As 99% to distinguish fake Zippo, having in hand the present
If you have at hand is the Zippo, the authenticity of which you are 100% sure, to determine the other fakes, do the following. Remove the screw that holds the spring flint lighters from the present, and try to screw it into one that is suspect. At 99% it does not screw the fake Zippo. The answer is simple: at home in the Zippo U.S. uses the English system of measures (inches, etc.), in which there is a specification of the screw thread, and virtually all fakes are made in Asia, where in the course of the metric system of measures (and the thread is measured in millimeters) . Therefore Asian screw is screwed into the U.S. thread.
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Funny :)! Nice and easy! Very best and fastest way to check!
And if you're on the lighter, the authenticity of which you're sure - just want to buy - but you do not want to buy a fake ...
Then what?
Then read here: http://zippocollector.ru/archives/1975
and whether there is a screw fotoobraztsy this Zippo? just do not compare.
Photo by screw you hardly Decide objective comparison of live.
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Vantus, if the screws are different, just take any fraud (is cheap), come to the store and also compare the screws! If from a cheap suit, then a fake Zippo ... if not, it's real!
asprod, well, not to the same degree. maybe it will say that there are exceptions.
erunda.vot'll get a better camera down and upload pictures of lighters is very difficult to fake opredelit.ili high quality steel
People, help identify - fake or not?
http://vkontakte.ru/album21447516_130846466?act=edit&from=240267982 # / album21447516_130846466
on the metric thread angle of thread 60 degrees for inch - 55 ... So we can define an elementary thread gauge inch or metric thread? respectively - zippo real or not? I'm not mistaken?