TLR 1 Install help Please!!

[Blindjim]

, I’m stumped. Figured out everything but this part… the KEY for the light so it won’t fly off during operation on my .FNH FNP .45T 1913 rail.

Sure would appreciate some Streamlight owners help here… PLEASE.
SL support was unable or unwilling to accommodate me quickly on these matters. Mostly they kept remitting me the same email, disregarding other questions such as these

I CAN NOT READ THE LABLES OF EACH KEY… my vision is too poor & I live alone.

How do you tell which one is the 1913 key? 4 KEYS ARE SHOWN IN THE PDF OWNERS MANUAL , BUT I CAN’T SEE WHICH IS WHICH. THOUGH I DO SEE/PERCIEVE DIFFS FROM EACH OF THEM.

My light came with only 3 keys, and no allen wrench.

Could someone tell me how to orient the key into the cavity of the TLR 1 itself?

What’s the idea of the screw and nut that affixes into or inside of the key?

Should the visible screw/nut be facing up towards the gun/rail?

Or should they face down into the cavity of the light instead and the rectangular portion of the key be facing upwards towards the rail? (this is my guess)

Should the key be positioned as you like, or is there one specific place for it to reside once set into place appropriately?

All the way forward, middle, or to the back of the light’s cavity?

Is the screw & nut supposed to act as a bar of sorts with the key so it jams into the light, thus remaining more stuck into it? So some of the screw needs be sticking out of the key itself some what?

Or is there a hoel thru which this screw needs be inserted into, THEN screwed into the key? If so, I sure can’t find one.

Neither does my screw thread easily into any of the keys!

Even though good sense says for me to return this one, or exchange it for one just like it, I’ll still need to know how to affix the key. Many thanks for your help.

immense thanks....

 

[Nakanokalronin]

Not to sound like a jerk, but you should get your vision checked if you can't read the keys but can read the manual that has smaller print. There should be one that says "1913" on the top. The screw goes through the side of the TLR-1 rail, through the key and into the nut inside the groove of the key. I'd take the light and gun to a local gun shop and have them help you in person instead of us trying to go back and forth on this since your vision is impaired. Seriously though, if your vision is that bad you need to see an eye doctor.

Scroll down this PDF to see the keys: http://www.streamlight.com/documents/info-sheet/tlr1s_sup.pdf
Hopefully this helps somewhat.

ETA: Another PDF to help that tells and show exactly how to attach the keys, how to install the screw and nut: http://www.streamlight.com/documents/op-instructions/TLR_op.pdf

The key just drops in from the top. Does your TLR-1 already have a key installed with 3 extras?

 

[Blindjim]

gEE..... i'M SORRY i ASKED.

Nakanokalronin
…..Not to sound like a jerk, but you should get your vision checked if you can't read the keys but can read the manual that has smaller print.


Check out my profile … it should open your eyes as to the condition of my own.

Could very well be that’s just how I began to accomplish this task. By reading the ONLY type manual I can see… a pdf. The one SL support sent me wasn’t too enlightening. Neither did their statements remain consistent.

Nakanokalronin
…..There should be one that says "1913" on the top. The screw goes through the side of the TLR-1 rail, through the key and into the nut inside the groove of the key.

Check! You’re a bit late however. Thanks anyhow. It’s all done and working as of yesterday afternoon.

Nakanokalronin
……I'd take the light and gun to a local gun shop and have them help you in person instead of us trying to go back and forth on this since your vision is impaired. Seriously though, if your vision is that bad you need to see an eye doctor.

Sometimes, even Dr. are useless. I’ve seen somewhere in the neighborhood of a dozen or more. Is that enough?

As I live alone…. And with my condition, driving is pretty much a “No No”, so going to a Gun Shop is somehow a very wrong thing for me to do.

Nakanokalronin
…..Scroll down this PDF to see the keys: http://www.streamlight.com/documents.../tlr1s_sup.pdf
Hopefully this helps somewhat.
…..ETA: Another PDF to help that tells and show exactly how to attach the keys, how to install the screw and nut:
http://www.streamlight.com/documents...ons/TLR_op.pdf

Nakanokalronin
…..The key just drops in from the top. Does your TLR-1 already have a key installed with 3 extras?



Uh… well… thanks anyhow…. Maybe some one else cannow benefit in this forum by these posts.

Sorry, did not know I was breaking any rules by asking for help from those with more Streamlight experience than myself, or Streamlight support was willing or able to give.

As I got absolutely no help here, from yesterday morning, until your post, I’ve already been aided elsewhere.

BTW Those folks didn’t feel my posting/asking for help on this topic was an issue at all and were happy to assist according to their comments.


It is my understanding, forums supposed to be interactive, ongoing, back and forth at times conversations designed to enlighten, assist, glean to and from, ideas and experiences of those who are members of that forum?

I fail to see any error on` my behalf, so would you mind letting me know just what questions one can ask in this forum? You are a moderator, right? I’d appreciate it a lot as I’d not wish to break any rules as to which questions one can ask about what sorts of things around here.

Thanks much

 

[Nakanokalronin]

I think you took my post differently then I meant it. Sometimes a situation or question is asked that would be harder to help out on a forum then in person. Since you stated you couldn't read the keys, it's hard to point a finger through the screen and say "use that one" which is why I said it may have been better to have someone at a LGS help you out if that was the case.

My 3 TLR-1s came with one key installed and the rest in a small baggie.

Glad you got it fixed.

ETA: Honestly, I don't look at user names either when posting an answer to a question. There are a few definitions to being "legally blind" so without knowing exactly what is wrong and the fact you couldn't tell one key from the other, suggesting help in person is the most logical answer.

Is your peripheral vision impaired or is it that you have to be farther from an object to see detail?

 

[Blindjim]

Hi!

Everybody is doing the best he or she can at the time with what they have to do it with. Everybody.

Your info was/is correct. Other’s may prosper from it. Thanks.

Hmmm. Definitely most any question as to best of, which one, and how to’s, could all be best solved by first hand on site help. No doubt.

When I am unable to obtain satisfactory solutions via my own resources, research, or local aid, I enlist or seek to enlist the knowledge base of an internet disscussion forum pertinent to the situation at hand. Period. I’d follow that route blind or not.

I go to the maker site and or support arm initially. If that is untimely or unsatisfactory, as it was in this instance, I seek out the user guide and attempt to glean from it what I am pursuing. If that fails and no local authority on the matter wishes to help or can’t be reached… I then read, peruse, and skim other forums I’m not attached to for knowledge sake… if that too fails to resolve things… well, then here we are.

I wrote a defined description of my personal disability, but I’ve since decided not to make it publidc knowledge by replying to your question here…. Or otherwise. We are strangers after all. Truth be told, it’s no one else’s business either, and could possibly cause me further injury. Sorry.

Suffice it to say it ain’t good… as I’ve already alluded too.

Please… try not to control, edit, or judge or presume of someone things not in evidence already, if it is not your requested or appointed task to do so.

When I do, I find myself frequently an irritant to others, or just plain wrong. Be well.

 

[Blindjim]

Q: WHERE IS THE TLR 1 SERIAL NUMBER LOCATED EXACTLY?

A: It's on the same side as the Rail Adjusting knob/screw, underneath the SL TLR-1 LOGO.

FYI... If you are wondering about the output from your light, the latest TLR 1 devices with (160 L) output, then their serial number should begin with "C 4..." or "C4....", according to SL support.


Shheeessh! Why ask?

Being visually challenged I can use all the light I can get my paws on and I’d not wish to pay any more than necessary. True as well, it represents to anyone looking at weapon mounted lights a much better value.

so you can save money (about $30 - $40) if a strobe is not desired, and wind up with the same amount of emitted light! If you have a very recently built (Nov. 2011 or later) TLR 1.