Copper FW3C poor quality

Yeah, agreed Henk, but it only needed a slight touch once the screw was out - the wires will be fine, i doubt it will ever be opened again. The sst20 nw is much more pleasant than the xpl hi v6 3d - which I thought were nice, and still do. Just no so nice.

You can use thermal adhesive to stop it from rotating.

You know thinking about it, it could just as easily be an issue with the led board itself - being cut slightly in the wrong place , I’ll never know.
Either way, it wasn’t ideal. Still, sorted now, smile back on chops :slight_smile:
Just starting a photo set to show how it patinas, which I’ll put up at some point - all I need to do is remember to do it every day!

You could enlarge the bottom of the hole to have more clearance around the head of the screw while keeping it to avoid the MCPCB to rotate.

Or use a slightly longer flat head screw and a shim around the MCPCB, GITD tape maybe.

Maybe use a small needle file and make the screw hole slightly oval to allow the board to be shifted center and still torqued in place.

Key word?

Just checked my FW3A and all three of the ones I have exhibit the same off-center issue between the LED emitter base and the inner diameter of the flashlight's tube as shown in the first post of this thread for the FW3C. I can even see the misalignments with the flashlights assembled as the three LEDs and the optic are slightly closer to one side.

But it does not create any issues with the beam quality on my particular FW3A lights because the three legs on the optic that fit into the three holes on the LED emitter base allow the optic to line up correctly with the LED emitter board because the optic is smaller in diameter and does not touch the flashlight's tube. When I screw the lens back on it seems to hold everything together firmly and keep the parts aligned correctly.

I know, but you can hope lol!

Yeah mate there are a few options, but to be honest it seems to be fine now, I suppose the only worry is the board not sitting flat on the shelf, but it wasn’t an issue in my original one which had no screw. I’ll see how it goes though.
Only been open a few hours and a patina is already starting!

Normally there is enough room in the bezel area for the optic to accommodate when the MCPCB is off center, but it wouldn’t be an issue in the first place if they machined these parts with tighter tolarences.

Well just to update, BG offered me a £12 refund, which I think is fair considering - I’d rather not return the whole light over it and not be able to get another, it would end up costing more.
It seems to ok without the screw, so I will accept.

Hence your copper FW3A will from this moment on be formally addressed as: Screwless Nick.

Lol!

Surprise surprise, no refund has been credited……. :person_facepalming:
Escalated to Paypal now.

“We gave you refund. Please go post office and check.”

“Can you send pictures of not getting refund?”

“Maybe video, too?”

Typical Banggood :person_facepalming:

‘Banggood will do what we have promised to our customers. When you receive this email, we have already arranged a refund 11.63GBP to your payment account.’ :person_facepalming:

Maybe it’s like an arranged marriage and will happen in like 20yrs or so…

Nice!