Never intended to get one of these as I’m not into throwers but when it popped up on offer at $9.90 I could hardly say no now could I.
1st thing I noticed was a rattle which I assumed was the 26650-18650 tube which it half was as the pill was also loose and rattling .
Looking over the light the finish is ok, up close there are a few sub 1mm dings on the head area but nothing to see at a normal distance.
Stripping the light finds all the o-rings present but all the threads are dry, the reflector had a good bit of (thankfully) loose dust on it so it was easily blown off.
The pill had metal shaving in it and some large bits of drill swarf ready to fall off which is not great.
Driver was an east-092
Quick check with everything stock I got 2.2A at the tail
After changing the wires to 20awg and then again to 24awg as 20awg was too thick, resoldering the driver spring and re pasting the star which was glued unevenly, I still get 2.2A 
guess my east 92 driver is not one of the good ones.
So I took the 6x 7135 Nanjg 105c driver out of my 502b stuck on 2 more chips and then stacked another 2 to up the output and now I get 3.4a at the tail so much better and I can ditch the flashy modes 
No driver retaining ring any more as the 7135 chips get in the way so I used a bit of desoldering braid on one edge of the pcb to make it a tight fit so the driver stayed put.
Have to say I rather like it, didn’t think I would but I quite enjoyed playing about with it and am already thinking of modifying it to improve the beam and stack a few more 7135 chips and maybe stick in an XM-l2, but that can wait till summer is over and darkness starts to return.
