Copper Bottom Feeder

[Quigsworth]

My "bang off a quick bottom feeder while waiting for my Reo" kinda took on a life of it's own...I'm not a plumber/metal worker so be kind...Ver. 2 is already halfway built with lessons learned from this one, plus on the advice from my buddies I'm gonna just run with the Steampunk theme. You can't see it in the pics but I just couldn't help myself, the little space under the 10ml bottle has a high intensity LED...looks wicked cool in the dark, it's also about as mechanical as I could make it, only one 2" piece of 16 awg wire...ver. 2 will use external pyrotenax conductor...

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[srolesen]

wow nice work!!!

 

[lion6255]

Thats just to cool......

 

[asdaq]

Nice Quigsworth, thanks for brightening up my December. I see the screws release the bottom or top, but what is with the post in the side of the button? Also nice refining of the edges, you've blended the solder well. The pyrotenax conductor is almost ready for inception:

 

[Quigsworth]

Thanks guys, I know this kind of thing isn't every ones cup of tea, it's definitely more form over function (though it functions pretty well)...ah asdaq...I see you also have the SP gene, not sure what that is in your pic (not that it matters in the SP world) but it looks cool...I had to finally do a batt swap so I thought I'd give it a polish and take some pics of it broken down to the main components. The post on the side of the button is my rip-off of the reo "1/4 turn to lock" master switch...another small design victory was on these particular juice bottles, if you cut off the whole threaded top the dripper fits into and jam the silicone end cap from a cart in the hole you save about 3/4" of height (the silicone end cap is right up against the bottom of the batt conn.)...as far as the soldering, thanks, it's a PITA (and it's a one shot, place the parts, goop everything with flux, wrap it in wire to hold it all in place, heat it till it's almost red hot and just touch it with the solder and hope, lol)

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[alekos557]

Looks pretty badass to me, much cooler than my little boxes

 

[Quigsworth]

Looks pretty badass to me, much cooler than my little boxes

At least when I drop my little box mods they don't leave a divot in my hardwood floor...this thing weighs in at over a half pound

 

[Tree42]

That is awesome! I was thinking of doing a mod out of copper pipe and leather.

 

[cubist]

That mod is completely full of awesome. I LOVE it!


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[TomCatt]

Q! You been holding out on us ! What was that previous post about not wanting to post pics of your mods??

TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!

 

[Quigsworth]

Q! You been holding out on us ! What was that previous post about not wanting to post pics of your mods??

Lol, I believe my previous post also mentioned the high level of talent around here...my grandma always told me to never bring a knife to a gun fight...sweet ol' girl my grandma

thing is, this has been done (I'm so bad at bookmarking threads) and there's a long list of modders here that should get the credit for my cheap knock-off of their ideas

 

[asdaq]

Sure there is inspiration all over, but you've done things differently too and have quite a different mod. I'm quite sure I haven't seen the spine done with wire connectors, and how you did the bottle is unique too. That slot next to the atty, it is for the air inlet? The connector sits right on top of the silicone part, so there is no needle/ tube for feeding?

 

[Quigsworth]

I've flicked that strip of connector out of the way in my mod parts box for ever. Just to qualify, you guys can see by my sig that I've only been vaping a couple months but I've been modding computer cases since Windows 95 so this isn't entirely new to me, this is just another venue (but this time around there are a lot less full ashtrays on my work bench, hence my ATX PT). I took an almost perverse pleasure in cutting the lugs out of that strip connector, but it seems I have to buy another one now . The slot cut in the atty hole was "lesson learned #17"...that cap was the 1st switch cap that went bad, I shrugged and moved on, this was just a "proof in concept" after all...I thought about keeping ver. 2 under wraps till perfect but it seems that will have to wait till ver. 3 so if anyone is interested I'll post a "step by step" photo essay of 2 (I'll include parts I used and how I modded them and all dimensions just in case anyone wants to build their own...I plan on doing a lot less soldering to make it a bit easier, however I will be buying a new tap and die set...ver. 2 however will be a vv (stacked 18350's) with a brass plate box/dashboard to house the meter/reg/tact/trim, though I've yet to figure out the master on/off...the mechanical plunger switch is just too flaky (ideas anyone?). Although through my job I have access to some pretty "out there" mod parts I will attempt to keep as much as possible purchasable from your local HomeDepot.

The reason I'm doing this is two fold, I'm a major fan of all things SP (Steam Punk) as it brings out some crazy creativity in people so If I can lend a hand with the basic "canvas"...bring on your ideas! (so I can copy them, lol) and two, nothing, I mean nothing is more satisfying than creating something from a $5 pile of crap from your local hardware store that makes folks stop and go "Hey!, that's serious cool, what is that?"...the modders here already know how that feels, but I know there are a lot of lurkers here (there always is) that think "oh, I could never make that"...yes you can! plus it gives you an excuse to go an buy a bunch of cool tools and spend hours away from your wife...it's a win/win

Edit: thanks to some very helpful peeps here re: needle configuration on a bottom feeder, the needle (inside the connector) is cut flush with the surface of the pos conn and extends maybe a 1/4" max out of the bottom of it (just enough to get a reasonable join with the feeder tube)...the needle, inside the feeder tube is all inserted through the hole of the plug.

Also, while I think of it, I do a lot of design using Google Sketchup, I can attach any Sketchup files (*.skp) which can be opened if you download and install Google Sketchup (it's free)

 

[pnguin]

Great looking mod and +1 on the soldering. Altogether a really nice package. The polished brass and the amber colored juice give it a rich tone.

 

[slimest]

asdaq, what does this scary thing mean? Looks like a creature from Star Wars...
I suspect that it has a laser in its stomach..

 

[minigoat]

Curious about the thing in post 4 as well.

Quigsworth that is a killer looking mod, creative and well done...

 

[slimest]

And thick conductive wires are really tubes with liquid helium, circulating inside...

 

[asdaq]

It isn't done yet, and probably wont get much attention til after the holiday weekend. It's cousin, who bears a striking resemblance and is quite tame already will get plenty of attention, but isn't quite done either.

 

[TomCatt]

Ooooo...I know what it is!!!! This....

 

[minigoat]

That was my fav episode of Jonny Quest