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  • Tour Easy Running Lights: Anodizing Sun Fade

    After six years, the anodizing on the Anker LC40 flashlights I repurposed as daytime running lights shows some radiation damage:

    Tour Easy Running Lights fading - mount top view
    Tour Easy Running Lights fading – mount top view

    The bottom side looks pristine:

    Tour Easy Running Lights fading - mount bottom view
    Tour Easy Running Lights fading – mount bottom view

    It turns out they were clamped in slightly different positions on our two bikes:

    Tour Easy Running Lights fading - top view
    Tour Easy Running Lights fading – top view

    The side view shows a gentle color transition:

    Tour Easy Running Lights fading - bottom view
    Tour Easy Running Lights fading – bottom view

    Apparently I had swapped the caps from the two lights when I noticed the fading after only the first year.