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.
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?
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.
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!
Wow-you sound like me!! Thank God I do yoga to get nice and zoned out! <g>
I can elevate profanity to an art form when working on stuff, so I pace myself and do slow, deep belly breathing when I get uptight-or know when to drop everything and walk away. Works much better for me and I enjoy the modding a lot more.
It's late now, but I just found this post. If you look at the thread on the Kl3 floodlight I just did, you'll know that the Surefire KL3 is the worst bastard in the world to get open. Solution: Heat gun (a real one, not a hair dryer) applied in the appropriate places will break glue eventually.
I tend to set things on fire with a heat gun. Prefer a welding torch when I have gas for it. You can really set stuff on fire with those!
Never owned a Surefire and probably never will as my day job doesn't pay all that much, and if it did, I'd spend the money elsewhere. My creditors usually prefer I spend my money elsewhere. Like paying them.
As for profanity, my day job doesn't really allow it most of the time, so I try to keep my tongue in rein. Especially since one of the customers said to me, "You eat with that mouth?"
But don't listen to me in heavy traffic or when playing the Sex Pistols.
Or when dealing with any dental practice management software. (Don't ask)
Or even get into any vehicle I'm driving under the influence of the Sex Pistols. You re not going to enjoy what ensues.
Jimi Hendrix' Hey Joe has similar effects.
But I gave up on illegal stimulants 35 years ago. They did do rather bad things to my vocabulary.
These days my response to most stressors is that "life is too short, come to that, I'm too short for this." And I get a lot of stressful stuff every day. Sort of goes with the territory when you work in mental health services.
I'll be in your general area some time next summer when I have to appear in Pittsburgh for a course I'm on. Or at least i think I'm on. I paid the fees in September and that was the last I heard from them.