Got mine, LED’s a bit off-center, didn’t open it up yet… but it’s pretty nice!
The beam’s a bit ringy (very very fine rings, not too objectionable) and fried-eggy, strong yellowish corona around the hotspot, but shouldn’t bug me unless I go white-wall hunting. A bit on the cool side, but no trace of green that I can see. Woohoo!
Got a lanyard and some O-rings, the holster/sleeve/whatever is waaaaay too snug for the light, it fit the light like Kelly Bundy’s dress. Big deal, wasn’t planning on holstering it anyway, so might use it for something else.
15bux? Bargain! Glad I got 2.
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Dunno offhand where I mentioned it, here or elsewhere, but I unearthed 2 huge packs of enercells (Rat Shack brand alkaleaks). Amazed. Absolutely amazed! Not a single one is leaking! Had these been Duraleaks, they would’ve been one solid fuzzy block of battery-salts.
So now I got a reason to burn off all these alkies before they maybe do succumb.
That nice AAA Orcatorch? Frozen solid by a f’n alkaleak. Took pliers (light wrapped in a paper-towel) to unscrew it. Whatever battery-ick leaked out also got on the threads like Loctite™ Gotta drill out the damned battery and try to clean it up, as I really liked that Orca.
I knew I shouldda checked first before putting it away.
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Damn, I should retire most of my 18650 lights ’til I burn off alla these alkies.
went to a few home depots to try and get those screws, wasted a $1.20 on a pack of 4-40X1/4” machine screws, they looked correct, but threaded area diameter was too wide, pulled the correct screw out of light and tried to scrounge one from old digital camera and old pc, but still no success, put the light back together and will keep searching before I have to order one, but dont waste your time with home depot.
Wanna be adventurous? Unplug 1 cell at a time and see if it still works. If it’s 2S2P, it’ll still work with any cell missing, as it’d still have the other complete string still connected.
your 100% right I do this a lot cause I get obsessed with something, drove to like 4 walmarts last week cause I needed a wrist brace and it was out of stock at each one(they werent to far apart tho), even worse ,I stopped at a few pharmacies and supermarkets in betwwen that trip and could not get the item, it was surreal, like a twilight zone episode of a moron(me), ended up ordering it on amazon.
but basically my cheap light gets more expensive, so if I dont find them around the house will order.
Hey, anyone who still grexes that the holster for the TK4A is too small, just shove the light into the holster as deep as you can possibly stuff it, and snap down the flap also as tightly as you can. That stretches it out a bit, almost like shoe-trees in too-tight shoes, and makes it fit a bit better.
I’m alternating it every few days, lens-up and then lens-down, taking care to not light it up when lens-down (hard to see it through the material).