Sure, it’s exposed when you take of the top cap but until then it’s waterproof.
Barry does not personally decide what can/will be designed and manufactured by Sofirn. Potential market/customers is one thing, but huge issues in supply chains this past year has been an even bigger impact.
Sounds like my buddies in the town I grew up in. Yea… CT , Just not those rich bastards down by NYC, has more similarities to the fly over then most people would care to admit.
Ok, back on topic. Just never thought I’d see a Dana 60 reference on this forum lol.
I’d certainly be interested. So far my favourite petrol lighter is the Douglass Field S, and the one in the Douglass Neo range with the caps on both wick and flint wheel. The Field S has a wind guard, is machined beautifully with o- rings everywhere, but expensive and therefore out of most peoples budget. Something smaller and cheaper incorporation your criteria is definitely worth looking into.
I take it you’re a U.K. member too? I still call it camping. 
Oh yes, the Field S is a beautyful peace od machining, especially the brass one. Don’t know what were they thinking with camo versions. Yuck.
Close but no cigar. I’m from Croatia
Unfortunately, this thread is not really getting the attention it needs to make the lighter happen but at least I tried. Would probably be better with a finished design but I don’t really have the time to learn 3D modeling right now.
Well, it is a light forum, but more led, tints etc than lighters. Compliments to you, both for your excellent English and punting a decent idea. Stay with it and keep us posted, lot of bored folk around at the moment on forums in general so don’t take it to heart.
Sofirn can make the tooling and the product would be of good quality, I’m fairly sure of that, but you do need a definite design to take to them. I (personally) wouldn’t discuss possibilities or ask Chinese manufacturers for their input, and this is definitely no slur on Sofirn, it’s just business and they’re better than most as they recognise ongoing market sales and do help build ideas. But I’ve seen this happen with knives, vapes, lights only for a very similar product to appear shortly afterwards.
For you, some brass goodness.
Really nice!
where did you get those lighters RichH?
looks cool
Thank you, sir.
I know and I’ll probably learn 3D modeling just to make it. Nothing wrong in learning new things.
I love brass for the same reason I live my blades to be carbon steel - they age with you, show character. Something special about them.
Tokyo Pipe Company, they have an ebay shop, excellent to deal with.
Field S is very cool.
If you keep it in your pocket they work.
Wondering if you missed the OP here about designing an oil based lighter? Anyone knows warmth makes pressurised liquid gas vaporise, it’s taught in school and it’s how my butane stove doesn’t work in the cold, the propane mix is better, but petroleum stoves are what are considered dependable by climbers and outdoorists to this day. Same with paraffin lamps, the BLF LT1 being a prime example of an old design that’s been modernised. A wonderful thing it is, but it can’t replace a Feurehand or Dietz oil lantern.
Let Mraz have his thread about an oil lighter, with a wind shield, nicely machined, at low cost, in an aluminium case, with a top cap and bottom cap and wick. It’s worth some discussion. It’s obvious it’s not a general butane/oil lighter argument.
I’m still with you here Mraz, carry on… :+1:
I’m learning 3D modeling, so far this is what I got. Far from final design but I’m happy how it turned out since I never tried 3D until a few hours ago.
I like it! I buy a couple.
Nice one!!
I might be interested. I currently have/use this peanut lighter which I think fits most of your criteria.
Sealed
3 parts
Brass
Serviceable
Cheap at $11
Few of you guys wrote along the lines of “why don’t you just buy this or that product” so I’ll explain in BLF terms
There’s a flashlight in the market. You like it, you buy it, it serves a purpose. Then you go and buy another, and another. You want them better, more powerfull, more blingy, different UI, different emitter, different purpose. Why? Because you can, because you want to and because variety is a spice in life.
Same thing here. There are endless cheap and small peanut lighters and there are few expensive quality ones. I have both. But there are no middle-ground products with a modern and though-out design and that is what I want to help design and make.
Most cheap peanut lighters are small, that’s great for backup but try to light them in winter gloves or with cold hands. They’ll end up on the ground. So it has to be bigger. 18650-21700 size is a shape that fits well in hand and it’s not too big.
It has to be quality made with readily available hardware and it should feel familiar in hand, so standard Zippo sized hardware is preferred (11x3.5mm wheel, 2.2mm flint, 3mm wick). Hardware needs to be simple to change, not like Exotac where you need a table and tools to do it.
It has to have a wind guard. Wind guard helps, period.
It has to be waterproof (evaporation proof) so you can put it in your medkit or BOB or EDC bag or just toss it in the backpack and be sure it will light when you need it couple of months later. Or even a year later.
It has to be different than other products and it has to have a bit of bling to it. Because we all like things that are purdy and variety is a spice in life.
El.cheapo Decathlon 5$ lantern is great and lasts loooong but BLF LT1 lantern… it’s something else, right?
100 million billion percent interested!!!