Ra Clicky's Clip: Where art thou?

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When I first saw the description of the clip, I did stop and think, "what if molle-compatible means it will be like half an inch wide? ... Nah, that's ridiculous." 😛

Well I've got my clip mounted to the light. Now I'm trying to find the least painful way to grip it. If I hold it the way I usually hold a clipped light, with the clip running along the tips of my fingers, the long upturned tip jabs into my thumb before it even gets to the button. If I position it opposite that, the edge of the clip cuts into my two middle fingers uncomfortably, the edge hits right at the joint. Clip towards knuckles feels insecure, the tip starts slipping across my hand as soon as I exert pressure on the button. The best I've found so far is to get the angled tip under the tip of my index finger and use that to help grip; but then when I go to push the button, the new position the clip is forcing on me and the pressure on the light cause it to rotate in my grip with the positioned index finger as the axis. Meanwhile, my index finger slowly starts to slip up the ramp from the pressure and I have to increase my grip pressure with the rest of my fingers to pull it back down and secure it since my fingers are wrapping over the clip and only about halfway around the light due to having to turn the clip to a tolerable direction and move the light outwards to get my thumb on it. Increasing the pressure, of course, causes it to once again bite into my fingers at the edges. After a couple minutes of just experimenting with gripping and activating it, my lower two fingers feel slightly abraded to the point that I do not look forward to using the light for any more extended period without gloves. But this is my initial impression after just putting it on, so take it with a grain of salt. We all know how we tend to learn to deal with things. I'm going to use it a bit and see if it stops irritating the heck out of me.

On kind of a side note, the clip is fairly flexy. It's no problem to compress it down all the way to the light, which gives a very secure grip that reduces sliding a bit. But it's still uncomfortable and I don't use lights to exercise my patented kung fu grip. Can you tell I'm not entirely sold on this design yet?
 
I'm sorry guys.... really - I asked Henry to make this as ugly as possible so I could sell you all my titanium bezel up/down clips. Unfortunately my shop is not set back up yet so you'll have to wait a while.

:crackup:

Ok - I confess I didn't have a thing to do with it but it certainly lends the opportunity for me to sell some titanium clips again as I did when the HDS first came out. Unfortunately what I said about my shop not being set back up is true and that's probably at least a few months off. But I promise I'll take another shot at making these as soon as possible.

This one on the HDS U60 is anodized gold but lighting makes it a bit hard to tell. If I can find a Ra Clicky 140Cn to buy it might get done a bit sooner. All the ones I did were handmade and do not look like they came out of a machine shop so they may not look 'stamped out' but I will take this over what I'm seeing above. :green:

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When I first saw the description of the clip, I did stop and think, "what if molle-compatible means it will be like half an inch wide? ... Nah, that's ridiculous." 😛

Well I've got my clip mounted to the light. Now I'm trying to find the least painful way to grip it.

On kind of a side note, the clip is fairly flexy. It's no problem to compress it down all the way to the light, which gives a very secure grip that reduces sliding a bit. But it's still uncomfortable and I don't use lights to exercise my patented kung fu grip. Can you tell I'm not entirely sold on this design yet?

My problem with the clip exactly mirrors that of Saturns. I cannot find a good way to hold the light when the clip is on. I tried the compression, but that was just plain uncomfortable. The clip idea is great, the ride in the pocket is good as well, but the execution isn't so great.

Ok - I confess I didn't have a thing to do with it but it certainly lends the opportunity for me to sell some titanium clips again as I did when the HDS first came out. Unfortunately what I said about my shop not being set back up is true and that's probably at least a few months off. But I promise I'll take another shot at making these as soon as possible.

picture to be added....

Oooooh... That could be nice to see. ETA on the last four words of the post? 😀
 
I've searched the Clicky threads and didn't find the answer.

Will the old HDS screws fit the RaClicky holes?

I just ordered an old HDS clip and want to get the right sized screws.
Yes, the old HDS clip will be modified to fit if I can make it work 😉

Thanks!

Ray
 
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I've searched the Clicky threads and didn't find the answer.

Will the old HDS screws fit the RaClicky holes?

I just ordered an old HDS clip and want to get the right sized screws.
Yes, the old HDS clip will be modified to fit if I can make it work 😉

Thanks!

Ray

Yes, they're the same thread, #4-40
 
No offense Henry, but that thing doubles as a butter knife! :crackup:

With that said, I'm sure Henry took function into consideration more than asthetics. :green:
 
I am a bit confused here. If the clip was designed to be Molle compatible that is understandable enough but I wouldn't think any real soldier who would want to go on a mission with this light/clip combo attached to his harness flashing and glinting like a signal mirror off the bezel and clip.
I thought this light was marketed as a civilian EDC type light ?
Possible military contract ?
If so Ra better make up some flat black parts for this "flashy" light before they present this to the armed forces procurement dept. .
Of course the rear echelon paper pushers wont mind the reflectiveness :devil:
 
No offense Henry, but that thing doubles as a butter knife! ...
:crackup:

This is going too far; the one area that NovaTac was the undeniable winner was in having the "Ugliest Clip", they later corrected this. Now Ra Lights for some strange reason wants this honor.
:toilet:


If I have to put a positive spin on it I will say it's a UTILITY design, but better it creates a real demand for a decent EDC clip from a 3rdParty, rather than an ONLY IN A CAVE clip.

I hope I wake up from this nightmare with no emotional damage.:shakehead:shakehead:shakehead
 
We're awake... This is the clip..

It seems like the proto clip design that fireboltr got for fitting onto the Twisty is the design that the Clicky was given. You can see the thread here.
 
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Could we just get headless screws to cover the holes in the body? If anyone knows the size and where to get them, I'd appreciate it. :twothumbs
 
I always liked the look of Henrys lights but this clip is plain ugly 😱

I just ordered HDS clip from Lighthound. Next thing is to get my light. This waiting game is tough...
 
I was considering the 140Cn as a replacement for my 120P, but now I'm not so sure. That thing outblings with ease the huge metal clip that's on my Spyderco Yojimbo, which is part of the reason it doesn't get carried as much as the others. Plus it looks rather uncomfortable, as it looks super wide.

Not everyone likes to advertise what is in their pockets. It's a shame that the clip off my newer 120P wouldn't fit, else I'd just do that. Is there space on the back of the light inbetween the tailcap and body to fit a clip, like on the Novatacs?
 
Not everyone likes to advertise what is in their pockets. It's a shame that the clip off my newer 120P wouldn't fit, else I'd just do that. Is there space on the back of the light inbetween the tailcap and body to fit a clip, like on the Novatacs?

No, the tailcap is not removable. Tailcap is attached to the body permanently.

Don't fret. I'm sure one of our fellow CPF'rs will come out with their own
clips in no time 😀
 
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