Originally Posted by
KD5NRH
Anybody found something good to keep top-heavy stuff like flashlight mounts from tipping on rough roads, while leaving them loose enough for minor on-the-go adjustments? Last 3 flashlight mounts I've tried just couldn't tighten up enough even with all their spacers to keep it from being a constant struggle to keep the light pointed ahead instead of up or down when I'm bombing down the chipseal on the big hill at the work end of my commute.
I've thought about some sort of glue, but I still want to be able to tweak the vertical position for a given situation. Maybe some epoxy applied to the bars in lumps or strips and allowed to cure before reattaching the mount to make a rougher surface for it to grip?
Back in the days when I used flashlights, I made a few mounts based around Mawri mounts. This is a helmet mount but you can get the idea
I used a seatpost reflector mount in the proper size to wrap around the barrel of the flashlight and a bolt to hold it in place. The adapter slides onto a clamp that goes around the bar like this. The mount on this light is different but the idea is the same and the adapter works on all of the Mawri mounts.
You can get the mounts and hardware from a company called
Hoffman Amps. If you use MagicShine or the clones, Hoffman sells adapter kits to this kind of clamp. They are much better then the o-ring clamps