Butane badness

Step 6 Final Assembly

This is the tricky part. You want to drill the holes to get you from the trigger area into the breech. As previously stated, make the hole for the gas tube ~3-4 tube diameters to allow wiggle room. Be careful here. It is easy to break the gas tube off the lighter at this stage.

Only after everything is positioned properly do I glue it in place. You can see I again sanded the washer where it would join the wooden body.

Once the wires are through, position them and the gas tube and cut to length. I like to tin the electrodes, but it is not essential. I try to position them in mid-chamber. The gas tube I bend 90 degrees and direct the flow against the upper wall of the chamber. I do this for two reasons. One is because I believe it will result in better gas mixing. The second is that when you have to open the chamber to vent combusted gasses it doesn't interfere as much -- it depends on the motion you use to seperate them.

Okay, so why have the images till now been showing a black ronson lighter and the final assembly shows a white one? Well...I got to this stage before discovering that the black lighter had a cracked base and permanent leak. So I continue with the white one.