"Universal" wall/car mount for your flashlight

[z_Taclights]

:wave: Hello CPF, I am one of the newly awoken ones, that suddenly have an unexplainable urge to collect flashlights, and dabble around in various techspecs and reviews. - Very, very weird but apparently I am not alone.



I have just bought a semi powerful no name LED (1200 lumen -yeah right-) from ...erm.. china. It is quite good, and I will make a review on it later. I am awaiting some Eagletac and Nitecore flashlights to arrive within this month so I will have something to compare with.



I am quite happy with my LED light, but I found that I needed too secure it in place in different locations. In my quest I had a hard time finding anything in the forums that did not name a specific solution.

Accessories can take time to get from the supplier, or be quite expensive.



I am into the low budget flashlights, and as such I needed a low budget mount solution, and I found it. I thought I´d share it with you in here.



It can be bought in any hardwarestore, it´s a gardening tool bracketclip used to secure..well gardening tools i.e. shovels. It can be used on any flat surface. It can secure most tacflashlights out there in medium+ size.



Cost around 1$ or less a piece. Hope you find this info useful!



Metal with rubbergrip.

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Closer look

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Flashlight in place

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[DanC]

Re: "Universal" wall/car mount for your flashlight

Where did you find those clips? If you still have one, could you post the UPC code?
Thanks

 

[dougie]

Re: "Universal" wall/car mount for your flashlight

Nice find! However, having used something similar made by Nite-ize I found that the bezel always made contact with the wall when pulling it out of the holder. It is a 'fulcrum' effect caused when pulling on the bottom of the light to remove it from the clip. I could have got around it by making a small spacer to go between the clip and the wall but never bothered. The end result was a slight chunk of plaster removed above the clip where the bezel rubbed on the wall when removing the light. I'd be interested to hear if you experience something similar with that clip?