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Mark Shroyer
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I while ago I put a mounting bracket for a Cateye HL-EL500 (530?)
headlamp on my bike's handlebars, and now I want to take it off --
but my preference not to destroy it in the process turns out to be a
bit of a catch. I can't find the thing's manual anywhere (not even
on Google -- not with the same mounting bracket as mine came with,
anyway), nor can I remember precisely how I installed it in the
first place...
Here's a picture: http://markshroyer.com/files/cateye.jpg
The strap you see extending backwards from the bracket is toothed on
its underside; the notched ring that it passes through is internally
threaded, and you're supposed to tighten or loosen the strap by
turning the ring one way or the other. However, when I try to turn
the ring, the disc in the center *really* wants to rotate with it:
which it cannot, because the strap itself passes through the space
between a flat side on the disc and the threaded ring.
So ostensibly, after I tightened the ring I may have locked it
somehow (by snapping in the disc, maybe?). But the ring, again,
won't budge, and it seems that prying the disc / faceplate (to be
clear, I mean the semi-circular part with the Cateye logo on it) out
with a screwdriver seems to be a no-go (but I might not be trying
hard enough). Or are the cheap plastic parts simply stuck together?
There's a screw on top which fastens the headlamp mounting part to
the rest of the bracket, but it doesn't have anything to do with
this. There's nothing particularly interesting on the underside of
the assembly.
I see two options here:
1. The disc is supposed to rotate freely within the ring, but has
gotten gummed up. I should force the ring to rotate until it
frees up.
2. The disc snaps into the ring to lock its adjustment. I should
pry the disc out with a screwdriver.
Of course, if I tried either of these and happened to guess wrong,
I'd likely break the darn thing before I realized my mistake. So
does anyone here know how this is supposed to work?
Thanks,
Mark
P.S.: Let me spare everyone the temptation to make a very bad pun by
pointing out myself that, yes, there *is* in fact a pair of cat eyes
in this photo of my Cateye mounting bracket. Har har -- now get
over it
--
Mark Shroyer
http://markshroyer.com/
headlamp on my bike's handlebars, and now I want to take it off --
but my preference not to destroy it in the process turns out to be a
bit of a catch. I can't find the thing's manual anywhere (not even
on Google -- not with the same mounting bracket as mine came with,
anyway), nor can I remember precisely how I installed it in the
first place...
Here's a picture: http://markshroyer.com/files/cateye.jpg
The strap you see extending backwards from the bracket is toothed on
its underside; the notched ring that it passes through is internally
threaded, and you're supposed to tighten or loosen the strap by
turning the ring one way or the other. However, when I try to turn
the ring, the disc in the center *really* wants to rotate with it:
which it cannot, because the strap itself passes through the space
between a flat side on the disc and the threaded ring.
So ostensibly, after I tightened the ring I may have locked it
somehow (by snapping in the disc, maybe?). But the ring, again,
won't budge, and it seems that prying the disc / faceplate (to be
clear, I mean the semi-circular part with the Cateye logo on it) out
with a screwdriver seems to be a no-go (but I might not be trying
hard enough). Or are the cheap plastic parts simply stuck together?
There's a screw on top which fastens the headlamp mounting part to
the rest of the bracket, but it doesn't have anything to do with
this. There's nothing particularly interesting on the underside of
the assembly.
I see two options here:
1. The disc is supposed to rotate freely within the ring, but has
gotten gummed up. I should force the ring to rotate until it
frees up.
2. The disc snaps into the ring to lock its adjustment. I should
pry the disc out with a screwdriver.
Of course, if I tried either of these and happened to guess wrong,
I'd likely break the darn thing before I realized my mistake. So
does anyone here know how this is supposed to work?
Thanks,
Mark
P.S.: Let me spare everyone the temptation to make a very bad pun by
pointing out myself that, yes, there *is* in fact a pair of cat eyes
in this photo of my Cateye mounting bracket. Har har -- now get
over it
--
Mark Shroyer
http://markshroyer.com/