[PART 2] Official BLF GT Group Buy thread. Closed, but Public sales open!

But this is the Chinese way: Keep as many people employed as possible. A friend relayed the story of buying a box of printer paper at a warehouse store in Shanghai a few years ago. Including the driver who had to actually put the box in the car he was driven to the store in (one does not drive oneself, after all), 7 people were involved in placing the order, getting the box of paper, filling out the paperwork to be allowed to pay, moving the paperwork around, actually paying for the box of paper, and moving it to the car.

Indeed, it is simply how it is done. When I mentioned this the reply I got was basically “There is another way?”.

Also due to all the customs laws and well, china, the forwarding company is needed to just get the packages out of the country. Only some companies are allowed to do this easily it seems and the rest have to use these forwarding company.

It was so convoluted I got a little lost in the explanation but needless to say, shipping these lights is not a simple process.

I’m probably the last who got flashlight from the first batch) and here’s a flashlight with me)


It came in a wood frame?

Cool!That’s real patience :+1:

So you can say: FINALLY

No you are NOT.
I still didn’t recived my 2 pcs of GT.
There is also a few others who didn’t recived GT or recived damaged and waiting for replacement.

I’m so tired of waiting until the lumintop sends a flashlight, so I found friends in Guangzhou who sent me a flashlight on the ground, the benefit of Kazakhstan and China bordering each other. And the wooden crate my friends did to me)

Here also,

not recieved my GT from the first batch (only the head in a dammaged carton box)

still waiting for the GT tube with batteries

contacted a guy named ‘Leo’ from Lumintop and this is what he told me:

_Hello,

The issue was caused by the forwarder and they are checking the shipment.

We have contacted with the forwarder to give us the result.

I will get back to you when I have the updated result from forwarder.

I also ordered/payed for a short tube with the question if there is a possibility to get a endcap too (so I can test the head if it’s works)

Not recieved this short tube and as usually NO answer from MR NEAL :zipper_mouth_face:

I am getting tired of this all, they recieved my money last year and I have nothing in return!!!

Shame on you whoever is involved!!!

_

Hello
I will go to lumintop tomorrow to ship the GTs with them.
we will try to ship out the packages this week

so if you forget to send me the phone number, or need to change address,
pls hurry up send me email or PM

GOOD NEWS

Cross the fingers that everything will work :+1:

I have small problem with my gt, or at least I think it shouldn’t be like that.

One cell holder has lower positive pole than the other, meaning if I put it in the back (far side from head) there is no contact between cell holders.
If I put it in front (near head) then both cell holders have contact and light works.

Ideas?

Each carrier has a raised and a lowered center contact (both positive). The raised contact always goes forward towards the head. There should also be arrows on the carrier legs that point toward the head.

Is there a way you can post a picture of your carriers?

That is a very strange issue, not sure what that would happen. You could take the top of the carrier with the low button and see what it looks like. Be sure you put it back together correctly though or the cells will short out.

It’s hard for me to explain, not the best with english.

I understand how carriers work and how to put them in flashlight.

Problem is one raised center contact is lower than the other and not making contact to lowered center contact


You can see left is lower than right.


Here you can see “shorter” raised contact carrier bottom on left and top on right.
It is visible on left picture negative contact is flat to each other, and on right picture positive contact is raising carrier up. If you push right combination together both positive and negative have contact (positive spring compress). On left picture positive not touching.

I hope you can understand what I try to explain.

TA
I will try to disassemble it if I find right tools.

I just noticed when I tried to charge batteries one carrier was full charge.

The raised end of the carrier is spring loaded and you should be able to push down on both the brass piece and the black plastic piece. They are both pushed up with spring pressure.

Maybe the spring has collapsed or is missing?

Hehe … I got exactly the same message from Leo. I wonder when will the next information be?
Strange that you did not get a package in Belgium. According to some people from the Team, only Poles did not get parcels so the wine is in Poland, not in any packaging, soaked parcels etc

This information helped a lot. Thank you.

I finally found my small screwdriver set in garage and disassembled carrier.

I also found the problem. On both carriers black plastic piece is really tight fit inside aluminium part. Spring is unable to push it up if pressed down and it’s stopping brass piece from going all the way up. Somehow on one carrier black piece was pushed down and caused problem. I pushed it up all the way now on both carriers and as I see they don’t contact anything so no chance of pushing down (only if pressed with fingers when changing cells). Brass piece now makes good contact and spring works on it.

On 11/02/2018 both te 2 packages (Head & Tube) are shipped.
A few weeks later I recieved only 1 package, the head in a terrible damaged carton box packed by the master him self…Mr.???.

The second package is never arrived and according the tracking it is still in transit.(73 days)

I think it is lost or soaked in the cargo of a large ship on it’s route to Europe.

No respons from anyone who is involved with the sell of the GT, except a standard answer via email from a guy who calls himself LEO.

Make sure it’s stays springy. Maybe you have a metal file, nail file or sand paper and can reduce the diameter of the black plastic piece a tiny bit so it never gets stuck again.