Still have to do that mod, and I expect a serious donut hole. I’m planning to heavily frost the lens with sanding paper to get rid of that and create a massive flood beam.
Take the reflector out entirely and put 3x carclo triples for 9x MZ for an ultimate flooder
I've mentioned before in few Q8 threads that Q8 OP reflector made by Sofirn would be nice addition to Q8 modding parts.
In for 2 sets for BLF Q8 (4 tubes+4 carriers)
yasenf +2
Well, there is DC-fix that you could use, which will let more of the light through the lens! And if you want to reduce the amount of light that gets focused into a beam, maybe stippling the reflector with clear coat like Old-Lumens used to do. Or, if you’re going to diffuse the lens one way or the other, take the reflector out completely or paint it white. Anything but taking sandpaper to a lens. I’ve done that, and it looks horrid! :confounded:
Just my opinion. 
I did a few S2+ lenses with sandpaper (180 grit 3M branded) and it took some time but it looks very nice now. The trick may be quality sandpaper and some perseverence. I will show the Q8 lens when it is finished 
Ah Hah! The two things I didn’t have! Yeah, I’d like to see your results when you’re done. 
Go by the gunsmith shop, have them hit the lens for a couple of seconds with bead blast media, voila! You might call and see when they’re going to be bead blasting, they like to set up work to get in the blaster and do everything and get out.
Or you could just leave like 3 lenses with them, ask for a light, medium and heavy blast whenever they get around to it. They might not even charge you anything, curious to see what you’re doing with it and such. lol
Seawolf + 1 Absolutely!!
Seawolf +1
New vid on the Q8 extension tube:
As you can see, there are 2 different tubes for the BLF Q8 and Sofirn Q8. No inter compatibility because of a slight thread change on the Sofirn Q8 for slightly better waterproofing.
The Q8 looks huge now though…
I love it
Gonna have to take out a loan to buy the cells…
They should do that for the X70-GT and newer 6-digit lumens lights.
6 digit? Do you mean like 100,000 lumen? 8 batteries won’t support that output so it has to be 12+. They will probably be battery packs.
Speaking of baseball bats from a post further above, can three or more of these be connected to a Q8, staying with the 4.2V parallel configuration? That would be a beast of a light.
Edit: Just watched the video. OMG, yes!
I meant this one. Take no prisoners!
I NEED two of those tube/carrier set-ups!
Maybe 3, but you know… I sure hope the carrier can move serious current…
(I may possibly need over 80A… no kidding!)
[not looking good, is it?]
Need 4- tube/ carriers