Did they drop it on a hard surface and it cracked?
It kinda looks like 2 pieces that are screwed and sealed together and maybe the screw threads got stripped.
Any more details?
Or, possibly there wasn’t enough meat there behind the threads, causing a catastrophic failure when shocked by impact.
sorry,I don’t haven’t seen the original posts, maybe it has been deleted for some reason.
Translation:“Broken off,I find that the 2 pieces stick together.What the hell is the design.”
This does not look like the new model, it looks like the older R90C (pictured below).
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Martin’s new video says the MS18 uses heatpipes. Is that true. Looks more and more impressive.
Heat pipes only tend to work well at very high temperatures and are usually a last resort when you can’t get a cooling fan close enough to the heat source. I think it would be very strange if they were actually using heat pipes. Then again, I have no idea what’s going on inside of the MS18 other than it seems to have a single radial fan about 30 or 40 millimeters in diameter. Who knows, maybe it has multiple fans inside.
It looks like the body and head are only glued together. 
Those are Allen head screws right above each button. They are hanging down and might have a coating of glue on them.
Locks picture.
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I think you are right i didn’t see the screws.
Not glued only, there is definitely screws hanging loose on the picture :
looks like a very poor job put together that light ?
No, not really. The construction looks fine.
The question is did it break or did someone just take it apart.
really ? never seen a light that big so broken before, it looks like it just snapped, either way it shouldnt be a 2 part head since it weighs some it should be supported better then somehow. a few dents and crack if u drop it is no big deal but looking that picture it looks bad imo…
Thanks for the translation 59. The R90C has nothing to do with this thread, but to answer his question, the head of the R90C has a small allen screw above each lantern, probably for servicing and ease of assembly; you can see in his photo that each screw is hanging down onto the two lanterns (which read R90C). You can’t tell if they were stripped or broken from the presumed long drop, but if the torch still works, they should replace those allen screws.
Imalent seems to be using the same basic head design for both the MS12 and R90C (with the MS12 having more air slots). The MS12 has to be a two piece design in order to get the fan inside.
We should not assume what the situation is concerning that picture. One person might have taken their R90C apart and posted a picture and another person might have seen the picture and freaked out thinking it’s broke. Who knows.
It would be highly unlikely for the threads to strip since they’re an order of magnitude harder than the aluminum they’re threaded to. It just appears snapped because the screws are counterbored into the head.
being stripped from the head is what I said, so that includes the female threads in the head, but likely or not you also can’t assume they were damaged either like Jason said earlier…maybe the guy took it apart to modify it and wanted to complain about it because he just didn’t like how it was made, no that never happens here, he gave no context. He only served to stir up trouble, like help is needed there. This is exactly why most manufacturers just put out their products and don’t really care about this forum, everyone here wants to control their design, description, marketing strategy, prices, and policies. It’s become much worse that feedback and suggestions. Give an inch, take a mile.
To me this looks like it was in the process of being disassembled but it’s hard to tell. Would be nice to see the other side of the light for drop damage. Either way, I would call it misuse. I know they are heavy but in my opinion it would have to take a SERIOUS drop for that to happen. In the meantime I would not assume anything negative until we get more info.
Only responding to your quote bout needing to replace the SHCS…
It’s very easy though to accuse the end consumers… Give the manufacturers an inch they take a mile. Except here in the US if you were a business giving customers 71% of what you promise you’d be done in a year. Here if a manufacturer does that everyone praises them for being innovative and at the cutting edge!