Huh. No retaining ring on the switch. Moddable? I guess you’d have to match the threads, and shorten the battery tube to keep the total length unchanged.
I think for the main production run (not the BLF group buy), they should probably ship these with glued cap by default, but with an option for an unglued cap.
I’m afraid you’re mistaken. Or maybe your light is different from mine. There is a small black pellet that is held in place by the rubber disc. I’ll post a picture of it later today.
The rubber piece has a hard plastic piece glued in place right in the middle. It should behave as one piece, normally… but if the glue gets unstuck, it can come out. If this happens, it’d probably be a good idea to glue it in place again.
Your right Jason, I was indeed mistaken!!
Mine had just stayed together on previous disassemblies. I just now checked & it is indeed 2 seperate pieces… just like you said. :+1:
I guess my glue was not very strong as it popped out easily. I think I’ve got some super glue I can use on it. Luckily my switch assembly stays in place unless I push it out. After playing with the light and trying it without the clip, I don’t plan on taking the tail cap off any more.
I assume we didn’t do it on Kickstarter because of their fee agreements? 5% of funding amount + an additional 3-5% payments fee, afaik and $0.20 per buyer.
So if 3000 people had funded 35.00 $US, Kickstarter would’ve gotten 5250.00 $US from the team plus 1.25 $US per buyer. That is an expensive deal for a simple escrow facilitator that doesn’t take on any risks (or in other words - each buyer would’ve gotten the light for 3$ more to fund the kickstarter fees).
Doing a community design (polls, messaging, consensus system) and fund pooling/shipping system would have to work on any forum, not just BLF, to make it a profitable venture. And the work involved would probably aim at the 5% per “mini fund” as a pay out to make it worthwhile… if you look through this thread a lot of posts are either status request for “where are we” or “design requests” or shipping status and/or similar.
The amount of work for such a system would also require cloning ToyKeeper :laughing: not sure if that is even possible!