Anyone replaced the rubber switch boot on a PD30/PD20 or P3D/P2D?

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enderwiggin

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I'm trying to replace the boot on mine. I know the tailcap internals are supposed to unscrew with snap-ring pliers or similar tool, but I can't get them to budge. I've tried counter and clockwise, even holding the tailcap with a full-size Chan-nel-Lock wrapped in a towel.

Do they loctite the cap before assembly? If so, why the heck do they include a spare switch boot? :confused:
 
I've never heard of them putting any epoxy on the threads, but it is possible that your threads got crossed or something similar. I usually use some needle nose pliers to take flashlights apart. It should go counter clockwise and should not take too much effort.
 
I opened mine up using small needle-nose pliers in a counter-clockwise motion. I'd got some GID green tailcap buttons from DealExtreme (I think) but they are too big for any of my P series clicky Fenix lights! :-(
Gonna have to wait til I get some bigger/compatible flashlights to try out those GID caps.
 
NaturalMystic said:
I opened mine up using small needle-nose pliers in a counter-clockwise motion. I'd got some GID green tailcap buttons from DealExtreme (I think) but they are too big for any of my P series clicky Fenix lights! :-(
Gonna have to wait til I get some bigger/compatible flashlights to try out those GID caps.
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If those are the switch covers I'm thinking of, you should be able to squish them into the tailcap. I had one in mine for a while, but I took it out because it protruded enough that I couldn't stand the light up vertical-like. The ones I bought are popular as laser lens covers, which would give them an inner diameter of about 12mm, more or less.
 
proud2deviate said:
If those are the switch covers I'm thinking of, you should be able to squish them into the tailcap. I had one in mine for a while, but I took it out because it protruded enough that I couldn't stand the light up vertical-like. The ones I bought are popular as laser lens covers, which would give them an inner diameter of about 12mm, more or less.
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Once I got the original out I compared it to the GID one and the diameter of the replacement textured rubber button was several mms wider than the original so it wouldn't fit at all.

Unfortunately the website I bought it from didn't list the actual diameter so I was winging it when I ordered.
 
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