Restoration of an old pistol ignition spark lighter. I will restore this rusty tool and ignite my salute cannon when it is fully repaired.

ABOUT THE OLD PISTOL SPARK LIGHTER
I got this pistol spark lighter from a barn sale here in Sweden. I only paid 1$ for it. My guess is that it is from the mid 1980’s and have been used to ignite a gas stove back in the days.

THE RESTORATION PROCESS
I started by removing the crispy paint from the pistol spark lighter so I could see how to disassemble it. After removing the paint I drilled out the 3 rivets holding it together. Then I removed the trigger, trigger arm, spring, flint and flint wheel. I gave the pistol lighter frame a good sandblasting and cleaned all the small parts in my vibrating tumbler.

There were some big dents on the pistol frame. I used a small hammer to straighten them out and grinded the metal with grit 800 to remove the hammer marks. I blackened some of the small metal parts using a gun blue’ish product and polished the trigger mechanism arm and the gun frame to be mirror blank.

I thought that the pistol lighter restoration needed some extra attention, so I created a cool design which I laser engraved onto the pistol frame. I did the same laser engravings on both sides of the frame.

I reassembled the lighter mechanism and closed the 2 pistol frames together with 3 rivets and a special 10 mm mirror blank brass rivet that I created on my metal lathe.

When I was ready with the restoration, I ignited one of my salute cannons with the pistol spark lighter just to make sure that it worked properly. So it all ended with a big bang.

I really think this restoration video turned out to be very good. Please subscribe if you want to see more cool upcoming projects 🙂

DON’T FORGET TO SEE my MINI ZIPPO RESTORATION:    • MINI Zippo Lighter Restoration  

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Best wishes and stay safe ❤ Martin.