Just got a response from him and I replied to him by email.
He sounds nice and reasonable so far. Like I said before, it's not a bad light and if the loctite solution works I think it may last a while.
I have the SST as well as I bought 2 lights from him. I've taken the front inner ring out, cleaned the threads and then applied loctite to it. It holds very tight now. I bought a tube of blue and a tube of red loctite. I tried the blue and after 48 hours of drying/curing time. I can barely loosen it. I was still able to at the end. (took pretty much all my strength to break the bond and loosen it) So now I've applied the red loctite and it's drying/curing now. With the red loctite holding the inner ring used to compress the front glass and oring, I'm pretty sure that inner ring isn't going anywhere.
I've yet to dive it, so we'll see.
He sounds nice and reasonable so far. Like I said before, it's not a bad light and if the loctite solution works I think it may last a while.
I have the SST as well as I bought 2 lights from him. I've taken the front inner ring out, cleaned the threads and then applied loctite to it. It holds very tight now. I bought a tube of blue and a tube of red loctite. I tried the blue and after 48 hours of drying/curing time. I can barely loosen it. I was still able to at the end. (took pretty much all my strength to break the bond and loosen it) So now I've applied the red loctite and it's drying/curing now. With the red loctite holding the inner ring used to compress the front glass and oring, I'm pretty sure that inner ring isn't going anywhere.
I've yet to dive it, so we'll see.
You should probably try sending another email. I have had good luck getting a response from them when sending email. I bought an SST-50, so I have no idea about the light you guys are talking about.