Sunwayman M11R Info

Some feedback after a couple days of use. While grease did stiffen the control ring, I noticed the detent wasn't as noticeable at each level. I concluded the grease was getting into the dentent hole and preventing the ball from setting deep into the hole.

I decided to take the light apart again and play with removing the grease. After I removed a majority of the grease and tightened the top of the light, I noticed the control ring was very difficult to turn. This is probably aleady common knowledge, but the top of the light can screw down an pinch the control ring. I had to loosen it a bit to get the control ring to move freely.

I have some Grade 3-4 grease in route. I'm going to experiment with it and see if I can somehow lubricate the top of the control ring, leave the detent holes open, and tighten the top of the light so everything is snug.

Dear Sunwayman, make your detents deeper, the spring firmer, and install a graphite washer to the top of the control ring please. Alternately, God, stop making me so anal with flashlights.

And knives?

That's good precaution re: women - wrong one, and you ain't got no nits to pick.

Dear Sunwayman,

Please send check or MO to willydiggerjustfixedyourstupidfuckinglight@youfuckingsuck.com.

Quick recap. Got the light. The control ring (granted I'm very picky with this particular UI) was lightly oiled and had weak (<- and that's putting in mildly) spring tension on the detent.

First step in the touble shooting:
• Removed the control ring and added a little grease.
• Added a little spacer in the spring hole to add to the tension.
• retightened

After this attempt, the grease while better than oil was still to fluid. I ordered thicker grease. Also the detent hole that the ball sits in, was just a small speck in the light and the grease would fill the hole making the detents nearly useless.

After some back and forth with the amount of grease, adjusting the spring, and tightening the end of the light (compressing the control ring) I could find a happy medium of tightness and detent engagement. This left me with no choice. I had to operate.

Here it is with the top removed. I covered the LED with some painters tape since I was working in the shed. You can see the light coat of NLGI 3-4 grease (relatively thick).


Here it is with the control ring off and two of the detents cut slightly wider and a little deeper for the ball to fit deeper. Notice the black coated ones for comparison.


For the light there are 4 detents (Off-I-II-III) that need to be deepened. It didn't need to be pretty since the control ring will sit on it. I also wasn't really worried about the very tiny edge. If I had of cut it, the detent would still work. It's nice working with no pressure. I don't know how deep I could have made it so I did about double what was original.


All that said, now the control ring has thick grease instead of light oil. The detents are deeper so the ball can sit deeper. I stretched the spring a little to create a little more tension. There is a deliberate engagement at every step including OFF. It is still around a 6 for looseness. I've found for single hand-twisty operation you need it somewhat loose.

Very happy with the control ring now. The next step is continued use of the twisty. If I learn to hate it, I may have to dump more money at SWM for the V11R clicky mechanism. Ugh.

You have me really excited 'bout this light now.

Ha ha ha! Just checked, "youfuckingsuck.com" is a domain name in use, but pretty much empty/dead. What a waste.