Troubleshooting a McClicky?

[grnamin]

I received a McTC McClicky just yesterday. It behaves like a twisty tailcap. If I press the switch it stays on either way. Is there something I can do? I've taken apart Surefire clickies so I have a little bit of experience troubleshooting clickies and I don't want to have to send this back. I want to fix it myself. Any help would be most appreciated.

 

[McGizmo]

I have not encountered this problem so I don't have a guess what might be binding up but the McClickie module can be taken apart so you may be able to rectify the situation. With a thin flat blade screw driver, you should be able to seperate the two outer plastic pieces. Work one side and then the other so that the two parts separate from each other while staying aligned on the Z axis. Put the blade into the area on each side where the outer contact ring drops down towards the rear of the switch. There are 4 latching arms that hold the two parts together and you want these arms to come out of their sockets evenly and straight, if that makes any sense.

There may be excessive grease inside causing the problem?!? If you fail to get it fixed, send me an e-mail and I can send you a replacement switch in the mail, no problem.

 

[grnamin]

Thank you , Don. I'll give it a shot and will report back.

 

[grnamin]

Dr. Don, diagnosis was correct. Too much grease in switch. I cleaned it out and reassembled. Good to go. :twothumbs Thank you.

 

[Codeman]

Good info. Maybe a link belongs in one of the the McGizmo sticky threads so that it doesn't get lost.

 

[McGizmo]

Cool Greg! :thumbsup: I recall someone mentioning early on that they had a McClickie that was sluggish and that they had found too much grease in it.

 

[Bogus1]

I only encountered one such switch so far out of many. Since a customer had it I just sent a replacement.

 

[yaesumofo]

Out of a 100 unit batch I encounterd more than a few with this behavior.
I found that I had to check each unit before final instalation into the final assembly I was building.
I figured it was just the side effect of mass production in a faraway land.
Mabe I will go through and open some of these up and have a look for excessive grease.
Yaesumofo