I miss my Zippo

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Absintheur

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When I smoked I collected all manner of lighters and match safes, I even have a Lighter that has a tiny music box in it that plat my alma mater's fight song. I carried a Zippo daily back then but because I seldom use a lighter I would never remember to fill it so I use a butane insert in my Zippo body and carry it that way. I would leave my cell phone at home before I left the house without a pocket knife and a lighter in my pockets.

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That's is maybe a tenth of my collection...lol. I loved my Zippos but also liked the Scripto clear lighters. If you want to carry your Zippo and not worry about the fuel evaporating these work great... Z-Plus Butane Insert for Zippo Lighter ZPLUS

This was my Father's set...I used them as well...

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This Zippo was my Grandfather's...

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I used to have a few Zippos, I don't know where any are, except one. I carried it with me every day for many years. I got quite beat up but never failed to light. I got it 1972 when I was in the Navy. It says "US Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, PR." Like I said, it's beat up, but about a year ago, I cleaned it up, filled it, put in a new flint & that baby lit like a new Zippo.

Actually, I have another identical one that I had bought for my Dad that looks like new. Gotta love Zippos, they just work.
 

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Gaaah, I'm not sure if I'm ready to disembowel my Zippos. It's not that I'd use them to smoke cigs ever again, it's just... a couple are heirlooms, some have quite a bit of history to them, and all have sentimental value. I guess I'll just put 'em in a box and store them. I swear, my attic is like the government warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Talk about ancient toys and things this man-child here just couldn't get rid of.

Toy Hunter, where are you?

I have the Zip Ez, you can slide the working part of your zippo out store it somewhere and slide the insides of the zip ez into the case

I have done it with mine so I can use my zippos

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