Mar
29
Fenix pocket holster
Filed Under Bombproof bargains, Personal
I carry my Fenix light in my front pocket, but I found it was constantly shifting around and bothersome. More worryingly, I went to use it one day and found it was extremely dim. After examining the light, I found a dime had wedged perfectly into the bezel, completely covering the light (couldn’t be a more perfect fit if it had been designed that way).
I slapped this together in about a 1/2 hour, to keep it upright in my pocket while still being easy to get out. I took some thin thermoplastic I had laying around, probably scavenged from a vent cowling. I cut it to shape, then heated it and formed the “tube” using a lighter. I flared the opening a bit to make inserting the light a bit easier.
The plastic is slippery and I wanted to keep the holster itself from shifting around in my pocket. I cut some thin leather (scavenged from a $5 pair of thrift-store leather pants I purchased years ago for projects like this) and glued it on rough side out with 3M Super 90 spray glue. Not shown here, I enclosed the bottom so that change couldn’t get up into the bezel.
Finally, to keep the leather from de-laminating from around the ‘tube’, I punched a few holes and ran 2 small zip ties through.
The light is completely loose in the tube, held in only by gravity but because its also in my front pocket it’s completely secure. The leather-coated flat part on the side provides vertical stability in the pocket, and also provides a lot of additional friction to ensure the holster doesn’t come out along with the light.
Finally, to give the otherwise smooth light body some grip when my hands are wet, I cut some 3M stair grip tape to fit the milled flats of the light.
I’ve been using this setup every day for a month now and I’ve been hard pressed to find anything to improve in it.
