First MOD. Casing made out of polymer clay

[susden]

Here is my first almost complete mod. I made the casing out of polymer clay. Everything works great, except the light. I have the resister connected to the push button, connnected to the negative on the bat connector. Any suggestion? I've been so excited and nervous about getting this done, that I am even shaking! I can't wait to use this. I may just take the light out, but wanted to check with you all, to see if I can roll out some of those kinks. Thanks!

 

[Creniker]

Congrats susden. Its an exciting feeling to build your own e cig huh. I'm assuming you used solder to secure everything right? If so, then it may be possiable while you were soldering you got too close to the resister or LED and fried it. I have done it to both. Just my 2 cents, but I'm still a newb, so theres a chance someone might have a better explanation then me.

 

[asdaq]

Looks good so far, and unique too. I'd suspect the LED is backwards as they are polarized. The longer leg is the positive, but you won't see that now. You can test it with a 3v source, just where it is in the circuit and no extra resistor. If you have a button cell battery somewhere (cr2032 motherboard battery for example) or two if they are the tiny ones they are easy to test with.

And a piece of wire of course.

 

[boondongle]

Looks nice, susden. Might have to pick up some polymer clay myself and play around with it.

Looks good so far, and unique too. I'd suspect the LED is backwards as they are polarized. The longer leg is the positive, but you won't see that now. You can test it with a 3v source, just where it is in the circuit and no extra resistor. If you have a button cell battery somewhere (cr2032 motherboard battery for example) or two if they are the tiny ones they are easy to test with.

And a piece of wire of course.

Or if you dont have a 3v battery, you can flip the 3.7v battery around and hit the switch real quickly just to see if the LED works. Or do that with an almost fully discharged 3.7v battery. Or do what asdaq said, but using a couple of regular alkaline AA/AAA batteries in series.

 

[asdaq]

For that matter if reversing the battery works, just leave it that way as the switch and atty don't care about polarity, and the resistor does it's job on either leg.

 

[breaktru]

Congrats on your first mod Susden

 

[jj2]

Congrats on your first mod. Great looking one too.

 

[Creniker]

The exact same thing happened to me after this I'm glad someone knew the right answer lol.

 

[VWFringe]

please post notes about your process, if you laminated to another tubing, how you created the pinwheels of two colors etc.

so cool you did this - I have high hopes for poly clay and modding

 

[dogpound9219]

i like the idea usin polymer clay

 

[GERGOZ]

congrats !

that really is cool

the sky is the limit !

 

[toto1013]

Susden...simply awesome, I love your clay casing. I am so envious---not only of your polymer clay , but the build itself. You'll get it figured out and be blowing vapor rings soon....

 

[bmwjen]

Fabulous build!
did ya get it figured out?

 

[jameth]

Here's my quick and dirty mod with some polymer clay to protect the terminals and wires.

Certainly not pretty like yours though!

Very nice!