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Message edited 18:32 - June 19, 2010 user Ratt1e

Saw a lot of messages and questions related to the bent cap, eyelet, backlash, etc. and decided to write a small tutorial.

Immediately apologize for photo quality, then mb if'll get a good camera down (right now on the phone, although there 5mks) perefotkayu.

Preface: The operating position lighters in the manual - when the cover is folded to you, ie front side (where the picture is marked) on the left and rear right. Consider loops in order from left to right.

(Coin for balance sprinkled, because without inserts))

Before you take out the insert repairs, take the pliers / platypus (main bottlenecks) and start.

Actually, the main problems:

1) cover protrudes forward / backward relative to the lower housing.

At Zippy (majority) 5 loops, 2 of them lower (second and fourth) and the top 3 (Cover) - 1st, 3rd and 5th. Gently (keyword - carefully) bending back each loop separately slightly forward / back, we can achieve the desired effect. Correspondingly, bending back and lower 2u 4yu loops on itself, can move forward cover (themselves), and if from himself - back respectively. With 1, 3 and 5 eyelets opposite - bending back on itself, it is moved forward cover on themselves - back. The main thing is not transmitting, and then we can break them :)

2) The cover is bent sideways (especially noticeable in the open state)

Similarly buckled tabs. If the cover is bent to the right - turn down myself fifth and tuck over the first loop. If left - on the contrary everything.

3) Backlash cover

Here everything is easy, and it is necessary to look at the location of loops in which direction they are bent and bent backwards, so they ended up on the same line - "parade loops": D (by analogy with the "Parade of Planets")))

For the first three issues - is also important curvature sleeve that loops inside :) So bend so that the sleeve eventually straightened)

4) Backlash (falling out) inserts.

There are several solutions.

1. Adding a spacer between the insert and the wall (paper, wrapping tape inserts, etc.)

Scotch is very convenient, but is a minus - gradually glue melts and "spreads" to insert, one stnovitsya sticky and nasty :)

2. Compression lighter body. Hands as possible, and anything mechanical - vise jack: D (there are plenty of videos on YouTube manual)

3. Expansion inserts - expanding its walls (for example, the same pair of pliers), knocking out "pimple" on the inside, etc. (There are plenty of videos on YouTube manual)

4) eyelets tucking themselves - it helps if you insert dangles along.

forgot first)

Message edited 17:26 - August 6, 2010 user solobok

Put my two cents. So, initially I had Zippo LOSS PROOF 2005.

Here's a.

Extremely handy feature of this lighter is the property of "neteryashki": fall out of the pocket of jeans or, for example, leather pants (like me) - hang on elastic, looped, for example trenchik belt. But gum thread braided gradually frays on the edge of the pocket, on which squirms while walking the floor jackets or other outerwear. Because chafing had periodically shortened string. Finally, it was quite difficult to pull to face lighter to light. Then I replaced the string on a chain. That was a mistake. It was winter. On the street, in rapid, I tried to pull out of his pocket for a lighter chain (as I did with the rubber band: a dashing gesture, then catch the air escaping from the pocket Zippo). And then I heard the sound, similar to the empty cage shooting rifles. Lighter remained in the pocket, a chain that has no elastic gum, tore the hell out of brass Zippo-loop bracket and - in the snow, with the ends.

That's when I took up home repairs.

So. Take the brass stud (can normal, but brass stronger), about the diameter of a suitable loop, slightly thicker to enter a ring loop tight. Rounding the tip of the nail needle files or just a file. Nibble nail pin length is approximately four loop ring (ie, shorter than one ring, for a total of five). Treat the other end of the pin in the same needle files, a file (just for accuracy form after installation in the loop). Set the lid in place lighters, combining looped ring body and cover, and fasten the lighter vertical circulation scotch (not to take then a combination of parts required to operate the hand). Put the lighter flat. Put a loop hole in the end of the pin, holding some tool (fingers uncomfortable - too small object, I used the folding pliers Leatherman, but the fit, I think, and the usual tweezers). ACCURATELY hammered pin hammer in a loop until almost the end, then install it on any pin end of the pin (for example, other such blunt nail). Hammer pin to the end we already hitting this "superstructure" rather than by the end of the pin, so as not to damage the body of the lighter hammer. So, hammering pin until until it is recessed into the loop equally on both sides, right in the middle loop, with the characteristic "pits" on both sides, as it looks at all Zippo factory assembly. Everything! All cases - for fifteen minutes, if not well at all in a hurry. And generally - for five minutes. First time (very short) cover will work tugovato but soon pritrutsya details.

That's what I did.

As you can see, not knowing and not guess that there's something wrong. Is that pin a bit thicker than usual, but actually rings in the loop under this type of lighters themselves more than usual, because the brass hinge bracket-gum thick enough.

I write about all of this now because after the repair has enough time (if you remember, it was in the middle of winter), and sea trials have shown that the lid works fine I use this lighter often away from home, it is always with me, though now its advantage - the inability to lose - lost. But I used to carry it with you just ... Renovated lighter suddenly become the most ringing of my entire collection, apparently, brass pin adds ringing. And at the same time adds and stiffness of the whole structure: now do not cover becomes loose, do not play a part.

Easy to understand that in this manner can be repaired any Zippo, which has problems with the pin, for example, it is lost. More than once I came across these items on online auctions, and rare, but broken lighters are always much cheaper. And then I void sumnyashesya did not take these items. But you could get a complete rarity, with a minimum of repair ...

Just knocking "native pin" and changing on a tight homemade, you can get rid of the lid laxity very much "tired" in this sense is the collection of copies. No one will ever guess that the pin was replaced, and the cover and if get loose again, probably not very soon, because my last December not become loose one iota. A readily opened (including lighters with shaking) cover a few days after the start of use.

Finally, one more note: the nail that will pick up, must necessarily go into the loop tight to his score had there, otherwise the pin will then travel constantly at work cover.

yezh writes:

Good afternoon, colleagues. Dropped at work lighter in waste oil as a result of cotton swabs have been ruined. Tried to replace conventional cotton, as a result of petrol disappears one day and poorly lit. Send it in for repair bummer reluctance to hang on mail i.t.d.i.t.p. Someone tell me what you can do with their hands, how to replace tampons?

People, but that does not bend when the lid is closed plotono on both sides? Lighter original's just fell to the floor a couple of times .... Especially visible through slit when you look at it without the insert inside.

Hi everyone! I'm afraid to touch himself loops though read someone they burst! Tell me please, in koroluse eliminate backlash? Also one does not close tightly cover.

Do not worry will not crash, it should be hard, in order to burst. In this case, you in Koroluse repaired. Perhaps the only service where there is no such thing as a Denial of warranty because mehpovrezhdeny))

:)) Well as repair - indicates what and how

Message edited 19:00 - March 14, 2011 by legalize

Luft (falling out) inserts.

Solved the problem this way:

Basic and very effective!

Somebody wrote in a certain topic, which is probably lighter, not the past "gospriemka" in the United States put in a box and sent to Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, ie, in the CIS. I think that this is not so. I have a copy, bought in the U.S. in 2007. Lighter in constant operation, but with a few interruptions. Cover loose-Horror! Loop is no longer on the same level, but holds petrol, wheel podisterlos true, although spark gives regularly. Lighter even closed rumbles like a rattle (so loose cover). But I'm not doing anything, I want to see how it will stretch even in this mode. She just get a light not just me, I always have it on the table and she enjoyed wife, children, guests, etc. Most importantly, the manufacturer nothing to show except backlash. It works! Works fine! And if I would get that much play, I'll move her car and send it in for repair.

My children are grown and have three granddaughters.

Posted by louman:

In general lighter bought six months ago, has used the cover peeled back. The operation had no effect but still like unpleasant) picked loop but nothing, who knows what to do, write. http://s3.uploads.ru/Vb9KZ.jpg&rdquo ; alt = "" />

Posted by louman:

Thank you))

Moved. Louman, wait a photo, except that no ice turns your question ;)