My trusty headlamp has its mounting damaged during the last camping trip, I packed my stuff too tight.
Anyway, I tried to fix it and here's the process.
This is how it breaks, I tried to glue the broken part back, but it does not work well.
So, I took the plunge to remove it altogether, and then flatten the surface:
And then I will need to find replacement part and the plastic mounting seems to work?
So, I remove one of the mounting holes to be attached on my headlamp back plate:
Given two flattened surface, glue worked far better.
I tried to put the headlamp in different angles and the adjustment mechanism work just fine, and it stayed in place in all the click stop positions.
Of course, it's not original and it's going to fail again without warning. So I decided to use it only for camping or stargazing, and when I won't need to depend on it for safety.
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Since reliability is important during night camping, especially sometimes I will go after sunset, so the light has to be trusty during night hiking and camp setup.
So here's my new headlamp, also from Nitecore:
This one is lighter, but the battery life is very similar. Far more than enough for night camping or overnight hiking trip.
It has no red light mode, and it only got a single button. The mounting plastic has a lot of holes to reduce the weight, so it's absolutely a light weight headlamp.
When fully retracted in the home position, there's a small cover to protect the button from being accidentally pressed. Really nice!
The headlamp strap is improved as well.
Note their difference in weight:
16g reduction is significant given their base weight.
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