samnavy
look here
Cupon from M4DM4X
https://m4dm4x.com/blf-q8-arrived/
I guess you would still be looking at $70 to $80 once you buy batteries and a charger.
More than that. A decent charger such as the Lii-500 and four decent cells will be $50ish all combined. It’s very much worth it though.
From what I have seen recently:-
Q8 $45-$50 with discount
Lii500 $18-$23
4x30Q $16-$22
All together $79-$95 depending on what discounts you manage to grab, Black Friday is just around the corner.
Biggest potential saving on that ($10) would be opting for a ±$7 on discount Lii non-LCD 4 bay charger (I got one for $5 recently), half speed and no analysis. If you are lucky with discounts you would come in just under $70.
Worth the extra for a Lii500 though.
I agree, worth the extra.
I got an email from ThorFire:
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:+1:
Oh boy, phone issues and real things needed doing, to beat at night, and it all looked so peaceful (phone not getting emails, only some “update” marked things, so I did get some mails, and thought it was really not busy and was glad with that, have to do things before the real frost sets.
BUT seeing a lot of activity here, heck a new topic 312+ post about GT logo, and 416+ new posts in the GT topic, oh oh.
Here it seems better.
One things that popped out
Ouch, hope you are OK?
And this brings us to:
Yes good point , will do!
NICE!
This says a great deal about how dedicated you have been, The Miller. It’s impressive and very worthy of praise. You have gone the extra mile and continue to do so. Really. It’s rare in this day and age to see someone dedicated and helpful like you are. Your karma bank must be pretty dang full! So many people try to get by with the bare minimum but that’s not you at all. Thank you.
Its terrific to see you back and ok Miller. Happy catching up. 
Has anyone found a heat conducting material that also lubricates for the threads between the head and cylinder? It could get a bit more heat out of the hot part.
I thought of heat sink transfer goo. But nothing that says it won’t dry out or turn liquid. Drying out could be a bad thing. Liquid metal bad on the not drying out side.
Copper Grease/Copper Ease/Copper Slip would have good thermal conduction I would expect, not sure of its viscosity at high temperatures but its commonly used on the back of brake pads to dampen vibration and does not seem to melt and run out, so expect it to be OK at Q8 head temps?
Try to get the best possible springs for the spare tail mcpcb, to let us get extra 1000 lm. And maybe a kit with 4 brass screws.
And a tail cover with lanyard holes ;) TF might make double on these if they play it right.
I think all the same arguments that applied to the pages of electrical grease discussion pretty much apply to thermal grease but even more (more because for thin layers thermal connection is affected far less than electrical), and the conclusion then was, just get a good thin grease.
If we are looking for an aftermarket tail cover, I’d like to see one with enough room inside for a charging board. I’m fine with taking the tail cover off to plug in a USB cable. Some minor mods to the tail PCB and a TP4056 board and we would be well on our way to onboard charging.
Better make a tail cover that supports magnetic charging instead, that would make charging much easier since there will be no need to unscrew the cover to plug it in.
My first thought was that this is a genius idea. Around the house and even in the car it would be a quick way to charge it up and would definitely be quicker and cause less wear. My second thought was that battery banks have USB, but not inductive ports. Which means that you would need to carry a wireless charger as well if you were taking this camping for instance. My third thought is that the obvious answer to this is a product that I have not seen - a USB battery pack with a built in inductive charge pad.
Which I think has now become my next project.
Qi charge pad (currently out of stock).
USB Power bank
switch, batteries and a housing…
[edit]annnnd like most of my ‘brilliant’ ideas someone else has already had it, done it, and posted a video on how to do it. Still going to work on it.[/edit]