From: whalen@starch.enet.dec.com (Rich Whalen)
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.marketplace
Subject: Re: Need second mount for Cateye HL-500
Date: 16 Dec 92 13:16:44 GMT
Reply-To: whalen@starch.enet.dec.com (Rich Whalen)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Shrewsbury, MA


In article <47307@ogicse.ogi.edu>, dreeves@ese.ese.ogi.edu (Doug Reeves)
writes:
|>From: dreeves@ese.ese.ogi.edu (Doug Reeves)
|>Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.marketplace
|>Subject: Need second mount for Cateye HL-500
|>Date: 15 Dec 92 20:32:59 GMT
|>Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute - Department of Env. Science and
|>Eng.
|>
|>Howdy net.world ...
|>
|>Santa brought be a early present in the form of a turbo-cat mod kit,
|>and while I think it's really cool (and bright!), it's got a problem -
|>I can't use it on both of my bikes without taking the mount off one bike
|>and put it on the other.  It's kind of a bummer to switch the mount 
|>every time I want to go out for a quick ride to wherever and the
|>wount is still on the other bike.
|>
|>SO, since I can't get the "old-style" cateye which uses the sliding
|>lever on the light design (you know, the one that rattles so much?),
|>does anyone know of a source for the old type mount?  Or perhaps
|>someone has one to spare?  Happy to send you a few $ for it...
|>

I recently bought a couple from "Loose Screws".  I don't have their address
with me (here at work), but you should be able to find it in the back of
almost any issue of BICYCLING.

I'm not sure whether the ones are for the "old-style" or "new-style" - I've
never seen both together to know which one I have.  The one that I have does
have a lever to secure it on the mount, but I've never had a problem with
it becoming accidentily disengaged, or noticed significant rattling.  Of
course I got my mod kit better than a year ago and with less mass the light
is less subseptical to both of those problems.

One warning about the mod kit - I've found that the high wattage lamp will
generate enough heat to soften (and hence deform) the reflector such that it
can prove difficult to remove the lamp later.  Of course, I prefer to use
the brighter lamp when my riding time allows it, so I have to do a moderate
amount of work to change the bulbs.  Since I also have one of the cheap
Radio Shack look-alikes (these will not work with the mod-kit and mount from
the opposite direction of the Cateyes) I can use the reflector from that.

If you have problem with the light not working after a while, then the
most likely problem is that the contacts from the housing to the bulb need
to be bent towards the bulb some more.  The turbo-cat bulbs don't protrude
as far from the back of the reflector housing as the cateye bulb does and
hence you have to adjust this.

|>Ride Bike (but not in the dark),
|>D. Reeves
|>
|>
|>--
|>|B. Douglas Reeves    Dept. Env. Sci.& Eng.     Oregon Graduate Institute|
|>|N6XHW on 146.900 in PDX              dreeves@ese.ogi.edu everywhere else|
|>|"... life itself represents a nonequilibrium condition." - J. F. Pankow |
|>

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