Guitar Guy
Enlightened
I've had my new Fenix E16 for about a month, and have really been liking it. Compact, powerful, warm tint, hat clip – all very nice. The pocket clip seems to clip fairly tightly, so I've been clipping it to the inside of my front pocket to try to keep the finish nice, rather that getting the "weathered" look from riding inside the pocket with a knife and coins, like the E15 and E05 in the pic have.
Anyway, the new light came up missing after a trip to the airport one day last week. I searched everywhere for a day and a half and tried to backtrack everywhere I had used it. I was about to order another one but wanted to give it a day to keep looking. I finally found it down inside the plastic cover at the bottom edge of my truck seat where the seatbelt retracts into. It was barely visible and just barely fit into that opening, but I thought to look in there after feeling around that area with my left hand while driving down the road, since I was carrying the light in the left pocket. I'm lucky it went in there instead of falling out out of the vehicle.
Moral to the story - the clip keeps it tight to the pocket if you tug against the light itself, but if something like a seatbelt hooks the clip "outside" the pocket, it releases the grip and the light comes right out. I think I'm going to go back to just carrying it in the pocket and not worry about it getting the stonewashed look. I do love the small Fenix lights.
It sure is a good feeling to find a light (or knife) that you've lost. I've lost a few that I didn't get back, and a couple that I did. Has anyone else lost a light and found it later?
Anyway, the new light came up missing after a trip to the airport one day last week. I searched everywhere for a day and a half and tried to backtrack everywhere I had used it. I was about to order another one but wanted to give it a day to keep looking. I finally found it down inside the plastic cover at the bottom edge of my truck seat where the seatbelt retracts into. It was barely visible and just barely fit into that opening, but I thought to look in there after feeling around that area with my left hand while driving down the road, since I was carrying the light in the left pocket. I'm lucky it went in there instead of falling out out of the vehicle.
Moral to the story - the clip keeps it tight to the pocket if you tug against the light itself, but if something like a seatbelt hooks the clip "outside" the pocket, it releases the grip and the light comes right out. I think I'm going to go back to just carrying it in the pocket and not worry about it getting the stonewashed look. I do love the small Fenix lights.
It sure is a good feeling to find a light (or knife) that you've lost. I've lost a few that I didn't get back, and a couple that I did. Has anyone else lost a light and found it later?