Replace your Zippo flint with flint from a dead BIC

Step 4 Replacing your flint in your Zippo

unscrew the bronze screw on the bottum of your zippo "guts."
there will be a long spring attached to this, pull it out.
turn your zippo right side up, and shake it to make sure there is no
flint or anything else in the tube. next drop the flint you cut down the tube.
replace the spring and push it down and screw it in.
it won't be flush with the bottum, but it will close.
put the lighter back together and try it out.
if the wheel doesn't spin, the flint is too big.
you can either cut it down more, or file it down with a metal file and pliers.

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.

[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

[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.

Google it!

[sharlston]

sorry mr.killjoy

[zoone]

your no fun at all are you

[redsox121]

Dude thanks. I was just about to buy some flints, but saw this "instructable". It works great! Probably the most useful thing i've ever found on the internet! jk but pretty awesome!!

[notthomas]

Yea my original flint shot out one day somehow, but thanks to this I have a working zippo again!

[Mario1]

Yeah i've tried it 2 years ago :) just ruined my zippo ;) the cheap bic flint f'ed up the wheel thingy

[wilson67321]

This is the best internet video I have every seen. It worked great. This way i dont have to buy flint from ZIPPO or go to a store or somthing. I had it all at my house. Thanks a ton

[evando]

the flint that came with my zippo fell out, not sure how but it did, managed to find it and put it back in using this idea, gd to know I can use any flint too, for if/when this one wears out, thanks mate.

[xhondaxpolarisx]

Dude im justa 14 y/o kid and the zippo i got gave me a peaice of crap flint, so i somehow found this and stole my older sisters BIC. I followed all the steps and it worked!!!...thats so awesome...thank you whoever put this information down with the pictures...u just made my week....thats probably one of the coolest little tricks ive even learned...haha im into little things like that THANKSS