I am hopeful your the only one who caught that before I came back to get rid of it, and if others read that post, Please accept my most sincere apology, I should have taken that issue to that person and handled it that way, just might still if it doesnāt stop, post like the one I posted sure donāt help anything and just greats more garbage and issues and I know betterā¦ But thx again Kindle very kind of youā¦!
So lets talk witches or switches, alright hereās a thought, what if a company just had a bunch of left over stuff, like springs, lens, Switches, and decided to have an auction and all the smart OEM guys AND gals showed up and bought say 5000 of eachā¦??
Well what would you do with them nextā¦? No conspiracy there, I hopeā¦ ha ha
Anyhow, Iāve taken my CW light apart because I was getting intermittent failures with that lights switch, even though I had just been messing around with my preferred tint the NW for days and doing massive amounts of switch pushing while fooling around with those very cool hidden output modes so wanted to change the modes in the CW also and that is when I noticed that when I needed to do a one click to lock a mode it would not lock the mode due to no click and I did not have one issue with the NW while setting the hidden outputs and that was a lot of clicks, no issues at all until I pulled out the CW.
I took a few pics to show what I think the issue is, and I will only be addressing my lights switch issue,
But if you follow this idea the simplest way to know for sure if your having a switch failure would be to directly switch modes without the switch boot on and clicking modes directly.
Itās really easy to remove that boot and could be done without any tools even, you could use a small flat head screw driver but could also easily poke a hole through this soft silicone boot.
Itās also easily replacable, at least on mine, and even with the retainer ring still in place.
I removed the switch boot simply by gently pulling the boot back to one side so I could see the bottom part of the boot, the hat brim part that secures the boot under the retainer, and I saw how much room there was so I just held it in place with one finger pulling back and used my other finger to sort of pull the boot enough to get a hold of it and just gently pulled it out, simple.
The retainer is pressed in and pressed in tight, might even have a dap of glue but not much on mine, cleaned it all off, then I took a few pics of how I to get to that switch pad and see if your switch is bad for real or not.
In the picture youāll see that the switch button pad is offset to one side, and these boots are very soft material, the center nub is really IMO to soft also,
Look at how they have formed the solid ledge around where the switch boot nub is supposed to contact the pad, with the switch off to one side like this the nub from the boot nub can get hung up on that ledge, that explained to me why I could sort of push down and upwards at the same time and get it to change modes easier than what is just a normal switch push.
All of this should be fairly simple to straighten out, maybe using a clear L6 switch small one or the ThorFire S70 clear side switch boot,
Iām not sure how to recenter the switch quit yet, but working on it,
I hate to admit this but I canāt get the reflector out, not sure if screwed in or glued in, but it doesnāt seem normal and donāt want to mess it up.
So here a few pics and if you do take a small blunt object and click through your switch modes directly on the switch pad, with no boot installed, and then it still wonāt change modes, well thatās a for sure bad switch of course since everything that it could get hung up on is out of the way now, just want to help out because I really do like these lights,
George did a great job on putting these GBās together and the price for these were super fantastic, so it does make me sad to see so much worry about this or that with the lights, it doesnāt matter at all to me who made them or what parts as long as it is as it is, I am happy, it works, itās was very cheap and itās a nice looking light,
āPics of switchā: