Zippo Lighter Restoration, Vietnam War MEDIC Repair - Ba Ria 72-73
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- Zippo lighter restoration from The Vietnam war Ba Ria Post year 1972-1973. Today I restore and repair an awesome lighter from Vietnam with a Red Cross combat MEDIC badge attached to is.
This Zippo lighter is a metal detector ground found from Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province in Vietnam. It has been partially buried in mud and sand when he found it. It was sent to me by one of my metal detector friends from Vietnam.
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RESTORATION PROCESS
I always start with WD40 rust remover. Just to loosen things up. The inner case was stuck in the zippo bottom case as usual, so I was forced to use fire and a hammer to loosen those two parts from each other. I washed inner/outer case in soap and alcohol and found some beautiful inscriptions on the lighter.
The inside case was damaged, so I had to repair it with a little heat treatment. I used the home-made mini tumbler (as usual) to clean the small parts. I cleaned the inside lighter case in the sandblaster with low air pressure and I used white virgin aluminium oxide.
I heat treated the inside Zippo case to achieve a beautiful brown Matt army color. I polished the case and lid to mirror blank and added the Red Cross combat medic badge.
INSCRIPTION ON THE LIGHTER
The inscription on the lighter is
VIETNAM BA RIA 72-73
WAR STOP PEOPLE
SO WHY DON’T
PEOPLE STOP WAR
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Best wishes Martin
In this video I restore a Zippo lighter from the Vietnam War. Let me know what you think.
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I like everything about your videos except for the graphical effects added at the end of this one. These restorations are beautiful on their own.
i like your videos
Dude. Really enjoy your videos. However, they are becoming quite repetitive. All you seem to do now is restore old lighters. Ever try restoring something else. I would love so see you restore something like an old knife, gun, old machine. Or something other than lighters.
Oh cool
Is it a honor magic?
I really like how this phone looks!
Nice video.
"War stop people so why don't people stop war".Nice quote tho
Id be out of a job. Lol
Bs
Ну и что это значит?как переводится?на русский язык.
@@maratibragimov4210 Война останавливает людей так почему же люди не останавливают войну. Очевидно палиндром
Zippo inscriptions are very meaningful about later humans...
I pray who ever reads this becomes successful in life.
Thank you
A serial killer could have read this
I pray you become successful as well amen 🙏
Ty
Thanks you, likewise💪
I still have my dad's old zippo and my own that I got as a birthday present 30 years ago. I love that the company maintains the original dimensions and parts.
Who else finds these videos satisfying and calming? I love to see how much care goes into these restorations! Great work❤️🙌🏼
Thank you very much!
@@AwesomeRestorations ♥️
The text says “WAR STOP PEOPLE SO WHY DON’T PEOPLE STOP WAR”. A strong statement.
WARS STOP PEOPLE SO WHY DON’T PEOPLE STOP WAR (Or WAR STOPS PEOPLE SO WHY DON’T PEOPLE STOP WAR)
If anybody can understand it.....and we can put our ego's aside.
that is sad bc he probaly die in a war that he dont want
True that
Ironic how the guy who owned the zippo went to war though. One way to stop them is to refuse to fight them.
"War stops people so why don't people stop war" God bless and rest in peace to whoever owned that lighter
Because War is nothing but a Business. The corporations who make weapons have to sell them all to someone so if not sold to the US they'll make and sell them in Russia, Korea, Iran there is always a buyer for them but even worse theres always a leader who'll use them too. Sick truth of it all here. I used to work for a corp that made them here in USA!
So think how many times have yoi seen people being bullied or shoved around or worse someone steal from another? Small things start wars.
@@harryballz6358 weaponry need not be high tech that Era has come and gone.
Ask soros, the Rothschilds, the MIC, and politicians why we don't stop wars. Good money
That sounds like something that somebody even the Vietnam War would say
Yep, I’ve got a Zippo lighter that I found while in the US Marines. I was sleeping on the floor at an airport during a flight layover, on my way to a duty station. I woke up and saw it under a bench or something, it was brushed gold… I put it in my pocket and always carried it with me during the remainder of my service, I still have it now. I think it’s actually one of the few things is still have from my time in the service. Hmm, good memories, thanks for this video!
Semper Fi
thanks a lot Stephen for your comment what a nice found :)
I find these videos soothing: watching something once lost or discarded and forgotten restored to “life” is somehow moving. Someone once held this lighter, and it mattered enough to them that they personalized it. I just hope he made it home.
thanks a lot for your comment. I hope so too 😊
*The lighter is in good shape*
Lighter looks like it fought the war too
😂😂
It was used as a mini flame thrower
it’s in good shape for how long it’s been there lmao
Não entendi!
It was detained for 5 years along with a green beret in a tiger cage deep in the jungles near the Ho Chi Minh trail
This man is still liking his comments. Respect.
Of course I am :)
Yeah cuz this video is old but, still liking comments! Respect.
Its the asmr for me
only 43 videos in
Tom ouni ths manas sou
I suspect these restore videos are rigged. They just put the object in a corrosive substance, and then sell it like a repair. At least some of them
I have been smoking 40 years, and have owned zippos the whole time.
Not sure if they still do, but they were guaranteed for life. If your hinge broke off either end, they would send you a new one.
I have owned 3 and love them. If you ride a motorcycle, they are mandatory.
This dude really out here restoring Zippos with some potions and elixirs
Squeaky Boots ikr and owl noises bruh
With some robot
Phoenix-Down
That is some alchemy shit
And magical blue powder
This video proves that there are Master Craftsman on both ends of the spectrum: those who create and those who restore.
But also those who record
There’s also those who do both, which he probably does.
I appreciate these videos, but restoration is nothing close to creation.
@@bmark6971 you do it then
@@bmark6971 in a way, if one creates, one would be happy knowing what they created can be made to look new and be reborn again.
2:26
Lighter: kids
Blue bottle: School work
Green bottle: school week
Red bottle: the weekend
“In Peace, sons bury their fathers. In War, fathers bury their sons.” - Herodotus.
“War stops people so why don’t people stop war.” I love that quote. Great job on restoring this lighter. This lighter is a piece of American history.
In 50 years:
restoring supreme zippo lighter
More like in 5 years.
Supreme sucks.
@Mc Shoovie He asked me, supreme is for preteen little weirdos with rich parents.
Yap
No one gonna mention how he tumbled the spring for hours then just proceeds to completely replace it with a new one
Brick I’m assuming it was so that that little piece the spring stays on wouldn’t get damaged
but the results on that spring tho
So far I've seen people compliment you on your cinematography and on your restoration skills (which are both great), but nobody's mentioned that you're still liking and replying to comments after a whole year. Great work overall!
thank you so much I am glad you like the video and my skills. Of course I reply to your comments because I really appreciate that you guys taking your time to write to me :)
He did this in honour of the former owner and all Vietnam veterans.
👍🔥🇺🇸
Birds singing, insects doin their job, forest is quite calm, a barman restores a lighter. Epic.
Suely Mendes a barman?
More than epic
Ya, this is like some ASMR video lol
@@RhenaIt was a joke.
Things i like about this. You don’t talk. There’s no music. Noises aren’t to loud. It’s calming and satisfying to watch your videos. And a lot more to say from my heart!
*WAR NOISES IN THE BACKGROUND* Yep same
Việt Nam, đó là đất nước tôi. Cuộc chiến tranh đã qua đó là lịch sử. Cảm ơn bạn đã phục hồi kỉ vật.
thank you very much for watching :)
I used to think that if I had a shop and all the proper tools, I could restore just about anything.
But it also requires knowledge and years of experience which you have demonstrated here.
Thanks for watching and for your kind words I really appreciate it 👍😉
The sound effects make it seem like you’re restoring this in the rainforest..
Nam was a forest
I go to sleep watching these specifically because he uses sleep sounds in the background
Retoring a lighter in the middle of a firefight in nam
I dont like the effects
“The lighter is in good shape”
*The Lighter* (°o°)
😂
I'm love it. The Lighter is amazed. :D
@@WilczycaCzarownica Language +100
I have seen so many "restoration" videos that i can't even be sure which ones a real lol
I love that inscription.
"War stop people so why don't people stop war" sounds like a medic's lighter if I've ever seen one
"When a robber will cross the street, for a small take away from your house. Rest assured another will be looking from across an ocean"
DexyD20 there’s a cross on it and crosses usually means medic
DexyD20 maybe the colours on it could have been white background, Red Cross?
Dexter C I don’t think so
I know red crosses mean medic and before it was restored it was red, you can just barely see the paint, but my point is more about the person who would have bought or been assigned such a lighter in the first place. Since medics are usually less violent than there soldier counterparts, I could see a medic carrying this more than a machine gunner or rilfleman. That being said it could have been anyone's because, if I went to war I wouldn't be a medic, but I sure as hell would have a lighter like that.
“A little squeeze of WD40” then continue to spray for 30 minutes straight 🤣🤣🤣
“2 shots of vodka.”
When restoring trust me that is only a little bit
xBryanCannonx lol
Like Gordon Ramsay :a little touch of olive oil
*flooded the pan with olive oil*
@@nguyenkhoi8765 🤣🤣🤣
These Zippos from the Vietnam War carry echoes of the history, thoughts and horror of ordinary soldiers.
No war.
Thank you for restoring this historical artifact - honor and praise to you)
thank you very much for your comment :)
Is there anyone like me who is also Vietnamese watching this Video? He is amazing at restoring zippo ingeniously. I wish I had a zippo like that :)
thank you so much for watching 😊❤
The red color of the cross survived a war, time and the elements. It did not survive restoration.
Also that green/blue color, whatever that was.
hndmedwnz I think that’s oxidisation in copper
yeah, I was a bit disappointed when he burned the paint.
Loved the restoration process, but that cross fu***d everything up.
@@jimmy_kirk Because Red Cross is a scam these days.
if you close your eyes guys, you can actually fall asleep, the sound’s in the background are so beautiful
Asmr
On that ASMR shit
I agree with you bro
yup .. its like mom making breakfast.. haha😁
Until the robot comes😂
Made me remember all the tricks my dad did to light a Zippo . Thanks.
Questi restauri degli zippo, sono i miei video preferiti!!! Bravissimo!!
grazie mille :)
Nobody gonna mention how he’s a wizard, pulling shit he needs from the wall. His potions with corks that go pop. How he does these alchemical recipes to make this thing burn once more. Next thing you know, he’s gonna bring back the dead. He even has a little summon to bring him stuff he needs! Like come on how can he not be a wizard!
The sounds were added in post
TobbAnimations hmm?.. no im sure hes an actual wizard, definitely a wizard
Yeah he's definitely a fricken wizard
Bro I bet u he's from Hogwarts like no joke.
That mini tumbler was genius
A lot of people are confused on why he said “It’s in good shape” we’ll it’s all in one piece and not broken. Sure a little dirty and beat up but still all together!
They r just dumb lol..just ignore them 🤣
@@pesamerican8580
Most of them are joking
You're dumb dor not understanding the joke :)
@@Es-mv2mk Ironic
@@yepperz isn't it
Welcome to vietnammese, cảm ơn những người lính xưa của tỉnh Bà Rịa Vũng Tàu đã cho chúng tôi 1 tương lai như bây giờ!!!❤
YES ! GREAT JOB ! I LOVE ZIPPO LIGHTER ! THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO !
Thanks for watching!
Watching a professional doing his job is weirdly fulfilling. Amazing!
thanks I am glad you liked it :)
@@AwesomeRestorations Uhhh
Agree. So fascinating. I also watched this restoration and was very impressed th-cam.com/video/Aysm4IMshuk/w-d-xo.html
Everyone's commenting on your restoration skills, so let me applaud your cinematography instead. I know it takes a while doing multiple takes, and editing this stuff, lighting it properly but it's all worth it. Video looks awesome. Keep up the good work.
and the sound design is so subtle, but incredible job as well.
Thanks for watching and for - noticing that I use A LOT of time on filming/editing part too. I really appreciate it 👍
@@AwesomeRestorations Top notch work all around! I always enjoy your videos.
Very good point and observation
The edits/sound are fun and enjoyable. 🙏🙏🙏
Best 13 mins on YT yet, so relaxing don't know why 😭
Glad you enjoy it!
I own a zippo and I can tell you that I can't imagine any other lighter in my hands except zippo, it's like the part of me, the video is excellent and I really like your channel, thank you for all the great videos it is a pleasure to watch them.
thanks a lot, yes Zippo's are great lighters
Most people: “That’s trashed, throw it out.”
This guy: “The lighter is in good shape.”
Lol
@Matt Bet it Still has warranty too
lil robot help fix
pleas pet
wait he means shape nothing really about the rust
When he says “the lighter is in good shape” he means the lighter mechanism itself not the lighter case
The best ASMR I’ve heard in a while honestly
The video and sound fx are top notch production! Plus the end product was beautiful 👌
Oyyyy blya
Yea!!!!!!
ASMR is so disturbing
Друг подарил ZIPPO. Прислал из USA, лучшая зажигалка во всем мире. Всем добра и счастья. Автор, ты мастер от Бога.
thank you so much 😊 glad you got a zippo 👍
Thanks you
I am from vietnam 🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳
thank you for watching :)
I’m not sure how this got on my recommended list, but I’m so happy it did. What a joy to watch. That was a great video.
thank you so much for watching :)
Ik it’s so satisfying
@@piercepatterson3212 same here
Same. No idea how this wound up in the recommended algorithm but this is probably my favorite TH-cam video on a LONG time.
Same
"the lighter is in good shape"
*Looks like its been thrown to hell and back*
😂
Well, technically, it has.Vietnam is interesting to learn about but it must've been bad to fight there.
@@antalgergo2699 bad for people without an experience
It's That A Sabaton Reference?
Hahaha i was looking in the comments for someone to make fun of when he said that lmao
I got a Zippo. I bought it, when I served for ISAF in Afghanistan in 2008/09. It has the emblem of PRT Feyzabad. ✌️
very cool 🔥👍
“ The lighter is in good shape, “ that gave me a good laugh
Damn bro you beat me to it
Well the shape of the lighter is in good shape, but the condition is not, but that did still make me laugh
Why am I laughing 😂
Well if you think about it all of the parts were intact
Agreed 😂
This guy is HowToBasic’s medicated cousin.
Lmao
Too true
couldn't agree more xD
Or like more educated than him
I was thinking the exact same thing.
That is ONE FASHIONABLE LIGHTER. Dead serious that thing is AWESOME.
thank you so much :)
thanks to you guys i learned how to fix my zippo lighter
glad to hear that Eric 👍
I can’t be the only one that finds this stuff therapeutic
You're not, I would love some like... asmr to go along with this.
I’m Vietnamese, touched when reading “WARS STOP PEOPLE, WHY DON’T PEOPLE STOP WARS”
❤🇻🇳
Chào đông lào êi 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
I'm not a tech guy..I don't smoke..but I have been watching this video without a blink. I'm amazed. Well done Sir, 👏 ✔ 👍
thank you so much for your kind words I really appreciate it :)
If the outdoor noises are fake this is a top 10 video I’ve ever seen. If those are real noises this is the coolest video I’ve ever seen.
The guy that used the lighter must be proud of you
I really hope so. Thanks for watching I really appreciate it 😉👍
Thanks you
Still answering comments on a old(er) video. What a legend
@@masterryo8887 Amazing isnt it.
@@WizardWorld321 Nugget xD
Him: the lighters in good shape
ME : ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT
Jeremy Landfill I legit came in the comments for this specific one. Thank you.
@@jakecamara1858 literally same here
I knew someone was going to mention this
Help pee is white and sticky
The reason it is in good shape is because most other things from the veitnam war would be in worse shape.
I love the Zippo bottle, it's so cute!
I truly love it and the words on the zippo is awakening. Salute
so happy to hear that :)
You gotta appreciate that the only thing he replaced was the spring and everything else was original, mad respect 🙏🙏
thanks a lot :)
well he did change the color of the cross the red cross was to signify blood in the medical world in WW2
Yeah,. It he didn't want a copyright stroke from the red cross.
@@malice6081 could that actually happen??
@@ogracid9883 Quoting the International committee of the red cross
"Use of the red cross or red crescent emblem or name by "individuals, societies, firms or companies either public or private" is prohibited by international humanitarian law (First Geneva Convention, Article 53)"
Technically the red cross isn't copyrighted, but you're still not allowed to use it.
Me: *sees lighter* “yikes that doesn’t look so good”
Video: “This lighter is in good shape”
Me: “I’ll just sit myself down”
Yes, my friend, as will I. Allow me to show us the door 😅
He means the lighters "shape" is in good condition
It had nothing to do with the rust
Przemek Tyrkin ya..
If you’ve ever actually used a zippo lighter you would know when he meant ‘lighter’ he meant the actual lighter mechanism itself not the lighter case
this is fluffy and amazing god bless you and who ever had that lighter
War may stop people, but this restoration stopped me in my tracks!
I am a Japanese viewer.
I am not good at English, so I write this comment with the translation function. I also have Zippo. I bought it in Ueno, Tokyo to commemorate my 20th birthday. (Tobacco is allowed in Japan over the age of 20.) It was a replica of Zippo in the 1930s and I engraved my name and the name of the village on it. It was about 3 years and 8 months ago.I loved my mother. My mother got sick and was admitted to the hospital. You can't always be together at the hospital. So I told my mother, "When it's hard or lonely, think of this Zippo as me. It's engraved with my name. My heart is always by my side. The flames of my heart fighting illness. Don't erase it. "And handed me my Zippo. My mother wasn't a smoker, but she received Zippo. My mother was hospitalized and discharged several times, but each time she gave her Zippo. My mother died a year and eight months ago, but this time Zippo encourages me. Because, as I said, my mother didn't give up living to the end. Because he did not extinguish the flames of his heart fighting illness. With that Zippo, I feel like my mother will watch over me.
Thanks for watching and for sharing your story ... I really appreciate it 👍😉 Cheers to your mother ❤
@@AwesomeRestorations Thank you for the reply. If the story of me and my mother impressed or encouraged someone, it would be a great pleasure.
@@youhei090604 I’m not crying, you’re crying
Thank you for sharing the story ❤️
@@mero3068
Thank you for your reply.
My mother died of illness unfortunately. However, the story of me and my mother is told all over the world. Then my mother will stay alive in someone's heart. So I hope you can impress someone with the story of me and my mother.
Things that i like: no stupid edm music and units are metric. Good job
metric is gey
Can you die if you snort rust
Hutch tf I’m English and I don’t spell check like that where are u from
xchallengerx11 00 yes that’s why it’s gey
Hes gotta stupid animal backgroud🤦🏽♂️ thinking its outside my house
I'm a fan of these lighters. I had one long time ago. It had The Three Stooges on it. God, I loved that lighter!!
thank you so much :)
Thanks for recovered our Zippo lighter
We're Vietnamese
thank you for watching :)
"This lighter is in good shape!"
Press *_X_* to doubt.
It really was in good shape
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My grandpa was a Vietnam veteran and when he died in 1979 in a motorcycle accident he had a custom zippo lighter with his nickname engraved into it on him and it’s crazy how clean it is after over 40 years.
My dad is a Vietnam vet also. He has a Zippo with a map of Vietnam on it with his last name. It doesn’t work (I think we need a new flint for it) but it sits on his study shelf. It’s also really clean. It’s cool cause it has the little piece that shoots the flame downwards for lighting pipes.
Knoa Bowman that’s awesome dude
My grandpa was in Vietnam to. He died just recently, Oct 16 2019.
F
@@kaydenstull3827 thanks for the f in the chat
Let us all hope that there will not be any war ever again
yes we hope for that :)
I have my step grandfathers Thorens lighter from WW2, still works and in great condition. Great video, love your channel.
thanks a lot, sounds like a really cool lighter you got 🔥👍
I love how you preserved the writing on it and saved this piece of history, most would have grinded the inscription away :-( but you preserved this piece of history, well done
Glad you enjoyed it!
BRAVO...so glad you helped this become a keepsake...priceless! Will there be a day when we will learn....
*ground
One thing that always made me think was the fact that almost all Zippos restored are in the half open position
Or are they I’m the half shut position? 🤔
justin reel woah mind blown 😨
@@solowarrior3218 you had the opportunity to use this (🤯) and you failed.
When they fall to the floor they open
People don't restore it the moment they find it.. Many try opening them and eventually they might get jammed
Ae VN đâu vào thả tym chia sẻ cho thầy nào 😅❤️👍🏻
Zippo one love❤
I have just now learned, that the little hole is for a spare flint...
What hole?
Dann De Dooie nevermind
I knew but I always lose it when taking out cartridge for a refill..
Dann De Dooie Only zippo brand flints. If you rob a flint out of a bic lighter and put that in it will dissolve in the lighter fluid.
Why you need to put there a spare flint?
The guy: Lighter is in good shape
The lighter: a pile of unrecognizable rusty metal
MT he means not completely unrepairable, dented beyond repair
Jacob Ecret it was a joke
Jacob ecret:IT WAS A JOKE
This is the perfect youtube video. i returned to this video several times and every time i can’t get enough of it
thank you so much I appreciate it :)
I find this video very calming, especially with the nature sounds. Good work
“Wars stop people so why don’t people stop wars?”
It really breaks my heart every time I think about how sometimes those fighting the wars are the ones who most want it to be over.
Mapo this is true. Those who are trained for war deep down inside hope they never have to put their training to use. And for those of us who have been to war even more so. It’s a horrible thing.
*shows 200 degree Celsius oven*
Pop-up on the right hand corner:
“You would look great in this!”
King Magpie lmao
Mis respetos. Muy buenas restauraciones. Saludos desde Costa Rica. Me encanta el trabajo y el sonido de fondo
You pour the solvent and lubricants like a scientist in the laboratory.👍
That table with the buffing wheel sold me, this guy knows what's up.
Amazing .. keep it up
Well it’s now confirmed. This man is an elven blacksmith living in a magical forest
:) yes
Na just a tall dwarf
WITH A ROBOT
I hear birds chirping every now and then, mainly doves. So your claim is holding up under empirical evidence.
Must be because of the magical potions he uses.
I have an old brass case zippo from my days in the army. Great video and thanks for putting the work into something that is so deserving of restoration.
thank you for your comment :)
Yes,I'm the proud owner of a Zippo!
cool
I would risk saying this was probably more satisfying then that toy story two scene where Woody gets fixed
Bernardo Marques sounds are more satisfying in the toy story scene and you know it.
@@diegosrgtn9483 yeah probably 😂
This gives me the same type of satisfaction as the scene in toy story 2 wher the old guy restores woody
codeX my favorite part of that movie.
codeX Fr
تلك الاشياء القديمة رائعة... شكرا لك مارتن على ترميمها انت بارع ورائع 🌷
Love how you added ASMR into it. Oddly satisfying at 4am.
so glad you think so, thanks :)
It seems TH-cam recommendations have brought us all together
i clicked because i would really be honored to light a cigarette with this lighter
TuhanRock you right my brotha
I don’t know how I got here but I am here.
Yeet
I don't smoke and this makes me want to carry a vintage zippo 😂
That’s exactly what I was thinking 😂
good news! a zippo can be used to start a fire or light anything, not just a cigarette!
I like the carry my zippo with me all the time just as good practice cause you never know when you might need a lighter
Recently, I had insomnia, but when I listened to the sound of this video, I could sleep naturally. Thank you. From the Japanese.
The metallurgy knowledge is amazing!
thank you so much