65826 Butane Lighter Insert - Single Torch, Chrome

Do not forget to purge before your first fill! People that say it doesn't work, it stopped working after X days/weeks, or has weak flame on max, didn't purge before their first. If you already fill some butane purge it outdoor away of open flames. You can watch how to purge on the video on Zippo youtube channel.

after googling a quick fix it works now!!! it is out the package basically not functional, but you can fix it easy, a little pricey for what it is, but it does work good and have a good warranty.

Love it. Got tired of buying trash torch lighters from the smoke shops and gas stations. There cheap and break. Can't go wrong with a zippo. I'm a farmer so being able to light my cigarette immediately while outside working and it being windy. Totally worth it

First, let me say I have been a loyal Zippo user for quite some time. I have used - and worn out - any number of Zippos over the years. The classic flint, wheel, fluid style lighter has been in my pocket for a long time. Seemed like, as an acquaintance of mine said, there was always something I had to do with those old classics. I was fiddling, it seemed, with my lighter more often than I wanted to. So, I went in search of something a little less maintenance intensive. Or so I thought. Enter the Zippo butane insert. I thought with a butane insert, built in igniter, fill it, and go. No more dealing with flints or over filled fluid tanks. Right? Not for me. Full disclosure, I did not have "premium" butane on hand when I bought this insert. I'm still not convinced that "premium" butane makes that big a difference on the problems I've had (though, I bought some in my journey with this lighter insert). Out of the box, and after filling with butane for the first time, it worked ... okay. Couldn't get a good flame height out of it, though it was reliable in lighting. Went online, found the "modification" videos out there on this problem and made the mods. Wow. Had to be careful I didn't burn my nose off. Now I'm happy, adjusted the flame just right and burned through my first tank of butane all hunky-dory like. Proud of my fancy Zippo butane lighter. Second fill is when the finicky aspects of this insert began to rear their ugly head. Did my second fill. In my search finding the fix to the flame height issue, I discovered that one must purge the tank of air before filling. No biggie. Purged it. Fill for 3 seconds. Purge. Fill for 3 seconds. Purge. Let sit for a few minutes. Go out back for a smoke. Won't light. I'll get it a flame, which then seems to blow itself out. But no steady flame. Adjust flame height screw lower. Same result. Lights up when I light it with another lighter. But, won't ignite itself. Baffled, I set it aside and used my backup lighter. Next day, on a whim, I pick it up, and lo and behold it worked! Lit first time, and worked fine through a tank of butane. Which lead me to a cycle of going 2 or 3 weeks of perfect performance, and then after a fill the insert being stubborn and not wanting to work. Sometimes, I would get an initial light off which wouldn't last. At some point in this process I did buy "premium" butane after having done every "fix" I could find on the internet. Look, I've made my living over the years off of fixing stuff. Building stuff. It's not like I'm not mechanically inclined. Working with my hands and making stuff work is who I am. Zippo, it shouldn't be this hard. I've had this lighter insert for just over a year. A little over half of the time, it worked just fine. The other half, I had to fiddle with it, re-purge it, set it aside for a day, whatever. What I've found is that every fill cycle I just don't know whether it's going to work or not. I had two, three months of good use after switching to premium butane. Really thought that was the solution. Then, I dropped the lighter. It bounced off a 2x4 on it's way to the ground. And just like that, the problems have returned. It'll light once, and then ... nothing. Set it down, walk away, come back in an hour. It'll light once and then ... nothing. I've adjusted the igniter probe (for lack of a better thing to call it) and got a week's worth of pretty reliable use out of it. Filled it. Now, nothing. Will light if I put another lighter flame to it. But, not on its own. Zippo. It. Shouldn't. Be. This. Hard. Is a year the average lifespan of the igniter on this thing? I don't know. Because I have now determined that has to be what it is: An igniter problem. Paying nearly $20 for a years use of a butane lighter seems a bit expensive to me. Especially when I can buy two Bics to get me through a year for a fraction of the price. Or, just go back to my fluid insert. I gave this thing 2 stars only because when it works, it's the best lighter I've ever owned. Wind resistance is excellent. Flame height easily adjustable. I deducted 3 stars because in the 14 months I've owned it, I've had to fiddle with it far more than any other lighter I've owned. Since I still have a 3/4 full can of premium butane, I'm probably going to buy another one and see whether premium butane from the first use on makes a difference in reliability. I will say this, though. When YouTube is full of videos of people telling you how to get around design flaws just for the privilege/prestige of owning a Zippo ... it doesn't inspire confidence. Update: Decided to order another one of these. Smart decision. Right out of the box, and after filling it, it has worked like a champ. Flame height adjustment was good out of the box. Reliable lights. No modifications necessary. Good right out of the box. Have used the latest through a handful of refills, and still works like a champ. Just like a Zippo should. Manufacturers deserve criticism for when their products don't meet standards. They also deserve credit when it appears they've listened to consumers. It would appear to me they have fixed the problems I, and many on the internet, had been encountering. Kudos to them.

Update 7/17/2020 - Well, it's finally just stopped working altogether. Cannot recommend. It's something with the mechanism as I can't even light it with an external source when the gas is being depressed. I can hold down the button, hear gas escaping, light it with another lighter and it never catches. The gas doe ignite as long as the flame is near, but remove the flame and it won't stay lit (actually it never lights, just burns off the gas.) Piece of crap!!! Updated: Well, things haven't improved. I didn't use it for a while but have recently begun using it more frequently. It's just not a good lighter. Completely unreliable and very hard to get a flame. Even if I hold it down with the gas escaping and try to light it with an external source, it still fails to light (the igniter is not the problem). There's something wrong with the pressure of it or turbulence created by the escaping gas that keeps causing the flame to extinguish almost as soon as it lights. Look for something better. Well, I've been using the single flame version for a few weeks now and have mixed feelings about it. It works, for the most part, but there are times when it is difficult to light and can't seem to stay lit for long. Furthermore, the flame adjuster is useless as the entire first half of the adjustment does nothing and won't produce a flame. Adjusting too high results in the same, no flame. There's a sweet spot where it seems to work best, but that's NOT what an adjustable flame is all about. Now, I live at altitude over 5000 feet and it's clearly indicated in the product info that it may not work as well in those situations, but I'm not so sure that's what is happening here. It just seems a bit fiddly and difficult to light at times. If it was the altitude, I would expect it to be fiddly all the time and that's not the case. I've seen some people recommend filling, purging then refilling to see if that helps. I'll try that out and if it improves the reliability I will return and edit my review.

Brilliant

Perfekt, passt in alte Chassis, funktioniert super und ist ne gute Alternative zum Benzin Zippo !

perfectly fit into zippo lighter

Really upsetting to pay such a high price for a product that works only for a month… what a waste of money! Return window was closed by the time it stopped working. Stay away from this item.

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