Vic303
03-04-2007, 03:37 PM
Sun Featherweight Mirror
The Sun Featherweight mirror is big for being so light weight. It’s a silvered, layered plastic of some kind, with a hole punched in one end for a lanyard. Mfgr. weight is listed as 1/3oz. Dimensions are approximately 3 1/8”x 4 ¼”, and is about 1mm thick (yeah I know I’m mixing English & Metric, what can I say, I’m a product of the Public School Metric Experiment…)
When kept flat the mirror provides a nice stable image, easily big enough to shave with, or put your makeup on. Being plastic though, the mirror does flex easily, causing some image distortion, sort of like in the Carnival Funhouse. This means though, that the mirror is not really breakable! That is GOOD! Now, I suppose you could fold it or melt it and do other stuff to deliberately destroy it, but in normal usage, it’s going to be nearly indestructible.
For fun, I took it outside on a sunny day, and tried flashing sunspots on the neighborhood homes. It worked really well! It puts out a large blotch of light that I found easy to direct where I wanted—at least it was easy when aiming at things on the ground. I refrained from aiming at the aircraft overhead, since I don’t think the pilots on approach to DFW would appreciate me flashing sunlight at them when they’re on final! I determined too, that you can use the lanyard hole to simulate the viewing hole on a Starflash mirror.
With as thin and light as this mirror is, it is definitely going into my little PSK. It’s a real keeper for only $3.25 from EDCDepot.com.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/vic303/IMG_1560.jpg
The Sun Featherweight mirror is big for being so light weight. It’s a silvered, layered plastic of some kind, with a hole punched in one end for a lanyard. Mfgr. weight is listed as 1/3oz. Dimensions are approximately 3 1/8”x 4 ¼”, and is about 1mm thick (yeah I know I’m mixing English & Metric, what can I say, I’m a product of the Public School Metric Experiment…)
When kept flat the mirror provides a nice stable image, easily big enough to shave with, or put your makeup on. Being plastic though, the mirror does flex easily, causing some image distortion, sort of like in the Carnival Funhouse. This means though, that the mirror is not really breakable! That is GOOD! Now, I suppose you could fold it or melt it and do other stuff to deliberately destroy it, but in normal usage, it’s going to be nearly indestructible.
For fun, I took it outside on a sunny day, and tried flashing sunspots on the neighborhood homes. It worked really well! It puts out a large blotch of light that I found easy to direct where I wanted—at least it was easy when aiming at things on the ground. I refrained from aiming at the aircraft overhead, since I don’t think the pilots on approach to DFW would appreciate me flashing sunlight at them when they’re on final! I determined too, that you can use the lanyard hole to simulate the viewing hole on a Starflash mirror.
With as thin and light as this mirror is, it is definitely going into my little PSK. It’s a real keeper for only $3.25 from EDCDepot.com.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b353/vic303/IMG_1560.jpg