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

Run out there and back as quick as you can then turn oin your hand warmers. You will think it was worth it while everybody thinks your crazy. ;)

My SS/CU set are stuck in USPS Purgatory! According to the tracking information I should have received them yesterday, so I got prepared Wednesday evening and charged my cells so I would be ready to try them out as soon as I opened the package. Unfortunately USPS seems to have dropped the ball, the last entry on my tracking number is:

2016-01-30 09:09 ISC LOS ANGELES CA (USPS), Processed Through Sort Facility, Your item has been processed through our sort facility in ISC LOS ANGELES CA (USPS) at 9:09 am on January 30, 2016.

The USPS site said to expect delivery Feb 4th, but it seems my package got stuck / misplaced somewhere. USPS really does a poor job of tracking packages! I hope this is a temporary issue and my package will still arrive in the next few days! It is driving me nuts to see all the posts talking about the lights people have received and mine are still not here!

Waiting very impatiently,

Melven

Melven, sounds like it’s waiting to go through customs. The approx dates are rarely correct when customs is involved.

I’m sure I’ve been seen using flashlights in broad daylight. It’s too late for me to appear sane anyway, I’ll go get it :slight_smile:

I thought since it said processed through the sort facility that it had already done customs

I know this isn’t going to help much Melvin, but I live in MA and I had 2 sets that were in NY last Friday according to tracking.

One set was delivered Monday, but the other set somehow was sent to CA, then back to NY and then up to MA and it was delivered Wednesday.

I got my meter, but the stupid fuse is blown, must have happened at work…. So the question now is, Harbor Freight or Home Depot? I saw in the Home Depot deal alerts thread that somebody found a Klein auto-ranging meter on clearance, I wonder if I might get lucky.

I think a triple would be cool. I’m not looking for increased output. Just a nice flood in the same package.

You could just put some diffuser film or tape on the lens if you’re happy with the output. Or you could get an orange peel effect on the reflector with some spray polyurethane. I don’t know how that would work if allowed to get really hot though. I don’t know if replacement reflectors will be available…

Jeeze, might be less work to do a triple, haha. I bet the diffuser tape would work pretty well though.

I guess that could work. It would just be nice to have a triple. Better flood beam and just “cool”.

DC-Fix .

Turning throwers into throwy flooders .

PM Boaz , he'll sell you what you need .

This would be very helpful. It could be a dual purpose modding/troubleshooting thread.

The problems that occur in flashlights are pretty standard. It would be helpful to have them listed but more important is getting to know how flashlights and drivers work since that basic knowledge can be generalized to diagnose most problems.

@saypat

I like that! Does it only work with the tube reversed?

The picture you posted shows a copper KX5 — were you starting by hammering on a clip that came on the copper light?

So far, near as I can tell (not very well) it’s the clips on the aluminum KX5s that are too tightly bent; the earlier pictures of the copper light clips were consistently OK, unsquashed.

Just checking before I take out the hammer, since a followup reported breaking a clip by trying that.

Might be the clips on the copper vs. the aluminum lights are consistently differently made — too small a sample yet to know.

Ah, I forgot that the clips on the Al X5 and the Cu X5 seemed to be different. Maybe that’s why mine (from an Al X5) broke and Dale’s didn’t.

Might need to anneal it first then retemper it after to prevent breakage. Forcing it to bend otherwise would weaken it I think. Maybe a non issue, maybe not.

I wasn’t on BLF since wednesday and didn’t check this thread for 2 or 3 more days…and…841 new posts :_( .It takes longer to skim the new posts on this thread than ALL of the (potentially interesting)other threads’ recent posts!
Can I assume that anything important will be added to the OP?I see the UI is there and something about the mixed up s/n’s in the unboxed ss/cu lights.
Dale…you talk too much :bigsmile:

To add to the unimportant posts on the thread: “Origin post is preparing shipment. We have received notice…” I ordered on the 29th and it says shipped. You think it’s coming or even in the country or did I wait til to near the year of the monkey?