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 HillbillyHorus
   
Location: Charlottesville Virginia
Gender: Male
Im in ur government, killin ur d00dz
 |  |  | Busted up maglight
< on 10/28/2005 8:47 PM >
|  | | | Me and my friend were draining today, and I'd climbed up some stepirons into a gutterbox to see where we were. I let my maglight rest on a ledge, but it was slanted so it started to fall. I yelled for my friend to catch it, but he couldn't see it and it dropped into the water. Then he picked it up, and accidentaly unscrewed the bulb-part. The lens fell out (thankfully the bulb stayed intact), and we tried to find it but it was too late, it had washed away into the fast-flowing water. Now it won't work at all. I've dropped it before and it's worked fine. It was about an 8 feet drop into water, but we picked it up fast so I don't think it got too wet internally. Is this fixable? My dad was P.Oed, and doesn't want me using his flashlight now 
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tick
Location: Abingdon, VA
Gender: Male
| | |  | Re: Busted up maglight
<Reply # 1 on 10/28/2005 10:35 PM >
|  | | | Yeah, it's almost certainly fixable. PM sent.
edit: One of these days I'll get around to posting Tick's Complete Guide to Maglite Repair, but I'm too lazy right now.
[last edit 10/28/2005 10:43 PM by tick - edited 1 times]
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HillbillyHorus
Location: Charlottesville Virginia
Gender: Male
Im in ur government, killin ur d00dz
| | | Re: Busted up maglight
<Reply # 2 on 10/28/2005 10:54 PM >
| | | | I fixed it on my own  Turns out it was just a broken bulb. As for the lens, I found an extra in a crappy broken flashlight which fits perfectly in my mag.
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tick
Location: Abingdon, VA
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Busted up maglight
<Reply # 3 on 10/28/2005 11:02 PM >
| | | | Cool. I figured it was the switch, they have a habit of failing if you drop the Maglite. I've had two die in the VA Tech steam tunnels this way.
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Viper
Location: Vancouver, BC Canada
Gender: Male
Trespassing On!
| | | Re: Busted up maglight
<Reply # 4 on 10/29/2005 3:59 AM >
|  | | | Maglites are like old-school VW's. If they break they are easy to fix and parts are easy to come by, and easy to modify as well.
Earth, the world's most dangerous planet!
"The will to do, the soul to dare." -Sir Walter Scott |
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HillbillyHorus
Location: Charlottesville Virginia
Gender: Male
Im in ur government, killin ur d00dz
| | | Re: Busted up maglight
<Reply # 5 on 10/29/2005 1:01 PM >
| | | | Posted by Viper
Maglites are like old-school VW's. If they break they are easy to fix and parts are easy to come by, and easy to modify as well.
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Yeah, that's one reason I like 'em. Plus, I think they have the most "Bang for the Buck", so to speak.
You can't fall off a mountain. |
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bandi
    
Lippy Mechanic Bastard
Location: Trent Hills, ON
Gender: Male
A liminal mind is all I've ever known.
| |  | Re: Busted up maglight
<Reply # 6 on 10/31/2005 2:16 AM >
| | | | Posted by Viper
Maglites are like old-school VW's. If they break they are easy to fix and parts are easy to come by, and easy to modify as well.
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Beautiful!!! Absolutely beautiful!
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aplz
Location: Neo-Berlin (Kitchener)
Gender: Male
When The Detail Lost Its Freedom
| | Re: Busted up maglight
<Reply # 7 on 10/31/2005 6:11 PM >
| | | | I also have a question regarding Minimags.
I've got one, and quite frequently the bulb seems to break, or part of it, and then the wires twist. I think it is from the constant twisting of the cap. The glass then ends up shattered and gets in the threads of the cap and hardly screws off. I've gone through a few bulbs from this. Has anybody else experienced that?
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CyberShoe
Location: Directly above the centre of the earth
Gender: Male
So what if I overuse ellipses...
| | Re: Busted up maglight
<Reply # 8 on 10/31/2005 7:50 PM >
| | | | Posted by aplz
I also have a question regarding Minimags.
I've got one, and quite frequently the bulb seems to break, or part of it, and then the wires twist. I think it is from the constant twisting of the cap. The glass then ends up shattered and gets in the threads of the cap and hardly screws off. I've gone through a few bulbs from this. Has anybody else experienced that?
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Yes, that happened to me a few times too. The important thing is to make sure that the bulb is in perfectly straight, so that the ridges on the base of the bulb don't get caught under the reflector. Also, if your minimag takes a fall or other serious shock damage, remove the lens assembly immediately to make sure that a) the bulb is still in straight, and b) if any glass has chipped off, you can remove it before it gets ground into the threads. If the light was on, don't turn it off! Remove the batteries if you have to, but screwing the lens unit back down to shut off the light can crush any glass that might have been chipped off.
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