Restoring World War I Trench Lighter - Antique Lighter Restoration & Repair

This World War I Trench lighter in in dire need of restoration and repair. It’s missing some parts and rusted badly. I started restoring this lighter long ago but I continued now because I finally came up with a plan to make new screw for the bottom. Th lighter was made by Imco. You’ve seen me restore number of Imco lighters previously. They have usually interesting mechanics. Unlike the previous lighters, this design was also made by other manufacturers. This lighter did not have many parts to disassemble. I left the cap attached to the body because it was riveted on and removing it would have cause unnecessary damage to the body I can mask the cap during nickel plating to keep the parts in their original colors. After disassembly the rust was removed with electrolysis and the body was polished. I didn’t have too much damage from the rust and the whole body was covered by patterns so I wouldn’t have sanded it much anyways. After polishing the pars were decreased with acetone. t