Lighters use sparks generated by the friction between flint and grinding wheel to ignite kerosene. The newly installed flint will have difficulty in turning the grinding wheel (gear) for the first few times. Generally, after being used for dozens of times, the flint will match the grinding wheel and resume normal ignition.
Zippo Lighter1932 was born in America. The 0.027-inch-thick chrome-plated copper cover and the 0.0 18-inch-thick stainless steel lining constitute the solid shell of Zippo lighter, which is welded by the upper cover and the lower cover through hinges.
The liner is made of stainless steel, and consists of windshield, pulleys, rivets, cams, cotton, cotton pads, screws, flint and other parts.
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Zippo lighters can be identified by the following methods:
1, appearance: there is a circular gravure print on the hinge of genuine zippo lighter, which is difficult to do in imitation.
2, quality: imitation is heavier than genuine zippo lighter. This is because the imitation is made of low-grade steel or iron, and the shell thickness needs to be increased to ensure the hardness, so it is heavier than the real one. Open the top cover of the lighter, and you can see that the shell thickness of the imitation is much larger than the real one;
3. Windshield: Compared with two identical machines, the gap width on both sides of the imitation windshield is different, some are wider and some are narrower, while the gap width on both sides of the windshield of the same type of liner is the same;
4. Spark wheel: The spark wheel of zippo lighter has been patented from design to material, and it is made of special materials with special patterns, which ensures that it can generate enough sparks at one time and is durable.
The texture on the lighter wheel is that the upper layer inclines from right to left and the lower layer inclines from left to right, so the texture is clear. The imitation has only one layer of texture or the texture is not clear. Some imitation lighter wheels use horizontal stripes.
5. Rivets: the rivets at the ignition wheel and cam of genuine liner are white, and the imitations are yellow. The seat for fixing the real flint is made of copper, so it is yellow, and the imitation seat is silver plated;
6, cotton pad: genuine zippo lighter cotton pad is very thick, generally up to 0.7cm thick, can not be copied;
7. Flint: The screw for loading and unloading real flint can be easily unscrewed by hand or coin, but the imitation screw often needs a screwdriver to tighten it. The handle under the real flint and the flint is gold, and the surface of the joint is very flat, which is gray.
8. Cotton ball: the cotton ball of the genuine zippo lighter is five small pieces, and the imitation is a whole piece.
9. Flame: When counterfeit products burn, blue smoke will be emitted, and the flame will flicker. The whole fuselage will burn in less than 4 minutes. The real thing won't ignite the fuselage until the fuel runs out. Because the imitation steel cover is too thick, the heat dissipation effect is poor; The oil-storage cotton core in the machine is of poor quality and easy to leak oil.
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