BOTTOM FEEDERS= a place for everything modified and/or custom made
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I used Loctite quick set epoxy if I remember correctly, you can pick it up pretty much everywhere
Asdaq!...long time buddy...
Question for you all...have any of you ever just "hit the wall" while building a mod?...for me I tend to go through this "lost interest" thing for a bit at about the 80% mark (especially if it's a complex mod), but so far I'll just put it down for a while, tinker with something else, I'll get an idea and ok, there we go, back in the saddle...but the mod I've been hinting to on a couple previous post...so I've done the 15th mock up, just seeing if everything is going to fit, make sure I haven't jumped the gun on something or something has been installed out of order, bla, bla, bla...we've all been there...but in my case with this thing...I'm looking at it...I hate it, I hate everything about it...it's nothing but a heavy, blingy piece of vape jewelry...I've boxed up all the parts, threw in a couple sheets of notes I've scribbled along the way and I've put it up on the top shelf of my shop along with my steering column puller, pipe flanger, and my tile saw...done.....
What a waste of time...
Quigs I think we've all had our share of what you're describing and I guess it's part of the "joy" of building stuff. Sometimes you just gotta bite the bullet and move on. I'm stuck with my woodie mech and have it shelved for a while and started making a woodie DNA BF till I get a brainstorm and come back to it. Sometimes when you get an idea it seems good in your head but when it comes to putting it together it proves to be a completely different beast altogether. Moral of the story is .... happens, move on buddy.
yeah bro, happens to me too, that ss mod is a perfect example... I bought a bunch of tubes and 510 heads from germany, a bunch of battery tubes with the thoughts of building several of them... I'm def into it for well over $200 in just parts, then add countless hours prototyping and tinkering and cutting and welding and milling, I actually got the the point of close to done, close enough to even vape it, then just like you said, I realized after all that that I really just hate it and I never touched it again 
then I'll get others that I have the idea, I get to more than half done and then I loose interest and move on to another idea. it's a sickness bro, a disease, don't know what it's called but it's def a sickness of which there is no cure.
if you weren't doing this you'd be tinkering with pc's, or cars' or phones, or whatever else grabs your attention at the time... I'm sure you've been like this for longer than just vaping stuff... your screwed up man, that's the bottom line here
honestly for me vaping tinkering is just so much cheaper and easier than most of the other things that used to eat up my time and attention... as much as it may suck to build a mod to 80% then abandon it, imagine doing that with cars
a few hundred becomes many thousands... I've got a highly customized built twin turbo infiniti fx with a hr motor swap sitting in my driveway dead and nothing more than a driveway decoration at this point, sitting at about 85% done... sure I'll finish it someday I keep telling myself but I've since got a newer better car so in a sense I've moved on. forget about the money that's the car itself and the motor and the twin turbos and the engine management computer and wastegates, intercoolers and all that other stuff, just the money I've spent on tools alone for that build are mind boggling. I went out and bought a top of the line miller inverter tig welder and all the things that go along with it for that project and I didn't even know how to use it at the time... took me over a year just to learn how to do proper tig welding of stainless steel tubing just to build the headers alone and it's just sitting there, building the headers was a HUGE challenge that I eventually overcame but I still haven't finished the rest of it, and that's only one of the project cars... when I look at it like that then tinkering with vape gear is just stupid easy and dirt cheap in comparison.
why, did you actually think you were normal or something???
then I'll get others that I have the idea, I get to more than half done and then I loose interest and move on to another idea. it's a sickness bro, a disease, don't know what it's called but it's def a sickness of which there is no cure.
if you weren't doing this you'd be tinkering with pc's, or cars' or phones, or whatever else grabs your attention at the time... I'm sure you've been like this for longer than just vaping stuff... your screwed up man, that's the bottom line here honestly for me vaping tinkering is just so much cheaper and easier than most of the other things that used to eat up my time and attention... as much as it may suck to build a mod to 80% then abandon it, imagine doing that with cars
a few hundred becomes many thousands... I've got a highly customized built twin turbo infiniti fx with a hr motor swap sitting in my driveway dead and nothing more than a driveway decoration at this point, sitting at about 85% done... sure I'll finish it someday I keep telling myself but I've since got a newer better car so in a sense I've moved on. forget about the money that's the car itself and the motor and the twin turbos and the engine management computer and wastegates, intercoolers and all that other stuff, just the money I've spent on tools alone for that build are mind boggling. I went out and bought a top of the line miller inverter tig welder and all the things that go along with it for that project and I didn't even know how to use it at the time... took me over a year just to learn how to do proper tig welding of stainless steel tubing just to build the headers alone and it's just sitting there, building the headers was a HUGE challenge that I eventually overcame but I still haven't finished the rest of it, and that's only one of the project cars... when I look at it like that then tinkering with vape gear is just stupid easy and dirt cheap in comparison.why, did you actually think you were normal or something???
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That makes me feel waaay better Turbo...don't you just love those legacies sitting in plain site reminding you of your disease?...I bought a Victory Hammer one year (just didn't want to join the HD herd)...that winter I broke it down to the frame/motor and proceeded to build a "monies no object" slammed fat bagger out of it, full custom dash molded into the HD batwing I modded to fit, one saddle bag was dedicated to the 500W Rockford Fosgate, custom painted it Honda Silver/smoked gray ghosts....needless to say I spent $$$...difference is, I finished it...awesome bike...my wife wanted to ride so bad so I got her a 750 Honda ACE, slammed it, white walls, beach bars/tassles, highways, road lights the whole bit...another awesome bike (I rode hers more than mine sometimes, much easier to bop around town on)
...one day we we're out for a burn, I was having a good day and went hard into a curve (I mean you're not riding less you're draggin' the boards right?)...my wife (still new to riding) followed me in (stupid, I should've known better...), she lost her nerve and sighting and highsided...all I could see was her tumbling through the rocks and trees in my mirror...I didn't even want to go back and look...5 hrs in emerg later I got the thumbs up 
...my buddies put her bike back together for me, sold it and my bike is under a tarp in my folks carriage house...hasn't rolled since...a buddy came down to the cottage on his Roadglide last summer, I took it for a boot...20 mins in and the flash backs hit every time I checked the mirrors, then the knuckles got white...I think I'm done.
I'll stick to sucking at modding e cigs.
...one day we we're out for a burn, I was having a good day and went hard into a curve (I mean you're not riding less you're draggin' the boards right?
)...my wife (still new to riding) followed me in (stupid, I should've known better...), she lost her nerve and sighting and highsided...all I could see was her tumbling through the rocks and trees in my mirror...I didn't even want to go back and look...5 hrs in emerg later I got the thumbs up ...my buddies put her bike back together for me, sold it and my bike is under a tarp in my folks carriage house...hasn't rolled since...a buddy came down to the cottage on his Roadglide last summer, I took it for a boot...20 mins in and the flash backs hit every time I checked the mirrors, then the knuckles got white...I think I'm done.I'll stick to sucking at modding e cigs.
Thank God she made it out OK
'There's two kinds of bikers, those that have been down and those goin down'
'There's two kinds of bikers, those that have been down and those goin down'
No kidding, she's got gravel in her shoulder that'll be there for the rest of her life... and she still wants to ride... silly, stubborn girl...She almost bought another bike off a girlfriend...I bribed her out of it by getting her a new vw beetle convert... seems to have bought me some time [emoji1]
Assuming it works river. Which I don't doubt you can pull it off. It's a great idea
I think I've got a simple disconnect/off switch figured out so I can squonk without firing if I want/need to. I just need to play with the buss/contact design to try and give me some fine tuning abilities.
I'm thinking this would be great with a small atty like Chalice
I'm thinking this would be great with a small atty like Chalice
damn quigs, that's rough with the bike thing and wifey.. I've got my own story of what's kept me off a bike but for me it was more sportbikes
on the squonking while firing thing I've thought about that before but don't think it'll work well with something like a chalice because squonking will submerge the coil and a submerged coil don't really vape well at all. might work with something that just has a wick draping down into a well type thing like magma veritas origen style but not atties that submerge the coil on squonk. I like bf atties that submerge the coil with minimal wick, I think it wouldn't work for those kinds of setups.
I also thought about misting a coil while it vapes too, but then there's the problem of the mist being sucked into the airstream giving raw juice particles in the vape... misting might work if it was able to mist from inside the coil maybe, so it could be a wickless coil that gets finely misted from inside as it's fired... that's a possibility I guess but problem would be keeping an even mist covering the whole coil internally not allowing hotspots, yet still containing the mist enough to keep raw juice out of the airstream
on the squonking while firing thing I've thought about that before but don't think it'll work well with something like a chalice because squonking will submerge the coil and a submerged coil don't really vape well at all. might work with something that just has a wick draping down into a well type thing like magma veritas origen style but not atties that submerge the coil on squonk. I like bf atties that submerge the coil with minimal wick, I think it wouldn't work for those kinds of setups.
I also thought about misting a coil while it vapes too, but then there's the problem of the mist being sucked into the airstream giving raw juice particles in the vape... misting might work if it was able to mist from inside the coil maybe, so it could be a wickless coil that gets finely misted from inside as it's fired... that's a possibility I guess but problem would be keeping an even mist covering the whole coil internally not allowing hotspots, yet still containing the mist enough to keep raw juice out of the airstream
yeah I agree, once you start automating it you are going more towards all the other auto feed type things that don't give the control of fully submerging then evacuating a coil for the best vape. that is what makes bottom feeding the best vape possible in the first place, full manual control of juice feed
but, if auto could be done in such a way that it vaped perfectly all the time I wouldn't be too opposed to that I guess
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