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Originally posted by parabellum:
I mounted my new TLR7-A on my G19 gen5. The light comes with the high switches installed. I'm right handed and I like the high switch on the right side of the light. I know people say that you are not supposed to be activating a pistol-mounted WML with your trigger finger, but I do this and have done it ever since the first Surefire X-series lights came out. If people want to call this a poor technique, so be it, but I'll wager that I am far from alone in this practice.
When I put my finger through the trigger guard, my fingernail was contacting the inside of the left side switch and this bothered me. Also, I noticed that if I did wish to activate the light with my off hand, the low switch would be preferable.

Given all this, it seemed to me that the best configuration would be high switch on the right side and low switch on the left side. The transverse pin which holds the switches in place is a friction fit. It can be pushed out with a paperclip. Actually, the pin doesn't need to be removed entirely, but rather, simply pushed in far enough to free one switch. Removing this pin entirely would increase the chances of it getting bent when reinserting it.
Using the second switch body which comes with the Flex model, I used a paperclip to push in the pin from the left side of the switch body. If you do this, you'll want to press down on the switch to hold it in place, because behind the switch is the tinest coil spring you'll ever see, and if it gets away from you, you'll never find it.

Then, I removed the left side switch and coil from the high switch body and installed the low switch. On the switch body, there is a small plastic pillar which keeps the spring aligned. Put the spring on this pillar, then carefully align the switch so that the hole for the spring on the underside of the switch itself captures the spring. While using one hand to hold the switch in place and one hand to hold the switch body, use a flat surface such as a tabletop to gently push the transverse pin back into place. You can get the pin perfectly flush by using the paperclip to tweak it a bit.

So, now I have my own personalized model- the TLR-7A High/Low. High switch on the right side, low switch on the left side.

To keep all parts in place, I installed the left side high switch I removed from the high switch body into the left side of the low switch body.

It took me longer to type out this post than it did to make this modification, in case any of you are interested in making this change. Remember- the world's smallest coil spring. Be careful. If you drop it, it's gone for good.