Been using rubber gasket thing also. Seems to add about 3 days between refills. I actually like it. Now, only if Zippo comes out with extra long flint..
Zippo Maintenance
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What do you all use to replace the cotton wadding inside the Zippo insert that soaks up and holds the fuel? Household cotton balls? Just wondered if it's something special. Can't seem to find it for sale as such, and if simple cotton why buy something more expensive...... Thanks...
In using this method for cleaning a pipe insert. What solvent have you found to be best to remove the carbon buildup on the insert?
I use Everclear, but any kind of alcohol may work.
Trim my wicks 2 or 3 times a year.
To clean up a use a little steel wool to buff it up, looks like new.
I started using the rubber gaskets also.
I fill up on the weekend and go all week now.
To clean up a use a little steel wool to buff it up, looks like new.
I started using the rubber gaskets also.
I fill up on the weekend and go all week now.
I use almost exclusively Zippos with pipe inserts, new inserts are $8-12 or free if you send it back to Zippo. I don't do any maintenance in the insert. I've had the same case for about 15 years, its on its 3rd insert.
Zippos are amazing and is most of you know they last pretty much a lifetime. I had a friend who purchased one at the PX when he was in the Army before he shipped overseas in World War II. He spent two and a half years in A POW Camp and still manage to hang on to his lighter. He carried the same lighter through Korea and through one tour in Vietnam and then retired after 30 years in the army.
He worked for me in one of the smoke shops I managed and still had his Zippo about 1990.
It was one of the first models of Zippo with the Chrome plated brass case and external hinges. Almost all of the Chrome was gone from his lighter but it still worked like a Zippo!
He worked for me in one of the smoke shops I managed and still had his Zippo about 1990.
It was one of the first models of Zippo with the Chrome plated brass case and external hinges. Almost all of the Chrome was gone from his lighter but it still worked like a Zippo!
This one lives in a box on my deck table. Wrapped in tape so my ham fists won’t constantly have to pick it up off the deck. After a few years the box disintegrated around it. replaced with Tupperware from the kitchen. Good for a lifetime now! Yes, I know this is why I can’t have nice things. 
This is why I prefer inexpensive pipes. But don't feel bad, I drop my 20 dollar Zippo often, but I drop my 120 dollar old boy even more often!
