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Peter Atwood said:
...I'm with you Sub. I think they ought to have a bigger lanyard hole too. It would take only a little more metal to make it happen so the size difference woudl be negligible.
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I would even be happy if they offered an optional 'lanyard attachment clip' at an added cost. Physically it would operate like the old 'quick detachable sling swivel' for rifles. It would be narrower at the business end than the pic below, and of course, would have no need for a ring the size of that one. The pin that goes through the hole in the light could be just a tad smaller, and shorter, too.
That would be a great compromise. We'd have the small size, and yet the guys that need a
real lanyard could have one. Unfortunatly, the lanyard hole on the NightCutters is even too small for that, IMO. If you had an appropriatly sized 'QD sling' type lanyard clip, all of the makers who now insist on equipping their lights with the 'dental floss' lanyard could use the same sized hole and you could just move your lanyard from light, depending on what you wanted to carry that day.
The really sad part is that for all the care and planning that went into these fine lights (MANY more besides the NightCutters) their makers have excluded some of the very people that they wanted to impress the most. There will never be a glowing review of any of these lights by someone who took it to the top of Everest or any other of a thousand places that tend to impress buyers -- because the lanyard is not up to the job.
I think that NightCutter is top flight in EVERY other regard.
I've begun to comment on this here and on other threads because light makers read these posts along with consumers and nothing will ever change if no one complains. I've also started writing to light manufacturers telling them that no matter how fantastic their lights are, they are unfit for ANY serious tasks with the dental floss lanyard.
I don't intend to hijack the thread or pick on NightCutter. I thought about starting a 'dental floss lanyard' thread but I think that there is a better chance of the light makers hearing the case this way because I know that some of them do CPF searches for their own brand names. I don't own that many lights but if any of you have other FINE lights with this kind of lanyard I would ask you to bring it up on the appropriate threads where the makers may read them. These non-lanyards only seem to be getting more and more popular.
Thanks for reading.