Welp, Im an idiot - D25C Ti disassembly failure

Well in an attempt to swap emitters in my D25C clicky I decided to try to unthread the brass from titanium head. I heated the head by placing it in a bag in boiling water to soften the glue, wrapped the two parts with rubber and used pliers and channel locks. My first attempt resulted in the channel locks piercing two layers of rubber and scratching the titanium all to hell. Well now Im pissed off and figure if Im going to scratch it up Im definitely going to get it apart. My second and even more careless attempt (with two added layers of rubber) resulted in stripping some off the pcb board along with some brass from the threads. This also tore a black wire making the light inoperable. I may try to solder a new wire in but Ive never soldered on a pcb board before. The board that makes contact with the battery fits back into where it was ripped from and still threads into the body with no problem so maybe I can getting working again but boy am I pissed at myself. Heres the damage and what the internals look like, hopefully someone can learn from my mistakes.

Just looks like you have to solder new small wire.
5 minute job if you do it right.

I swear no matter how many layers of rubber, plastic or cloth you use you will still damage the widget with your wrench, pliers or channel locks because the gods know what your trying to do and will spite you every time (or almost every time to give you the faith of intermittent reinforcement in the future)

Yup. They’ll do that sometimes.

I thought eagletac’s flashlights leds could be swapped pretty easily or so I believed. Am I wrong??

the squirrel is trolling, now i understand that photo i saw when i joined BLF

You are right, I swapped the led from my D25CclickyTi, but did not bother trying to unscrew the pill. By removing the bezel and reflector, there was enough access to the led board to do the swap without removing the pill. And the driver has even better access.

But thanks for posting this, so I will not be tempted to try removing the pill in the future :-)

Good luck repairing!

Thanks guys, can anyone tell me what type of wire is best to replace the broken one?

Any insulated wire same diameter.