Vintage Colibri lighter - weird butane refill port??

trent · 01-18-2018, 05:41 PM

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,

01-18-2018, 05:41 PM	#11
trent Just in from the Storm Join Date: Jan 2018 Posts: 1 Trading: (0)	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,