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Many, many, many years ago, through warmshowers.org , I stayed two nights with a host family in Poughkeepsie as way to explore a segment of the Hudson River Valley. On my up and down out there, since there's no flat riding between central Connecticut and New York, my newish headlight had leapt from its handlebar mount, losing on impact with the ground the just-right-size magnet the manufacturer had used to operate the power switch. A magnetic switch was a neat design for keeping the light sealed without a using fragile rubber grommet, certainly better that the weak mount that had failed to do it's job. One of my hosts was a tinkerer, so when I shared that disappointing aspect of my first day's trip, he invited me down to the basement to see if we could find a suitable replacement. "Just-right-size" was important, not just to fit the molded plastic bits, but also because too small wouldn't trip the switch, while too big would make it double or triple fire and n...
