Very nice review Lexel, can you confirm that the driver screws are M3 size?
Thanks
Thanks Lexel for the review.
@ Smittymojo. Yes the driver is held in with 3mm taper head screws. Some are replacing with 3mm button head screws for even force on the driver in this area.
Edit. There is a mod thread on this light here.
Wow you are fast!
Thanks for the review.
Cool to see the cheat sheet in action!
Nice review Lexel
seemed a bit dirty in there, just curious to know what products you used (eg alchohol) before relubing ?
steel whool needs no additional chemical liquids, its like fine sandpaper, but also can be pushed against uneven surfaced or corners
some said acetone worked wonders on the brass ring
Thanks mate
Nice review Lexel!! Weird bout the rings though. I didn't see anything that bad in 9 Q8's I received. I did though run some 2000 GRIT sandpaper over the ring, and clean with isop. alcohol on the one I fully modded so far - never know what coating or oil/grease, etc. might be left on there. Just can't trust them.
Dunno if any you guys remember, but there was a time that the ThruNite TN31 was the hot light to mod - nice big copper MCPCB. Think AlexGT wrote up a nice mod thread - resistor bypasses, dedomed XM-L2 U2 and can hit 600 kcd. Well it turned out ThruNite shipped least a full batch of them where they left the protective mylar or kapton tape stuck on the back of the copper MCPCB. The better copper MCPCB's are shipped like that, specially when it's uncoated copper to prevent oxidation. So they shipped them all nice with thermal grease, beautiful big thick copper MCPCB, but left the tape on. I was modding them for guys, and sure enough i came across a couple like that.It had to be like a wall for thermal transfer and I'm sure most buyers never noticed a thing.
Man kann deine Anschrift auf dem Paket 2x lesen.
Thank you for the review, very useful and gives me confidence to purchase the light in the future. Seems like one of the best products Thorfire and BLF have created. (not naming anyone because there were so many who worked extremely hard to get this finalized. Big thanks to everyone involved!)
I use a fiberglass cleaning pencil for this kind of cleaning with very good and fast results.
Nice review tks would be nice if anyone can compare beamshot with Noctigon Meteor M43. Looks almost the same am guesing 
Great detailed review, Lexel. Very descriptive with good photos, and plenty of them! :+1: Are you gonna bake your Q8? 
I know myflashguy has seen these by now, but I’ll post them here in case others haven’t.
This is the Q8 compared to the Noctigon Meteor M43 with 219C emitters:
See details and more beamshots with other flooders in my post in the main Q8 thread.
I can’t wait for my Q8 to show up, I hand-me-downed my klarus g20 to my girlfriend so we can both have high lumen dog walking lights.
I re-ordered one today after I canceled my original 1st batch order because of all the issues like stripped screws and the switch LED’s messing up, etc. This is based on a friend of mine who got his from the second batch recently telling me his is perfect in every way. I also read others having the same experience. I’m really looking forward to it.
Nice Glenn! I got in my 1st of the 2nd batch and I agree, and posted bout it - wayyy better.
Here's my post with details on the batch 2 changes: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/39069/15384
The bottom line is with all the tweaks and much better quality of assembly, the improved #'s from the light box don't lie.
Strange if you did not get yours shipped from first 500, you should have automatically got one of the 2. batch, no need to cancel order
I had no idea I was going to get one from the second batch. I didn’t want to take any chances I’d get one from the flawed first batch. I’m sure you understand.
Thanks Tom, I’ll check that thread out now 
The first batches lights were all taken within less than 2 days, whoever ordered after that will get for sure one from 2. batch
My Q8 came in while I was out of town. Been playing around with it, running reclaimed Sony 18650s. Even with these cheap cells, output is very impressive. Very happy with this purchase. Thanks Q8 team!!