Building a Homemade Atomizer

[fenez]

the cold heat soldering gun operates with a graphite or athalite tip it is a proprietary material but me and my brother have been kicking around the idea of taking one apart and seeing how it would work because that material heats and cools so fast that it would lend itself to e cigarettes nicely.I was also thinking that maybe the whole idea of a coil might be the problem, why not just some kind of very small heating pot? I'm not sure how this would work or if it could be brought up to temp. But it is a thought.

[kinabaloo]

Amother idea - that might help the liquid reach the atomiser better. Improve the capillary action by lowering surface tension with a tiny amount of pure detergent - say 0.01%

[enfurno]

I've been thinking about this. There is quite a bit of helpful information here, but I think the materials are just as important as the design.

What about some sort of superfine stainless steel mesh cone? Stainless is fairly strong, in fact I have a strainer made of similar stuff that I am thinking of. I'm no expert but I've seen many a wood smoker built with stainless and some of those bbq smokers get pretty damn hot.

Anyway, my idea is derived from the zero filler mod.

If a proper plug could be made, that guaranteed no leak but still allowed the pointed tip of the cone to expose some of the fluid then I think that it would work, given that the mesh cone was fine enough to "absorb". Realistically it doesn't absorb anything, but it you have seen it in action with water it creates sort of a stream along the surface.

Below the cone could be the wire heater, using some of these ideas based around resistance a coil could fill say the bottom half of the cone. Giving the element enough surface area to effectively heat the entire cone, vaping a larger amount of liquid with none of the mess.

Any thoughts?

[the86d]

(My Bad! [bla bla bla])

[jdw650]

I hear that the metal used to make the coil of an atomizer degrades with each use. then with build up on the coil it stretches and eventually snaps. What if they used a stronger metal for the core of the coil and surrounded that metal with the metal used to make the coil. Would we have a stonger coil? One that would last a lot longer.

[FlipnOut]

If you surrounded the coil with a stronger metal, then you would decrease resistance to zero and cause a dead short.

[embryo]

It looks like this topic has died, but I think it has enough merit to breath some life back into it.

When I started looking into this, I was thinking a ptc (positive temperature coefficient) ceramic element was the answer. Now I think that's overkill.

Here's where I'm at now, and I welcome any advice or feedback:

A small nichrome wire loop (30-35 gauge) could be heated with a standard 9v battery. Temperatures well in excess of 300F could easily be achieved depending on the current/resistance tuning, a small nichrome loop could reach that temperature using less than 15mA draw from the battery. The 9v should have enough juice (~500mAh) to power the thing for 30 hours or more.

As a 30 year, metal-head guitar player I can say that 9 volts batteries COST TOO MUCH!

[Kuya Dave]

Accidental Post

[Brandnew vper]

Well i was readin through thinking about homemade atomizers i had a thought about the vaporizer i made years ago. I made it to vap my marajuana at the time. I was in college so (getting high a lot). But i also remebered that i still had it in my basement i made it out of a paint can apickle jar and a soldering iron with a hose. So i went down there brought it back to life. i threw in some juice where the jane would go and and plugged it in i remember how hot the iron got wow it vaped my 24mlg flavored tabacco and holy .... i got tons of vapor tons! i really woulnt have thought that would work so well.



If anyone is interested i can show you how to make one and post a vid. Or make a new how to post and write out the steps let me know?

[nasti]

i just want to see it in action