(I have this one, but light output is not good, and it doesn´t opens beers good at all, you need two tries mínimum. Also, at it is made of Aluminium, after few uses it becomes scratched)
I have been checking for it for a long time, but the ones I find don´t fit my wishes.
I would like to have 100 lumens or more, in a compact 1xAAA size, as much lightweight as possible, with some modes (moonlight would be nice to have) and a good termination and durability (maybe stainless steel?)
Any recommendations will be welcome! Sorry for my english.
That’s what I thought of too. I would have bought this knife myself but I didn’t like the fact that it has a bottle opener.
For you it could be ideal. It’s always good to have a small knife in your EDC kit. You could then get something like Olight i3s. Aluminium is good for heat dissipation and not good for bottle openers, steel vice versa.
I think you will find that good lightweight flashlights and flashlights with bottle openers are two separate categories.
I have looked for something like this for a longer time and never found one.
I guess it’s because a lot is designed for US market and they don’t need bottle openers…here in Europe we don’t have the twist caps everyone needs an opener…
Would be easy to build a reasonable AAA light with a bottle opener for under 10$, Or a nice stainless steel one for about 30$. But there is simply no demand so it will never be done.
Also there is a lot of difference in the anodized alu openers(without led) you can get, I had some which lost the ano on first bottle and were eroded to dead after 24 bottles…others survived years on my keys and opened hundreds of bottles.
A lot openers do work but not very good, for example on my leatherman micro the opener works bad and I have a “key tool”, which is basicly a sleeve for a key with some “useful” tools, doesn’t work very well too.
I always thought about cutting a head of a key for the bottle opener use or letting a simple thin Titan sheet cut to form but never found time to research it entirely…that would mean to order all the tools with opener included to do a comparison which one works best.
JB, you write well but apparently you’re still new at this beer thing :-). Just kidding…
It’s too easy to open a bottle, no tools ever needed. You can use a plastic lighter, a disposable wooden chop stick, a key,
or if your buddy is passed out, use his teeth. Haha.
Use 2 bottles against each other to open because you really shouldn’t be drinking only 1 beer anyway.
Welcome to the forum!
I like the idea of a small EDC light with a bottle opener, as long as the opener doesn’t make the light too large or otherwise inconvenient.
I wonder if something like this could be integrated into a light? Maybe the light could be extended into this shape, or maybe this tube could somehow fit around the light?
Or if someone were so inclined, they could probably build a light right into a piece of pipe like this (preferably in copper, if that’d be strong enough for an opener…)
EDIT: Thinking about this a little more, it might actually be feasible. polished SS tubing ($8.06/foot plus shipping) should fit pretty tightly around AAA cells. One foot of tubing should be enough for 4 lights (1xAAA), so you could sell a few to recoup your costs.
Then you could either use guts from another AAA light, or get a 10mm driver & emitter. (Richard sells drivers for li-ion cells). Not sure how easy it’d be to find a 10mm lens or reflector, but lights with these parts are cheap enough.
While it could be a pretty compact screwdriver, the flashlight part is just a basic button cell key chain light. If you don’t need a screwdriver, Nitecore Tube (45lm, 9.6g) and a separate bottle opener would probably weight less and provide more light.
Smaller EDIT, wow that thing is small that is probably the smallest opener I’ve ever seen! / and but cheaper
With a keychainring it can be put with your keys http://s.aliexpress.com/yqmai2qI
edit i missed the shipping on that
This one pleases me, thinking about “multifunction”: especially since it allows you to use the LED to light your way for cutting and bottle identifying/opening (and writing, possibly!). I think one of these would be perfect for the BOB and the boat! I don’t have one to report about, but it is now on my list, thanks to you.
