What's with this 26650 light (non-zooming zoomie)?

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I recently went on a kind of buying binge, buying a bunch of cheap 26650 lights from Ebay, mainly looking for a good body to use for some shorties (e.g., my shorty DST and STL-V6).

The best one, body-wise, turned out to be this one, I think:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261202122735?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&\_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

Very similar to the clone A8s that I had been using, but with a black body, so it looks better with the DST head and the STL-V6 head.

Anyway, among the ones I ended up getting, I got this one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/360534383642?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&\_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

but it’s kind of strange, because it’s built like a zoomie, with a very long threaded area on the inside of the body tube, and with an aspheric lens, like you’d see on a zoomie. The pill is screwed in the head, and there are threads on the pill that screw into the threads that are on the INSIDE of the body/tube.

But, it doesn’t zoom (the head doesn’t move backware/forward). So, I get a fixed size, round beam that’s pretty even brightness.

Weird?

I’ll try to post some pics later, but has anyone seen anything like this?

I can’t figure out why they’d build a light with this kind of mechanical design, but then not make it zoomable.

Not that I was looking for, or wanted, a zoomie, but I’m just curious.

Jim

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Should make for better heat management though?

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No, the threads are not anodized. Is that good or bad (for you)?

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Bad. Thanks though. My gripes with the A8 are that it doesn't have anodized threads or a lanyard hole. I was hoping this was another A8 clone with anodized threads, but a different tail cap.