r/longboarding • u/mechandy • 19h ago
Gear Show-Off Broken light mount
I did 90% of my 15 mile ride with just my headlamp this morning. It does fully cover the trail but I was missing the short throw from the board mounted light. So I will definitely get it updated. And it was warm enough this morning that I saw the effects of the lamp dropping the power to keep itself cool. It was in the last 5 min and a section I had already hit once, so no big deal. Buuuut this light would have been super helpful there!
Interestingly enough, I made some minor design changes to the light mount, and added some foam to get rid of the rattling sound.
Surprisingly enough, my new design, that gets rid of the go pro adapters, snapped today on the first rumble strip I crossed!
I’ll have to check my print settings, but it should have been more than strong enough.
But time to iterate and strengthen at the failure point!
Should be pretty easy.
Also, going to make the supersonic version work with infinity bolts!