Manafont. I’ll post everything up later, got tied up last night.
Tell me something, does the head unscrew here:
I can't get mine to unscrew here.
-Garry
I didn’t try too hard, but I doubt it - the pill extends from the base of the taper down all the way too the base of the fins.
So we can't access the emitter mounting? Or are people removing the bezel and reaching down from there? I was thinking to put the body in a vise and try cranking on it a little harder, but thought I'd ask first.
-Garry
Remove the head from the body, you can see two Ali rings and the driver, the inner ring is the pill. Mine was loose, I’d already removed the bezel, lense and reflector, there are no divets anywhere to aid removal, you could either pop out the driver and drill two 1/16th holes or just improvise.
There are a lot of threads, over an inch of the buggers. The pill unscrews from the body side of the head.
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See the inner Ali ring around the driver? That’s the pill.
Thankyou Mazda hatch.
Ok, I gotcha! Picture is worth a thousand words! I knew which part was the pill, but didn't realize it could be unscrewed from the back side (pills generally unscrew out the front end).
Thanks,
Garry
All good, I was just checking mine for any more cardboard or paperclips. ha ha.
I can't get the bezel off for the life of me. Any tips?
Swear, swear a lot, go away, have a brew, then unleash your inner gorilla. 0:)
If it's like getting a tight lid off of a jar, put a rubber band (thicker type) around it to give you better grip on it and then try turning it off.
-Garry
Got the first two covered already, the third will have to wait until after Noon. 
Edit: Remembered I have a cheap strap wrench from Harbor Freight - worked like a charm! My reflector is plastic, but it is very good quality. The whole head is put together very well with a snug O-ring between the lens and reflector, plastic isolation disk on the LED, etc.
Looks like the DX one has a plastic reflector
Sorry I'm wrong it's metal
Maybe it's some Chinese newly invented alloy which is made from aluminum and plastic combined. Some people are seeing it as plastic, while others see it as aluminum but it's really the same. :) Just a thought.
-Garry
It's very hard to tell at first. I scraped a little finish off the lip edge with a knife, colored plastic below.
Well that sounds to me like a good quality plastic reflector - one that's very hard to tell it's plastic. I don't mind plastic reflectors when their decent quality.
-Garry
No, viffer's one is definitely aluminium. There are two variants here.
What I'm trying to establish is whether DX is selling out aluminium and Manafont using plastic, OR whether it's just lottery luck no matter where you order.
It would help members to choose where they will purchase which variant. I'd go with alu anytime, maybe they're the same reflecting quality but there's a big difference in heatsinking.