Maglite Doctor Needed, Tempremental Maglite

[Front Room Woodlander]

I have one mini maglite AA which sometimes lights up and sometimes not. How do these things work, can I repair it or is it for the bin?

Secondly I have an older mini mag lite, the battery is good, bulb is good, but will not light at all. Anyone know of a web site that may be of help.

Thank you for helping

 

[zorro]

I've got a couple of these, pretty well bomb proof. All I can suggest is make sure the contacts are clean, give them a rub with wet and dry or scotch brite.

 

[MartinK9]

Have a look about on here:

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/index.php?

 

[Phil6201]

Sounds like dirty contacts.

Take the tailcap off and remove the spring.

Take out the batteries.

Remove the head and pull out the bulb.

If your feeling a wee bit brave: (Carefully leaver off the plastic disc labelled 'do not remove'.

slide the internals out, be careful as there are two little metal contacts - don't lose or break/distort them.)

Clean all contacts.

Reassemble.

Should work ok now, there's not much to them.

 

[Chainsaw]

Some good info on stripping maglites here

Cheers,

Alan

 

[Waterworx]

TBH I gave up with maglite a couple years back, I've had to many that have given up the ghost and stopped working. Got fed up repairing and cleaning them. Good luck though.

 

[legin]

Sometimes the "spring" contact get flattened and loses contact with the battery. I've had this happen and giving it a pull to make it longer worked for me.

Nigel

 

[Togger]

Why not just send them to the UK dealer;
Burton McCall
163 Parker Drive
Leicester LE4 0JP
England, United Kingdom
Telephone: 44-116-234-4600
Fax: 44-116-235-8031

They have a lifetime guarantee. I have sent a few back over the years, someone once gave me a mini maglite which had the batteries leak inside and they couldn't be removed. I sent it off and within the month I had it returned with a new body, new bulbs, new lens and reflector. No charge!
If you prefer you can send your old ones to me rather than bin them...i'll make use.

 

[Chinkapin]

Togger is right, they have a lifetime warranty and in my case at least, it worked just fine. Mine (6 C batteries) stopped working several years after purchase. I returned it to the company and the sent me a new light. It has worked fine ever since. Over 20 years.

Why mess with it, and possibly do some harm when they will fix it for you, for free? My advice is listen to Togger.

 

[Phil6201]

Or get a decent torch.

 

[Front Room Woodlander]

I'll send them back then, job done. Thanks guys.