When are the conversion kits expected?
At the same time as the lights are ready. We have no final timeline at this point although I hope for it to not take longer then 3 months. Ideally they will be ready in 1-2 months but just too early to know right now.
Count me in for the Upgrade Kit. I would love to upgrade my GT to XHP70.2 but I still have to find a way to open it. I tried it a couple of times but all tries were unsuccessful. I even broke the locking mechanismen of my vice by tightening it to hard. But this damn cheap vice just would not stop to rotate while I tried to open the head by turning it with a bicycle tube for grip. However it seems like time for a bigger and better vice :D
Against my better judgement, signed up for 1 NW with batteries and an extra carrier. Put āmaybeā for lens & reflector, causeā¦maybe.
What am I missing with the extra reflector option? I understand how a lens can break or get scuffed but it seems the reflector is pretty specific to this light and not much risk of being damagedā¦ Considering how many people seem to want one I must be missing something though so feel free to point it out to me.
It is basically a chance to get a 120mm reflector for custom builds. Many many people asked for it in the first group buy but since they could not even get enough reflectors for the group buy lights obviously they could not sell them separately.
I promised to try and make the reflectors available later and this is me following through on that promise. 
There is really no need for an extra reflector for most people.
What would be cool is if Lumintop could offer a āpremiumā version of the reflector. Slow cut, hand sanded to a super smooth finish. It adds time and money, but maybe there are buyers?
Until TA and Jason open the BLF machine shop in Houston i guess i wont be needing spares.
I would be in for it. Might as well go all the way for a light like that but I doubt Lumintop would agree to doing it.
Yeah, I donāt see them offering a better reflector, they had enough trouble getting this quality. The reflector itself is actually fine, the only issue is the coating process and it is quite difficult to get reflectors this large coated perfectly. Better sanding would really not help much.
Signed up for 1, NW, 8x30Qs. Hopefully we can get the bag n lens cap offered with it and no extra $20 shipping to Oz!
With the right rigid work and tool support, chip evacuation, coolant/lubricity, speeds/feeds/ tool geometry negative/positive/zero and tool tip radius PCD is the way to go to obtain Micro Finish Surfaces with alloyās. Most donāt even hone cylinders/crank/cam bores any more, they are Micro Sized and Finished with Diamond PCD runners and plain (within a certain lubricity) coolant. Aluminum cam caps on Overhead cam heads single point PCD boring (semi finish) with micro finish carbide,diamond encrusted runners (mirror finish) (Mapal) brand name we use. No more Stones and Honing oil.
All for naught if you cant prep the surface and apply the coatings correctlyā¦ā¦
Is there a preferred/easy way to open Giggles?
I hope the conversation kit will be completed with reliable instruction how the head be opened.
This instruction should be mandatory, as well as indication of the level of knowledge required for this replacement.
Opening the head is a matter of brute force unscrewing it from the switch area. No tricks to it, just brute force.
I would not cound on a manual for the conversion kit, they are hesitant enough about even offering them for sale and would love any excuse to not sell them.
Far as the level of knowlage needed, this is one of those cases where if you have to ask, you might not want to attempt it.
A basic rundown is:
remove driver retaining ring
Remove switch retaining ring
Remove head/reflectore
desolder the LED wires from the driver or mcpcb
remove the driver and mcpcb
reverse the process.
The hardest part is opening the light followed by soldering to the mcpcb. This can be quite difficult if you do not have a good and very hot iron.
I plan to bypass all of the springs, but Iām wondering if itās advisable to wire/braid bypass at least the main contact spring when doing the mod kit upgrade?
Bypassing all the springs it is unknown how the LED will handle that. It is possible it could be over-driven then. I would not recommend it.
I am not sure what you mean by the main contact spring? Talking about the ābutton topā spring on the carriers? Yes, if you were to only bypass 1 spring that would be the one to bypass.
Yes, thatās the one.
Ok, I got the list formatted for HTML and while it is not perfect it shows how many are signed up.
The totals are at the top of the list.
We are at 121 Giggle Monsters reserved right now!
Not bad at all, if we can keep spreading the word at this rate we just might be able to see what that 500 unit discount would be.
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Might want to add this, or some version of it; to the āConversion Kitā section of post 2.
It might save some pain & heart ache as well as misunderstanding further down the road. 
A good description too I might addā¦ā¦ :+1: