I hadn’t even got it all the way out of the packaging and when I pulled on the clear-tubey end of this nice, rechargeable, wireless, LED light that my brother gave me for christmas…it came apart in my clutches.
But man, that packaging was aggressive. That stuff is ALWAYS hard to get open. They should have made this clear-tubey thing out of the packaging, then I wouldn’t be posting this.
You may even notice the yellow wire hanging out whereupon previously it didn’t really.
Good news in all of this; my years of breaking things has instilled a tolerable ability to put things back together again. And in many cases they are reassembled in a manner consistent with my usage of them. That is, I put them back together to withstand me. This time was no different. I soldered that little yellow wire back on with about 5 grams of solder. I put that at about 4.5 grams more than necessary. This overage was rather in deference to my weak soldering skills as opposed to my ‘make it bigger, better, stronger’ approach. I would’a been happy with 3.5 grams but eh.
Anyway, after that I packed all the entrails back in, smeared 1/4 tube of super glue all around that clear-tubey thing and ran it down till it stopped…then a bit more for good measure.
It worked! In retrospect, I shoulda tried to test the light before I rammed all that super glue up it’s wahTubey but, again, eh. I have proceeded to use that super-tubey LED light no less than 6 times in the past 5 days. It is very chic.
blief 
Nice fixem skills! I dropped mine on the hook at the top, which broke. The plastic on that thing is definitely flimsy. But it sure is light to carry. Pun unintended.
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You guys are a “write” for sore eyes.
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You’ve used it six times and it still isn’t broken — again??! (heh!heh!)
Both of you should be aware of a new, better “super stuff” for holding things together: It’s called “Marine Goop”. In reality, it is an air-vulcanizing silicone rubber (like the real expensive exterior silicon caulking compound). I think I bought the tube I have at McL’s, but it may have been some other place — you know I don’t remember much any more!
Anyway, it is very, very tenacious stuff and of course, makes the joint it is used on to be perfectly water (including salt water!) tight.
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