eGo Mega-Mini battery extender mod for your eGo-T, eGo Mega A and B attys

[rchriste]

I made this mod cause I didn't like the way my eGo-T looked on my battery mods (SilverBullet, Provari and VV Box mods)

The Battery extender for the eGo works but your atty sticks way above your battery mod. This extender adapter mod gets your Tank atty or Mega atty down flush with your battery mods. Here's a step by step instruction of what I did.

eGo Mega-Mini battery extender mod for your eGo-T and Mega attys
(eGo MMBE mod)
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Start with an eGo battery charger extension. I got this one at Cignot. It should look similar to this one. They were designed and are sold to put on an eGo battery and screw into the older 510 chargers.




Screw an old eGo Mega Atty onto the adapter.

Screw an old eGo Batty connector onto the other end of the adapter.

Start wiggling and pulling on the two.

Usually the Atty Connector end comes off first.

Probably cause it's shorter than the Battery connector.

Yank the Atty connector off of the wire.

Remove the old eGo Cylinder atty.

Remove the old eGo Batty connector.

Attach an old 510 atty or carto.

Insert into a pipe cutter.

Set the depth of cut at 0.330 - 0.350

The smaller of the two will mean more detailed work later while larger means less work.

Cut the sleeve with the pipe cutter. Advance the screw very slowly and gradually so as not to put so much of a compression flange on the sleeve.

Set the pipe cutter for a second cut same depth as the first cut. I do this just to not be wasteful. You can use the second sleeve with purchased atty and batty connectors from someone like MV for a second one of these.

Second sleeve removed.

Dremel a slit in the third and remaining sleeve.

Just deep enough to break it apart and get it off of the batty connector end.

Dremel the flange off of the back side of the Batty connector and grind (file) the flange off of the back side of the Atty connector. The shorter you cut the sleeve earlier, the shorter you will have to make these connectors to fit in the sleeve. Also put a slight bevel on the Atty connector so it won't bind later when you are pressing this thing together.

Grind off the center post of the Batty connector a little to remove wire and solder mound. If you went with the shorter version of the sleeve then you'll need to grind this center post down almost to the insulation.

Use a drill bit (size R) or as close as you can find to flatten out the pipe cutter depression that you got at one end of sleeve 1 and both ends of sleeve 2. You can either spend time wiggling it on the drill bit or you can LIGHTLY hammer it to flatten the end taper some. You don't have to remove all of the taper just some of it. If a size R drill bit will slide through the sleeve easily then that's good. If you remove too much taper the connector won't be tight. Remove too little taper and it will bind and buckle the sleeve when you press it all together later.

Pre-tin about a 1.5" piece of 22ga stranded wire with the insulation removed and twisted.
Solder it to the Batty connector center conductor. For health reasons, I use lead free solder.

Ready to assemble.

Cut the wire so that it will end up flush with the atty connector face when everything get's pressed together. Thread the wire into the atty connector and press the whole shebang together in a vice. I use old used drywall knife blades on the vice jaws so as not to scar the adaptor ends cause my vice has textured jaws.

The wire should now be flush with the face of the atty connector.

Solder a smooth and low profile mounded surface on the atty center conductor. Check with a multimeter to make sure you made good contact with the wire. If not, get some more solder into the hole and make a new smooth mounded surface. If you get solder on the threads and you can't remove it with a pick then a die sized M7x.05 will take it off nicely. Again, I used lead free solder.

After filing, check with a multimeter for opens, resistance and shorts. If it's all ok then file off the solder some. Not all of it but most of it. Clean this thing extensively to remove file shavings etc. I rinse it in water and then blow dry it. Recheck with multimeter then install it on your device and enjoy. There should be just enough room for air to flow nicely. It sits a little higher than this on the Silver Bullet because their connector has a taller shoulder and because the ProVari has a slightly recessed connector. The length of my (this) extension mod is a happy medium. If you plan on never having a ProVari then you can go as short as you possibly can.

I've made 8 of these for my mods cause I love the eGo-T tanks on all of them. All are working without a flaw. If you have any questions, feel free to fire away.

 

[VAPOINSANO]

wow very detailed description+nice work!!
those ego-t's looks great on that provari!

can see a real use for these here...

i am handy @ a lot of things,
but not quite that handy yet!

i have ground the "skirt"off a couple of mega ego attys,
+used that way for now! not to pretty but does work well !
great attys by the way too!

in the end i will probably use just the extender!


im sure this is on some of the peeps mind!

thanks for great mod rchriste

 

[rchriste]

i have ground the "skirt"off a couple of mega ego attys,

Thank you Vapionsano. I wonder if a pipe cutter would make a nicer looking skirt cut than a grinder. The pipe cutter on my mod leaves a trail on it but I don't care cause it gets hidden but for your approach, I know that wrapping it with masking tape before using a pipe cutter will leave no trace of the the pipe cutter rollers. It would be easier than my mod that's for sure. I might have to try it with an old one to see if your idea works with a pipe cutter. Your method would also make for a shorter overall length. The only drawback to it would be that every time you replace an atty you have to mod it. I guess there's good and bad in both. Wouldn't it be great if the manufacturer sold a version of the eGo-T's Mega A's and B's without a skirt to start with?

Thanks for putting the idea in my head.

 

[VAPOINSANO]

yes a great idea+good solid advice thanks,

may i add with this industry being in infancy sorta
+you as a consumate user/modder already!

have a great opportunity to not wait for the"manufacturer"!!

sound ideas are this industry's future+obviously
you come from that stock!

something that you,i +probably all the newer
advances we have seen may just have started
at this very level !
who knows and why not springs to mind ?

on the skirt issue,
it never even dawned on me about pipe cutter
even as i was reading your post! doh!!

but,
found when you get to where the atty connector is
and are at the flushing it even stage,it is only in there
by the pressure of the elongated shaped skirt you have just removed!
if this makes sense?

in other words its very flimsy,
+the atty part will either spin on itself+ or fall out completely lol
but where there"s a will there's a way
+ its a huge learning curve w/ pre-built eq.!

i know this modding thing has grabbed me recently +many more peeps!
looking forward to great ideas+many great reads

vape hard peepz

 

[Bella Chic]

Wow that was a really awesome instructional right there and it looks amazing! Really great work!

 

[rchriste]

VAPOINSANO: If I understood correctly, you're saying that your grinder method leaves the atty .... loose and vulnerable and doing it with a pipe cutter would give the same result. Is that right? I'm thinking about it now and that skirt does have an inner insert that holds the outer casing to the inner atty connector. Removing the majority of that inner insert might make it tend to come apart. Darn... it was a tantalizing idea though. Back to the drawing board I go. I might have to go out to the garage tomorrow and make sure the stainless steel wirefeed welder still works. <giggle>

 

[rchriste]

Wow that was a really awesome instructional right there and it looks amazing! Really great work!

Thank you Bella Chic. You're far too kind.

 

[VAPOINSANO]

VAPOINSANO: If I understood correctly, you're saying that your grinder method leaves the atty .... loose and vulnerable and doing it with a pipe cutter would give the same result. Is that right? I'm thinking about it now and that skirt does have an inner insert that holds the outer casing to the inner atty connector. Removing the majority of that inner insert might make it tend to come apart. Darn... it was a tantalizing idea though. Back to the drawing board I go. I might have to go out to the garage tomorrow and make sure the stainless steel wirefeed welder still works. <giggle>

man your a fast typer too!!

yes your 100% percent correct in decyphering my gibberish!

and add you lucky guy you,
s/s wirefeed welder sheeeesh
as i am teaching myself how to solder for the 1st time

i wish i could go to town like you and james brown
good luck and keep us posted,
while i 2 fist my flim/flam
ego atty provari double flapper....j/k

one last note,
what was the "thing"that buddy used in the other provari thread?
on the black ego-t!
wow im 3 years old here

 

[rchriste]

one last note, what was the "thing"that buddy used in the other provari thread?
on the black ego-t!

You know, I wondered that myself but I'm not going to ask him cause I figure if he wanted us to know he would have said what it was. It didn't look bad.. I'm guessing it was a full length extension like the one I start with and then he fashions something to fill the void. I saw a guy do that a month or so ago with the silicone cap that comes on the Mega Cylinder carts. With that method it's all a matter of finding something that fills the gap, looks good and is loose enough not to block airflow while also not rattling. I'll have to think on it some.... Good hearing from you Vapoinsano.

PS: Soldering is 10 percent technique and 90 percent confidence. I have no doubt you'll master it after some practice.

 

[VAPOINSANO]

thanks rchriste
for positive vote of confidence!

i am really tenacious @ stuff like that !

i thought maybe extender but,
you never know right?

it was great to hear from you too!

will yap soon im sure!

have a good 1....

 

[crackbag]

wow! great job! where did you get that nice pipe cutter i like it

 

[rchriste]

wow! great job! where did you get that nice pipe cutter i like it

Thanks crackbag.

It was passed down to me from my Father. I have 3 pipe cutters but picked that one cause it has a super thin cutting wheel and it's hard enough to stand up to stainless steel.
I'll be depressed if it ever wears out on me. I hate to sound archaic but.... They just don't make em like that anymore. <grin>

 

[camperman]

Well done and very well documented, have you thought about selling these as I would take 4 of you now.
A lot of people have been waiting on a promise from Jason at TW to make these when the ego T was released but as yet he still hadn't brought it on to the Market.
You could make some good money selling these

 

[rchriste]

Well done and very well documented, have you thought about selling these as I would take 4 of you now.

Thank you camperman. I couldn't write a business plan if my life depended on it. <grin>

 

[camperman]

get a few hundred made send them to me and ill sell them for you

 

[Filthy-Beast]

I'd buy several also.

 

[kellie]

I would buy several also. I can't hammer a nail in the wall. lol Please sell some of these

 

[Pete5150812]

Nice work there! If there is a list about to kick off.....count me in!!!!!

 

[camperman]

youve inspired me to order some of these to have a go myself as im a dab hand with a soldering iron, the only thing that is a bit of a worry is cutting it as i dont have a pipe cutter i only own a copper pipe cutter.

just a thought for anybody else having a bash at this you could maybe also try using atomisers (510 or 901)
you could also put different connections in like 901 bat to 510 attie.

 

[rchriste]

youve inspired me to order some of these to have a go myself as im a dab hand with a soldering iron, the only thing that is a bit of a worry is cutting it as i dont have a pipe cutter i only own a copper pipe cutter.

just a thought for anybody else having a bash at this you could maybe also try using atomisers (510 or 901)
you could also put different connections in like 901 bat to 510 attie.

Whew!!! I'm really glad you jumped in and saved me.... <grin> I REALLY appreciate everyone wanting me to manufacture these and if I had time for it I might but probably not for profit. I might be able to help someone here and there but there's no way that I could start taking orders and definitely not for money.

Even talking about selling these things can get me in Dutch with the ECF moderators. I'd then be forced to become an ECF supplier to get out of Dutch.

Now *YOU* camperman... on the other hand...... HEY EVERYONE!!! I think camperman is going to manufacture them.

Now on to more serious stuff. My pipe cutter is designed for copper pipe as well. The stainless steel sleeve is SOOOOO thin on these things that they cut very easy. Faster than getting through a copper pipe I'd say. I think you'll be ok with your copper pipe cutter too. Go nice and slow though... not to save the pipe cutter but to minimize flare on the ends you're cutting. And maybe make sure there's a dab of oil on your roller bushings and cutter bushing before you start. I haven't tried it with one of those tiny palm sized pipe cutters but they would probably work too and those cutters are dirt cheap too so not a huge investment.

I have a few adapters for 901, 801 etc but I don't have any of the connectors except 510's so I can't answer that question. 901 might, it's close if not the same but 801's are quite a bit bigger I think. When I look at other connectors online they don't look like they'd fit in the 510 sleeve but they must fit in their own respective sleeves right?? I would think so. I think I've seen charge adapters like the eGo's I've been using but for other connector types. I'm not sure. If I stumble on them again I'll post it cause it's a great idea for folks interested in them. You hit on another option as well, if you use the sleeve of an old atty from one of these other sizes then all you would need are the batty connectors. Several vendors sell batty connectors in various size formats.

Oh, you're gonna make a fortune camperman. After you have, I only ask that you send me a postcard from the tropical beach where you decide to have you're early retirement. <giggle>

And I appreciate your interest in trying your hand at this thing. It's why I posted it. If you start selling them, I'll buy one from you if they're reasonably priced. I could stand to have a spare or two.

If there's anything I can do to help, just let me know camperman. I have NO IDEA WHY... but people seem to be under the impression that you may soon be taking orders for this mod. Can you put the rumors to rest and tell us if you're going to be taking orders or do you prefer to keep us all in the dark for the time being? <evil grin>