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The commodity doesn't mention that there is a cigar insert for making lighting pipes easier. I also have read that Zippo will send yous one for free if you have the other one, anyone know annihilation about this? —Preceding unsigned comment added past 173.24.197.21 (talk) 00:45, xiv September 2009 (UTC) [reply]

There is a section stating there is a hole in the rayon batt in contempo models of zippos that is used for belongings an extra flint. This is false, on the official Zippo website it clearly states the pigsty is meant as a fill hole for refilling with lighter fluid without having to lift the cover to refuel. —Preceding unsigned annotate added past 72.130.215.73 (talk) 07:xxx, 12 March 2008 (UTC) [reply]

Tin you cite the specific page you're referring to? My Zippo has the pigsty. Yet it also has "lift to fill up" stamped all around information technology, implying that the hole is *not* for refueling. The educational activity sheet that came with it says "TIP: Keep extra flintstone supply under felt pad." --66.eighteen.238.247 (talk) 23:04, 5 April 2008 (UTC) [reply]

As well, the hole in the Rayon batt is no longer there on newer models. Instead, the bottom of the batt is a flap that tin exist lifted, and the fluid poured in under the flap (actress flints tin can also be stored in that location). Srajan01 (talk) 18:42, 23 July 2008 (UTC) [reply]

Depends on what you mean by "newer". I have a new lighter whose instance is marked "B 08" and the internals are marked "C 08", which are both only a few months onetime in terms of production. I purchased this one in Bradford PA, at the Zippo museum, merely a piddling while agone. This lighter has the hole in the batting.

But as for storing a flintstone in the hole, I'd remove that text from the article. The instructions say to store the flints under the batting, and I don't know anyone who stored their flint in the hole. It would probably fall out when you filled it. Yngvarr (t) (c) 21:40, 23 July 2008 (UTC) [respond]

I thought it was pretty obvious that the hole is to facilitate the lifting of the batting: stick a thin object like a pen tip in there, and and then pull dorsum on it. The replacement of the hole with an easy-to-lift flap substantiates this. 404notfound (talk) 10:38, 23 August 2008 (UTC) [answer]

I was in the U.Due south. Navy 1962 - 1970; this article is the only place I accept ever seen that claims the Zippo is the only lighter immune on Navy ships. Our ship's stores commonly sold imitation zippos with the ships crest ("Nippos"). RobertTaylor21 (talk) 06:14, 6 March 2008 (UTC) [reply]

I was in the U.Due south. Navy from 1983 until 1994, and still have friends on agile duty. The merits that Zippos are the simply lighter allowed onboard Navy ships is incorrect, so I deleted it. --71.104.18.213 (talk) 08:05, 6 Apr 2008 (UTC) [reply]

I wasn't in the Navy at all, but I know everything yous guys are talking virtually is original research and non allowed on Wikipedia. I'm removing the content until properly sourced. Roguegeek (talk) sixteen:57, 7 April 2008 (UTC) [respond]

That is so dumb. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.23.56.9 (talk) sixteen:42, 25 October 2008 (UTC) [answer]

I was given one of these lighters for my birthday, how can i tell if it's MPL? The guy who use it earlier me used it with butane. And is it possible to take information technology to like a store or something and take it topped up for me? Dark Nessto 21:26, 22 April 2006 (UTC) [answer]

Follow these links and wait at the pictutres to see if it matches your lighter, these are the mpl and the mpl mini respectivly.

http://world wide web.zippo.ca/mpl.php

http://www.zippo.ca/minimpl.php

Brandon

This doesn't read right. I'm tempted to remove it since it's non really relevant and poorly worded. 24.57.203.238 02:43, 4 May 2006 (UTC) [reply]

A major factor in the utility and popularity of the Null lighter is that information technology volition operate with whatsoever flammable liquid, eastward.g., gasoline, kerosene, rubbing alcohol, or even 151 proof rum.

I take my father'southward Zippo, which he bought in Italian republic in 1944, during World State of war 2 ... when I was very immature, he told me about how they didn't have lighter fluid on the front lines, so he would tie a shoelace around the insert and dip it in the gas tank of a Jeep to refill it. --Dennette 20:13, 8 August 2006 (UTC) [reply]

This is NOT truthful and should NOT be attempted past anyone. Different flammable fuels have unlike flash points and different properties, which could lead to undesirable results, the least of which could be voluminous soot and smoke, an uncontrollably big flame, or, in the worst case, a small explosion of sufficient energy to cause astringent bodily harm. In that location are many recorded instances of people being severely injured (due east.k., the loss of an center) from trying to employ gasoline and other volatile fuels in their Zippos. The vapor that builds upward around the wick, while trapped under a closed lid, mixes with air when the lid is opened and if lit immediately afterwards creates a volatile fuel-air explosive mixture, which can be very chancy when lit to the user.

Although such fuels tin can be safely used, they require extreme caution to do so, such every bit using precisely measured and limited quantities, proper fueling techniques, and and so on; the coincidental user should not attempt to substitute such fuels for canonical naptha based lighter-fluid. I incertitude very much that soldiers would dip and completely a Cipher's innards in to gasoline and so utilise it safely; of it they did, so they'd have been very lucky to escape injury.

I stress this because common misconceptions such as this can lead to serious personal injury, and people should NOT attempt to emulate such stories that are not based on fact. I am still waiting on a response from Nil (the corporation) as to their official position on alternative fuels for their lighters, but until I receive an official response I would rather err on the side of safety and Non provide whatsoever sort of endorsement for fuels other than standard naptha-based lighter fluid for use in Zippo's windproof lighter series. Srajan01 (talk) 01:45, 24 July 2008 (UTC) [reply]

I have used gasoline in my Nada many times. I accept constitute that a quick blow from my mouth before I low-cal it will remove excess fumes so it won't lite violently. I have also used various pigment thinners such every bit MEK an Toluene. To say that a Zero tin explode from this is impossible, there is physically no identify for the right fuel/air mixture to course and create an "explosion". Gasoline does stink as it gives off sooty smoke and pigment thinner evaporates chop-chop.Richdehn0 (talk) 22:52, 30 August 2016 (UTC) [reply]

Yous don't know that that's not true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.23.56.9 (talk) 16:43, 25 October 2008 (UTC) [reply]

Goose egg sell official fuel. They're making money from selling their fuel. They're not going to encourage the utilize of other fuels, safe or non. I'yard non editing the page because this is original inquiry, but i used to use ethanol "caused" from my school scientific discipline lab for zippo fuel, and it worked fine. No expolsions, no hideous disfigurement. To say that using alternative fuels is likely to crusade injury is imitation; It's possible, only it'southward also possible to injure yourself using official brand zippo fuel. (Note: Don't take the showtime bit as insulting zippo, they're a great company and i dear my lighter.)

) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.21.193.234 (talk) 06:57, xix May 2009 (UTC) [respond]

It's plumb atrocious! Some people would rather climb a greased pole to gossip their lies, than to stand apartment-footed speaking the truth. Years ago, as an gorging collector and experienced user of cigarette lighters, I was told by a seemingly "responsible" adult that white gas works fine in a Zippo; but during my initial attempt, the but thing that ignited was my hand. EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, indeed. Needless to say, there was no second attempt ~ and to tiptop it off, the lighter never functioned properly over again. Since Naphtha is "the" fuel for Zippos, why are those hallucinogenic holigans allowed to publish their idiotic claims which land that "alternative fuels" such every bit mineral spirits, kerosene, perfume, rubbing alcohol, and "any volatile liquid" can exist used in a Zippo ~ when the elementary truth proves beyond a shadow of doubt that the majority (if not all) of their stupid so-called "substitutes" Will NOT ignite with the mere spark of a flint wheel, and are therefore in NO WAY acceptable for use in a Zippo? So, what'll exist their next dreamt-upwards alternative? Menstrual fluid every bit a substitute for rocket fuel??? Are they just a band of Trolling Fools? If they can't THINK enough to sort out and publish simply the FACTS, why aren't they banned from posting their inbred stupidity on this "educational" site? And if they experience so compelled to publish such acid-trip Fairy Tales, why don't they deposit their vile wormy debris in the Mother Goose fantasy volume ~ right next door to their Quondam Female parent Hubbard that lives in a shoe? 66.19.150.140 (talk) 14:58, 12 December 2009 (UTC) [reply]

This is the angriest I have always seen anyone about lighters. Atypicaloracle (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 01:58, 10 November 2010 (UTC). [respond]

White gas is naptha 😂. Sgrandpre (talk) 05:55, 20 November 2020 (UTC)sgrandpre [reply]

Check origin [edit]

Hi I`1000 from Bulgaria and I use a Zippo lighter.I bought it from a street salesman and i desire to asure that It is original.I`ll be very greatfull if yous can give me a site where i tin can check it. :)

I accept noticed that there are several websites that take external links from this section. I have been told that I can non add my link to this area. Is there anywhere inside wikipedia where one without a lot of clout can add a link to thier site? Thank you Webmaster zippo lighters

Encounter Talk:Lighter#Collectors of Zippos for an answer. --Van helsing 09:56, 23 August 2006 (UTC)grand [answer]

I could easily be wrong, simply, looking at this sentence:

"The proper way to extinguish the lighter is to close the height half, which starves the flame of oxygen, too as cutting the fuel supply."

How does closing the lid cut off the fuel supply? --Sdr 09:44, four November 2006 (UTC) [respond]

It doesn't. I own a zippo and it burns with a wick. I have made the changes to the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Danjwright (talk • contribs) 16:47, 27 Nov 2006

Seems everybody wants a picture of their Zip right smack-dab at the tiptop of the Wikipedia article. We really don't need 4 unlike pictures of the lighters just to illustrate what they are. 404notfound 23:17, fifteen June 2007 (UTC) [answer]

How do you turn off a naught? Do you just close the chapeau? --MKnight9989 xiv:forty, 11 July 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Technically, you don't "Plow off" a Naught you extinguish the flame. This is achieved by closing the lid, which starves the flame of oxygen.

Cabaret4059

Thanks --MKnight9989 12:06, 17 July 2007 (UTC) [reply]

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In the trivia section of zero.com information technology says that there is a custom lighter made for every ship in the navy. Is this worth putting in the commodity? As well, I call up nosotros need a flick that shows all the parts of the lighter at one time (a new wick, a flintcase, the within and outside units of the lighter and the fluid, and then nosotros could remove all the pictures merely the one at the kickoff (the lit lighter). This would save a lot of space in the article and would illustrate the object in itself better. If you agree with this I could take such moving-picture show of my own.Vicius 21:51, fourteen Baronial 2007 (UTC) [reply]

New motion picture in, another out? [edit]

I added a pic near the contumely-colored insert, because I find this info worth mentioning, considering that Aught doesn't inform about that. (I also adjusted the color residue of the photograph, because as the official pictures of the "Gold Grit" blueprint bear witness, it is very difficult to go the white balance and lighting right. In nature it doesn't look bright-aureate, simply but like (nicely scratched) brass.)

Only considering yous can always look at the official Nada website, maybe one or two pictures a unnecessary. I'd say the black crackle: It just shows one of many designs and does this badly considering the photograph is unsharp and too dark on the object.

I also recollect it is a practiced idea that there's a picture of a "Slim" model, but information technology but makes sense if information technology shows the whole slim shape, not just the upper part. ;)

Hardyg xviii:22, 10 September 2007 (CET)

Rather than just calling the Nil a "metal lighter", can someone notice what it is actually constructed of? Every bit in: brass, steel, chrome etc.

And, if possible, could someone detect out what some of the main parts are made of (windscreen, main torso etc.)? 70.69.229.164 (talk) 23:23, 15 March 2008 (UTC)Proper [reply]

Zippo makes lighters of diverse types of metals (e.g., brass, bronze, chromed steel, etc.), so there is no one type of metallic that is used. I don't know if the innards are a standard metal or not, or if they vary on the different models which use different metals in the cases. Regardless, to call it a "metal lighter" is probably the most authentic mode of representing it. Srajan01 (talk) 18:twoscore, 23 July 2008 (UTC) [reply]

Start, to the user who wrote that his dad used to apply Gasoline in the Army when they would run out of fuel, this should NOT be encouraged on this site. Due to the flash point and other properties of diverse flammable liquids, injury or death tin occur if a wrong type of fluid is used. Many, many people take lost optics due to using gasoline in their Zippos.

Second, the part well-nigh the little hole in the bottom of the inner wick is no longer true. Some time ago, I think in the late '90's, Zero stopped putting the fiddling hole in the lesser of the wick and instead started putting a flap on the bottom. I don't know why or exactly when they started doing that, but current Zippos don't have the hole, the just accept the flap. I would update the article, merely I can't find a source to reference other than my ain experience. Srajan01 (talk) xviii:37, 23 July 2008 (UTC) [respond]

People should finish believing in urban myths. Sourced cloth simply. --  李博杰 | —Talk contribs email guestbook complaints 12:04, viii May 2009 (UTC) [respond]

Something is incorrect with the page design, causing the edit links to appear in the middle of the Construction section instead of at the stop of each department'southward title. I'm not sure the best manner to ready this, but it's worth looking into for someone who knows how to practice it. I believe it is caused by the images all being grouped together before the body of the article (an uneducated guess).Rasdock (talk) 22:53, 19 Jan 2009 (UTC) [respond]

I think you're right. I'm not a big fan of paradigm galleries but that would be ane possible solution. Some other would be to clip the list of images. Do nosotros really need all of them? Rees11 (talk) 23:27, xix January 2009 (UTC) [respond]

I think the Zippo BLU should get its own page, this one isn't doing it justice. (Danneman (talk) 05:26, 2 March 2009 (UTC)) [reply]

Disagree. If it's not notable enough to warrant coverage here, information technology'due south certainly not notable enough to warrant its ain article. Rees11 (talk) 14:31, 2 March 2009 (UTC) [respond]

Yea but zippo blu has its ain website its completely different. (re-fueling, fluids, maintenance etc) Cipher blu should get its own page. —Preceding unsigned annotate added by 99.224.151.127 (talk) 19:48, vi Dec 2009 (UTC) [reply]

cipher dont come from prisons they are fabricated past a company in bradfort.the starting time zippo was made in a prison —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.18.181.163 (talk) 10:30, 19 January 2010 (UTC) [answer]

Would a brief mention of the piping variants be of whatsoever interest?--Surv1v4l1st ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 04:30, 11 November 2010 (UTC) [respond]

"pressure level increasing on folks not to smoke" Folks? Doesn't sound very encyclopedic. 74.193.72.79 (talk) 00:12, eighteen October 2011 (UTC) [reply]

Croatian writer Giancarlo Kravar: Produced 500 million Zippo lighters cult, resistant to wind. It happened in the Zippo Manufactoring Bradford (Pennsylvania), which employs 620 workers. Price for the basic model is $ xiii, and $ 12,676 a golden Zipper. Nada make too as watches, pens, clothes and perfumes. The first Zippo was produced 80 years ago by George G. Blaisdell. 78.2.64.eleven (talk) 17:22, 10 July 2012 (UTC) [answer]

Would like to add some facts to the naught page but desire to get opinions first.

Want to add together a minor section on Nada's intro into cyberspace sales.

The offset introduction of Nada's on the internet took place in april of 1999 by a Michigan Distributor called the Md Distributing DBA The Zippo Store. They published the unabridged Zippo product line for internet sales at the domain thezippostore.com. It was the first retail sales to the public via the web including a wholesale sight for retailers to by also at zippolighters.com. Story is very interesting including the companies great interest in the conductibility of the product resulting in a third site called zippocollectors.com which incorporated new web technology of bulletin board postings and history and dating for interested collectors. This was well before Nada had a corporate presence on the Net.

Delight send me your thoughts.

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I can't believe there'south no mention on the page of nada tricks notwithstanding. There's a rich history of tricks to open, ignite, and shut Zippo lighters. Play a joke on openings appear in movies, and were practiced past GI'south all the way back in World War 2. There'south also a more than recent serial of events that occurred in the online community of lighter play tricks enthusiasts.

Here's an overview of the history of the spider web customs. In 1996, Morten Kjølberg started zippotricks.com, a website dedicated to teaching people zippo tricks. The Zippo visitor acquired the website in 2002 during an endeavor to enforce their copyright. In 2003 in the wake of the Station nightclub fire, a public outcry arose led past the NFPA against Nothing lighter tricks. They were accused of encouraging kids to play with burn down. A promotional tour featuring professional person trickers Booty and Mr. Twistyneck performing Nothing manipulation tricks aslope bands at concerts was cut short. In 2004, Kjølberg relaunched the website as lightertricks.com unaffiliated with Zero. In 2010, an instructional DVD featuring Alex Aarvik and produced by Marten Kjølberg was released. It was titled "fifty Ways to Rock a Lighter," and appears to remain the definitive piece of work on lighter tricks. lightertricks.com is currently defunct, though I don't know when or why it was shut down. The latest record of it being agile that I've found yet is from 2014.

At a minimum, the Nada folio should mention that Zippos take a rich history of being used for tricks. I'g non sure how much of the recent business to become into, or what department to put it under - possibly "Usage"? Sgrandpre (talk) 06:29, twenty November 2020 (UTC)sgrandpre [reply]

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