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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.
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dowtech
03-04-2007, 03:58 PM
Great review! An interesting gadget.

vortechs
03-05-2007, 12:32 AM
Does anyone know if someone makes a smaller version that would fit in a wallet? Perhaps a credit card sized version.

Vic303
03-05-2007, 10:53 AM
Vortechs the Starflash mirrors are credit card LxW roughly BUT they are about 5mm thick so not exactly designed for wallet carry. I think if you wanted to, you could take the Sun mirror and cut it down to size with an Exacto knife. I think that would cause less damage than scissors.

--Vic

ryball
03-05-2007, 12:17 PM
Does anyone know if someone makes a smaller version that would fit in a wallet? Perhaps a credit card sized version.


This is exactly what you are looking for. I have one in my wallet.

ebay victorinox wallet mirror (http://cgi.ebay.com/Victorinox-Swisschamp-SOS-Replacement-MIRROR_W0QQitemZ170086223353QQihZ007QQcategoryZ638 01QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

vortechs
03-07-2007, 01:38 AM
It looks like the Victorinox signal mirror can also be found on their website: http://www.swissarmy.com/PartsAndAccessories/default.htm?category=p_and_a_multitools& . I wish it gave more details like dimensions, material, and weight. Is the tiny Victorinox mirror metal?

The attraction of the Sun Featherweight Mirror is its lightweight construction. Now if they only made a credit card size version for wallet carry.

JayHawk
03-07-2007, 10:28 AM
The Victorinox mirrors that I have are plastic and measure 3 1/8 by 1 9/16. They are smaller overall but about the same thickness as a credit card. As a side note, the mirror fits in the sleeve of my Leatherman Wave 3 compartment sheath.

+1 on the ebay seller that ryball linked to. The communication from them was great and they shipped my items the same day I ordered.