After some hours using my Q8 stock, i did the spring bypass, in a similar way than yours but a little different...
First i decide to do the bypass without effecting the traces of the pcb. So some centimeters good quality silicon wire, some 3.5 mm bronze ends, a little soldering and 20 minutes later i finished it...
Then I drilled the existed M 2.5 mm deeper and tap new M3 threads. After some polishing the aluminum surface of the body and the bronze ends, I used M3x10 mm inox torx bolts to make the best possible contact between the pcb and the body...
I have used flickr for 6 years now, worked well for me thusfar. In another thread I just posted how I get the correct link for use in BLF (and without sharing your complete photostream), here’s a copy:
I use flickr too and find it cumbersome to get to the correct cyberlink for my pictures. What I do is:
In the browser I go to my photostream (I never got it to work in the flickr-app), select the picture, then click the ‘share’ icon, choose the BBCode and select the picture size you want, click to select the code and then copy and paste it in the address-line of a new browser-tab (this tab is just used to dump the code somewhere), then select and copy the part in the code that starts after ‘[img]’ and ends with ‘jpg’.
On my tablet I can directly select the correct part of the BBCode so I do not need to copy/paste the code in the browser-tab
There is no possibility to do it with flickr, so lets imgur it....
After some hours using my Q8 stock, i did the spring bypass, in a similar way than the braided bypass but a little better...
First i decide to do the bypass without effecting the traces of the pcb.
So I used few centimeters of good quality tanned silicon wire, four 3.5 mm bronze ends, a little soldering and 20 minutes later i finished it...
Then I drilled the existed M 2.5 mm deeper and tap new M3 threads. After some polishing the aluminum surface of the body and the bypass bronze ends, I used M3x10 mm inox torx bolts to make the best possible contact between the pcb and the body...
This is how it seems from inside... Very nice and very effective...
It irritated me that the tube from the battery is not symmetrical in relation to the head. I decided to change it. I honed the edge of the tube to achieve the right level. Electric contact has improved by the way. This is what Q8 looked like before the amendment:
And so:
Now the symmetry from the beginning to the end is perfectly preserved.
I wouldn’t file the tube, I’d rather use copper wire and adjust its thickness. Hammering thinner, use a file, etc.
When the tube gets off over time you can replace the wire with a new one.
Folks, got my Q8 today and top battery tube o-ring was caught in the threads when they screwed a light head onto the tube and it ruined the o-ring it is cut now. Contacted Thorfire and they told me to go pack sand, they do not stock or sell those o-rings. Banggood asked me canned question for the picture when I already included pciture of the issue, they simply do not even review. With that what o-ring do I need to buy and from where? Much appreciate the help. The price we pay to buy "budget" from budget sources
