Mag Switch set screw - Where to Find?

[Slick]

I was working on modding a D cell Mag and while I had the switch out to "trim the nose" I managed to lose the set screw that holds the switch in place and establishes the ground connection.

Do anyone know where to find a replacement screw?? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

The light is nothing more than a pile of spare parts without one...

 

[Pellidon]

How about on the floor /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

I'm looking at an old style switch and it looks like it has 8-23 threads. Lowes, Home Depot and other small hardware stores should have set screws. Get some 6-32 and 8-32 as my eyes aren't as sharp as a ball peen hammer lately. Even Sears Hardware, the stand alone stores, carry loose fasteners.

Better still, take the head and test fit screws.

 

[Illuminated]

Slick,

PM me if you don't find one...

John

 

[MR Bulk]

Slick,

Pellidon's answer would have been mine exactly. You should be able to find the EXACT replacement for the Mag setscrew, albeit not always wth a "pointy" end, but one that will dig into the Mag's body all the same. And bring a setscrew from another Mag to make sure of the length also, not just the thread size/pitch...

 

[Slick]

Thanx for the suggestions, guys..

Indeed, I spent a couple of hours crawling around looking for it without any luck.

Mag doesn't sell the screw as a "spare part" but it looks like they're going to send me a replacement screw. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif If not, I'll go the route of trying to find a replacement and grind the point on it myself.

 

[Quickbeam]

If it's ferrous metal, drag a magnet around on the floor. You'd be amazed at what you may pick up. I found many a lost pin that way, before my foot did...

 

[Slick]

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Quickbeam said:
If it's ferrous metal, drag a magnet around on the floor. You'd be amazed at what you may pick up. I found many a lost pin that way, before my foot did...

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That was my very first thought, but it's made of some kind of alloy and was only barely attracted to a magnet when I tried it with a screw from another light.