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05-25-2010, 05:51 PM | #1 |
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Vintage Colibri lighter - weird butane refill port??
While cleaning out the last of my grandfather's things I happened across a a decent looking Colibri lighter. Normal sized, but VERY hefty. Apparently it is an electronic ignition soft flame. It appears to spark and work just fine mechanically, with just one hitch: I can't figure out how to load it with butane!!!!!
Lighter looks very very similar to this one, and is stamped "Colibri 2001 Japan" on the bottom. http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedi...pocket-lighter I don't have my camera handy to take a macro photo of the fuel port, but its design seems to be a a deep recessed circular port with a rubber grommet around the outside edge and a solid pin in the center that you push in. It looks like a successful fill nozzle would be big enough to completely fill the opening, making contact with the rubber grommet on the outside edges and sealing the chamber, plus some kind of a pin in the middle of the nozzle to push in the center pin and allow gas to flow around the edges of the center pin and in. There's a decent chance it could be designed to screw in as well. Does that somewhat incoherent description make any sense to anyone? Sound like anything you played with as a little kid? how the hell do I fill it?????
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05-25-2010, 06:00 PM | #2 |
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Re: Vintage Colibri lighter - weird butane refill port??
Francis, could this be what all those nifty little red attachments that come with a can of Vector are for? The links pics of the bottom are kinda blurry.
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05-25-2010, 06:40 PM | #3 | |
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One's got to work.
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05-25-2010, 07:24 PM | #4 |
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Re: Vintage Colibri lighter - weird butane refill port??
oh yeah, btw, took it by Levitt & Peirce today and the 50yr old woman didn't know, but tried the plastic adapters she had laying around and none worked
(but maybe the Vector can has more of em )
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05-25-2010, 08:07 PM | #5 |
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Re: Vintage Colibri lighter - weird butane refill port??
What didn't work? Did the gas spit back? Lighter could be clogged or faulty. If it got cold when using gas it went in for sure.
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05-25-2010, 08:58 PM | #6 |
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Re: Vintage Colibri lighter - weird butane refill port??
nope, lighter is still empty as far as I can tell. None of the attachments looked like they were the right shape to work, so I wasn't surprised when none did.
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05-25-2010, 09:27 PM | #7 |
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Re: Vintage Colibri lighter - weird butane refill port??
I've gotta believe that an email to Colibri will get you the info you need.
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05-26-2010, 11:35 PM | #8 | |
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Blarg.... time to get a Vector and see if one of those attachments happen to work...... Target got it perchance? No wallyworlds around me....
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05-27-2010, 09:44 AM | #9 | |
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05-27-2010, 11:19 AM | #10 | ||
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In this particular lighter, blowback would be acceptable. Besides, if I can find a nozel the fits, I'm sure I can rig up a better seal on it
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01-18-2018, 06:41 PM | #11 |
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Re: Vintage Colibri lighter - weird butane refill port??
I found this thread moderately helpful today. i got an old colibri cigarette case to use as a business card holder, and it came with a matching lighter.
ideally, i think, you would have an adapter with an off-center hole like this. i do not have one of those, but one of my butane cans had other adapters on the lid, and i was able to make do with this fat one. i canted it to the side a bit, so that the brass plunger wouldn't plug the hole, and when the lighter body got cold i knew it was working. incidentally, whilst researching this today, i found out that you can clean a butane burner with zippo fluid and a q-tip. so now my knockoff st dupont works again. it's a great day for fire-making, |
05-27-2010, 06:41 AM | #12 |
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Re: Vintage Colibri lighter - weird butane refill port??
Williams Sonoma carries it too Francis, there is a store at Copley
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01-19-2018, 09:09 AM | #13 |
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Re: Vintage Colibri lighter - weird butane refill port??
Welcome to the Asylum, Trent!
Be sure to introduce yourself in the new Inmate forum.
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01-19-2018, 10:21 AM | #14 |
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Re: Vintage Colibri lighter - weird butane refill port??
Couple weeks ago a young friend told me he'd inherited a rather old butane lighter with an odd size fill port. He had never seen the ring of adaptors until I fetched him one from my vehicle. (Not every brand of butane includes those now, as many of you know.)
Anyhow, a week later I saw him again, and sure enough one of the supplemental nozzles fit perfectly.
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05-17-2018, 09:31 AM | #15 |
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Re: Vintage Colibri lighter - weird butane refill port??
Hello! Thanks for the interesting info on Colibri –*I've just inherited one from my great aunt. She died at 92 (still a smoker) and I'd love to get it going again. I've put a pic of it up which I hope you can see. Any clues on what adapter I need for it would be brilliant. I guess any butane gas would be OK. if you can see the pic the ridged screw is where the flint goes, not sure what the red cap is for and I assume the other one is where the gas goes... Anyway, any help very much appreciated:
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05-17-2018, 10:20 AM | #16 | |
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05-17-2018, 10:48 AM | #17 |
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Re: Vintage Colibri lighter - weird butane refill port??
I would use a quality butane, cheaper ones may give you some issues. I've been using Vector for some time now.
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05-21-2018, 09:30 AM | #18 |
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Re: Vintage Colibri lighter - weird butane refill port??
100% on this. Not a reason in the world to use the cheap stuff...
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01-15-2019, 08:11 AM | #20 |
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Re: Vintage Colibri lighter - weird butane refill port??
Hello guys, I'm having similar problems with a vintage colibri, so I thought I could ask here. I can't seem to refill it properly, minimum flame height, I empty it of air, once the hissing stops I put the valves together, but then it leaks no matter the adapter (unfortunately i only have plastic ones provided with a can). It seems to kinda work without an adapter, but it leaks sligthly and there is quite some gas blowback afterwards. I tried it a couple of times and once or twice the flame worked for about 30 seconds before fading out. I gathered from this that it's either dirty plumbing or that the tank isn't filling properly and blowing back most of it. Is it possible there is a gasket or something missing from the valve?
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