Huge WWII Brass Lighter Restoration | Mister Patina

In this Video im restoring an old and very huge brass lighter. Have fun, comment, like and subscribe :-)

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Huge WWII Brass Lighter Restoration | Mister Patina

In this Video i‘m restoring an old and huge lighter! I did some research and found out, that those lighters were build out of bullet or cannon cartridges. Possibly it was build between 1914 and 1945 - i cant tell you an exact time. A subscriber told me, that it looks like a nozzle from a firefighter hose, maybe it was a present for a firefighter.
I bought it online from a random person for around 20$. The restoration took me about 8 hours.
I started with disassembling this beauty, some threads were pretty stuck, so i tried disassembling it as careful as possible, because the brass is very soft. The old flint was broken, the spring was also broken in three pieces. The cotton in the mainbody looked surprisingly good - anyways - i replaced it in the end. After disassembly i gave it a nice wash to get rid of the dirt from the last decades. Because there was a lot of soot remaining on all the parts, i decided to clean the inner mainbody and the smaller parts with a soft wirebrush. It turned out very great, so i could move on with polishing. In the first step i took an abrasive compund for a nice surface, in the second step i took a finishing polish for a nice mirror shine. The parts turned out like brand new gold, time to reassemble this beauty. While reassembling, i build a new rivet for the flintstone, replaced the old flint against a new original zippo one and put a lot of new zippo cotton in it. I filled it up with a lot of zippo petrol and got to the final test. Some sparks and then - a nice calm flame :-)

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:14 First impression
00:57 Disassembly
03:37 First wash
04:34 Wirebrushing
05:29 Polishing
06:37 Reassembling
09:24 Final Result
09:39 Before and After
09:59 Final Test

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Huge WWII Brass Lighter Restoration | Mister Patina

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