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After about eight years and a similar failure last year, this came as no surprise: It’s a W5W “parking light” in the same fixture as the melty halogen high-beam bulbs (used as daytime running lights at half power), so it gets toasted on those occasions when we drive somewhere. The adhesive holding the LED strip…
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Think about it: an iron casting, with machined-flat surfaces, stamped with instructions.
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After all these years, turning the nut 3 teeth takes the spindle from “free spinning” to “jammed tight”.
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Adjust the chuck properly just once, then run a fat marker around the jaws.
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I couldn’t bear the thought of that lens rattling around in my belt pack, chewed upon by the assortment of other crap in there.
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I proposed building a quick-and-dirty pin wrench
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The new mounts are utterly rigid, which means the next failure point will be either the antenna mast or its base structure.
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But we kept using them and … Mary’s mount failed in the middle of a 350-mile bike ride
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 