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Great question, actually :)

Along the way, the company Zippo itself not know why this hole :) Many people use it equally for storing spare flints, and in order to fill it through the cigarette lighter. However, neither the one nor the other has no ending :) My opinion - this hole was made ​​solely for the convenience of allowing your pads for subsequent refueling, and in order to get a spare flint (as often happens gasket recessed into the insert so that not pry her fingers). Raise it can be, putting his back, for instance, a gasoline canister spout.

In fact, there was a hole since 1947 :) Its for some reason was not in the period from 1992 to 2003, and then it came again.

Message Edit 0:17 - May 24, 2009 user solobok

Hardly the case in the convenience of production technology. A hole appeared, disappeared and then reappeared. I even inexperienced thought the vintage where it is found, then the gasket just installed a new, replaced during operation. Until I saw a hole in the rare "Ed Felten." I also sometimes ran through it, but dropped - laying inevitably gets wet. But the original idea may have been in this - fill. Although ... In the accompanying instructions in those years, when the hole was still (or, one might say, when it still had not cleaned, then to return) meet drawings with curved pad to charge. Perhaps the hole yet to poddevaniya, but even then, no spout (it - is not very inconvenient plastic nozzle slides off the felt) and, say, a pen, which is usually imeesya most people. By the way, that's exactly what everyone has - it's the keys to your own home. In my experience, it's best to lift the key pad on the edge, and there is already no difference, with a hole in it or not. A matter of taste, of course ... In any case, such a hole saw and other benzinkah, for example, on my gasoline SOSL, to "lift arm" Ronson, and a variety of years of production. Rather, the question may be: not "what it is", and - why it is at some point removed? Maybe it was the view that since gasoline evaporates more active ...

kypexin writes:

Her for some reason was not in the period from 1992 to 2003, and then it came again.

On my only lost zippo (hopefully more and not lose any) 2002 (purchased in the same year) has already had a hole. BY the year 2000 there is a hole. Perhaps in 2002, they have already started to move back to the hole-liner.

Dillinger. writes:

And I've been through this hole pour petrol, and then turn down the gasket itself is awkward ...

In fact, it is not necessary and fold it back. Rather, to delay, to lift, in any case, do not bend in half like the picture peypervorka. I repeat: I, too, at one time poured petrol through the hole, but collided with another disadvantage: it is very difficult to charge so that the gasket is not very wet. And if it gets wet as well as packing, what's the point in the pad, is not it? And spare kremeshek convenient store by placing the gasket and not inserting into the hole, so it does not fall out when recharging. So, summing up, so to speak, the data can be considered a version of kypexin'a hole as a "pick up" to lift - the most plausible. This version says one more time. I have a lighter SOSL (Spirit Of St. Louis), so one of them is no hole in the lining, but the lower edge of the insert from the screw sawed. That is, there is a ditch, as if cut with respect to the lower cutoff smooth insert. At first he could not understand why. Then he pulled the cutout finger - finger plunged into one end of the lining and the other with the rose, and the lining peeled back, allowing safe packing charge gasoline. On the other lighter SOSL bottom edge of the insert is flat, without a cutout, but there is a hole in the lining. This comparison - an additional argument in favor of the fact that the hole - to turn down the lining.

In laying after two holes. One for the rod, the second process ...?

in general, I understand this hole for what would, each owner used it as it is convenient for any purpose . can someone and goals are not related to trying to make lighter .

Well, who knows all our visitors

. There really is a lot to hide small, and by the way at a vintage Zippo wick sticking out of the hole, so here's another use

Actually yes, as in a conventional regulated flame very cool

Well vseravno I liked the mechanism of reduction and by decreasing the flame

Well, it's whatever you like, just as if there was another mechanism, I love it . mechanisms of any

Well, anything can happen, for example the lights are off and need to a big flame that would have been seen all

Sash, and I've noticed that all the Zippo your character, here a couple of months ago, I arrived in 1941 Black Ice, so she very short wick and the flame is a modest, shy :) And I use Zippo 1974, here it is a blatant such direct blaze so bold flame :))

yes all zippulek your character actually

And from under the bottom of the lighter it seems to me the main gasoline and evaporates vsёchzhe there is a gap in the loop? And if the skin to deliver?