Having mixed feelings about the A6 tube shipped by Banggood on Nov. 11 not showing up yet. Yesterday I told them that six other orders, shipped after the tube order, had arrived but the tube order was MIA.
Received a very GB-like “Go to the post office”, “Is this the correct address?” (SIX subsequent orders arrived!) “We could refund.”
Told them I really wanted the tube — but after reading the issues in this thread, maybe not. Fortunately the 18350 tube that came with my Astrolux (shipped Nov. 19, rec’d Dec 17) works fine.
UPDATE:
Just received the following from Banggood: “We could refund the payment to you so that you could replace it later yourself, is that ok?” No offer to reship. I agreed to the refund. So, where can one replace this tube later by oneself, other than at Banggood?
When you say killed do you mean it no longer works with the longer tube or just that it doesn’t work with the short tube?
With these bare tubes it’s not necessary for the tube to seat onto the brass rings to make contact so if it screws together it should work. If it doesn’t then something else went wrong. Cold solder joints on the driver or emitter. Insulation cut on emitter wires caused by scissoring of pill and mcpcb’s. Driver retainin ring loose or tight but not pressing down on driver. Same for switch retaining ring. Switch sits too far in and is partially pressed by the rubber button holding the switch open (trim the rubber post).
Finally received a favourable reply from the same CS after I replied to her bluntly that this issue is widespread at BLF and she should check with Neal first on this problem, else I would go direct to PayPal for a claim of defective product.
Decided for a refund of US$2.50 instead of a go around for a reship of another tube that may or may not fit into my BLF A6.
Yikes ! Waited a month for the bare tube and it won’t fit. Can’t even complete a ticket, BG’s site won’t accept the video file(shot with my phone).
Sigh…such hassle for a tube less than the cost of a cup of latte
If I re-order, is there a special item link I should use to get the one with the correct thread ? Thnx.
if you are saying this is for the A6 light, you are mistaken. This is the one I ordered and doesn’t fit. Just trying to save another some time and pain. Hopefully someone will address the Forum if they can iron this out. For sure me and others are very interested in this tube.
AFAIK, only a couple of the A6 regular short tube threads failed to screw in at all. The other failures were due to threads being too short and could be made to work by bridging them with conductive rings.
Whereas 100% of the A6 bare short tubes (reported to date) have failed. None of their threads fit.
So, if I needed a short bare tube, I would order the anodized one and strip it with oven cleaner. :~
Still waiting for the regular extension tube for A6 (not the bare one), order 12 dec. Have receved after 2 weeks (record!) the tiny Keeppower 18350. Pay for the tracking (with standard shipping) but looking at that, is still in China…
Use your email and the email of CS from Banggoods contact page, not the contact form, they only allow 2mb on the form…
The cost is not much, but the frustration is, it does look like the whole batch was made with threads too big. Neal has the manufacturer involved. I too bear part of the blame, I did not request a bare sample tube after the second set of anodized tubes were approved.
I wonder how much kcd someone like MEM could squeeze out of that X6. I’m getting over 50kcd with stock reflector, XP-E2 R3 dedomed, 2 A driver and I really like this mini thrower, but I’d like to see someone like MEM maxing this thing out with triple optics (collar+2 lenses)… I’d be all over that.
Well, I ordered the BLF A6 18350 tube from Banggood’s USA Warehouse yesterday, it shipped today, that’s nice! HOPING this one will fit my A6. Anyone else order one from the USA warehouse?
Checked all my 18650 Bare A6 lights with the recently supplied 18350 Bare shorties and they all work. That’s 8 or 9 in 2 batches of shorties and full 18650 Bare lights.
Are these Bare 18650 Lights from the European Warehouse a different batch?
DUS International (Importer) Label has a batch number: TW-151123 281706
sku: 281706
Barcode on 18350 tube packest is the same as shown in a previous post.
This might explain why I have some Bare 18650 A6’s that were ordered earlier via the China warehouse that the shorties does not fit?
I ordered a bare BLF A6 (3D) on Nov.12/15 and a bare 18350 tube on Dec.9/15 for it (both from CN). They fit together perfectly.
I got Lucky, I guess.
Great flashlight! Thanks to all those involved in the design and development.
