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I know how you feel mate :frowning:
My S10 stopped working one day. It wasn’t the tail cap. So I decided to try to get the bezel off with hot water and a blowtorch. Didn’t move so I tried a few different clamps and pliers. Still didn’t move.

Went on eBay to buy a watch case remover tool. Waited a week for that to come. Tried it still no luck. Got pissed off. Pulled the vise grips out. Kept slipping and marking the bezel. So I did it a bit tighter than bam bent the bezel. Still didn’t get it off lol so it sits in some draw now.

Don’t throw it out, just put it away till your clear headed again.

Aww man. You gotta have something bigger to shoot it with.

My Olight S20 has the green badness as well. I was going to swap the led at some point.....

Sorry for your loss!

Stuff like this forced me to make a rule not to buy lights that are glued together or are otherwise not mod-able.

Having older XP-G and XP-E lights that are ripe to be upgraded to XP-L, XP-G2, …but can’t get them opened up? Yeah, most frustrating. Olight & Fenix are a couple that make nice lights but hard to get open without damage.

I would use an angle grinder to put some notches in the top, find a large screwdriver or something similar to hold it in place and use some vice grips on it

I am curious why you did not reach out to olight and tell them the tint is unacceptable

To get the bezel off did you try one of those rubber pads from the grocery store?

1. Place pad in palm of left hand
2. Hold light in right hand and press bezel into the pad
3. Turn to unscrew bezel.

I’ve also used the same technique with indoor rubber stairway grip tape from Office Depot.

  1. Cut a piece of grip tape.
  2. Stick it to the front of the bezel
  3. Hold light in right hand and press firmly into palm of left hand.
  4. Unscrew
  5. If you have trouble gripping the light, wrap a piece of grip tape around it too. Gives you much more gripping power.

Not sure if this method would work on a glued bezel though. When did Olight start gluing their bezels?

I think he has gone far beyond this already
I have one thats more then a year old and its glued

Get a baseball bat, two friends and fix the problem Office Space style

mine does not have the green tint problem, they must have used a different reflector on it, though i have not used it in probably a year or so, its still in its original box

let me check what mine is

My brother has a rem700 300wm. That’s some power there. Put the O back in Olight. Much better than some buckshot.

I think swapping the LED does fix the tint as long as you swap in a Nichia 219.

For CREE LEDs changing the lens helps, but doesn’t go all the way. Sounds like a TIR is the way to go.

mine is slight OP, i’m glad to see its still working, and the tint is NW

You should write an article for here
http://www.designnews.com/archives.asp?section_id=1367

thre are no suitable replacement drivers out there?

thats a real kick in the arse, you should still hold onto them in case drivers become available in the future

I feel your pain too. Some may think we’re crazy, destroying a $$ light in pursuit of a better tint.

Try this for a driver:

Take a Nanjg 105C with DrJones electronic switch firmware (or star momentary firmware from RMM). File down the edges of the driver. This will then sit at the end of the pill rather than inside the pill.

File down the pill so the driver sits closer to the switch hole.

Discard the stock driver and switch. Buy a replacement microswitch (I found some tiny ones on Ebay for cheap that work well. Was only a few $ for 50 of them too). Glue the replacement microswitch to the top of the driver with a large amount of arctic alumina.

Then glue the new driver onto the end of the pill. Should be good to go.

Give yourself a challenge, shoot it right in that green eye.