Replace your Zippo flint with flint from a dead BIC

these are step by step instruction on how to replace the flint in you Zippo with some from a disposible BIC light that has run out of gas.

Step 1 Removing the flint and disassembling your zippo

if your flint is too small from being worn down, or just completly gone, you will need to take apart your zippo. do this by removing the metal portion fomr the colored shell, the same as you would to refill the lighter.

Comments

[GhettoWhiteBoy]

i have looked everywhere for replacement flints. I.E: walmart, liqour stores, random supermarkets and gas stations but NO ONE has em. I didnt want to buy a new $10 zippo so i baught a POS BIC. My zippo has life thanks to you.

[Mrcheese15]

the reason you should only use lighter fluid is because other flamable liquids burn dirtier, which chars the wick alot faster

[Omnipharious]

I don't know why, but I'm surprised that this worked so well. My brother found a Zippo at the theater a year or two ago, and it recently ran out of fluid, and I noticed when flicking it, there was no spark. It had fuel, and it did light, so I'm not entirely sure how that happened without a spark, but now I can actually see that it's sparking, so thanks, mate!

[jimmymeister]

lol, thanks a lot but i should have read all of the steps cuz when i took the wheel of the BIC the flint just shot out.

[jramey1]

Yup same here. I finally found it after 10 minutes and it worked great! XD

[jprice19]

Wow, this works great! The flint from BIC lighters work much better than the Zippo brand flints. Sometimes it would take a 2/3 sparks to get the Zippo to light. Now it only takes a single spark every time. I think the thicker diameter of the BIC flint allows a better spark which is why I'm seeing a noticeable difference. Great work!

[kstoner1]

Do they not sell replacement flints for lighters outside the UK? I'm all for using the old flints from a dead disposable - i salvage them for clippers, but from the comments i'm reading some people seem to have not been able to get replacements.

Is the bic flint any thinner than the ones used as standard in zippos? some of the flints on the super cheap chinese lighters are and they just get wedged in the flint tube and ruin the lighter unless you get creative with a drill

[mcomerford]

You are AWESOME!!! I was about to spend untold amounts of $$ on new flint. U saved my wallets life

[Deadpunk]

hey my zippo fluid just ran dry and i don't have any replacement fluid is there anything around the house i can use instead of zippo fluid like regular ligher fluid for camp fires or something like that?

[Pyroaniac]

you can use any number of thing as long as you saturate the cotton exp. axe spray, bug repelant suff of that flammability ( or you could go to a smoke shop they sell tons of lighter fluid for cheap

[295291001]

Isopropanol i beleive its called, But to be perfectly honest its rubbing alchohol very convenient very cheap. Burns very well just be sure to be very careful with it i was sent to the hospital with third degree burns. Isopropanol is clear 95% alchohol and odds are is you won't notice if you spill it on yourself, And it really burns running around just feeds the flame. But over all very convenient and easy to find.

[curtcurmudgeon]

white gas for gas stoves itb is napa same as lighter check it out on wicppedia or some search engine agallon is 8 dollars never had a problem

[woody558]

You can use lighter fluid. It's much cheaper than zippo fluid.

[awesomeuspossumus]

yes, you can use the kind for the grill, it works, im not sure if its better or worse because i have an imitation zippo (it uses the same thing for lighting and stuff) and ive never used the other kind, but you can certainly use camp fire fluid.

[sharlston]

i have a zippo style lighter i got it for £1 heres a pic: plz show me yours

[franklinonline]

gasoline might work and supposedly coleman lantern fluid is cheap cheap cheap and lasts forever sports shop have it a gallon for like 5-8 bucks supposedly its the same material i dont have a zippo, so cant test

[mondaymonkey]

Don't use Charcoal Lighter Fluid or Lamp Oil (Parafin) Neither can catch a spark anywhere near as good as a zippo. And once you fill it with a bad fluid, its a pain to flush it out. Down here, its like 1.50 for a can of zippo fuel that lasts forever (12 ounces is plenty!)

[oddmidge]

To fix a jammed flint wheel: Roll up some paper towel into a flint size cylinder, soak in wd40 abd out down flint tube. Turn wheel until all the paper is spewed out. Done just like brand k new.

[xXsome_guyXx]

 is the botten metal, of like cotten? i got mine in a bootleg mal and the bottem if the gut is cotten. is normal?

[295291001]

Yes there is a felt pad and then several layers of cotton to saturate with something flammable. But it seems that you have a legitimate zippo.

[weaponscollector94]

i use free flint from found Bics and i use camp fuel witch is naphtha, essentially the same as lighter fluid!

[yellow elephant]

is there any way i can make a new wick?

[curtcurmudgeon]

yes i have about 20 feet of wick i made and have used ibut all cotton string have to keep in mimd thih has to go throu the hole under lighter find old elctric cord stip copper wire need wire t o keep sriing stiff in lighter hole . take 3 or 4 srands of cotton sring wire string wire group into three groups now brade right over left right over left try it it works then try some white napa cooking gas colman gas it works zippos rock can make fire just about any were can save your life.

[sgt.paper]

i need to know to =C

[sharlston]

bic flints or disposable ones are too soft and will jam up the flint wheel and the wick

[curtcurmudgeon]

well improvise modify and over come a bic fint beats no flint or bow and drill in wet weather remember the beaches of normandy improvise use what ever works

[curtcurmudgeon]

been doing this with dead bick lighters since bick lighters came out in early 1970's well what elease is cool or great a very cheap fueal for the zippo is napa fuel right lighter fuel at 8or 9 dollars a 12 oz plastic bottle or a whole gallion of napha white gas colmans white gas same as lighter fiuid been useing it since 1973 people in world war 2 used white gas in there zippos try it works just fine and you will love the price a zippo is a tought nut to crack means good survival lighter have plenty of fuel and it will light since 1930s hell of a track record.

[thisonegoesto11]

where can you buy flints for zippos (other than ebay/internet/cigerret store/booze store/) and can you buy new wicks too?

[JuCo]

some grocers have them... i know this is a very late answer, but i couldn't tell if anyone had answered you yet.

 

[makenizzle]

 You saved my Welsh Zippo :) Thank you.

[rt420]

OMG it worked! I've had this Zippo sitting in my drawer for about 4years. I planned on sending it in to be fixed but decided to look onlineto see if I could fix it myself first and I found this site. It was soeasy (this coming from a female).
Thank You!

[knex sniper123]

can u use the bic lighter fluid in the zippo, i do then can u please post instructions. Thanks

[sharlston]

ok a bic or disposable lighter burns gas zippos burn fluid

[zoone]

u cant bic lighters burn gas

[cbrown222]

they burn butane a pressurized fuel, not gas

[zoone]

lol in the end its all some kind of gas

[sharlston]

no theres difference bettween a gas and liquid

[zoone]

yes but in the end there both a kind of fuel

[sharlston]

yes but you quoted lol in the end its all some kind of gas


gas and fuel are different things

[Daniel.Overgaard.Nielsen]

Please do your home work before acting like a rude genius. Butane is a gas. Period. It may take a liquid form under pressure, but since it appears in a gas form in atmospheric pressure it is a gas.

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