magpie
Newly Enlightened
nothing special really but it was free so cant be all bad lol.
snap on tools engraved minimag......collegue of mine said it had been rattling around in his tool box for a while and it didnt work!!
so after 10 minutes of trying to remove the tailcap and copious amounts of wd40 i had to resort to a vice and a pair of pliers :-(
....yep you guessed it it still had batteries in it lot of corrosion on the tailcap and threads.
also on stripping the bulb mount/switch assembly it appeared that the earthing contact had also rotted and broken away from the bulb contact....not good.
so cleaned of as much of the corrosion as i could(turns out it wasnt nearly as bad as it looked) and set about repairing the earth contact...I used some very thin shim type brass sheet and fashioned a new contact reassembled the head and refitted the bulb.
loaded in some fressh aa's and refitted the tailcap.....now works a treat so i may get an led drop in kit for it as i am really pleased with my other minimag which already has niteize leds fitted.
think i would like something a little brighter than the niteize kit though so i will have to go searching the forum thread ;-)
snap on tools engraved minimag......collegue of mine said it had been rattling around in his tool box for a while and it didnt work!!
so after 10 minutes of trying to remove the tailcap and copious amounts of wd40 i had to resort to a vice and a pair of pliers :-(
....yep you guessed it it still had batteries in it lot of corrosion on the tailcap and threads.
also on stripping the bulb mount/switch assembly it appeared that the earthing contact had also rotted and broken away from the bulb contact....not good.
so cleaned of as much of the corrosion as i could(turns out it wasnt nearly as bad as it looked) and set about repairing the earth contact...I used some very thin shim type brass sheet and fashioned a new contact reassembled the head and refitted the bulb.
loaded in some fressh aa's and refitted the tailcap.....now works a treat so i may get an led drop in kit for it as i am really pleased with my other minimag which already has niteize leds fitted.
think i would like something a little brighter than the niteize kit though so i will have to go searching the forum thread ;-)