Any Advice? - I want to become a modder.

Greetings fellow vapers,

As you can tell by the title, I want to get into learning everything I can and experimenting with the modding world. I am not looking to do this to become a supplier or anything but this is mainly for a hobby (I don’t have many) as well as to help any people I can (love spreading knowledge). I am into computers and have a good techie background but have no idea about things surrounding modding (soldering, electronics, switches, resistors, batteries, etc.)

I have been vaping since the end of July and I am starting to get into the mod world and I am finally buying a mod but seeing all the modding forums, videos, instructions, makes me really want to get into this. At first I figured it is just cheaper and easier (for someone with no experience like me) to buy them and some are works of art and are easier to just buy. However, after reading more, listening to interviews and watching videos, I learned that one of the most popular modders (or at least seems to be) didn’t even have any of this type of experience until they got into vaping, so that gave me hope.

So I guess what I am asking for help with is where is a good place to start, what should I be practicing and what tools and items are best to have for a beginner? Most of the items from the videos and instructions I reviewed came from Madvapes and some examples of tools are :

• Soldering iron and holder (Nothing too fancy, a normal $20 or so one)
• Extra Hands (They sell them on Amazon, usually around $12)
• Wire cutters (Again, not very expensive, Lowe’s)
• Multimeter (Nice one for around $25ish either Amazon or Lowe’s)
• Exacto knife (Anywhere and pretty cheap but Amazon has an entire kit that nice and inexpensive)

Thanks for reading the post and again I am a noob at this but feel this would be a great hobby and learning experience to get into.

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Thanks Derek, I have a regular drill but seems like for steady drilling that a different one might be better or maybe a vice to hold the box? There actually is a Harbor Freight Tools around here, so I might just head out there.

The box mod you mention is what caught my eye as a beginner project so I can start to learn how to solder, etc. I know I need a multimeter as I am going to start using 18650 batteries and want to be able to test the voltage.

Thanks again and to anyone else who has information to share...

 

Thanks MisterD and Sci for the great information and especially the links. I think I have a great starting point on what tools to get.

Does anyone have any advice or links to how to videos? I watched the most popular one as to how to solder wires but curious as to how to solder to the button\switch. I also watched "Soldering Advice from Happysmokes" which was cool since he showed how to solder to a connector using an atty for an example.

I think I understand how to solder wires and to boards or at least the basics so I can try but just still not sure how to actually solder to the atty connectors as well as to the button\switch connectors.

Thanks again and keep it coming..

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Oh, one quick question. For those [3 Piece Titanium Nitride Coated High Speed Steel Step Drills], do they need to be used on a regular drill or do they work on dremels?

I actually have a dremel, I think a nice one, so wasn't sure if the one that was linked above was better or just a standard one?

The one I have is a [DREMEL MultiPro 275-02] and has a single speed of 35,000 RPM, is that too much and will the above steel drill tips work on this?

I assume the vise can be used to hold the dremel for drilling?

Thanks again for the help,

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Thanks jj2, I just wasn't sure if drill bits were interchangeable between Dremels and Regular drills. I didn't know since it seems a Dremel is has a lot more RPM.

So the Dremel I have will work for this type of modding?

 

Just wanted to thank everyone for the help, I think I have an idea on what tools I need to get started and a descent enough idea on soldering techniques.

 

Thanks again everyone, I'll have to try that with a screwdriver as my rechargeable one uses bits shaped like that.