You must be careful about the inner part of the retaining ring contacting the positive connection on the raised plastic below the contact spring – it will short out the switch and be “on” all the time. If you have an aluminum or brass retaining ring, there is no need to solder a tab – just screw it in. I put a dab of solder on the contact on the other side so the retaining ring would seat the switch flat inside the tailcap. Since I only had a plastic retaining ring to hold in the new switch, I soldered a piece of brass to the McClicky switch so that it contacts the inside of the switch housing. McClicky Switch with soldered brass tab for contact I’ve put the tailcap in a ziplock bag and boiled it hot water for five minutes and the glue will release. I yanked out the insides of the existing switch and unscrewed the retaining ring. I could have bought a Surefire Z59 Click-on Tailcap Switch or the Oveready McClicky Kit for USD $22, but it’s more satisfying making my own. I’ve put the McClicky switch in seven or eight of my flashlights and thought it would work well in the Surefire 6P.
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A slight press of the switch (before it clicks), will momentarily turn on the light and a full press (when the switch clicks), will latch it on. Most of my flashlights use a forward clicky switch. Surefire Z41 tailcap with McClicky switch Rotating the tailcap will turn on the light for constant operation. It has a momentary option by pushing the tailcap switch. The Surefire Z41 tailcap is standard on the 6P. My new Surefire’s switch seemed like a good candidate.
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Naturally, when I get something new, I take it apart and think about how to mod it. Gene Malkoff, the creator of the M60 says, “ It will easily illuminate objects at 350+ feet and will blind opponents within a 100 foot radius.” That’s what we want. In addition to being more rugged, it puts out 235+ lumens. The Malkoff Devices M60 drop-in (now replaced by the M61 with a Cree XP-G) uses a Cree XLamp XR-E LED (Q5 bin) as a replacement for the incandescent lamp. You can stop right there and you have a great flashlight that puts out 65 lumens.
The 6P’s stock lamp assembly is a P60 incandescent lamp. (It) produces a smooth, brilliant, pre-focused tactical-level beam with three times the light of a big two-D-cell flashlight.” Surefire describes the 6P as a “ Compact (pocket sized), high-intensity incandescent flashlight for tactical, self-defense, and general use. You have to be kind of a flashaholic to understand that sentence. I bought a Surefire 6P to house my Malkoff Devices M60 drop-in.
Surefire 6P Flashlight (photo courtesy of SureFire, LLC)
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