It’s alway a gamble when you’re not dealing with local dealers when it comes to defective items. Paypal will protect you if you don’t receive your flashlight. That said, you may have to send back a defective flashlight at your cost which is why I never buy anything expensive from overseas. I’d rather pay a little more and buy from a US authorized dealer knowing I’ll be taken care of if I end up with something defective.
I agree, but here its very different, is very hard to find this products and if has…… Over 5x~10x the price :person_facepalming:
Its very common brazilians travel to buy in USA even U$1=R$3,50
Banggood revels suprisiling fast and grateful when I had a problem, their shipping is outstanding too, at least two packets arrived in brazil with 4 days
Thats the reason why I preffer banggood, but in this amount the price, I dont know if worth it :cry:
Other premium flashlight manufacturers use plastic reflectors, nothing to worry about. You will need to use protected batteries or spacers with unprotected. Unprotected are too short.
I prefer aluminum reflectors but have not heard of any plastic ones peeling. Solder blobs should work if you can get them tall enough. I have also used coins and magnets.
Have it, no complaints, a little better output than a TK75 or BTU Shocker. Reason I bought is I think I paid $91 shipped, not as good as the KD deal but still cheap. Think the Nitecore TM16GT is the best in this style light right now but higher cost.
I thought I got a pretty decent deal when I paid $92 for mine. I like the light a lot. Decided not to mod it other then lapping the pill/mcpcb and getting rid of the resistance caused by the too long a battery compartment and springs. The springs in the pic below are just to lock out the light when I loosen the tail cap. Oh, and to tell what direction the cells go. The pressure of the tail cap pushes the cells against the copper tubes that are now soldered to the driver. The tail cap now just has a solid copper disk to connect all the cell. Sorry, didn't take a picture of that, but can if someone needs it. The second picture is where the cells sit without the springs in place.
Lapping should be done to all high output lights. Hardly any manufactures do though. Doesn't take much time to just remove the oxidation off and make sure they are flat.
Plastic reflectors don't concern me. Many high-end light use them and I haven't noticed any issues with them. Aluminum or plastic, they all have very delicate finishes.
I agree with this. Many high quality lights use plastic with no issue. I don’t know which is technically better, but I wouldn’t be worried.
Either way they need to be handled very carefully if you open the light. I’m to the stage in my flashaholism that reflector smudges bother me more and more, so I’ve taken to wearing gloves whenever opening a head, and storing reflectors in ziploc bags until I am ready to re-install.
Speed, I totally agree with you, the problem was I wanted to buy the tn40s and got frustaded by price and shipping which dknt send here (in thrunite site tells this, but hkequipment occour an stupid error :person_facepalming: ). So, I placed the order in t6 without reading well and searchjng for prices
ImA4wheelr, thats original springs? Its very big
Pilot, good to see about the reflector, I noy worried about this anymore