Bought my first PentagonLight

scott.cr

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...at a gun show in Las Vegas over the weekend. I was there looking for rifle parts and ended up buying a PentagonLight X2 for $45. Not a bad bargain I thought!

It's a nice light, but not at their retail asking price of $89 imho. It is similar in size to a 6P but feels heavier/heftier to me. Plastic lens. It's the hard ano version, and their hard ano is rougher feeling (like a chalkboard) compared to Surefire. Personally I like that rough military-feeling finish, but it may scratch easier than the "polished" HA finishes from Surefire.

One thing I find absolutely ridiculous and has forever turned me off of paying full price for a PentagonLight is the pentagon-shaped flats milled into the tailcap. On a Surefire it's a six-sided "nut," so you have parallel flats to stick a wrench on if you have to. With the PentagonLight this is not possible because there are no parallel flats! It's sheerly cosmetic.
 

Dodger_Man

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I have a PentagonLight L2 and am very happy with it and I am sure will be happy with yours and at that price you can't go wrong.
Now I have to ask this "why on earth would you ever want or need to put a wrench on a tailcap?"
 

coldsolderjoint

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Maybe if like.. the battery 'splodes and the acid causes the tail cap to get stuck? or an 'splosion causes it to get embedded into something.. a bit of twisting force might help dislodge it?
 

shooter08

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coldsolderjoint said:
Maybe if like.. the battery 'splodes and the acid causes the tail cap to get stuck? or an 'splosion causes it to get embedded into something.. a bit of twisting force might help dislodge it?

LUCY!!! you got some splainin to do. LOL that was pretty funny.

Dave
 

spoonrobot

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there are parallel flats on the pentagonlight tailcap. one is short and one is long. no problem here using a large adjustable wrench to open the tailcap.

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also, all current stock pentagonlights ship with a thick mineral glass lens and have since late september.

good deal though, call and they should send you a replacement glass lens for your light.
 
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