Anyone want to speculate why they made the clip ring wider? I canāt imagine itās literally just a random decisionā¦ maybe they were afraid itās too thin and might break in some units when the clip is put under a lot of stress, especially when they canāt guarantee the quality of the steel is top-notch for every clip
Thatās great news TK, thanks for the update.
Is the hole in the end of the clip on your sample? Iām not a fan but itās not a deal breaker at all, there are more important checkboxes that this light comfortably ticks for me so send out the order PMās
The only thing I can think of that would expand the clip ring is to increase the strength of the clip arm. Maybe they realized that if you put some good leverage on the clip arm as if you were fighting the light off your pocket it had a chance of bending both the arm and the actual clip ring.
I agree itās not very visually appealing compared to a flush ring but in my experience a mfg who increases the size of a metal component is doing so at their cost rather than to save cost. TK noted the additional strength of the new clip and Iām thinking thatās got to be due to the additional ring size?
It very well could have not involved any overt decision. Keep in mind that although it is easily noticeable in the picture, and Iām sure will be easy to feel, the growth Toykeeper measured is only 0.3mm (0.012ā) per side - equivalent to the thickness of 6 sheets of paper.
If theyāre sending out a CAD pattern to a vendor without tightly controlling the tolerance, the vendor may err on the side of providing too much material, especially with as thin as I expect the ring is. Or the supplier may have just ignored a specified tolerance.
Even in the US Iāve had suppliers miss or ignore tolerances they didnāt think were important.
Sofirn had trouble with the clip supplier for the C01, by the way.