on my other forums. 
I posted these pics and tips elsewere a couple days ago, I'll copy and past them here too, maybe it will help someone out.
While changing out swollen lipo's I broke one of the long stand off's in one of those hotcig dx battery packs, ended up drilling it out through the back side for an allen headed screw, used some of that small aluminum hobby craft tubing to make a new stand off, pinching the sides of the tubing the 0 size screws nicely cuts a thread in the soft aluminum. That's the tubing I used to make stand off's for mounting board in some of my hammond box builds.
And here's a few problem solvers that may help someone, these happen to be with these Hana beta mods being sold on ebay but can apply to others as well. First, I have found on every one of mine, metal chips around the 510 threads on the inside, a couple of them there were chips that had broken loose and were floating around inside the case, in one photo there's a picker I found loose inside. You wouldn't want these chips floating around with a live board! I took a dental pick, bent the very end to make a hook so I can get into the back side corners and break loose any chips, once done I blow it out with compressed air.
While changing out swollen lipo's I broke one of the long stand off's in one of those hotcig dx battery packs, ended up drilling it out through the back side for an allen headed screw, used some of that small aluminum hobby craft tubing to make a new stand off, pinching the sides of the tubing the 0 size screws nicely cuts a thread in the soft aluminum. That's the tubing I used to make stand off's for mounting board in some of my hammond box builds.
And here's a few problem solvers that may help someone, these happen to be with these Hana beta mods being sold on ebay but can apply to others as well. First, I have found on every one of mine, metal chips around the 510 threads on the inside, a couple of them there were chips that had broken loose and were floating around inside the case, in one photo there's a picker I found loose inside. You wouldn't want these chips floating around with a live board! I took a dental pick, bent the very end to make a hook so I can get into the back side corners and break loose any chips, once done I blow it out with compressed air.
Next is a burr on the inside that makes the fire button feel gritty and sticky, I use a tapered stone, with a few twists by hand (no power tools!) it removes burr.
Next is the circlip that holds the 510 guts, I had one that kept popping out when I screwed an atty on, I discovered the circlip wasn't fully seating because it was compressed too much, spreading the clip open first it went back in the groove with a nice solid SNAP, no more problems. Also note, when they stamp these out, one side the edge will be rounded, the other side will have a flat sharp side, you always want the flat side facing away from the spring pressure so in this case flat side facing toward the inside of the mod. Installing with the rounded side can help the slip out of the groove, old mechanic tricked learned many, many years ago.
Next is the circlip that holds the 510 guts, I had one that kept popping out when I screwed an atty on, I discovered the circlip wasn't fully seating because it was compressed too much, spreading the clip open first it went back in the groove with a nice solid SNAP, no more problems. Also note, when they stamp these out, one side the edge will be rounded, the other side will have a flat sharp side, you always want the flat side facing away from the spring pressure so in this case flat side facing toward the inside of the mod. Installing with the rounded side can help the slip out of the groove, old mechanic tricked learned many, many years ago.
Last I've had some screens that didn't want to seat in the window recess on the inside, what I found was the edge of the glass where it was cut had a lip toward the face of the screen. I used a sharpening stone to hone the edge, held at a slight angle to help the screen fall in place, didn't take much.
Snowing again, ground is covered and white.....
Our house we bought 31 years ago was built in the 1890's, at that time even though we are in the village and a 1/4 mile from main street, all the land around here was farm land, big two story house. Out back is my shop, it was at one time a barn, about 2 & 1/2 car wide and deep with a full 2nd floor for hay, all hand hewn beams held in place with wooden pegs. Before we bought it they turned it into a garage with two overhead doors.
About a week after we were he I stood out at the shop, looking at the overhead wires feeding 220 power from the house, they were the old cloth insulated wires, most of the cloth was gone or hanging and then I noticed the wind had wrapped two of the wires around each other. Being worried this could cause a fire I went up into the house attic and started tracing the wire down to the breaker box in the basement, the wire inside the house feeding out to the garage was also cloth wrapped, at least the box had been updated. Picking it up along the rafters in the basement it disappeared into the insulation so I stuck my fingers up inside the insulation and followed toward the box, that's when I felt wires branching off and the splice was pretty warm! I pulled the insulation away and found they tapped 110 off the 220 wire and just wrapped them with more cloth tape, not even in a junction box, from there the 110's went up into a wall and I had no idea what was being feed by them. That night in bed I couldn't sleep worrying about it, the next day I bought smoke detectors and started cutting wires and running new. It turned into a huge job rewiring most of the house, installing a bigger breaker box and burying a new 220 line out to the shop but at least I was able to sleep at night.
Our house we bought 31 years ago was built in the 1890's, at that time even though we are in the village and a 1/4 mile from main street, all the land around here was farm land, big two story house. Out back is my shop, it was at one time a barn, about 2 & 1/2 car wide and deep with a full 2nd floor for hay, all hand hewn beams held in place with wooden pegs. Before we bought it they turned it into a garage with two overhead doors.
About a week after we were he I stood out at the shop, looking at the overhead wires feeding 220 power from the house, they were the old cloth insulated wires, most of the cloth was gone or hanging and then I noticed the wind had wrapped two of the wires around each other. Being worried this could cause a fire I went up into the house attic and started tracing the wire down to the breaker box in the basement, the wire inside the house feeding out to the garage was also cloth wrapped, at least the box had been updated. Picking it up along the rafters in the basement it disappeared into the insulation so I stuck my fingers up inside the insulation and followed toward the box, that's when I felt wires branching off and the splice was pretty warm! I pulled the insulation away and found they tapped 110 off the 220 wire and just wrapped them with more cloth tape, not even in a junction box, from there the 110's went up into a wall and I had no idea what was being feed by them. That night in bed I couldn't sleep worrying about it, the next day I bought smoke detectors and started cutting wires and running new. It turned into a huge job rewiring most of the house, installing a bigger breaker box and burying a new 220 line out to the shop but at least I was able to sleep at night.
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If someone insisted the that the outlets in a place I own were installed upside down in order to "meet code", I think I would spin them all around as soon as the inspector left.
You wanna know what the bane of current codes is? The "tamper proof" outlets with internal shutters. Those things are a total PITA.
This is for Willy - everyone else keep yer mits off !
...yea, it looks more like cocoa than coffee...but it did come up on coffee and bagel google.
I want the bagel, you cant get a good bagel in this town, but you can get a good cup of coffee (at my house).This is for Willy - everyone else keep yer mits off !
...yea, it looks more like cocoa than coffee...but it did come up on coffee and bagel google.
This is for Willy - everyone else keep yer mits off !
...yea, it looks more like cocoa than coffee...but it did come up on coffee and bagel google.
Thank you
Local surrounding Counties and Cities have opted out of tamper proof, having to GFI protrct the garage door openers, and arc faults except for the bedrooms. Arc faults are the biggest bane as far as I'm concerned. Any piece of equipment that distorts the waveform at zero crossing or draws short duration pulses of current will trip them. List includes some computers, Tv's, UPS's, dimmers, vacuums, and most all excersize equipment with electronic speed controlled motors. New home owners think I am nuts when I tell them their piece of equipment is what is doing it and there isn't a thing I can do about it. Worst thing about it is it is usually sporadic so after a dozen service calls you isolate what it is. One of the largest locally owned electrical contractors in town has kept track since they were introduced and with just the bedroom arc faults has lost over $20K in time where it was a customer piece of equipment tripping it. Smart meters are next on my list of tech introduced before the kinks are worked out. They have a 1 watt RF transmitter and are all part of a huge mesh network so that transmitter transmits often. They can trip a GFI within close proximity even with nothing plugged into it because they induce a current in the coil that a GFI uses to detect imbalanced current. Guess what every temporary power pole I own has to have? GFI protection. The local utility and I had a blow out about it and they finally got the smart meter manufacturer involved after I had them take one of my temp poles back to their metering deparment to prove to them what was happening and I threatened to call a buddy at the FCC. A software patch was required in the meters they put in temp poles and now I only call them once every other month or so to put an old analog meter in due to GFI nuisance tripping.
It sounds as though a group of people ran out of worthwhile things to do but needed to appear "pro-active" to keep the pay checks coming through.
Ever get in one of those slumps where you can't seem to make a decent build even though everything looks right? Just the right amount of rayon can really make or break a cloud producer... sigh... Wish you could buy the sally's in the perfect size roll diameter for MY coils LoL.
Nice thing of doing your own work, keep it safe and to yourself, damn the regs.
Been there, done that, still do.....
Then some days I just have that "Mojo" and everything falls together effortless.
This has been stuck in my head the last few days, might as well share some background music for while you work.
Classic, life was so good, we had the world at our feet with few worries.
Classic, life was so good, we had the world at our feet with few worries.
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