Ronson Premier MK I

Leather is often worn down when you buy your 'new' lighter at an auction or a fair. Sometimes it is possible to restore it by polishing it with brown or black shoe-polish. But what to do when the leather is torn. On top of this page you find the layout for a Premier. Try to find very thin and soft leather. For instance the material for motor overall's. It's quite easy to find some rest parts at a business who makes these overall's. There are two ways to glue this to your lighter. 

Dry:  Use contact glue (Bison-kit). Apply the glue on lighter and leather. Wait a few minutes before you join the two together. This has to go right at once, you cannot push aside when it's not in the right place.

Wet:  Use a latex-like glue (glue for 'paper-back' books). Make the leather wet and attach the glue to it. Place the leather on the tank of your lighter. If it's not on the right place, you are in this case able to push it aside. During drying the leather will shrink. In this way the leather will attach very tight to the tank.

Both procedures need al little practice, but it's quite well possible. The lighter is still in an original state when you choose leather color Ronson used for theirs.

Important: Always degrease the chrome lighter. The adherence of chrome is very low!