How much is a zippo lighter?

Price depends on where you buy from the counter or buy online to buy online as an example:

Chrome-plated, light plate, flower sand, matte paint, cheap, one or two hundred dollars; black ice, stamped two or three hundred or so; Japan and South Korea's price varies, it is more than three hundred, if it is a limited number of more expensive, but also some, such as special materials, such as sterling silver, but also to be expensive.

1, packaging: real machine (through the Hong Kong Bike company imported to mainland China products) Zippo's packaging is beautifully crafted, there are four common 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 a 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, is that we usually buy online or offline water machine is actually the same as the genuine machine, regardless of whether the water goods or genuine licensed goods really belongs to the ranks of the real machine are of U.S. origin.

2, appearance: the appearance of the real machine is exquisite, general surface flawless, the liner of the flint wheel and cam at the rivets are white, flint wheel under the flint bracket is yellow, flint wheel under the top of the flint tube diameter and the diameter of the real zippo flint, so put the real flint, left and right toggle the flint wheel, it will be found that the flint will not be around the flint tube moving around very strong, the shell of the real cover of the top cover of the real machine. The shell of the real thing on the cover of the arc is relatively small; fake machine liner more than ready-made domestic machine liner impersonation, in general, the flint wheel and the cam at the rivets is yellow, of course, there is also a white as if it is not rare, Hong Kong, Ming Wei and the new double shot of the liner above the flint wheel at the cam at the rivets is white, we should pay attention to, the fake machine under the flint wheel of the flint bracket is more than white, but now the domestic a cotton oil Fire engine newly launched the second generation of the new cotton oil fire engine of this position has also become and zippo the same yellow, 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, you will find that, the flint in the flint tube left and right chaotic movement of the fake zippo shell cover curvature than the real thing is a little bit larger. The hinge connection of the real one is two wide and three narrow, the regular hinge connection*** five small sections, the first, third and fifth are narrower, the second and fourth sections are 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. 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 to the lower right diagonal line, the two lines intersected in the front of the flint wheel to form a one of a small diamond-shaped block, the right side of the flint wheel face to the surrounding radial and spacing is relatively uniform thin stripes from the center, the stripes are divided into two kinds, one is a one of a kind Single radial, the other is two side-by-side radial, two side-by-side radial line is divided into two kinds, one is two lines * very close, sometimes not carefully observed will think it is a fine, the other is two lines spaced a certain distance and not too far away (this is the current stage of the zippo's lighter wheel, there are also straight and diagonal stripes, not to be discussed here), the general fake machine also has this small Fine line, but these small fine carved very irregular, varying thickness, not as regular as the real machine.

6, logo: the bottom of the real Zippo shell and the body of the liner have product identification, the bottom of the shell logo is to introduce the product 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 in English, 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 on the cotton pads have a little more than a little more than 1mm small holes, a friend said that from there on the oil, in fact, that's where 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 will be just a little worse month, the real machine liner is very clean and smooth, bright can be light mirror. Smooth, bright can light mirror, inside the cotton ball is five or six small pieces, rather than a block of imitation. Real machine in the flint tube on both sides, and another 2.5mm or so of a small gap, while the fake machine are not. Of course, the Hong Kong-made Minwax oil machine in these two positions also have, but it is very inconspicuous, can not be seen without close observation. The real machine's flint wheel below the piece of metal with the inner liner is not tightly combined together, as if there is a distance of 1mm or so, in the middle of what seems to be a kind of material is sealed, the fake machine is more tightly combined together. At the same time in the lower part of the flint wheel liner outer edge is a certain curvature, not straight up and down, careful friends will also be found at the bottom of the liner, is not flat at the bottom of the liner, in the cam position directly below the bottom of the liner, there are almost a few millimeters long is concave in the place. The bottom of the flint screw is higher than the bottom of the liner, and the screw cap is the same thickness.

9, cam: the real cam body is very thick, and not bright, there is a kind of black feeling, while most of the cam of the fake machine is very bright and fresh. The real cam seems to have two kinds, one is more complete, the other is the big end of the lower end of the head seems to be something pinched the look, from foreign websites, as if from 04 years to change the look, and most of the fake machine is complete.

10, the fire core: real zippo 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.