A couple months ago i bought a chinese ody clone. I payed 50 bux for it and was truely disappointed. It just sat in my vape junk box and caused regret every time i looked at it.. until one day I came up with an idea and pursued it until I finally found a good rebuild to make this once shameful waste of money into my everyday vape rba of choice. I tried many solutions and sometimes gave up for weeks at a time. this final build is the product of much trial and error, lots of wick, and even more wire, but here it is in all its glory, the Chody Redemption mod. Also my first tutorial write up. =]
So this is the model I bought and i dont know if this will work for any other oddy clones but this one.
Ingredients: the guts from 1 vivi nova:
remove the metal disk from the rubber, discard the wic, and push out the center pin like so..
Here are our key players:
now heres the fun part.
remove the top by cutting the center post at the airholes. you want a clean cut from hole to hole. also sand and round off the edges after you've cut your post. this part will push against the white rubber grommet in the base of the ceramic holder. you dont want to ruin it or you'll have slurp and leak issues. also there are 2 rings on the center post that need to be taken off. to do this, i first removed the top of the center post, then i placed it on a small screwdriver so that it could spin freely, then i took a dremel with a grinder bit and applied it to my center post allowing it to spin on the screwdriver while grinding at the same time. it was easy to watch the unwanted parts disappear as i grinded them away. make sure to leave the slope/grade where the big ring came off. dont smooth out the post. you need that to keep your o-ring on the bottom. your finished center post should look something like this:
next we need to modify the little metal circle thing. our goal is to turn this little ring into a small washer. if you already have a small washer, you can skip this step. here is the method i used: first start by making slices all the way around it with a pair of dykes to many little tabs taking caution not to break the ring. then snap off the tabs with your fingers or a pair of plyers.
this ring is pretty soft once you start messing with it so be careful. once you have it kinda cleaned off, you wanna really clean it off. i used a dremel with a grinder attatchment with the spinning on a screwdriver technique. you also wanna bore out the center hole a little bit so that it fits on the post. i just stuck it on the end of a pair of scissors and gave it a few turns. heres my failed and successful efforts:
Alright now we have all our parts so we can go ahead and assemble the guts of your chody.
the parts go together in this order..
now heres where i spent many hours failing to come up with this..
I took a little bit of wire insulation off of another wire and slid it onto my NR wire. this prevents the wire from shorting out against the ceramic housing.
Here's the assembled guts.. notice the insulator on the NR wire.. you can also see that you wrap your wire around the center post, between the nut and homemade washer.
now we've drasticly increased our air flow. heres a before and after:
increased airflow is sexy! and bow ties are cool! next step is to make larger the side air holes:
i took my trusty dremel and this time put on the cutting disk. caution: dont mess up the threads!! now cut into those holes and make them grow!! be sure to use safety glasses for this part B] (<---emote with safety glasses hahha)
now that was pretty messy but i didnt really care because this area is not visible when in use, however im sure that this part can be done alot easier if you actually remove the bottom piece from the rest of the choddy... which i had to do anyway to clean out the metal flakes and clean up the holes. i just stuck a small screw driver in the holes to clear out the scraps and used a wire brush to clean it up. re-assemble and youre good to go.
heres another pic of both holes.
So there you have it folks.. between this rebuild and the wick building techniques ive found here on ECF i am really enjoying my chody. I get nice full clouds of warm flavorfull vapor.. it is now all that i had hoped it'd be.. hopefully if you have made the same purchace and found the same regret, then you too can do the "chody redemption mod" and finally enjoy your purchase like i do.
Best of luck to you..
cheers
So this is the model I bought and i dont know if this will work for any other oddy clones but this one.
Ingredients: the guts from 1 vivi nova:
remove the metal disk from the rubber, discard the wic, and push out the center pin like so..
Here are our key players:
now heres the fun part.
remove the top by cutting the center post at the airholes. you want a clean cut from hole to hole. also sand and round off the edges after you've cut your post. this part will push against the white rubber grommet in the base of the ceramic holder. you dont want to ruin it or you'll have slurp and leak issues. also there are 2 rings on the center post that need to be taken off. to do this, i first removed the top of the center post, then i placed it on a small screwdriver so that it could spin freely, then i took a dremel with a grinder bit and applied it to my center post allowing it to spin on the screwdriver while grinding at the same time. it was easy to watch the unwanted parts disappear as i grinded them away. make sure to leave the slope/grade where the big ring came off. dont smooth out the post. you need that to keep your o-ring on the bottom. your finished center post should look something like this:
next we need to modify the little metal circle thing. our goal is to turn this little ring into a small washer. if you already have a small washer, you can skip this step. here is the method i used: first start by making slices all the way around it with a pair of dykes to many little tabs taking caution not to break the ring. then snap off the tabs with your fingers or a pair of plyers.
this ring is pretty soft once you start messing with it so be careful. once you have it kinda cleaned off, you wanna really clean it off. i used a dremel with a grinder attatchment with the spinning on a screwdriver technique. you also wanna bore out the center hole a little bit so that it fits on the post. i just stuck it on the end of a pair of scissors and gave it a few turns. heres my failed and successful efforts:
Alright now we have all our parts so we can go ahead and assemble the guts of your chody.
the parts go together in this order..
now heres where i spent many hours failing to come up with this..
I took a little bit of wire insulation off of another wire and slid it onto my NR wire. this prevents the wire from shorting out against the ceramic housing.
Here's the assembled guts.. notice the insulator on the NR wire.. you can also see that you wrap your wire around the center post, between the nut and homemade washer.
now we've drasticly increased our air flow. heres a before and after:
increased airflow is sexy! and bow ties are cool! next step is to make larger the side air holes:
i took my trusty dremel and this time put on the cutting disk. caution: dont mess up the threads!! now cut into those holes and make them grow!! be sure to use safety glasses for this part B] (<---emote with safety glasses hahha)
now that was pretty messy but i didnt really care because this area is not visible when in use, however im sure that this part can be done alot easier if you actually remove the bottom piece from the rest of the choddy... which i had to do anyway to clean out the metal flakes and clean up the holes. i just stuck a small screw driver in the holes to clear out the scraps and used a wire brush to clean it up. re-assemble and youre good to go.
heres another pic of both holes.
So there you have it folks.. between this rebuild and the wick building techniques ive found here on ECF i am really enjoying my chody. I get nice full clouds of warm flavorfull vapor.. it is now all that i had hoped it'd be.. hopefully if you have made the same purchace and found the same regret, then you too can do the "chody redemption mod" and finally enjoy your purchase like i do.
Best of luck to you..
cheers
