[Available again! - BLF special edition light] new Sofirn AAA twisty high CRI 5mm LED

[hank]

brass is not extended fully to the very edge of the circuit board. It is one of these things that chinese manufacturers change without notice while unaware of the consequences.

Thanks for catching that, and documenting how to fix it.

I noticed another corner cut. After half a day in my pocket with keys and change, the black paint is flaking off the pocket clip and the tailcap. There’s visible rust on the metal of the pocket clip where the paint flaked off, looks like it was painted without prepping the metal.

I wonder sometimes how China’s going to survive the next century, if all their civil and military manufacturing is done to the same don’t-give-a-damn carelesness about specification. Things fall apart when they’re built in slapdash fashion. How long does it take to learn that?

“My time in China has taught me the pleasure and value of craftsmanship, simply because it’s so rare. To see somebody doing a job well, not just for its own reward, but for the satisfaction of good work, thrills my heart
…. the prevailing attitude is chabuduo, or ‘close enough’. It’s a phrase you’ll hear with grating regularity, one that speaks to a job 70 per cent done, a plan sketched out but never completed, a gauge unchecked or a socket put in the wrong size. Chabuduo is the corrosive opposite of the impulse towards craftmanship”
What Chinese corner-cutting reveals about modernity | Aeon Essays

As the old saying goes:
Good, cheap, fast — you pick which two.
Or maybe pick which one ….

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-ab&q=chinese+"close+enough"

But I still like the flashlight so far. As U. Utah Phillips says in his story: It’s good though.
Better than I could make myself.