Are Twisties All Backwards? **Update** [YES]

[diesel79]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

Im back, any new developments?

 

[Tommygun45]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

Who needs two hands to twist a 3 1/2 inch light? A baby? You aren't a baby are you, Diesel?

PS.

This is not how I motivate my players.

 

[Ctechlite]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

You are all just confused. It's not really a twisty switch. It's a tighten for on switch.

Turn while i sit, towards yourself

 

[Ctechlite]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

Im backwards, any new developments?

There, fixed that for yah.

 

[Tommygun45]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

Just kidding Diesel! I get your point. Its valid but I just feel like its defending an unnecessary evil! Oh well. Maybe someone will figure it out sooner than later.

 

[CarpentryHero]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

I think we either need a tighten for off, loosen for on OR :naughty: a twistie light with reversed threads
I have five sets of keys between work and home Daddy needs some lights that make sense

 

[kaichu dento]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

Or, with the amount of time you have taken to write this post - you could have practiced with your twistie and made it a non-issue.

My feelings exactly on this created issue. I can use all my lights and experience more trouble when changing between lights that have differing click patterns.

Are all twisties backwards? No, owners have been using them successfully for years.

 

[TooManyGizmos]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

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kaichu , what is that thing you left behind you in the pool , there .......

You just spoiled our Pool Party ................ (our pool of thoughts)

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[Tommygun45]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

Kaichu, I respect your opinions more than most. And I love your location. However, I have found a cause in flashlights that needs fixing. And I won't just, "practice to make it a non-issue," because it is an issue. Clearly.

I am not sure if we as a group even have a goal. I don't really care to espouse my flashlight enthusiasm on my friends. My best friend has an interest in music. He makes "noise". It's literally just like clanking and banging. He has spent thousands on equipment and instruments etc. I think it is insane. He thinks my interests in flashlights are crazy. I don't know if there is any need for me or us to encourage other people to appreciate our hobby. But when my girlfriend, who I have actually turned to our 'bright' side, immediately sees an issue with a light. I have to mention it. It needs fixing. IMO anyways.

My feelings exactly on this created issue. I can use all my lights and experience more trouble when changing between lights that have differing click patterns.

Are all twisties backwards? No, owners have been using them successfully for years.

 

[Tommygun45]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

Not to mention the fact that "owners have been using xxxxxxx successfully for years." People didn't have much of a problem with cell phones until the iPhone came around. People didn't know what a tablet was until the iPad entered the market. People didn't need a color tv until they saw, a color tv. This is capitalism. Why allow inefficiencies or poor designs to exist if they don't have to. If I had the ability or finances to manufacture lights, I would most certainly make a high quality l/m/h titanium twisty with excellent run time and a logical sequence. Maybe I could even charge $125 for it like a Mako. Isn't it our job to critique problems in lights and not make excuses for them? How else will they get better?

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kaichu , what is that thing you left behind you in the pool , there .......

You just spoiled our Pool Party ................ (our pool of thoughts)

~

 

[kaichu dento]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

Or, with the amount of time you have taken to write this post - you could have practiced with your twistie and made it a non-issue.

kaichu , what is that thing you left behind you in the pool , there .......

You just spoiled our Pool Party ................ (our pool of thoughts)

Gizmo, the subject change on your part suggests that you're not able to stay on topic and have to resort to juvenile scatalogical humor to deflect my observation.

Now stay on topic and quit trying to marginalize any position opposite your own, as if those who disagreed with you weren't allowed to contribute to the pool of thoughts.

 

[kaichu dento]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

Not to mention the fact that "owners have been using xxxxxxx successfully for years." People didn't have much of a problem with cell phones until the iPhone came around. People didn't know what a tablet was until the iPad entered the market. People didn't need a color tv until they saw, a color tv. This is capitalism. Why allow inefficiencies or poor designs to exist if they don't have to. If I had the ability or finances to manufacture lights, I would most certainly make a high quality l/m/h titanium twisty with excellent run time and a logical sequence. Maybe I could even charge $125 for it like a Mako. Isn't it our job to critique problems in lights and not make excuses for them? How else will they get better?

I'm in complete agreeance with this post and do support improvement of present technologies, but don't have any problem with my lights that loosen to turn on, or tighten to turn on and don't personally see the issue as a matter of correct/incorrect so much as preference.

If you do come up with an incredibly user-friendly design that appeals to me, I'll be right in line to buy one from you!

 

[chaoss]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

This thread is stooooopid (no offense to the OP). There, i said it.
Ban me if you must, it will end up saving me countless $$$.

Seriously, i get the OP's point but my take is tighten for on/more power & loosen for less/off.
IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT DIRECTION THE LIGHT IS POINTED IN!!!!
It's like the age old question, do the forces of a chain push or pull?
Think about it and get back to me.....

This is kinda fun.

 

[TooManyGizmos]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

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kaichu ............ if you say so .

You are the one who came here and marginalize the positions we had going in the pool party.

We were mostly in agreement till you came here and marginalize any position opposite YOUR own. We were in the majority . We were in support of the title and the OP's observation.

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[Tommygun45]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

I see where you're at. A member had mentioned how the LiteFlux lights did a 'tighten to turn off'. This was not my original post however. I didn't care if a light tightened or loosened to activate. I just thought that a light should always activate, or turn on, when turned right.

My argument was that our instincts as humans, in this westernized capitalistic world we live in, is that when we want to accomplish a task by twisting we twist right. That is all.

I'm in complete agreeance with this post and do support improvement of present technologies, but don't have any problem with my lights that loosen to turn on, or tighten to turn on and don't personally see the issue as a matter of correct/incorrect so much as preference.

If you do come up with an incredibly user-friendly design that appeals to me, I'll be right in line to buy one from you!

 

[Tommygun45]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

Ya man,

[[[["Seriously, i get the OP's point but my take is tighten for on/more power & loosen for less/off."]]]]

You clearly do not get my point.

This thread is stooooopid (no offense to the OP). There, i said it.
Ban me if you must, it will end up saving me countless $$$.

Seriously, i get the OP's point but my take is tighten for on/more power & loosen for less/off.
IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT DIRECTION THE LIGHT IS POINTED IN!!!!
It's like the age old question, do the forces of a chain push or pull?
Think about it and get back to me.....

This is kinda fun.

 

[eh4]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

Someone needs to make a flashaholic only joke light...
It would have a nice deep head to conceal the 10-15+ revolutions of threads and several conductive spots along the telescoping switch tube hidden inside, resulting in it seeming to turn on clockwise and if turned far enough, to turn on counterclockwise...
You'd lend it to your buddy on a fishing trip or something like that. ;-)
Also it would need to be well enough made to survive being thrown.

 

[chaoss]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

Ya man,

[[[["Seriously, i get the OP's point but my take is tighten for on/more power & loosen for less/off."]]]]

You clearly do not get my point.

Then please (cliff notes) state your clear and concise point on this matter.

 

[TooManyGizmos]

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Chaoss , yes , this is kinda fun.

But I don't agree that the thread is Stooooooopid .

Please go back and read the thread in it's entirety ,

and try to understand our points and the OP's point .

I think the OP brought up a valid topic for discussion .

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[Tommygun45]

Re: Are Twisties All Backwards?

I am specifically talking about a:

1. AAA Twisty
2. Pointing Down Range or Away from us
3. On a Keychain
4. The head twist is how to "activate" the light

Tightening/Untightening
On/Off
Left/Right
Power On/Power Off

Are all different things. Lets assume we all have the light in our right hand. It is an AAA Twisty. It is very small. We have the majority of the light in our palm. Our thumb and forefinger are controlling the light. If you had never encountered a twisty before. And someone said "Quick! Turn this on!" Which way would you twist with your right hand.

The answer. Is the way it should be made.