News: No intl shipping of knives from Massdrop for now.
The insane paranoia about firearms is spreading to knives. Eventually, it’ll probably spread to “assault flashlights” (anything over 100 lumens or with a strobe).
WTF is there even a term like that? LOL
I wouldn’t characterze it as “paranoia”.
The Int’l Laws about knife possession are hugely varied, and Massdrop likely
doesn’t want the liability.
Sounds reasonable to me.
I’m not referring to Massdrop’s decision, but to the reason they’re having to do it.
My maratac copper aaa has been shipped!! way before the original ship date 24/9.
I got my copper AAA. The finish is excellent. The tint is too cool for my taste. If you remove the clip, it will scratch the light. I hope they release the copper 16340 on massdrop too.
Does anyone know if it takes 10440?
I wouldn’t risk it:
A note from the legal department: We do not recommend the use of 10440 rechargeable batteries with this flashlight. It is designed to use a off the shelf alkaline, lithium, NiMH or Nicad AAA batteries. We do not recommend use of higher voltage batteries.
I ignored that and it worked excellent on 10440 batteries. My version is two years old so they could have changed the driver, but in any AAA light I tried a 10440 it never failed.
Received my Maratac copper AAA today and the quality is excellent! I had a AAA Al a couple years ago but this one sure feels better specially at the threads. Ran it for 15 minuted in Med with a 10440 no problem, at high I think it puts out about 400 lumens. It will go in my keychain from now on.
Two interesting details:
-It came in a vacuum sealed bag to keep it shiny. Very nice touch!
-Pocket clip came installed, but upon removing it the body got scratched a little (soft nature of copper).
I wanted to do a FET driver swap but I think the stock driver is not bad at all with li-ion. Might do a LED swap for XP-L HI and replace that GITD o-ring for a black one.
I did my first Massdrop order recently, for the JETBeam C8. It was promised to be shipped by September 24th. It arrived Thursday the 17th, the same day I got the “shipped” notice from USPS. Very pleased!
Copper Maratac CR123 is back again…
My order from the 1st drop hasn't arrived yet.
Last time it took 19 days from the Paypal notification to my doorbell. So I am not complaining.
And Copper Maratac CR123 is back Yet again…
todays email lists the
FourSevens Preon P1 copper
What a nice looking light, but AAA? I have too many copper AAA lights already… AA would be nice.
Not sure if anyone else saw this yet but:
Figure if nothing else we can post some real information for the people interested.
I haven’t posted anything lately because their prices are not as good as before, and in almost every flashlight related item we get better prices with our codes… they do ship from the US, but have to wait until all stock is gathered in their warehouse, and that can take even longer than shipping from china.
And also they have been carrying lots of fancy EDC/survival stuff that are merely for decorative and showing off purposes with very little real life use, the only thing worth waiting from is another run of Maratac copper AA/CR123 lights.