Thorfire C8S facebook offer

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… :smiley:

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. :smiley:

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.

Emailed and got a tracking #, about 70 miles away, will probably get tomorrow, fedex.

When did you pay for yours and when did it ship . I paid March 5th and never heard back since.

Finally got mine today. Was told they were shipped out on the 2nd but, didn’t receive a tracking number or anything. They just came by plain old USPS in a plastic bag. Different tail switch and different knurling on the tube than the one I bought off Amazon a few months ago. The tail switch has no U shaped cutout and the tube is now quite smooth. Sofirn style really. Imagine a Sofirn C8T with no notch in the tail cap.

Paid 3-1, shipped 3-6 from Ontario, CA, Fedex.

Yeh, I like those tails. Nice and recessed, really hard to bump-activate.

I like these. :smiley: