First bottom feeder

[cowjelly]

Hi all, I have wanted a bottom feeder for a while now. Wanted to make my own and this is what I came up with. A little big for my taste but the next will be allot smaller. It was fun to figure the feed system out and it has yet to loose a drop inside the box.
Regards Keith

 

[Alexander Mundy]

Very nice. Is the cover a carved piece or is it multiple pieces combined and then shaped?

 

[cowjelly]

It's one piece, thanks for the nice words.

 

[Karltinsly]

Wow, nice job! One piece? So you routed it out of a block?

I really like the corner cutout for the bottle. I might try that on my next one - with the way I hold mine, it's a little tricky to reach the opening to squonk (I've got a Reo-style side hole).

Did you have to modify the atty, or did you use a BF-ready one?

I like the contrasting colors, too!

 

[cowjelly]

Yeah I cut the cover and body out on the mill and gave it a slight friction fit. I used a 1\2" sanding sleeve to open up the finger hole. The atty is a Igo-l that I drilled the center post. The 10 ml bottle needle feeds up through the positive pin into the atty. I used a tester tip to cover the entire positive pin to create a seal at the base of the needle to prevent juice leaks. So far two bottles have went through with no leaks inside. Thanks for the comment.

 

[asdaq]

It's a beauty, and nice construction too, I missed that detail at the first glance. Is the main body Curly Maple?

 

[GMayberry]

Newbie here and looking to do my first mod. I have to ask how this works and what the benefit of having a bottle instead of a tank is? Sorry for the obvious NEWB question!

 

[cowjelly]

It's a beauty, and nice construction too, I missed that detail at the first glance. Is the main body Curly Maple?

Yes, Curly Maple has been a favorite of mine for a while. I want to round the front and back sides much like your mods asdaq. I have to build a clamp to hold the router in the lathe. If I remember correctly isn't that how you do it sir?

 

[asdaq]

No sir here, I just vape like one LOL. Curly has some special strengths to it, it is high on my list too and goes really thin easily. I think Bap is who you are thinking of, he mounted the air dremel and used the lathe as a big steady hand. I'm still at the drill and sand stage. But if you have a belt sander handy..... actually I would round edges by hand as you have it thin already. You haven't put on a finish yet?

 

[Doghead]

Looks great! Nice job!


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[Karltinsly]

gmayberry - some of the best vapes come from using a dripping atomizer, usually with a custom coil. Very tasty and loads of clouds! Unfortunately, it's also one of the most inconvenient methods - you have to drip more juice in every few pulls. Not just inconvenient, but pretty dangerous when driving. Anyway, a bottom feeder like this solves the problem by having a bottle inside that feeds the atty through a tube. You just give the bottle a squeeze - or squonk, to use the "technical" term - and vape away. Truly the best of both worlds!

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[cowjelly]

Had to step out for a bit but back now. Just finished listening to Vapers Place last show on the fda proposed regs (time for everyone to band together). Anyway thanks for the nice comments from everyone. Gmayberry building your own mod is very rewarding but study up and be safe. Once you build one you'll be hooked. Asdaq I remember seeing a picture of that in one of your threads now. Getting old has complications, memory being one of them. I can watch a dvd on Sunday then watch it again on Friday and it's like watching it for the first time. Save allot of money on movies because of that though. I plan on the next one to have a front full radius with square back edge. So a jig will help in duplicating the process. Regards Keith

 

[catilley1092]

Great looking device there!

As soon as my distributor gets some free time (he installs real hardwood floors for a living), he's going to make a few custom mods & their first customers will get the first shot at getting one. He told he that there's little in materials, as he has ample scraps of hardwood to build these & he has already made one for himself.

I'm looking forward to getting a custom made one, as I can only afford clones of popular mods.

Cat

 

[cowjelly]

Thanks Cat, I got my radius jig done today and at works pretty good. The router is about 1/2" too big to bring the bit to center line but it works quick with minimal clean up. Haven't used it in quite awhile the bit is a little rusty.

 

[asdaq]

The Lathe Has Entered The Building.

Looks great, I thought those were Bap's pics for a second. Now I'm wondering how there could be a jig for a belt sander to do this without a lathe holding things steady....

 

[cowjelly]

The Lathe Has Entered The Building.

Looks great, I thought those were Bap's pics for a second. Now I'm wondering how there could be a jig for a belt sander to do this without a lathe holding things steady....

If you took a couple pieces of angle iron. Bolted one to a board and left the other loose so you could place a rotating pin between them. Clamp the loose angle iron in place after the work piece was mounted on a shaft. That should provide adequate holding and rotate the work so the belt can do its thing. Hard to explain in words what my mind is seeing. I'll sketch something up later today and post a pic of what I'm thinking, if you like.

 

[asdaq]

Oh sure. I'm quite curious. What I do so far is invert a belt sander , the 75 x 45x mm type (one for floors and the like) and clamp the handle in a vise and hold the workpiece in my hand mostly removing material length wise. My workipeces are just about the width of the belt and it seems I could almost make some sort of dumbbell shaped jig that bolts into the center hole and has washers on the ends to guide the roundness. Not flush like you and Bap have in the pics, but with a little distance past the edge of the piece so that I sand it thoroughly without hitting the jig. If there is a lip on the sander bottom past the belt, I could steady the jig against that.

This does mean I'd be sanding the short way, but.....

Does this make any sense?

 

[cowjelly]

This is what I'm thinking if you mounted it on a piece of plywood with a piece of wood screwed to the bottom. Just pop the whole assembly in and out of the vice as needed. To mount the sander just run a couple boards parallel in front of the jig. Put a piece of all thread across the top and pinch it in place. The drawing kind of quick so don't judge. If shipping isn't that bad I have some one inch SS bar. You welcome to a piece. I could turn it to your diameter and tap the holes for you.

 

[asdaq]

Now there's a jig. I didn't quite get the angled brackets part. Thank you kindly for the offer but I'm not that far along yet and it looks too pro for my needs. Thats a lot of things I would have to have square and dependent on the workbench where right now the workpiece is only dependent on the orientation of the sander. First off the vise holding the sander is not all that great and getting the sander to be in an exact position repeatable would be a challenge. As I freehand, I look at the holes I've drilled and also check the outer roundness against various coins. If there is a lip on the sander (which I wont see until July, I have a different one here but don't need to use much) I can make a couple of axle/wheel constructions in which the axle is a tube that fits in the holes and the wheels are bolted onto the ends but with some spacers so I can sand the edges without sanding the "wheels". Maybe if I cut some width off the belts it would work easier.

 

[cowjelly]

No problem, I remember when I worked in a cabinet shop we made jigs for everything. Long time ago.