Remove the switch and just fiddle with it using a flat head screwdriver. Should pop out easily enough.
There is no gap to fit a screwdriver into. The snap ring is flat, at least 1/8" wide, fits into a groove in the barrel, and is laying in a flat "trough" on top of the switch. I can't lever it away from the barrel without simultaneously lifting it up. Impossible to do both things at once with a stick. Also its 1 3/4" deep, and the center post gets in the way of levering at an angle.
This is a 4 or 5 cell lite. Maybe 2D are different?
AND I AM NEVER ABLE TO REPLY UNTIL I QUIT THE THREAD AND GO BACK TO THE FORUM INDEX, OPEN IT AGAIN, AND REPLY TO THE THREAD. NEVER ABLE TO ' REPLY WITH QUOTE'
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