Scubagen Mods

[Robert T]

I have a wicking problem, also. 2 or 3 good tokes and the wick runs out of juice. Let it sit for about 5 min. and it his good again. No chain vaping. I also think think the wick is to tight in the insulators. Problem is the pen tubes are super glued in there.

Robert

Well. Finished my first build last night. I have a few problems that I can solve with a regroup, a few new parts, and a break. However, I did experience a few puffs of the sweet genisis vape before my positive post shorted.

My advice to those of you who have built it 'exactly right' and are getting harsh hits is to drip juice on the coil and take a toot. If you get a couple of good hits with good flavor then, your problem is probably mostly wicking.

I'm going to think about a few things to try when I rebuild to improve wicking. I cannot roll that wick anywhere near as well as Dan does and I want to look at the 'pen' tube insulation to see if I can find something with a larger ID that will still fit in the wick holes.

[Turbo]

Yeah, I mean the 510 connector. Last part of step two in the manual. I'm using a connector from a ce2, with the long center post. I tried the link you gave, but it just brought me back to this page. If the method is described in a post in this thread, can you reference the post number?

Ahh, ok, works here. It's post #781 in normal view mode. He repeats it again a couple times throughout for people to see as well.

[UA72Riddle]

Woohooo! Found two more cartos stuck in a box on my closet shelf.....soooooo


LETS GET READY TO SCUBAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Heading down to my basement workshop....not comin out til I'm done!

[Gummy Bear]

Woohooo! Found two more cartos stuck in a box on my closet shelf.....soooooo


LETS GET READY TO SCUBAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Heading down to my basement workshop....not comin out til I'm done!

We'll have BR send you some cheese puffs

[mjmetz]

I have a wicking problem, also. 2 or 3 good tokes and the wick runs out of juice. Let it sit for about 5 min. and it his good again. No chain vaping. I also think think the wick is to tight in the insulators. Problem is the pen tubes are super glued in there.

Robert

Right. Matching size drill bit to that hole could make short work of that though.

[PKZap27]

Well. Finished my first build last night. I have a few problems that I can solve with a regroup, a few new parts, and a break. However, I did experience a few puffs of the sweet genisis vape before my positive post shorted.

My advice to those of you who have built it 'exactly right' and are getting harsh hits is to drip juice on the coil and take a toot. If you get a couple of good hits with good flavor then, your problem is probably mostly wicking.

I'm going to think about a few things to try when I rebuild to improve wicking. I cannot roll that wick anywhere near as well as Dan does and I want to look at the 'pen' tube insulation to see if I can find something with a larger ID that will still fit in the wick holes.

I never thought that one day I would use one of my smallest drill bits to drill out the end of a bic pen to make the inside diameter larger.

It works, however you need to go slow, as not to melt the plastic. I drilled them out while holding the pen in my hand, not while inserted in the hole of the sgv3 body.

I never used the drilled out pen tube...

I ordered some Nylon Sleeve Flange Bushings from Mc-Master-Carr part # 91145A110.

I use four of them, two in the top and two in the bottom.

I had to trim the shoulder on one side for the two I used on the bottom to get them insterted.

Here is the specs on the part. the inside dia ia 0.090"

[mjmetz]

I never thought, I would one day use one of my smaller drills to drill out the end of a bic pen to make it bigger.

It works, however you need to go slow,as not to melt the plastic. I drilled them out while holding the pen in my hand, not while inserted in the hole of the sgv3 body. I never used the drilled out pen tube, however it should work.

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I ordered some Nylon Sleeve Flange Bushings from Mc-Master-Carr part # 91145A110.

I use four of them, two in the top and two in the bottom.

I had to trim the shoulder on one side for the two I used on the bottom to get them insterted.

Here is the specs on the part. the inside dia ia 0.090"

You absolutely scare me, but in a good way! I already had a cart going, just added that in. Thank you for sharing!!!

[Teach]

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I ordered some Nylon Sleeve Flange Bushings from Mc-Master-Carr part # 91145A110.

I use four of them, two in the top and two in the bottom.

I had to trim the shoulder on one side for the two I used on the bottom to get them insterted.

Here is the specs on the part. the inside dia ia 0.090"

Excellent find Pkzap! Looks like a great idea.

[PKZap27]

If you are using the Nylon Sleeve Flange Bushings...

I used a piece of SS Mesh that is 4" x 1-3/8", rolling the wick over the wire like Dan shows.

A 3/4" wide piece would be too small.

My next roll I may go down to a 1-1/4".

YMMV

[PKZap27]

Thank you Teach!

Also...

If you notice in the picture I'm using one m1.6 nut and two m1.6 washers, it catches the Kanthal wire better than just using two unbeveled m1.6 nuts.

I never beveled the two m1.6 nuts, so maybe I'll try that next to compare.



Edit to add;

I also used an additional washer on the negative post between the sping and the roll pin.