Chipped finish on LSL....

Just got a LSL the other day, love the flashlight /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

The day after however, I discovered a little chipped paint the size of a head of a pin. Upon careful examination, there appears to be a small ding, denting in a bit.

I have no idea how it got there, and felt pretty rotten that the thing is damaged the day after I got it /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon23.gif

Now some friends who are into cars say that the bare aluminium within will starts to corrode, so I gotta cover it with something....

What am I to do? Can I feel the dent with putty or just cover it with nail polish?

Help me out!!

you shouldn't have to worry about the alumnium underneath the anodizing being exposed. a layer of aluminium oxide will form on the exposed aluminium, which will then protect it from further oxidisation. besides hard anodizing is actually a form of aluminium oxide /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Yup, what he said. That's the beauty of aluminum. It virtually self heals. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I managed to ding mine two days after receiving it. I was pulling a bunch of stuff out of my jacket and the LSH became airborne. At first I was disappointed and then I decided that it's officially *mine*. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Peace...

Fern...

you outta see mine - i use my surefires and arcs as airgun targets- and you worry over a scratch? heheh that adds charactor - and those freinds know cars not lights- remember this.

I always thought that newly-exposed aluminum would attract and quickly assimilate hydrogen atoms, not oxygen atoms.
So I guess that part of chemistry that I read years and years ago is going down the drain. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

I don't think the aluminum will "corrode" or "rot" though, so I wouldn't worry about covering the ding with something.

Thanks guys, but too late!

I've already filled the dent with a two-part putty. A couple of hours later it was as hard as the aluminium itself. Then I painted it with gun-metal gray hobby paint. Now it's as good as new as far as the dent is concerned, though the colour is a bit off.... guess gun-metal wasn't the right colour after all....