[PART 1] Official BLF GT Group Buy thread. Group buy officially closed! Lights shipping.

thanks for uploading the pictures!

today is my wife's birthday so i cant sneak to my PC ;)

You should see the B&O factory, their level are pretty much if a human touch a thing at the wrong time its ruined
Polishing things and so on before anodizing are all robot work, and when they are done you cant even touch the thing not even if you wear gloves as that will still contaminate the product.

But off course if B&O made flashlights none of us will be able to afford them. :money_mouth_face:

The most narrow tolerance i have worked with personally was 4/1000 of a mm, so give one at each end and you have 2/1000 mm in the middle to make good with, and this was on a manual grinding machine.

Another perspective of how big the GT head is.
This is my XL 4.5”–5.5” Optech neoprene lens cover with my 2 biggest lights heads in it, an S70 & S70S & the cover is only very slightly stretched :wink:

Sorry the picture has come out sideways.

Congratulations!

Might be a girl’s hand! :heart_eyes: :stuck_out_tongue:

Looks like ya’ll already spotted some of the pictures of the factory.

Here are some more for you to look at.








The latest list is the only one that matters right now, ignore anything from the prior lists.

The number on the list that you are doesn’t matter after you have paid.

lol, we have been over this way back in the first prototype, it really is that big.

You just can’t really understand it till you see it in person.

The funny thing is that once you do have it, it quickly doesn’t seem all that massive anymore. Everything else just seems tiny lol.

One more reason to hide it from our spouses.

LOL :smiley:

Thanks TA for additional pictures, I dont want to be a guy who complaining about everything,and I’m totally fine with it, but that reflector picture obviously looking through plastc bag look worse than first prototype,more like fine OP then SMO…

Nvanlaar’s links for page 382.

The Millers Original Group Buy List ending on Nov 11 and #1213

Coyotehawk’s Continuation of the Group Buy List, starting Nov 11 and #1214 - Updated Dec 12

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Neal’s Paid/Shipping List for first 555 - Updated Dec 15

Neal’s Paid/Shipping List for #556 to #1038 - Updated Dec 15.

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M4D M4X: For all people who want to let us know the value that should be declared on the parcels:
please take the BLF GT customs declaration survey

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Samsung 35E seem ideal, high mAh and good amps.
M4D M4X is doing a groupbuy, here: GROUPBUY: 8pcs Samsung 35E BUTTON TOP for the BLF GT

That’s not a clear (optically pure) plastic bag. You can see the bag has a texture to it if you look to the left.

I’ve had plastic bags like that before. It’s just the way the bag is made.

Paid thanks team

No,I think that the “blame” is at the plastic cover. :slight_smile:

Like Jason said, it is just the bag distorting the picture, I would not worry about it, knowing lumintop so far they would never even consider allowing something that looked that bad make it into a production light.

I can also confirm that the earlier picture with the scratch on the tailcap is Neals prototype light that they were using for testing packaging and other stuff. Like my prototypes it shows the battle scares of it task.

Here is a fresh GT that has not been abused:

Yeah hopefully that’s the reason,excuse me I am out of compas today, as I’ve worked 3 in a row 12 hours night shift… :weary:

am i the only one that becomes thinking “hmmm, this light is not as big as i thought”

It still looks big to me. But it has to be to get it’s job done.

One thing I’ve noticed is that the light shouldn’t be heavy. Somehow Lumintop and the design team has figured out a way to get it to defy gravity. Otherwise it couldn’t be put against a wall horizontally and stay there. :smiley:

It’s got a 5 1/2” diameter head. I don’t know of any other flashlights that big. The big Acebeam X65 is only 4” with 5 XHP35-HI in it. Does any flashlight match it’s size?

Ps, that shiny switch ring sure adds some class. :sunglasses: