After reading , ordered one today to try it .
Another order here, seems a great light for the price.
My 2nd was ordered 8/19, got here last week - think early - I was away on vaca. Some sort of record - 8 or 9 calendar days? This one looks good as well so far. Didn't finish the mod of the 1st one. I spent a bit of time purusing thru AliExpress offerings with their discounts back then, and nothing even discounted could compare to the deal on this light - that's why I ordered another 
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Real nice for that kinda money, thanks Tom E for the heads up!!! 
How hard was it to get the pill to come out?
I’m just short of using a hammer and nail, because twisting with needle-nose pliers isn’t budging it at all, the aluminum around the holes just deforms when I twist really hard.
Got mine today, around 10 days to the UK from when I placed order 
Might have to order another 1.
Oh boy. Both mine came out with just using a needle-nose, but it took some force to get it moving from the "stuck" position. Think I used my HomeDepot rubber gloves to get a good grip though - finding these invaluable. Here you can see the holes are fine after removing the pill:
Finished the mod to the first one. Put in a Nanjg 2.8A with adding 3 350mA 7135's, so total is 3.85A, custom programmed with modes: moonlight-6%-32%-100%, XM-L2 U2 1A on a 16mm SinkPAD, 22 AWG wires. The SinkPAD is sanded down to about 1.2mm (from 1.55mm) so it's closer to the stock 1.0mm thick aluminum star, for focus, and then it's screwed down. The stacked 7135's are on the battery/spring side because of lack of space in the pill, so I left the stock Nanjg spring to protect the 7135's. It's doing about 900 lumens @30 secs now in full flood, tailcap measured at 3.7A at best. I copper wired the tailcap spring which helps, but still can not obtain max output for the switch.
Couple of noteworthy things with this mod:
- Not able to achieve ~3.90A out of it (doing just a test of the bare pill), just 3.7A or so. I think I got an emitter problem - maybe the reflow, maybe damaged from the reflow
- in full zoom-in (for max throw), there's a weird shaped bright spot in the corner of the beam pattern near one of the 2 wires on the phosphor. I proved it's not reflection or property of the lens, so again, seems like something wrong with the LED.
- Even with the copper wired tail spring, the tailcap assembly loses output. I can swap in my Sipik SK73 tailcap and get higher output #'s, about 950 lumens.
I'm getting convinced the new XM-L2 U2 1A has some damage. I know I rushed the reflow by using a torch from underneath the SinkPAD. I should swap it out - thinking this is causing lower amps from having a higher Vf than normal, and the somewhat higher resistance in the tailcap effects it.
I tried a replacement cheap switch from FastTech (clicky-switch) that made no difference. I even dis-assembled the switch, adding some solder thinking it will increase the flow path, but also made no difference. Wish I could measure resistance under load...
Still for what this light is doing, 900 lumens in full flood, and the nice set of modes, I'm pretty happy with it. I'm using it with the SK73 switch and it's doing pretty good.
I wish I could fit this switch: omten-15a-250v, but it would require some work, and may still not fit. This proved to be a better quality switch when I used one in the SupFire F3-L2 zoomie (https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/28084).
Mine came yesterday must be a record 9 days to the UK , Lightscastle took 84 days to deliver the torch I got from them
Nice little torch the flood is better than my Sk98 but the zoomed in is about the same size (quite a bit brighter though) I was hoping for a smaller zoomed square
Just trying it indoors (10ft) the square is about 50% bigger than the hotspot from my Tangsfire C8
Nice small form factor for carrying
OK, I’m giving up on removing this pill. It’s going to be a stock light for now.
I ordered another of these lights just now, hoping the next one yields to mod.
mmph. And I’m going to try to keep my comments in the newer thread from here on:
Mine arrived this morning, didn’t really want a zoomy, as my last experience with one was not great
Anyway I thought I’d give it a try and buy one, partily because the vendor listened to far more experienced members than me and made the torch better because of it, plus it’s nice a vendor actually listened, so thought I’d show my appreciation, as others have and buy one
Not a bad torch at all and ten times better than the 4 x the price nightsearcher one I bought before I found BLF and saw the light so to speak
I think it should be good back up light for caving, where a lot of the time you need a floody light, but sometimes u need a spot to look down a long passage or shaft
Now I just need to make it a bit brighter 
Try putting it in the freezer overnight.
Being that different metals expand/contract at different rates it may come loose as it thaws.
Worth a try.
This driver was a direct drive? I just pulled my 10 380 mah chipped, 7135 driver after reading it was a dd,
Good Day, 
Their webpage <http://www.dealmetic.com/product.asp?ID=FL05518> says it has a CREE XM-L L2 LED...
..& Not a XM-L2...
So which CREE LED do they come with?
Thank You Very Much,
George
Just ordered one myself after reading through the comments here it seems like a good torch for the price, £4.96 with free delivery.
Are they actually shipping this light from their LA warehouse or are they coming from China? Looks like an interesting light but to me it would be nice if they also offered this pill in a fixed focus version of the light. Based on the number of Zoom lights I see on the Chinese web sites this must be a far more popular configuration overseas than here.
“XM-L L2” and “pillow”
Those are typographical errors/ mistakes translating back and forth.
There’s no such LED and no actual pillow in any flashlight.
It's an XM-L2 LED, probably T6 and ~1A tint.
LJ - Yes, definitely Direct Drive, high powered, very much like an East-092 driver. Does pretty good stock but the springs, LED wires, switch will hold it back. I don't undersantd - you don't have one?
Well… it’s kind of like a pillow. There’s often a recessed area in the pill…ow that the star sinks into. The star rests upon it for both support and heatsinking. 
> freezer overnight.
Well, it’s aluminum in aluminum, but heck, I’ll try freezing it.
Did they put glue on the pill threads, anyone know?
I’m assuming it was just cranked in with a machine and is jammed but can come out somehow.
I guess penetrating oil is the other possibility.
Or redrill the little holes bigger and deeper and use a bigger set of pliers to twist it.
All of the above?
I've done the over-drilling and it worked for me in the past. I haven't found any evidence of glue on my two.