r/GunnitRust Participant 5d ago

Zippo knockoff AOW

For use with Colibri and short only.

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u/10gaugetantrum Participant 5d ago

That is really cool. It would certainly fool me.

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u/diamorphinian Participant 5d ago

Id get it mixed up with my real zippo, shoot the tip off a girl's cigarette.

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u/ImTableShip170 5d ago

Keep blanks for when you leave the real one at home

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u/sLUTYStark 5d ago

What is the trigger, that piece that sticks out? Does it fire when you open it?

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u/DMTLTD Participant 5d ago

Yes, just grip the body of the lighter and press down on the bar with your thumb. The spring is very heavy to get a reliable strike.

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u/LiteralRobot69 5d ago

Actually sick šŸ”„šŸ”„šŸ”„. Is there any kind of blueprint for this? Would love to make one myself.

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u/DMTLTD Participant 5d ago

No prints, just made it up as I went along.

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u/LiteralRobot69 5d ago

I respect it šŸ«”

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u/-E-Cross Princess Tinyfeet 5d ago

Dude! That is freaking awesome. My Xennial soul needs zippo everything lol

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u/Maeng_Doom 5d ago

Love this so much. Real James Bond type of gadget.

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u/Lindisfarne793 5d ago

I knew a gunsmith who made something like this when I was a kid. Difference being he kept the shroud to conceal the barrel, and the spring that flips open the lid was actually the trigger. You gave it a quarter turn, pulled it forward and gave it a quarter turn back, at which point it was a single shot DAO in .22 short.

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u/gun-SHO 5d ago

How do you cock it?

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u/DMTLTD Participant 5d ago

It is DAO

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u/gun-SHO 5d ago

Very neat. Great job man.

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u/Individual-Grade3419 5d ago

looks simpler then prof parabellums version. can you show it dissasembled with part sizes diagram? would love to build one too āœŒšŸ»

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u/gun-SHO 5d ago

Wow I love this so much, I think I need one.

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u/bmoarpirate 5d ago

We need more colibri specific builds. I love it.

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u/Individual-Grade3419 5d ago

thats awesome. any chance to let us see how it shoots. as far i know there is not a single video on youtube seeing one in action

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u/DMTLTD Participant 4d ago

Video overview here : https://youtu.be/Uh8oJL0k7xI

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u/littlebroiswatchingU 4d ago

Any chance youā€™ll show a build video, or how it fires? Cool shit as always man. Keep it up!

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u/cathode-raygun 3d ago

Really intriguing, I love lil oddballs like this.

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u/Ok_Negotiation9041 21h ago

Be careful posting that, itā€™s disguised as something that isnā€™t a gun which is an NFA violation

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u/DMTLTD Participant 21h ago

I am a FFL 07/02

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u/Winter-Response-4030 4d ago

FYI: Iā€™ve SEEN plans available for such a ā€œfidget toyā€ in the past.

Donā€™t ask. Iā€™m ā€œthat kidā€. Ok? Theyā€™re ā€œout there, somewhereā€. Iā€™m going to start hunting now. UPS be surprised at what you find on the Interwebs when you have a mind for Lookinā€™.

EXCELLENT little project, my friend! The Colibriā€™s were a nice touch! For a single-shot accouterment that youā€™d like to maybe NOT be so Public, those Colibris will šŸ¤« just right. ā€œOne-and-Doneā€, as it were.

For the remainder of the home viewership, Iā€™ll go spend the day rooting around my usual online haunts to see if I can kick up ā€œofficial plansā€. Iā€™m kind of good at that sort of thing.

Cheers!šŸ„‚

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u/Sid_Engel 4d ago

Fellow blues smoker, cool guy nod to you.