-On Hold

It’s not finalised yet, possibly won’t be coated. it was a recommendation from the machinist, I’ve asked him why and if we can also do without the coating

I Will take one, if the shipping cost doesn’t tesult outrageously high.

Hi, im from Spain:

i am in if the final price is +–15$.

Thanks.

Shipping shouldn’t be that high, 1 pill I would estimate standard shipping (7-8 days international) to be about £3 obviously cheaper for economy shipping

Update from machinist:

“5 pcs are in process. They should be ready this week. Coating makes my work easier cause I don`t need to presoak pills in WD-40 - the other way they goes green in few days (real copper).”

Put me off, i view that new version don´t have pill and i will buy this.

Thanks any way.

Alberto.

Any chance of getting a run of copper pills to suit an XinTD C8 after this run is done? I would be in for a couple of them if possible.

Possibly in the future, if this run goes well the machinist says he can make pills for any light if he has a sample to copy

Update:

“Hi James, I have made several C8 pills, but they are very difficult job for lathering so their COGS is higher.
Top surface of pill is ideally polished, I have decided that screwing mcpcb through thermal grease is not good decision (making holes with thread could up the price twicely.)
Also they have no holes for wires because russian custom makers from fonarevka use their own direct-thermal pcbs with non-standart holes.
In spite of writed upper, COGS of this pills is much higher than I could thought.”

There is only 5 available at the moment and I’m claiming 2 :wink:

So far The price is looking to be roughly £17-20 each shipped

Here’s some photos:
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That top surface looks really nice. :slight_smile:

Do the holes have to be manually drilled by the user?

Yes, he said he could do them, but the cost would go up by double! So trying to keep it budget it seems like the best way is to do it yourself

Just a warning for all guys that think “I can drill 2 holes, how hard can it be!” Copper is very dense material and it’s huge pain to drill or cut, if you don’t have drill bits for hard materials and only have hand drill, no drill press, prepare for a nightmare.

P.S. “Top surface of pill is ideally polished”… I guess they didn’t hear about mirror finish over there J)
I would like to build MT-G2 C8 (2 x 18350) flashlight but with so expensive work, I will have to settle with Noctigon MCPCB… :frowning:

Update:

It will be possible to get the holes drilled for us, but will bring the price up to about £21-22 each shipped

These pills are high quality copper weighing in at 27g each

Wow that’s expensive!

Fasttech just listed the Convoy C8 host as discontinued. Dunno if they will stock the new built-in host?

I have a couple of C8’s with removable pill if anyone doesn’t have it, I think most people will have a C8 with removable pill though

The pill looks great but unfortunately I just sold my C8 (XP-L V5 1A dedome + fet driver)… sorry for backing out…

Updated: price will be £20 shipped including fees, please let me know asap if your interested

So… that includes the holes drilled for LED wires? :bigsmile:

Yep!