"jim rozen" wrote in message
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My underwater kinetics 2AAA flashlight died. I had it on my
keychain, and it took a pretty hard knock I guess when I dropped
the keys the other day.

The SMT inductor broke off its solder pads, and a tiny widget
busted off the top of one of the transistors.

I soldered the inductor back on, and after a bit of head
scratching I decided that the tall, dark colored, grainy
cylidrical thing that was epoxied to the SMT transitor was
probably a heatsink. So I simply used 5 minute epoxy
to glue it back together at the break.

I also gussied the other SMT devices up with a few dabs
of epoxy as well, because the original dabs were a bit
on the spare side.

Jim

You didn't say you got it working again, but I gather you did. Nice work,
Jim. When it comes to electronics, I'm lost. Only good fortune in my shop
yields a repair once the magic smoke gets out. I don't have a clue how to
trouble shoot the vast majority of devices these days.

Harold