There are no threads in the LED board, so no problem there. I don’t recall anyone mentioning the threads in the shelf being loose at all. As long as the screw has a snug fit in the threads of the shelf, and the head of the screw holds down on the LED board, all is well. 
Correct David, the board is clamped in well and tight. Actually, I tightened all screws more than Thorfire did. I even think (imagine) that the better clamped tailboard boosted output a bit. 20A is a b*tch for any connection!
So far the best coating/paint i tested for lantern diffusers (to reflect & disperse a flashlights focused beam) is flat/satin white on the opposite end of the diffuser. it reflects the most of the output compared to silver, chrome, or even shiny white paints.
One trick to make the flood of the diffuser warmer tint is to use an “off-white” or cream flat/satin/matte color paint if diffusing a cool white flashlight.
Talk about preoccupied.
I was baking the Q8 this afternoon when a storm broke
Hail and thunder
So I get outside to protect a very small olive tree and when I came back in it was raining inside.
A tile or probably even a few must have been broken by the hail.
And a beam guided water Creating a nice waterfall
And below that beam, my notebook, soldering iron, box with Q8 parts.
Dang dang dang.
Quickly to the shop to get rice and roof tiles
Notebook in a bag with a kilo of rice.
And a sloppy fast assembly … Oh will it work, yes light!
So rest asure the Q8 lives!
(Not able to upload pics or edit OPs till my notebook is dry )
Ah and M4DM4X has started an action for cells
Here: DEAL IS LIVE: 30Q button top (set of 4) for your BLF Q8
NKON has a guy in Helmond add the buttons, and Dutch labor is expensive so I bet Martin has a better price.
Thanks Martin!
That is awesome I have several white toned spray paint cans, so will add a layer or two tobtge now translucent grey, thanks!
Sorry to hear about your indoor waterfall. Hope the rain stops soon so you can fix it.
TLC told you not to go chasing waterfalls. (Ugh, sorry. I had to.)
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Somebody call a digital doctor!
Anyone know how to do CPR on a computer?
Or, anyone know who to call for a little techno-necromancy?
I hope the ghost will stay in the machine.
Oh Miller (or should i say Molenaar? )
Lucky you! Must have been a nasty storm, but luckily your notebook and the Q8 survived!
Now time for some home improvement 
Heheh notebook not clear, I let it sit in the bag.
It is a 17” that is easy to take apart so I’m sure it’ll work or I get it going again if not.
Q8 is fine that is good!
And well did do a leak in a lower placed roof a while back, this shows its time to check all.
Also that ugly satellite dish on thw high roof needs to go, it messes up the beamshots 
If your worried about stripping thd threads you can get some longer screws and maybe some metal washers for the top to spread the load better.
Or even longer screws and nuts under the shelf. But hey, the screw holes are ok!
FWIW, I’ve had pretty good results from placing a notebook in front of a fan or a space heater for several hours. Haven’t tried the rice method.
However, I also live in a pretty dry place. In a humid area, a fan might not be very effective without heat.
Rice is phenomenal for phone saving. It’s definitely effective.
Speaking of which… how deep is the hole/thread in the Q8? I want to get some threaded d-rings for slung use.
“Anyone know how to do CPR on a computer?”
Sort off, have been building my own computers, and overclocking them since a 700 MHZ cpu was like ” OMG who need so much calculating power”
But i have never worked on a laptop, in my small circle we tend to agree laptops are for students and kids.
Still have my dualcore AMD machine as it was one of the Opteron CPUs named Denmark, and the 1700 MHZ coy did / do 2500 MHZ with ease.
Always nice to have a fallback, computer
Also have parts to build a 3.0 GHZ Northwood quadcore machine, just to be on the safe side of things.
Okay i have not done overclocking for a while now, dont seem to be needed and i have other things to use my past time on.
It was a rhetorical question.
Sounds like he’s got everything under control… except the roof. I hope the roof won’t be too much of a pain to fix.
Yes I did not like notebooks too but with the regular power drops and the need to be able to move to another room (we live in different areas in winter then in summer) so a notebook made sense , though I have a big one with room for a fee hard drives so it comes close to a desktop experience
And well it worked when I pressed it off and then dried it and placed it up side down on a fee towels, I kind of expecf it to boot up and work normal tomorrow.
A little over 6mm
It is not steep.
I needed 220 new tiles on a low part a while back.
It is all done 30 years ago and then old tikes were reused.
So winds and age make then slowly glide down and some crack.
Reason I needed 220 was that it was my first time on a roof and I had no idea how to move and I wanted to freshen the look up a bit so evenly but randomly I changed some top tiles too,
Now I know how to get up there amd over without breaking tiles and I plan on leave the old ones as is so not fleshen the looks, it looks good. All I need is to change the shifted, cracked and probably hail-smashes tiles.
70 new tiles ready
Just had 4 x 30Q button tops land from Fasttech, $19.43 delivered to the UK in just over 2 weeks.
Capacities look decent (2906, 2971, 2961, 2957mAh).
The button tops are different from the ones shown on the site:
They also appear to be about 1mm longer (to my uncalibrated eye) than the button tops with the smaller button that I got a while back.
Now I just need a light to put them in