sounds like solid advice to me!
Different tires works too, but only if you know what you are doing and donāt slip up. I had a Fiat 850 in Europe and found cheep snow tires for it, but they were over-size and cross bias. So I drove this rear-heavy car with radials in front and cross bias in back. It worked, since I didnāt ever forget and drive it like a normal handling car.
I have not had 2 matching tires on my 4runner in, well since I got it come to think of it. Not by choice, I just could not bring myself to waste tires that still had tread and now that they donāt I canāt afford new tires lol.
you are not doing it right until you are Driving around with steel belts showing :student:
Tom helped me out in a huge way and got one of his lights to me in time for my Brother-in-Lawās birthday. This is a Narsil firmware SupFire M6, light pipe beacon off the driver and with all the modificationsā¦ I got Joshās wife to record him when he opened the package. He is 28 now, the look on his face seeing the light, knowing what it was after having seen my own M6 a couple of weeks earlier, he was stunned, in awe, and his wife giggled behind the camera as he exclaimed and oohed and ahhed. I spoke with him on the phone later and he said he was outside, after dark, actually talking to my wife on the phone (his sister) when His wife fired up the M6 from an upstairs balcony and lit up his backyard like daylight! He was just absolutely amazed. I told him he had another surprise in store for himā¦ heād only seen it with the new cells fresh out of the boxā¦ I suggested he charge the cells and check it out tonight! 
(if he was blown away with it on nearly dead as-shipped cells, heās gonna pass out when he sees it running on full power!)
Thank you Tom, very much appreciate your help in getting this to me so fast. Josh canāt believe his new flashlight has a 4 page operating manual! 
Edit: Of course I told him about the upcoming Q8, heāll have to get a few for his friends after they see this M6 he just got. 
He was quizzing me on how he could get more, he knows of 6 or 7 people that are gonna HAVE to have one after they see hisā¦
in for one of these beasts
Great story, great people here! :+1:
K.
Yeah +1
Will update list later
Budget Light Forumā¦
Illuminating lower Mississippi/Alabama one redneck at a time.
(Josh isnāt really a redneck, he welds on a pipeline at the Gulf Coast, pretty sure thatās the crew that will be getting Q8ās ASAP as well.)
My 30Qs came in the other day, after testing them for resistance and capacity āfor the recordā as I do all ānew to meā cells I fully charged them and did the solder blobbing today. The blobing was actually much easier than I envisioned. I didnāt think the solder would stick as readily as it did. My iron was a 27 watt model with a fairly large chisel point end. I cleaned the iron tip by putting it directly into the tin of Nokorode paste. Then I spread a film of the melted paste residue that was on the iron to the roughed up anode. Used a Dremel and a sandpaper disk for the roughing up.
Iām in for one
I donāt even sand then, just heat with iron, use good high quality kester solder, give it a few seconds and blob is done.
Iām in. Thank you
Welcome to BLF!
Nice you dedicated your first post to the Q8!
Will update the list later.
im so lost with this long thread.
when will it be on sale?
Still working on things
When true flawless samples are in our hands we of course will change the topic title and write about them.
It is not before that moment guesses of when it will be available can be made
Thanks The Miller
I shall revisit this thread next year
OP updated
just wow how many are on there
Count me in please!
Is it known how many lights they intend to make as a first run? I might have to buy multiples that I havenāt spoken for, as everyone I talk to about this seems to want one, or more. Itās like the branches of a treeā¦ my Brother-in-Law loves it, knows 7 people that will have to have one, they each know a few more and suddenly thereās a demand for 15-20 lights stemming from that one gifted one.
I might have to have 10 or something, as a start, but donāt have funds to lock that in right at the moment. Should have within a few weeks, guess Iāll speak up for some numbers when that time comes. Maybe a dozen?
Yeahā¦ I was thinking the same. I may want to grab more than one with the way this is turning out.