HELP! I can't get my flashlights apart!!

[sachiaiko]

Hey folks,

Maybe i'm just really weak and feeble, but i have been UNABLE To get my flashlights apart. I open it up and pull the batteries out and i have done EVERYTHING short of taking a blow torch to the derned thing and i can not get the lights, lens and guts out of these two flashlights. PLEASE! I need ideas. This is ever frusstrating. What do I do?

I thought it was just ONE flashlight so i got another and that one also i can not get apart. :sighs: One is just a plain red cheapo led light and the other is a cheapo LED ight with awesome Koi fishes on it that i bought strictly FOR making my bro a mod. What do i do?

Sachi - New Modder waiting on box of goodies from madvapes

 

[Rocketman]

If it's the 6 or 9 LED flashlights then I set them lens down on a board, take a socket and short extension and BLAM with a hammer. Use the same finger and thumb technique you use for driving nails The lens and LED board are held in by a shallow groove. Blam will overcome that groove. A socket that just fits in the flashlight will contact the edge of the LED circuit board and usually not damage it.

 

[WillyB]

Well FWIW I've built a few torch mods using the technique Rocket mentions, but these were the ultimate pain to gut.

Some that look like them actually also unscrew at the top.

The amount of brute forced required was insane, and I ended up ruining the end. I thought they would make some nice 14650 mods. Needless to say the two others I have remain as flashlights.

 

[VpnDrgn]

Can you show us a picture of the inside of the head?
Most are press fit, so you have to knock out the insides like rocketman suggested.
Some have a ring that screws in to hold the guts in place.
I have seen a couple that had the ring under the battery plate, so it wasn't obvious
that it was screwed in.

 

[Rocketman]

The cheap ones, if they look like these in the photo, have a groove cut into the front to hold the plastic lens. Some have a spring behind the LED carrier, some just a springy washer. Once the plastic lens is forced out of the groove everything moves easily. I show a new one, the LED extraction tool, and one that has just been BLAMMED (Just for you).

 

[HyOnLyph]

While we're on the how to's.... I've watched the videos and read the direction. But there is one thing that i've never seen.... how do ya get the small buttons to stay in place tightly in a flashlight mod.? I've never seen a photo of how the switch is set in. (I'm not talking about the larger ones that set in from outside with lock nut on the inside)

 

[bstedh]

While we're on the how to's.... I've watched the videos and read the direction. But there is one thing that i've never seen.... how do ya get the small buttons to stay in place tightly in a flashlight mod.? I've never seen a photo of how the switch is set in. (I'm not talking about the larger ones that set in from outside with lock nut on the inside)

I believe most of them are just glued in. You have to be careful not to get any glue on the switch button....