Message Edit 15:29 - February 19, 2010 user yours_truly
Just specify that the article on Zippo insert can be found on foreign websites, but since ZippoCollector.ru is the largest Russian-language portal about Zippo, I would like to insert an article on Zippo was also in Russian :)
Somehow on one of the branches forum slipped insert information about the "queen", in honor of which, for the most part, created this forum and the site accordingly! And it became a question of what metal is made insert.Zdes was not without controversy, but now , with your permission, colleagues, can be ordered on this topic punktam.I as follows:
- The end of 1932 - 1941 inserts are made of chrome-plated brass, as, in principle, and the case:
- Of 1941 - 1945. During the Second World War was made of lighter body stali.Sootvetstvenno, steel fabricated themselves inserts!
- 1946. - The beginning of 1951 inserts made of nickel, appear to be very similar to steel, sometimes not even tell the difference, and another thing the feeling in the hand, but check out the features I did not have:
- Mid '51 - the end of '53 During the Korean War (between North and South), in which the United States participated on the side of South Korea, Zippo again switched to the production of steel hull, in view of the fact that other metals needed for military needs! Of course, this also affected the inserts, which in those years as well began to produce steel:
- 1954 - today
So! And here begins the most intriguing! AVOID ANY misleading apply hypotheses about!
Since 1954, the inserts made from start to chrome-plated brass, according to one site, but according to another website from stali.Soglasno accompanying video in Russian about making Zippo, inserts are made of steel sheets, so this view is acceptable, but with a note of relativity NOT FINALLY! Unfortunately, I am not strong metal, so that he can not say definitively! According to most user reviews Zippo current inserts are made of steel
If that was not my fault! :)
Judge for yourself, photo insert 2002 (normal):
Photo insert 2002 replica of 1941!
Interesting facts:
In 1946-47. Zippo inserts made of an alloy of nickel and silver:
During these years there has been another change, the old insert is changed to a new one!
The old type of insert in 1946-1947. 14 holes in the windscreen, the new 1947 - 16!
And as in the '47 model there are two kinds of insert-type first and second type.
They differ in width Zippo inscription on the front of the insert:
Further, the inserts were made in 1942 with the "wrong" wrapper sheet steel roughly counterclockwise:
Between 1983 and 1984 there was a change in the ends of the brass tubes for silicon:
Since its inception, the end of 1932 to 1937 within the insert was here such Aglet:
Since 1937. before the beginning of 1958. inside the windshield end of the cam (hereinafter - the cam plate or if translated literally from English - spring cam!) was "hooked":
Since mid-1958. by 1969. inclusive cam inside the windshield began to direct:
Since 1970. Today on cam inside the windshield became widely:
In the period from 1961. at the beginning of 1963. rivet wheel became a whole and not prozrachnoy.Segodnya on modern models, not vintage, transparent rivet can be found on the insert Replicas Replicas in 1941 and 1935:
From the beginning of manufacturing for 1947. at the bottom of the insert was like this litter of cotton fiber type cigarette filter:
Since 1948. by 1992. at the bottom of the insert is used by all of us felt pad favorite:
1959. - 1968, together with the white is also used pink lining:
1968. - 1972 - used for one-piece gasket insert Solid Fuel Cell:
In 1991, the felt pad appears LIFT TO FILL, but it disappears in the hole tsentre.Eto continued until 2001 g.Kstati, for many of its purpose and the emergence of a mystery, but everyone is free to interpret it in their own way the origin and destination:
2001 - today reappears central hole in the felt pads are preserved inscriptions and today it exists in this form:
In 1989, slightly changing the cam plate inside the windscreen, the corners are cut off and a bit dull:
1946 - one of the highlights :)
Changing notches on the wheel with the horizontal overlapping on:
1970 - live cam inside the windshield, which was from the middle of 1958 to 1970, rashiryaetsya in the direction to the wheel (1970 - 1989), in 1989, it will replace the cam with blunt angles:
We insert Zippo 1932/33. cam was in the form of hook:
In 1933, the cam has changed a bit, took a more modern look, but his face was part vzakruglennoy and rear - on the contrary, the flat:
From 1947 to August 2003 cam existed in this form, and now both sides are smooth and flat:
In August 2003, I was a little end of the cam on both sides of the bottom there is something like a small incision:
Right fist until August 2003., Left, respectively - since August 2003.
Further, in February 2000, the inscription on the insert changes from vertical to horizontal orientation:
In 1999, appears to Zippo Pipe Zippo tubes and architecture respectively insert also undergoes izmeneniya.Eto concerns mainly the windscreen! Now it through, and the top plate is covered with a small hole:
In 1976, on the back of the insert appears that existed in this form until 1981 and provides about safety precautions when using the lighter, keep away from children, etc .:
In 1982, the swapped label and in this form are located on the insert and to this day:
Well, that's basically it, dear colleagues, visitors to the site and amateurs Zippo! I understand that somewhere may have flaws somewhere not understand everything but the bare necessities, such as disassembled Colleagues, experts do not judge, please strictly and harshly, I suppose that could be the error, I hope you did not have a very boring! :)
Thank you for your attention, good luck! :)
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Yours sincerely,
Yours_Truly
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