Calling all modders

[kinabaloo]

Will beat writing those e-cig instruction booklets ...

Welcome you e-cig
Take out of box before lighting
Dagger: Will hot after heating!
Do not drop or put horse before cart ...

ps: No, not really; was not me. Not me! Honest!!!

 

[stevo_tdo]

Jesus Christ. LMAO here. Will read through all the posts thoroughly tomorrow after sobering. Went out to dinner with wife as soon as I made my first 2 posts. Drunken as I am photon beam does have a ring to it as i sit here. To be continued.....

 

[kinabaloo]

Jesus Christ. LMAO here. Will read through all the posts thoroughly tomorrow after sobering. Went out to dinner with wife as soon as I made my first 2 posts. Drunken as I am photon beam does have a ring to it as i sit here. To be continued.....

I have a carte blanche beside me but not opened it yet

Didn't realise, it's not a metric one; need to find that twirly metal widget thingy ...

Or maybe a power drill ...

 

[dedmonwakin]

remote activation for your novel idea? Like a ghostwriter?

I might be interested.

"It was a dark and stormy night. But dedmon was alone in his garage, a solitary light in a dark landscape of windswept rain. Not just the light from an old table lamp on the workbench, but the light of creativity too. And this night also a special light, an infra-red light, the twilight zone where light meets heat ..."

Something like that?

ps: I get a share of the movie rights, right?

LMAO! No silly, novel as in, not typical!

 

[kinabaloo]

I see, how about I start at the end, with flasbacks, or tell the story from the point of view of the LED?

[some cheesy snacks later ...]

Oh, I get it. You need some ideas for your telepathic creation ...



I can envisage an IR beam, a plain old IR photon beam device from radio shark; but beyond that, not sure what you have in mind

 

[stevo_tdo]

I too was thinking of tinnear; i imagine he knows of this already, but perhaps not. Could be handy for some of thoe parts he needs to create.

Apparently large plastic (polythene) milk bottles are good to use, perhaps because not only the right material but also because the top is about right for the vacuum cleaner hose

PVC is also often used; as in making vinyl records (big black discs with music on them). The industrial machines are fed with little pellets of the plastic.

I'm aware what a vinyl record is. lol I do remember a PBS show where they took old records and used a vacuum mold to turn them into vases. I have tons of craptacular vinyl from even worse artists. Might use them to test my vacuum mold and the technique.

Will not part with my blues brothers album though.

 

[Zofryer]

First of all, stop leaking out my ideas. lol

I'm experimenting with this right now.

Oooooooooh. I've been working with 1/4 inch phone jacks, but I'd imagine epoxy clay would hold threads really really well. In the very least, you could mimmick an RCA style connector for a tight "push it on" connection. If you slightly angled the center post, it would actually "snap" on, and hold it's own center post against the contact. Tolerances would be tight though. I might have to silently see if I can make wire-embedded magic-sculpt connectors, after I figure out how this monster I'm making is going to work.

 

[kinabaloo]

Oooooooooh. I've been working with 1/4 inch phone jacks, but I'd imagine epoxy clay would hold threads really really well. In the very least, you could mimmick an RCA style connector for a tight "push it on" connection. If you slightly angled the center post, it would actually "snap" on, and hold it's own center post against the contact. Tolerances would be tight though. I might have to silently see if I can make wire-embedded magic-sculpt connectors, after I figure out how this monster I'm making is going to work.

With a suitable guage wire I'm sure this can be done. Building a connector from scratch Not difficult though. Alternative would be cutting threads (from brass, say) with a die.

 

[DigDigital]

You need someone in China with injection molding equipment and lots of money.

 

[Zofryer]

With a suitable guage wire I'm sure this can be done. Building a connector from scratch Not difficult though. Alternative would be cutting threads (from brass, say) with a die.

Naw, that's not where I'm going with it. My thing is, it's silly to have to have a screw on connector for the atomizer when the batteries themselves are held in place by a spring. The original reason was because the connection between the battery and the atomizer was a stressed component requiring strength. In a design where the atomizer is just sitting on top of a battery box, or in my case is enclosed mostly in one, I'm not seeing the need for threads. My smoking style has me swapping atomizers a few times an hour to rapidly change flavors. I'm trying to come up with a reliable quick release connector. So far, I've been using really short threads. The RCA jack adapter mod looks appealing, but I'm really only interested in 801 style atomizers, so I'm looking to duplicate that functionality in as small a form factor possible. In my previous femo/erector-set attempt that nearly burned my place down, I had a spring loaded mouthpiece connector. You slid the atomizer into the slot and it clicked into place. I got the idea from the spring loaded CO2 injector in a crosman 357 CO2 pistol. I just need to think about it for a while. I'll come up with something.

 

[dedmonwakin]

I'm going to order a tap and die set. I'm going to see if I can totally re thread the atty without destroying it. This would eliminate so much problems. A battery connector isn't the issue, it's the dang atty thread.

 

[kinabaloo]

If the 510's threads are a 0.5mm pitch, then perhaps wire a diameter of 0.5mm would be best to quickly make a helicoil. Wind on atty athreads, apply expoxy resin and let it harden, unscrew atty.

Or, rip out that darned connector and put in somethng better

 

[stevo_tdo]

Helicoil, HELICOIL, damn forgot all about those. Did spend an 1 1/2 hrs at radioshack today. Wish I still worked at a machine shop, all the after hours free time was enjoyable to say the least. You now those sma adapters are pretty close to a m401 I believe. Might be able to rethread one of those or vice versa. Just a thought, i'll go check now lol.

 

[Zofryer]

I'm going to order a tap and die set. I'm going to see if I can totally re thread the atty without destroying it. This would eliminate so much problems. A battery connector isn't the issue, it's the dang atty thread.

My rule was, no physical alteration of the atomizer. You just slot it and puff away. I had a spring loaded angled base, with a spring loaded metal center pin. You angled it in the slot, and pushed it up against my attempt at autofeeding (spring loaded metal tube filled with cart material fed by a bottle). That tube directly contacted the wick. there was yet another spring for the floating mouthpiece funnel that formed the air-tight seal around the mouthpiece side of the atomizer. The springs in the base and tube-cart were very weak compared to the mouthpiece spring, and had much less travel. So it just snapped into place. I basically took apart some pens and a few car lighter adapters and used the metal "funnels" and fuse springs. And juice leaked all over everything, and it short circuited and nearly burned my place down. : ) I had the spring inside the tube-cart to push the filler material carrier against the atomizer, and it was creating a flex-gap on one side I couldn't see, and juice dripped through the unit.

So essentially my design was:
*overly complicated
*weak
*dangerous
*way too big

It just started getting bigger and more complicated. The mod I'm working on now has two 801 style atomizers, so 2.2ml of juice in carts. I don't see the point for autofeed with this much cart capacity. So now it's just coming up with an elegant way to make snap-fits for dual atomizers, and that's been my major hold-up.

 

[stevo_tdo]

Thats a no go on the sma's but there are other types with various thread sizes. If the diameter of the sma was a touch bigger I bet it would of screwed in with no modifications. Damn..lol Although with the right threads cut in the sma and a proper helicoil on the outside that might work. Already has a wire coming out that could contact the center of the atomizer.

 

[kender]

This is a moldable plastic. Just heat it and shape it
SHAPELOCK

 

[stevo_tdo]

Very interesting

 

[Nulli]

Can anyone give a recommendation on where to find Magic sculp ?
I'm trying to find somewhere local so I do not have to pay for shipping for a 5 lbs tub.

Nulli

 

[dedmonwakin]

Can anyone give a recommendation on where to find Magic sculp ?
I'm trying to find somewhere local so I do not have to pay for shipping for a 5 lbs tub.

Nulli

Your gonna have to order it. It's not a common medium to find in any art goods store, no more common than finding modeling wax. I order directly through the manufacturers site because I require large quantities of it(5 gallon buckets). But there are many sites that you could get it cheaper and at a lesser size.

 

[dedmonwakin]

This is a moldable plastic. Just heat it and shape it
SHAPELOCK

Friendly plastic pellets and shapelock are of the same.

They both have a low heat tolerance(130-150 degrees), but would be really good to use in combination of other mediums and fabrication. Provided proper planning to avoid heated areas of your device, such as batter, atty connector. Warping would be expected around those areas.