Repairing a Surefire 6P tail cap switch:
A few years ago when my daughter was about 2, she managed to
get a hold of my Surefire 6P and pulled the rubber cover off of the tail cap
switch, here’s how I repaired it:
If you look down inside the battery spring of the tail cap
switch you will see a small dome shaped rivet, this is what holds the tail cap
switch together.
If the rubber cover is off of the switch, you can pull the
spring out of the socket, and then use a small punch and hammer to drive the
rivet back out of the switch, there is a hole thru the pushbutton to drive the
rivet back out. The rivet has threads
on it but not like a screw, it only makes about a quarter of a turn as it’s
being driven back in.
Once you have the rivet out, you can disassemble the switch,
put the rubber cover back into it’s hole from the inside, reassemble the switch
components minus the spring, drive the rivet back in gently, (you will have to
place the button against a firm surface) and reinstall the spring.
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