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Here is my story:
1985 comes with one of Odessa and gives me ZIPPO (model not cite, but all that I have classic). The question of "where" bartered for 2 bottles of vodka (friend worked as a waiter in a restaurant of "Intourist"). It is not new, regularly worked for six years until he sowed (that it was an insult.) What was not tucked what flints not thrust - strike sharply and the jeans blatoval as he could, all for no nothing.
1993. Decide to buy a new one, is 2 years old, comes with a 5-fold, shame on the shelf. I was offended - eternal, everlasting.
2007. Buy again and again take 2 years, and again badly lit. After a long association with the consultant answer was - you use flint and petrol not Zipovskaya. When buying lighters skimp thoroughly 3 upakovochki silicon, 2 large cylinder (estimated at 2 years).
Bottom line: Put the last kresalo from "9-ruble sovdepovskie" and op ... "What has become of sparks." I use now, hardish scrolls, but the first time (to the spring crop). Gasoline use letterhead, I now any silicon - all uneasy. That's what SOVIET METAL AND QUALITY MARK.