Drastic Troubleshooting

I´ll call it demolition.

Sorry man...but that sucks, too much work for me to do. I just get pissed off and take a hammer too it.

300 degrees! It changed colour too. It is quite a nice colour now. And the oven's pyrolytic linings did their thing so the oven is clean too.

This little lot got used to get the pill out. Which took two hours. That's the pill at the bottom left.

Step 2

Boil it a bit.

No joy, so bake it a bit. Pretty colours!

It IS coming apart......

Thus far, Glue 3 Don 0

To be continued.

That was very funny (sorry Don) and very informative all at the same time.

That was what I was trying to achieve - glad I managed it. I think I'll probably hide the scars under heatshrink tubing once I've got the thing apart.

What's amazing to me is how patient you are Don because I would have pounded it into a flat piece of crap if that were me. I have what I call 'blind rage episodes' and when it happens, whatever I'm doing or working on gets destroyed. Then after that I feel like crap for destroying whatever it was because I realize that I just pissed away more money. Oh well....:(

It still isn't all that bright, but an LED and driver swap will soon sort that. Wonder how well an XP-G would work in there.

If I couldn't be horribly patient, or at least fake it well I'd not be able to do my day job. Actually, it is more that I'm good at faking it.

Some of the stuff I come across is just too horrible to let minor stuff get to you - I've been a pastor in a psychiatric hospital for the last 21 years and have just heard too much to let little stuff get to me any more.

Except when it does..........

Not very bright

But with a hotspot this tight it should throw approximately forever when I get more current into a brighter LED. And lose the resistor switch.

It is on the left, the right hand side is a Solarforce L2R with a low voltage R2 dropin running on a pair of Eneloops.

But one does wonder if it was worth all the effort. It is now about 1000x brighter than when it arrived, but pretty it isn't.

Hi Don.

Should try to freeze for some hours and then try to apply brute force.

It works for me sometimes with glued heads.The strongest glue becomes brittle below freezing.

That was going to be the next thing I tried, but a pair of 90cm wrenches and a lot of force got it apart.

Maybe you can post a pic so we can see the battle scars on the torch.

Take a look at post #4.....like the rainbow effect of the ano.....

The camera flash was wiping out the colour changes.

The scars!

Note the interesting colour matching.....

More scars

The cosmetic cover.

Which hasn't shrunk quite enough and is removable.

Now those are some serious battle scars. That's what I would make my beater torch to leave inside my toolbox.

It isn't really suitable for a general purpose toolbox light, it is too much of a thrower for that. But then, it'll only ever get used in the dark....

Wow...

I wonder if my HS-801 would require such punishment to take it apart. The moment it arrives i will try it for a min then it's going to be reworked completely. I was thinking (if glued) to freeze it overnight then use some strong pliers like:

Hoping to succeed by wrapping plenty of cardboard over the flashlight grip (to avoid damage) and try to unscrew the head barehandedly since i managed to pack some muscle over the years.

Btw, since mine is HS-801 and also 2 mode there is some chance that we have the same resistor based switch. It is moddable or it is best to throw it away and never look back?

I don't know about the switch, but it seems likely. Plenty switch mechanisms at DX.

HS-801 is easily dismantled. I found that KD version of HS-802 is much better than DX one. Looks the same at the first sight, but KD version is more robust (so more mass to heatsinking), easy to moddification and not a single part is glued.

http://www.kaidomain.com/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductId=5634

Hrvoje

I bought this for under 20USD with a bunch of referrals and coupon codes floating the net :P :

http://www.buyincoins.com/uniquefire-hs-801-cree-r2-18650-led-2-mode-flashlight-torch-lamp-product-97.html

I hope they skimped on glue since it's cheaper. :P

Should be here just a bit after new year. I just tracked my XM-L flashlight from KD and it has already left Switzerland which means it is in my hand in 2-3days max. Yay!