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Old Oct 12, 2009 | 5:18 am
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IrishDoesntFlyNow
 
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Originally Posted by Loren Pechtel
I think the issue is liquid fuel that could possibly leak.
The fluid reservoir in a windproof Zippo is a saturated wad of cottony stuff -- like a cotton ball, but a bit denser. I suppose you could squeeze out a few drops of lighter fluid if you tried really hard, Other than that, there's no fluid reservoir, per se, so there's really nothing to leak. For once, they actually make some sense.

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