wykeite
Newly Enlightened
First off it's a cheap C2 rip off, the Ultrafire C1 but it hosts my nailbender MC-E and serves well as my every day work light and does get a lot of use. This use has increased a lot since I got the nailbender, everyone wants to use it. 50,000 hours plus for a LED - no problems.
Today at work doing a job with someone else holding the light I could see at that angle that the lens was really dirty. When we finished the job I gave it a wipe off but you can never clean the crud completely. Remove the bezel and lens I think, but not easy as the light has been dropped and the head is distorted. I managed to get the plastic bezel ring out, clean the lens completely and with a devil of a struggle manage to get the bezel back in.
What bothers me is not that I struggled but the fact that if the bezel ring was metal rather than plastic it would have resisted distortion.
From today I don't lend my light, I didn't drop it.
Today at work doing a job with someone else holding the light I could see at that angle that the lens was really dirty. When we finished the job I gave it a wipe off but you can never clean the crud completely. Remove the bezel and lens I think, but not easy as the light has been dropped and the head is distorted. I managed to get the plastic bezel ring out, clean the lens completely and with a devil of a struggle manage to get the bezel back in.
What bothers me is not that I struggled but the fact that if the bezel ring was metal rather than plastic it would have resisted distortion.
From today I don't lend my light, I didn't drop it.
