[PART 1] Official BLF GT Group Buy thread. Group buy officially closed! Lights shipping.

There are no plans, that I’m aware of, to make different heads. There has been some (unofficial) discussion of spare parts (MCPCBs), but even spare parts are not on the table right now. All the focus is on producing enough BLF GT’s to meet the current signup list.

(I suspect the tube is much cheaper than the head anyway, so there would not be that much savings. If you had two GT heads, why not get the second tube so you could use / compare them side by side, assuming most of the cost is in the head.)

What, cucumbers?

Pickles would make sense in a flashlight forum:
How To Make Pickles Glow

Lumintop is not even making the reflectors my friend.

This is strictly a thrower. The power is within the batteries. The LED gives off the light. The head on this thing is where your money is well spent! I was a machinist for 3 years, I can only imagine how huch aluminium is being scrapped just to make this thing. I’m just curious what the tolerance is on that head. Nevertheless, you you bought yourself a light saber… Did you see some of the videos? That beam looks like its straight and goes on forever… I can’t wait to get mine! However,
If you want the sun in your hands get the DX80! It’s the most unbelievable impressive light I have, and have ever seen…! The amount of power this light draws has to be unreal… You can cook eggs with this thing or warm up your hands REAL quick! :sunglasses:

He hasn’t. He still does them just at a smaller scale and turnover time will take awhile as its not his primary focus anymore. I honestly wouldnt mind the wait. Great lad btw!

Edit: You can always sens a PM his way and see if he is ok with it :slight_smile: goodluck!

Just looked back at pag 426, 29th dec when the first GT’s arrived. The reflectors on the photos have the same marks as the latest. So the quality hasn’t changed since the first entered the market. More than 2 weeks since the first GT Arrived. Enthusiastic reactions so far. Let’s hope all 555 (and others who have paid) will get the GT soon. Have a great weekend!

So after thinking about my own comment it had me thinking (was that much aluminium being wasted machining this reflector…?) … I was curious to see how reflectors of this size were done. “The shop i worked at never made flashlight reflectors. Nor had the equipment to do what I have just seen.

What I found out is that most of these reflectors are “Spun” (“Reflector Spinning”) It was interesting to see how some of this size were made.
That being said, and for those of you with lower quality reflectors (reflectors finish), over worked or dull tooling is NOT the case; that is however, if these reflectors are being spun?

Aluminum reflector this size and thickness,is made from single big peace of aluminium block.
After CNC machining all leftovers are being recycled…

Yes please :slight_smile:

more than likely will contact him when i eventually get my hands on a GT LOL

quickie protector
had to run to town, its raining, wanted to take my light, my red neck genius kicked in
hey, better than nothing :wink:

nice diff user too , might hang several of these on xmas tree next year :open_mouth:

I doubt that.
I assume they get rough casts in reflector shape and then machine it.
Otherwise it would be a huge waste of aluminium, time, energy and tools.
Sure they recycle the machined off aluminium, but recycling those bits with machine oil and surface oxidation into the same quality alloy is costly too.

Let the debate begin, which material will protect better? A cotton blend or wool?

Been travelling for over a month and just now paid for my pre-ordered GT and batteries! I just moved to Hawaii and have a few miles of private beach to test it out on!

LOLOL ~!! :smiley:

I think wool is more translucent than cotton fibres

Were you still able to get it at the $115 total price?
There was a deadline of 12/31 for the special price folks to pay.

No one recieved any lights today?

Any tracking notices?

They must be out playing with it instead of posting about it. Lol

This was extended a few weeks ago when no lights had shipped as many were waiting to see reviews before buying.

A new date was not set but we should figure that out soon. Likely we will change the password for that link next week.

So then I assumed correctly. The money is in the head.

Why are they using square stock? Round stock closest to it’s OD would be cost effective? It would scrap less material and can easily be turned in a CNC lathe.

Are you sure there using square stock for a round reflector?