I was told it would ship on the 2nd it would be here in 5 days. Never did get a tracking number though, oh well. I’m out in a rural area so an extra 1 to 2 days is pretty normal out here. I shall patiently wait. Plus I got my BLF Q8 today, so I got something new to play with.
I’m supposed to get the light in 7 days. If you email them and you don’t hear back, write another follow up email. They usually respond after the second email if they don’t respond to the first email.
Two weeks? Definitely worth being a squeaky wheel.
FWIW, my package had a return address in california.
Unno, I got a tracking number, supposta arrive this Friday. Of course, I’m working from home Friday, so it’ll arrive (at work) when I’m not there. 
’Though with the 2nd round of snowmorrhoids we got, it’ll probably show up Monday, when I am there. So it’ll probably work out.
Well I guess if I don’t see something by Friday I will drop a friendly email.
Think this will make a good candidate for souping up ? Mine is in the pipe line hopefully. Pill or shelf? Good switch?
Shelf. Pretty sure it has an omten switch. I think the driver is 19-20mm. The stock driver has a unshielded toroid inductor on top, so there is some vertical space in the driver pocket, maybe 10-12mm
Mine took 2 or 3 days to get the invoice (weekend), paid it right away and now I wait. I got one of my Q8’s this way so I am pretty sure mine will show up soon or at least get some kind of tracking. Hope they come from the US.
I have a 16.8 mm driver and a 16mm XP-L2 HD MCPCB coming . Think they will fit?
I’m not sure what I was thinking, but it has an aluminum pill, not a shelf. Also, driver is more like 17mm. I think I’m loosing it. I don’t think you’ll have any trouble getting a 16 mcpcb to work, though.
An aluminum pill probably not that great at shedding heat I’m guessing ?
99.9% of mcpcb’s are sitting on aluminum.
Mine just arrived today, yay! Quite nice, I have to say.
Yeah, looks like a 17mm driver, 20mm star, Al pill. Quite nice as-is, even a decent emitter, not too cool.
Got my favorite tailcap, nice recessed button without the cutouts.
All in all, I’m pretty impressed, way moreso considering the price! Shouldda ordered 10… 
Actually, with the big hole in the reflector, just eyeballing it, it might even fit an MT-G2. Didn’t measure it, but…
That’d be nice even with a pair of 18350s, ’though not much runtime.
17mm buck driver, anyone?
Most extruded heatsinks for CPUs, etc., are Al. It’s perfectly fine, within reason.
If you wanna push 50W through the little beastie, yeah, you’d need a Cu DTP star, and a big beefy shelf vs any kind of pill. A decent 10W or so? Why not?
Use some AS5 as “thread-lube” on the pill, makes it even better.
Wish mine would show up. 10 days today and no lights. Emailed them but have gotten no response yet. Strange. Guess I’ll let them catch up from the weekend for a few days. I have heard great things about them and surely don’t want to have to get paypal or anyone else involved. I’m sure it will work itself out one way or another.
No tracking number?
No, none at all. Still no reply to my email as well. I will send another in the morning if I don’t receive a response by then. Hopefully just a mix up somewhere. Nobody’s perfect I reckon.
No tracking number here.
I emailed sale@thorfiredirect.com last night to check on my order and received and email this morning with my tracking number, it is being sent via slow FedEx, went out yesterday 3/12 and tracking says delivery Sat 3/17.
Same here. No order confirmation or tracking or email reply. Sounds like a nice C8. Hope mine comes.