Cigar rebuild - PICS (Bling v2)

[RjG]

Blings are wicked, I love em. Really cold though, so they don't work great with my favorite Riskee. No vapor at all... so here's a rundown on replacing that coil. I've done several generic cigars as well. The innards are almost identical, but a bit different atomizer in a silicon sleeve.

Rings pull off without too much effort. Shown is

an aluminum rod threaded for a bit more leverage to

wiggle it out

Here's the LED. There's also a very thin ground wire that

was soldered to the end ring

The ring on the other side comes off the same way

An aluminum rod with a hole drilled in the end makes
a great press tool. The hole clears the atomizer bridge. All the guts
come right out the LED end. I used a drill press to press with. A heat
gun helps if it's a bit sticky

Charred with crusty stuff

Hard to see, but the LED is on, just testing,yep it still works :-)

Atomizer innards yanked out of it's shell

wire mesh peeled off carefully

teeny leads left there, have to replace those

The coil removed, and the bottom mesh pad

The old coil





New coil wire with nice long leads.

It's silver soldered on there. Tin with

acid core first, to get the silver to stick

to the nichrome

The white wick stuff is "fire wick" silica







Wound up new wick, 3.3 ohms
(instead of 4.3 factory Ruyan, too cold)






Sorry it's fuzzy - it's trimmed up, and in there though

[RjG]

Put all the outer stuff mesh back on, and push it
back into the shell




Attach the wires (nice long ones now) , push it back into the tube, solder the end ring back on and press those in too.

All done :-)



VIDEO of working final product :
http://members.shaw.ca/RandyG/BlingV2/BLING_V2_2.wmv

[ainako]

Wow, just, wow. The amount of talent on this forum always amazes me. Stellar job!

[fenez]

man that is very nice.

[BeRight]

Awesome-might try on my Njoy cigar when the time comes.

[kinabaloo]

Excellent intricate work and great photos.

BTW, any thoughts on what the crusting is - on the mesh and the coil? Same crust material in each case?

[bracky1]

Thanks for this. How easy would it be to get the innards out of a generic cigar and fit a manual switch, over-riding the rubbish auto switch?
Thanks

[D_Struct]

That's really impressive.

I'm actually looking into modding one of the Ruyan disposable cigars.

[RjG]

Originally Posted by bracky1

Thanks for this. How easy would it be to get the innards out of a generic cigar and fit a manual switch, over-riding the rubbish auto switch?
Thanks

The generics I have are RN ones, and they come apart the same way, same threads even. The insides look the same too, but the atomizer is a bit different design.

I suppose you could leave the outer wire disconnected, short the vac switch out, and rig some kind of switch into the LED end.

If you think of some better way to put in a nice switch, let me know. I have two GREAT vapin puresmoker cigars, both died from switch issues a couple weeks old :-(

I might try an LED cap switch - I never thought of that before you asked :-)

[MonkeyMonk]

Great informative pictures!!!