If you look at the first pic of the light pivoted you can see mold lines making me convinced the whole pivot point is molded plastic or nylon. I would avoid this light until proven otherwise.
From where the clip is & up, is plastic. In other words, the whole twist joint is plastic. The head/bezel/cap is Aluminum and the lower body is Aluminum.
The joint section does not look to be high temperature plastic. I would not want to use it with a 14500, unless it was low output. Plastic (depending a lot on the type), can take several hundred degrees, but the plastic on this light looks to be the type that is classified as (cheap plastic). Which means it may warp at about 200 degrees and melt at 350 degrees.
Of course, you cannot hold a light that is much more than 120 degrees, without wanting to let go of it, so it's all a mute point really and that is why they make stuff out of cheap plastic. They know your hand is the thermometer and skin is weaker than all plastics are. It's just that the twist joint will be fragile.
I still like the idea. When I made that 2AA angle head, I wanted to make it a rotating head, but there was just too much "machine shop work" that would be needed, so I let the idea go by. Probably why they chose to go with plastic, as it's less expensive to mold thousands of the joint parts, than to machine them. I would jump on one that was all metal, in that small format.
Thanks for making the OP, at least we know the idea isn't totally dead out there. Maybe someone will make an all metal one.
Good to know there is at least the first copy of the rofis, it does not look that good, but hopefully there will be more with a better quality/price relationship.
I gave up trying to find the rofis at a reasonable price for me.
I dont know why the chinese guys at these xxxxxFire factories dont make a good one… I think, that, with a bit of “brain” things can be done, and for cheap
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