Comments on: Looftlighter – chocolate teapot

By: csw

csw — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:00:29 +0000

Chocolate teapot is too charitable. We bought one about 9 months ago, and are now on our THIRD replacement.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:17:22 +0000

I did a month ago, but have heard nothing so far …

By: stenrich

stenrich — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:44:19 +0000

Hi Mark! Please contact us at info@looftlighter.com and we certainly will send you a new one. Best wishes, Richard

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:17:51 +0000

The colder autumn weather is with us once more. We had the chimney swept, and I got out the Looftlighter ready for the new season.

Alas the season proved very short-lived. On my first attempt to light a fire, the Looftlighter died. Now it’s in the recycling.

A good-looking piece of equipment, at a competitive price but it is just not fit for purpose.

By: looftlighter

looftlighter — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:52:11 +0000

Hi Mark!

I am Richard Looft, inventor of the LOOFTLIGHTER. I know what you mean about the aluminium, but I´ll try to explain why things are as they are. First we made the LOOFTLIGHTER with the aluminium protection (as it has now). We tried to instruct that you have to pull it away when sparks appear. After a while, we got some faulty lighters, due to the heat. As you write, the aluminium melts at 660 Celsius, so we changed the outer tube (the one with holes) to stainless steel instead. But then we noticed that when someone held it too long into the glow, it got glowing red, and got really dangerous (if you touched something it started a fire!). So I decided to change it back to the aluminium, because it is better that the Looftlighter get´s damaged instead of people or property.

Hope you see my point. Please come back to me if you have questions!

Best wishes

Richard