A few mechanical mod questions...

[Revelene]

I just started venturing into the mechanical mods now that I'm building sub ohm coils. The issue I have is that there are a few unanswered simple questions...

1. Does it matter which way the battery is oriented?
2. How tight do you tighten a telescoping mod? (I seem to be able to make most of them tighten all the way with the spring fully compressed with little effort)
3. Do you use a safety fuse?
4. Do you flush mount your atty then position your center pin up to it?

I know these may be trivial but I could not find an answer anywhere. As of now, I'm using a sigelei #19E Custom from Kidney Puncher.

 

[OlDogNewTricks]

Hi. I make 1 ohm coils, so I am not really worried about a fuse. I do use protected batteries only though. I don't run them down or longer than 5ish seconds per draw. Orient the battery according to the directions. My Magneto has the bottom (negative) side of the battery facing toward the switch. I believe that is the typical (correct) way to orient them. It is a telescope and I tighten it to the point where the battery doesn't rattle, don't crank down on it, you can damage the battery. Mine is the v1, no adjustable center pin. I would say unless you are into looks, if it fires, you're good to go. Just my two cents, YMMV. Good luck, be safe and have fun!

 

[Oomee]

1 Yes , on some models inverting the battery may compromise the switch (button top ingresses into switch cavity)
2 Light finger tight , over-tightening may damage the battery
3 Always !!!!! (Specifically WRT unprotected batteries)
4 Not sure about that one matey !

 

[Cjax]

1. yes, it matters for various safety reasons to always put the battery in a mod positive side to atty. It will work the other way but potential for a dangerous hard short is exponentially increased.

2. with telescopes it's easy to overtighten them and potentially damage a battery or atty. (For this reason I use fixed tube mods mostly) Just take out as much wiggle as possible without causing the spring to dent the bottom of the battery or floating pin to push up too much on the atty (if your mod has one.)

3. I don't use a fuse but I do my due diligence to check my batteries and coil builds often. If you don't do this then a fuse is a great way to be safer.

4. With a floating/adjustable pin this is exactly the way to do it. Just be careful with a free-floating pin because (as said in #2) overtightening the mod can push the pin up into the atty causing a short.

Hope this helps

 

[Revelene]

Hi. I make 1 ohm coils, so I am not really worried about a fuse. I do use protected batteries only though. I don't run them down or longer than 5ish seconds per draw. Orient the battery according to the directions. My Magneto has the bottom (negative) side of the battery facing toward the switch. I believe that is the typical (correct) way to orient them. It is a telescope and I tighten it to the point where the battery doesn't rattle, don't crank down on it, you can damage the battery. Mine is the v1, no adjustable center pin. I would say unless you are into looks, if it fires, you're good to go. Just my two cents, YMMV. Good luck, be safe and have fun!

Unfortunately, my mod did not come with instructions.

1. yes, it matters for various safety reasons to always put the battery in a mod positive side to atty. It will work the other way but potential for a dangerous hard short is exponentially increased.

2. with telescopes it's easy to overtighten them and potentially damage a battery or atty. (For this reason I use fixed tube mods mostly) Just take out as much wiggle as possible without causing the spring to dent the bottom of the battery or floating pin to push up too much on the atty (if your mod has one.)

3. I don't use a fuse but I do my due diligence to check my batteries and coil builds often. If you don't do this then a fuse is a great way to be safer.

4. With a floating/adjustable pin this is exactly the way to do it. Just be careful with a free-floating pin because (as said in #2) overtightening the mod can push the pin up into the atty causing a short.

Hope this helps

Thank you for the input!