BLF Kronos X6/X5 GB - Group Buy now closed.

I think I may leave the ramped opening away from the body that little bit so it has less chance of marking it up. It’s not really secured by that pinch factor anyway, with the more substantial weight of the full copper light it hangs deep in the pocket with ease as long as the clip can accept a hem. Probably won’t carry this one anyway, as I’ve got the quad on me at all times.

wow that warm glowing cap on the copper really brings a sensual dimension to it and takes it up another level in the ‘artistic’ rendition of a sophisticated tool.
The blue looks good on the ‘cold steel’, maybe a tad bright, but can be tamed easily with a bit of filter/diffusion, using circular cutouts of acetate sheets/gels right at the top of the boot, without doing any circuit modifications.
The SS is just too heavy for clip carry, but without the clip, a gap there dis-harmonize the continuous line…what to do ?

my reflector in my x5 is jammed also is this a problem? can i try and force it or will that be bad? any chance that the copper would shrink if its really cold or hot?

“…Its crap because this paradigm exists…in the popular media…”
Fret not…A Priori has it’s limits, because it deals with the past. Relish your own discoveries in the present, and look ahead in wonderment what tomorrow may bring.
(…The slow one now will later be fast, As the present now will later be past…B.Dylan)
Keep writing code TK, all’s well. :wink:

I absolutely love your photography, I need to break out my dslr, I learned a little bit trying to photograph frogs as a kid, my phone doesn’t cut the mustard. I had to apologize sending pics of the X6/X5 to my brother in law who is a photography buff.

Thanks for all the pics, you are a huge reason why this forum is fun for me. I’m thinking a tripod is in my future.

Good advice. I spend too much now thinking of then.

Good artists copy, great artists steal, so they say Picasso said, and Dylan stole that gem from Matthew 20:16. Sorry for being pedantic, but I had to look it up. Is it more important who is saying, or what is said? The words reformulate, but the message stays the same.

Coefficient of aluminum is much higher than copper so cooling it will shrink the reflector more than the copper head. If it’s jammed then either cross threaded or just too tight. If cross threaded it might appear tilted in the head. Copper is soft so over tightening could explain this or just from snugging the bezel. Don’t know for sure just educated guesses at this point.

Dale, I’m glad the file and hammer trick worked for your X5 clip, but it didn’t for mine. I might have been too aggressive with the hammer. Anyway, I’m now in the market for a new clip. Preferably with a wider and deeper loop than the stock one.

Notwithstanding my new clipless state, these are awesome lights. Just spent 20 minutes with my 5 year old son playing with my Al X5. He figured out how to turn on turbo, laughed like a maniac, then suggested that we should get another one as a present for mom. And now she can be mad at him instead of me when I buy it. Win Win!

So… you left science to talk about stuff you can’t know?

I can dig that. Why be enslaved by the tyrannical impositions of evidence when we can just make stuff up?




… several hours later:

Fly, my little sophist machines! Spread unknowables across the lands!





… several more hours later:

I wonder if I should get into politics.





:)
H)

I see you know your Wittgenstein: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

I hope you understand that I in no way intended to minimize the efforts you put into this light ToyKeeper! I truly didn’t mean it that way. I was simply stating that being understanding of both; those who had legitimate claims of a defective or inferior product, as well as those who went through the grueling process of bringing this set to fruition, should not be considered mutually exclusive of one another.

We’re all here because we like flashlights.

There are certain facts that are indisputable:

1. Many people worked very hard to make it possible for this GB to happen.
2. This group buy IS a first in many ways.
3. There are problems with all GB’s.
4. The lights are, as a design and implementation, amazing.
5. No single thing is perfect.

I could keep going for a long time, but instead I’ll get to the point of why I’m writing this.

I WANT these lights to be incredible.

Why?

Well, I have been playing with LED’s since I was a little kid. My dad had drawers full of all kinds of electronic components and anything that made lights or sounds was always something I wanted to play with.

I had asthma as a kid and had a bunch of inhalers around. They looked like pretty good pistol grips to me, so a little electrical tape, a toggle switch, a few LED’s, some wire, etc, and I had a gun! (Yet I thought MacGuyver was awesome, explain that!)

I still have the first flashlight someone other than my parents gave to me, it’s a AA mini-mag with red anodization. It’s the old kind with the shorter head and reflector, I just can’t bring myself to mod it. It was a gift from my friend’s mom, I just found out she has cancer. I’m going to stop by soon and I’ll probably mention how much it means to me. Not because it’s a flashlight, but because I treasured it as a kid.

I’m not trying to make everyone sad or tell sob stories, it just happens that LED’s and flashlights have been a part of my life since I was a little kid. When I found out that other people were into them I was a little upset, only because it was always MY thing, and it’s not like I was on the football team or anything. (Full disclosure, I got big in my early twenties)

You’d think that because I’ve been interested for so long I’d be just about the most knowledgable. Nope. I knew about the good LEDs fairly early on, I’m pretty dang good at modifying Maglites, and I’ve done a few other pretty cool projects, but nothing like what many others here have accomplished. Here’s where this becomes relevant to this thread again if you’ve managed to read this far.

The people that put these sets of lights together are almost painfully modest.

I read a comment that suggested that it was an easy task due to the fact that the X6 had already been designed and produced. That is a drastic simplification of the situation.

I’m not going to go into boring detail, but these lights are very special. The details of the changes and features of these lights are pretty well documented in this thread. I suggest if you have further doubts to get a set of the SS/CU in your hands. No, you can’t borrow mine :smiley:

Take a moment to realize that these lights are just a moment in time, there WILL be brighter lights, there WILL (probably) be another group buy that involves lights with a similar set of features, there WILL be moments in which you will be dissapointed for a myriad of reasons about something that you purchased.

But none of that matters. What matters is that most of the people that were looking forward to these lights are not disappointed or jaded or complaining. If they are like me, they have been showing these suckers off to anyone that will listen! These lights are, to be frank, AfreakingMAZING!

All of that being said, I return to my original statement, with the hope that what I’ve written will be heard and maybe even have the effect I was going for.

We’re all here because we like FLASHLIGHTS!

Turn on your favorite light. Don’t you want to talk to somebody who gets it?

The only reply from you is this:

Where is the help there? No reason for me to thank you for that post. I have thanked others when I have got good advises that I can test out.

Read posts #5245 and #5246 you insufferable…… just don’t talk to me any more, k?

EDIT: IF YOU READ MY ADVICE YOU WOULD HAVE FOUND MY OTHER ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS. How’s that for some food for thought?

EDIT #2: Just to make sure you appreciate the irony, edit one was describing when I mentioned that you can search the thread, and also the entire forum.

Tried with boiling water, still stuck.

Tried with a razorblade, still no luck. Don’t have strap wrench. Thank you for the tips.

Ordered some Jar Grippers now, thank you for the tip.

Since the reflector is stuck I can’t raise it a tiny bit, But thank you for the reply.

Thank you to all others with replies to this issue, I have slept the last hours (time is now 8 AM here in Norway) so haven’t seen the last replies or comments.

Sorry, did see them now. But as I have stated so many times, the reflector is stuck, so I can’t center the led or do anything. But thank you for the tips. It just don’t work in my case.

As one of my role models says:

I’m glad we’ve got that out of the way. :slight_smile:

Mostly, it seemed like an opportune time to surround myself with lava and act like a super-hero. It’s great fun. Here’s one I taught to my buddy Gandalf:


You shall not pass!

Do you think I can put the light in the freezer a couple of hours, then try to get the reflector off? Or will it damage the light in anyway?

You are a super-hero! Isn’t she?

Too late, I have a suggestion for you that would probably fix the problem for you, but guess what? I’m not going to share it with you! If someone else posts a similar problem I will help them and maybe you can read it then. Otherwise, tough.

You really really really need to think more before you speak, otherwise I can’t imagine you enjoying this forum or any other for very long before people have the same opinion of you that I do. Good luck in finding your way.

I’m feeling like being nice, so I’ll give you a tip. Any time someone gives you advice, you have to try it for yourself, then think about why it worked or why it did not work. That may lead you to where you need to be, it may not. Smart people get things done.