Okay, I took the star off and added some paste. There was some there, just not much. Re soldered the connections that seemed okay. Was done just because I was already there. Found a OP reflector that I was able to make fit. Not perfectly fit, had to add an o-ring, but it works just fine. The beam is much more livable now. Quite nice actually, most of the tint shifts and rings are gone.
I also noticed the spring in the tail cap was junk. Battery was moving around inside the tube and I just wasn’t happy with it. Had a spare tail cap off a SP32A that was just a hair too long. Tube wasn’t making contact with the tail cap. Made a very thin copper washer to take up that gap. Working flawlessly now and the SP32A tail cap added a hole for a lanyard for those who like to use them. I don’t but now it has a much better tail cap connection that it did and the battery doesn’t rattle around in there.
Now if they could fix that UI, it would be a great little light.