05-29-2023, 07:51 PM
I've got one of the newer Maglite LED flashlights suffering from the dreaded leaky battery disease. Luckily I caught it before the batteries swelled up and welded themselves inside the flashlight body. I got the batteries out but the corrosion had already started eating away at the anodizing inside.
I want to disassemble it to clean it but for the life of me I can't tell how it comes apart. I'm quite sure Maglite doesn't WANT anyone to take it apart! The front head of the light does NOT unscrew from the body like every other Maglite I've ever owned. It will turn approx 45° to help focus the light but it hits a HARD stop at each end. It is obviously attached to the LED module and not the flashlight body. But how to get them apart?
I've removed the rubber cover from over the switch and tried loosening the screw below as is common on the older models to release the switch from the body - but nothing happens. The switch / LED module doesn't move - at all!
I don't want to force anything and Google / YouTube has nothing about these latest factory built LED (non-replaceable) models. (3DLM)
3 D-cell w/factory LED module, not one of the conversion bulbs. (Gen 4???)
Special tool to unscrew the module from INSIDE the body perhaps? Anyone else tackled one of these before?
Willie