The butane and oxygen mix is now vaporized as it continues upwards and out through the surface of the torch head, where ignition occurs. It gets mixed with air in the mixing chamber. As the fuel passes through the now much narrower bore hole the butane is jetting faster than when it entered the burner's intake valve. This increases the jet effect of the fuel. The butane is blown/forced through this disk. The permeable disk goes in first It sits at the entrance of the bore. The bore hole is just above the intake valve. But the fuel is still coming out the diversion channels and the fuel emanating from them, does get lit underneath the torch head ead. On the Gabon and other similiar torch lighter there are no corresponding jets drilled into the top of the torch head. If you have a torch lighter with multiple jets around the rim of the torch head, you will notice that the jets are in-line with the diversion channels. And with only one jet when lit, It does not burn as hot as a torch with many jets, thus you have a "soft flame". That's how the flame appears all the way around the torch head, making for a better, bigger and stronger blue torch flame. The channels don't get as much fuel because of their off-center position in relation to the bore hole. Because the fuel is being jetted upwards and out the torch head, most of the fuel goes out through the single jet directly in-line with the assembly's bore hole. Butane is also funneled through these channels. When you take out the burner assembly you will notice there are channels on the sides of the torch head. ![]() You may ask if it only has one big jet how come when I look at the flame there is fire surrounding the entire torch head, and it appears to come from underneath the torch head. It would take an enormous amount of carbon buildup to clog it up. The single jet orifice won't get clogged up because of it's size, but who knows. ![]() I took a small piece of #00 steel wool and twisted it and I was able to push the piece of steel wool into the orifice and gave it a good scrub. The Gabon has one big single jet orifice (hole). I gave the burner assembly a good wash in rubbing alcohol. The ceramic cup will also come out as well. It will come out from the top of the lighter. You can unscrew it by grabbing the body of the burner from underneath. To my surprise, this one, the blue one, actually unscrewed out. I could try to apply heat to to it and see if it will loosen up, maybe one of the days I will. I tried unscrewing the burner assembly on the orange one but it will not budge. If you have never done this, washing the screen between your fingers will definitely improve your flame. If your torch lighter is still clogged after trying other known fixes, the micro mesh screen and/or the permeable disk inside the fuel intake valve is clogged. ![]() ![]() Cheap butane will ruin your lighter because of the amount of unburned impurities because of lack of filtering when the butane is manufactured (South Korea). In time this desposit will harden in to carbon buildup. Impurities that do not completely ignite are left behind in the form of oily carbon soot. Butane quality is directly proportional to the number of times it is filtered. And then there's the other number one (1) problem with torch lighters it is the quality of butane being burned. A cheap fix is to use an igniter from a utility lighter. I can buy a new lighter or fix it by replacing the piezo ignition. Lots of times the piezo igniter is defective It will no longer "click" and or will not spark. The piezo will wear out from use and it's plunger will not have anything to strike. I find the number one (1) problem with torch lighters is the piezoelectric igniter no longer creates a spark. This is my 4 year-old Scorch Torch Gabón lighter. This video was created in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 2018. This video will show how to teardown the Scorch torch and how to replace the piezo igniter when it no longer works.
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