ball clicker
English
Noun
ball clicker (plural ball clickers)
- A mechanism that uses ball bearings which fall into an indentation to create a clicking noise when an adjustment knob is turned to a correct position.
- 1947, Charles Richmond Jacobs, John T. Amber, & Ken Warner, The Gun Digest - Volume 3, page 150:
- Double steel ball clickers in windage and elevation adjustments.
- 1954, Charles R. Jacobs, The New Official Gun Book, page 69:
- Redfield 70 Steel ball clicker system insures sharp, definite clicks.
- 2017 March 7, Mark Bernardo, “Single-Malt “Watch”: Urwerk Teams Up With The Macallan”, in Watch Time:
- Its cap has a hidden, connecting arm with hidden, 1-mm “ball clickers,” which click when completely open
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See also
- Executive Ball Clicker