent price...

but I found a guy on ebay that doesn't care about laws or safety... he throws 4 full sized cans into an unpadded envelope and sends them priority...

One of these days that package is gonna blow up and I can only hope it destroys all identifying info linking it back to me...

I made a point to refill all my old lighters with the colibri
Even my cheap lighters have slowly recovered. I mentioned earlier they were getting better I thought.

I believe the good butane burns hotter. To the point it actually cooks the “points” clean. One I had no spark , so me being me I would jump start it with a different lighter because I wanted to empty the lighter with no spark. I refilled the lighter jumped it and it now suddenly has spark again. Lesson learned. Only buy good butane. It will screw lighters up.