How to recognize the real zippo

For the novice just started, identify the real and fake zippo machine is indeed a difficult thing, because now the fake zippo is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, those who are relatively good workmanship of the fake machine, often can confuse new friends with the good eyes, and newcomers are now in contact with more than 02 years after the production of the machine, so the main purpose of this post is to 02 years after the production of conventional zippo as an example to introduce to friends how to identify the real and fake zippo. The newcomers are now in contact with more machines produced after 02 years, so this post is mainly 02 years after the production of conventional type zippo as an example, to introduce to friends, how to recognize the real and fake.

1, packaging: real machine (through the Hong Kong Bike company imported to mainland China products) Zippo packaging exquisite workmanship, common four kinds of packaging, one is the cheapest plastic box (has introduced a new plastic box packaging, the appearance of a more beautiful, but as if there is no previous convenient, sometimes the whole half-day can not open, annoying).

The second is the black top cover light yellow bottom cover of the carton,

The third is the iron box,

The fourth is the blue velvet box,

Other special boxes will not be introduced here to illustrate a point, that is, you are usually on the Internet or under the Internet to buy waterborne machine in fact, and the same as the genuine machine, regardless of whether the waterborne goods or the genuine line of goods belong to the ranks of the real machine are the United States of America! The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

2, appearance: the appearance of the real machine is exquisite, generally flawless surface, the liner of the flint wheel and the cam at the rivets are white,

The flint wheel under the flint bracket is yellow,

The flint tube at the bottom end of the flint wheel the top of the inner diameter and the diameter of the real zippo flint is equivalent, so put the real flint, the flint wheel left and right toggle, it will be found that, in the flint tube will not move from side to side, and the flint tube will not move from side to side. flint tube will not move around a lot, the real shell of the arc of the cover is relatively small;

Fake machine liner more than ready-made domestic machine liner impersonation, the general case of the flint wheel and the cam at the rivets are yellow, of course there is also a white as if it is not rare, Hong Kong, Ming Wei and the new double gun liner above the flint wheel and the cam at the rivets is white, we have to pay attention to, the fake machine flint wheel The lower side of the flint bracket is mostly white, but now a new domestic cotton oil lighter launched the second generation of the new cotton oil lighter of this position also became and zippo the same yellow, the flint tube at the lower end of the flint wheel top of the inner diameter is relatively large and genuine zippo flint is not quite, so put the real flint, left and right toggle the flint wheel, it will be found that, the flint in the flint tube left and right chaotic movement of the very strong, fake! The curvature of the zippo case top cover is a bit larger than the real one. The hinge connection of the real machine is two wide and three narrow, the regular hinge connection *** five small sections, the first, three, five is narrower, the second and fourth section is wider.

3, feel: real Zippo feel generally lighter, because Zippo is made of special materials, is other imitations can not do; real zippo grip in the hand will have a very leathery feeling.

4, sound: genuine Zippo pop open the lid will have a very light and crisp sound (except for individual products). Fake machine, generally open the cover sound can be, close the cover of the sound is relatively mute, because the fake zippo more domestic liner, domestic cotton oil lighter liner cam at the lower end of the small spring plate is very thin, so the sound is going to be a little smaller, and there are times when the fake zippo in the open and close the time will be found that the feel of the hand is very poor, there is a kind of sticky feeling, open and close is not very smooth.

5, ignition: real Zippo in the absence of oil when you fire the first time you will feel astringent, that is because the flint is the reason for the new, and flint friction out of the fire is not a small spark, but a cluster of a fire, which is the reason why the Zippo is said to be a hit that is, one of the reasons, after refueling to fire basically a hit on the fire, and the flame is also very stable. The real zippo flint wheel cut flint side, there are two layers of stripes, the upper layer of stripes from the upper right oblique to the lower left diagonal line, the lower layer of stripes from the upper left diagonal line to the lower right diagonal line, the intersection of the two lines in the front of the flint wheel to form a one of a small diamond-shaped block,

The right side of the flint wheel from the center of the surface of the surrounding radiating and spacing is relatively uniform thin stripes, stripes are divided into two kinds, one is a single radiating and a single line, and a single line, a single line is a single radiating line, a single line is a single radiating line. There are two kinds of stripes, one is a single one radiating,

another is two side-by-side radiating, two side-by-side radiating lines are divided into two kinds, one is the two lines * very close, sometimes without careful observation will be thought to be a fine,

another is the two lines are spaced a certain distance and is not too far away

(This is the current stage of the zippo wheel, before). There are also straight and diagonal lines, will not be discussed here), generally fake machines also have this small fine lines, but these small fine engraved very irregular, varying thickness, not as regular as the real machine.

6, logo: real Zippo shell at the bottom of the body and the liner have product identification, the logo at the bottom of the shell is to introduce the product's production time and other information. True zippo said the month of the English is from a-l, more than this range of 100% is false, true zippo bottom marked zippo word is very clear, and the letter "i" above is not a dot but a carved very fine a zippo traditional flame pattern, the flame outline is very clear, while most of the fake machine is very fuzzy, the bottom of the real machine is a capitalized bradford, pa. The bottom of the real zippo is capitalized bradford.pa. instead of bradford.pa. Between bradford and pa is a clear little comma instead of a dot, which is very important, and the four corners of the bottom of the real zippo are not right angles and have a certain curvature, while the fake machine is usually more right angles.

7, cotton pads: real Zippo cotton pads are very thick, usually up to 0.7cm thick, and both sides are printed with English fonts,

Lift the cotton pads can be seen when refueling. General imitations can not be done (but now a domestic production of cotton oil lighter enterprises have also launched a bottom cotton pad is very thick and zippo almost poor new oil machine, we should pay attention to when you buy), imitations or fake machine cotton pads are very thin, and cotton pads texture is more sparse, not so dense as the real machine, real machine cotton pads, there is a little more than a 1mm small hole, a friend said that from there on the oil, in fact, that is to put the The first is to put the flint in the hole, and the second is to put the flint in the hole.

8, liner: real machine liner front and back are clearly engraved with zippo product information, sometimes a lot of friends say they buy zippo liner and shell bottom engraved time is not the same, is not true, this is normal, because zippo liner and shell are not together with the production of the majority of cases just month will be poorer,

real machine liner

The inner lining of the real machine is very clean and smooth, bright can light mirror, the cotton ball inside is five or six small pieces, rather than a block of imitation. The real machine in the flint tube on the left and right sides, there is another 2.5mm or so of a small gap, while the fake machine are not.

Of course the Hong Kong-made Minwax oilers also have it in these two positions, but it's very inconspicuous and can't be seen without close observation. The real machine of the piece of metal under the flint wheel and the liner is not tightly combined together, as if there is a distance of about 1mm, the center seems to be a kind of what material is sealed, the fake machine is mostly tightly combined together.

At the same time, the outer edge of the liner under the flint wheel has a certain curvature, not straight up and down,

Careful friends will also find a problem at the bottom of the liner, that is, the bottom of the liner is not flat, in the bottom of the liner directly under the cam position, there are almost a few millimeters long place is concave in.

The bottom of the flint screw, which is higher than the bottom of the liner, is the same height as the thickness of the screw cap.

9, cam: real machine cam body is very thick, and not bright, there is a feeling of black, while most of the cam of the fake machine is very bright and fresh. The cam of the real machine seems to have two kinds, one is more complete,

The other is the big head of the lower end seems to be something pinched look, from foreign websites, as if from 04 years to change the look,

And most of the fake machine is complete.

10, fire core: real zippo's fire core is very resistant to burning, generally does not turn black, in the fire after closing the lid and then open the lid, seldom found to have the phenomenon of smoke, while the fake machine's fire core is very easy to burn black, burning is also very easy to smoke, estimated that it may be the real and fake cotton quality is different.