MacGyver (a.k.a. My New Bike Lights)

I bought these through eBay on Wednesday last week and they arrived today. That's pretty quick seeing as they came all the way from Hong Kong!

So off I went at lunchtime to by some AAA batteries so that I could see if these work properly and then leave feedback. I went out side, carjacked a delivery van... hahaha... just joking.

I checked the taillight first and that worked like a dream. Next came the headlight. Much like a flashlight, you unscrew the light to get to the batteries. This had some sort of battery 'cage' which slid out. I inserted the 4 AAA batteries in their correct polarities, *shoved* the battery cage back in, screwed the light back on, clicked once... and it didn't work.

Assuming that I might have placed a battery incorrectly, I took the light off again... only to discover that I couldn't get the battery cage out. Then I recalled the ease at which the cage slid out in the first place and that when I shoved it back in, I did something very, very bad.

It's situations like this where you wish you could just quit and re-load your game.

I took out a set of little screwdrivers and tried prying the cage out. No can do. Then, I disassembled a tea bag so that I could thread the string through the battery contact points and pull. The string snapped. I then used my two pieces of string and threaded them both through for a bit of reinforcement and tried again. This time the cage gave a little. Then both strings snapped.

At this point I decided to hunt around the office for some wire... and stumbled upon a tool kit. The needlenose pliers did the trick and I pulled the cage out and then *slid* it back in. Then I screwed on the light... and blinded myself because I had left the switch on earlier.

Good times.