I have a few and one of my latest is this brass 1941 replica, 4 barrel hinge with brass insert. If someone were to ask me which Zippo to buy, I would recommend this one.
Is it just me or do the Zippo lighters need constant refilling.I don't use mine often, as I don't smoke.But I carry it for camping and within a week, only lighting a few fires and it's dry again.I have to carry fuel with me and that seems to be rather pointless.
Ha yeah zippo's are cool.We were barbecueing with neighbors in the driveway one cool winter's evening, and one of the neighbor brothers asked me why I didn't inhale the first pull after lighting my rolly (Pronounced 'role-ee' duh j/k). I told him it was because the burnt fuel from a zippo could affect the taste of that drag and the rest of the smoke, too.He thought I was cool, and that that was a really cool thing to know. I didn't know he was a connesieur (sp?), and I didn't know he thought I was cool. hahaZippos for cool and context, bics for everything else!
Its really neat thats for sure. I picked one up and did some cleaning and it fired right up. I wont use it but it was sure neat to see work. Sos got me thinking with her Zippo insert post. I'm not sure I'd have kept my Zippo even with an insert. Maybe I'll pick one up again at the flea market and have a go again.
Welcome zdec!I carried a Zippo with the single torch insert for a while.The piezo ignitions are highly reliable in my experience, though like pretty much anything else they will eventually (rated for 10,000 cycles) wear out and have to be replaced. Note that the Zippo single and double torch inserts have piezo ignitions, while the soft flame insert has a more traditional flint ignition with replaceable flints.Like most other torch/jet lighters, it isn’t the ignition that usually ends up having problems, it is the gas nozzle/system. This seems to get plugged up or otherwise stop working after a while. It’s one of the reasons I don’t carry one anymore.The other problem was that I felt like I was having to refill them very frequently. Zippo rates the single torch insert at 100 five-second lights per fill (500 seconds total burn time). I’m not sure I was getting even this out of mine, but I wasn’t actually keeping records. For comparison, the Zippo double torch insert is rated at 60 five-second lights (300 seconds total), and the Zippo soft flame insert is rated at 125 five-second lights (625 seconds total). A full size Bic is rated at 3000 (probably one-second) lights, and independent testing generally puts them at more than 3000 seconds of total burn time.
I think then I'll stick with a Clipper, even if it's not that cool