Gdeal Bottom Feeders (Tutorials/Parts List/Pictures) - Please take questions to the spec thread

[ronnbert]

There you are Roscoe the mod dropper. I was waiting for you to chime in with your words of wisdom

Atleast I know if I do someone snap mine, that super glue will actually keep it back together.

So super glue actually bonds it together, and holds well?

And Ronnbert, must be my Tapatalk, I can't see any of your pics or anyone else's.. and as the wick, yes way way less IS MORE. You now get fresh hits every sqounk, no need to horder burnt nasty juice from your last toke.
And as for the max VG, i run mostly VG in my DIY, and it's snowing here. I get by fine, just sqounk more! You'll get the hang of it and you'll never go back to dripping, uhh ew who wants to manually drip!?

-Mark

Well, I will still manually drip from time to time, but my Atlantises (4, I know, I am a hoader, also getting a subtank) and Nautiluses are going to see less use as driving and about addys. I also built this coil to 3mm ID, so I need a bit of cotton to fill it up. May cut down tails though.

 

[K-Omo]

the ugly abstract peko process - painted with testors enamel paints:

then covered with tiny strips of painter's tape and painted with a coat of testors enamel white.

painters tape removed:

and the ugly abstract peko sitting on one of my ugly shirret wool rugs.

Junquedujour your abstract Peko is beautiful.

And, btw I have one of your shirret wool rugs and its not ugly.

 

[Tbev]

I second that, you know Omo and I have similar, great, taste! I think that thing looks badasz I like it best wo the white tho!

 

[moresalt]

Just thought I'd upload a pic of mine and one in progress. Its really waiting for paint but I'm still trying to get my head around the paint dipping process...either that or I'm scared *!#%less that I'll mess it up. The DNA40 is all setup just have to paint the top cap & body.

 

[moresalt]

You obviously don't know how ..for lack of a better term... skilled I am with paint. I have been painting 3 rings and buttons since Dec. sand, primer, sand, primer, sand, paint...start again at step 1. Yesterday I painted a button gold and it was beautiful...except for the 1 little hair that somehow got caught in the paint. Aarrggg!

Edit: Maybe I should stop using the 10x loupe to examine the quality.

 

[muzichead]

You obviously don't know how ..for lack of a better term... skilled I am with paint. I have been painting 3 rings and buttons since Dec. sand, primer, sand, primer, sand, paint...start again at step 1. Yesterday I painted a button gold and it was beautiful...except for the 1 little hair that somehow got caught in the paint. Aarrggg!

Edit: Maybe I should stop using the 10x loupe to examine the quality.

Just thinking outloud here... This is not a knock on you, but maybe your not that skilled since you have to constantly sand, primer, sand, primer, sand, paint...start again at step 1... I think what you described was a little thing we like to call OCD!!!!

 

[Kataphraktos]

Before clear coat

How I sprayed my parts

My daily carries with respective juices (think I will dwindle down dailies once I find my sweet spot on this lil guy)

On break at work. Cannot believe it makes my istick seem big lol!

One thing I am mad at, is the shell turned white-ish from too much clear coat, but my other parts are fine -_-

Also, I worked from midnight to 6am getting it done, thought I could get it finished by 1 lol. I also snapped the delrins in one of my 510s when I tapped it. That probably took the longest time, but now that I have done it, the others should be easier. Also, the vented screw took a while to get threaded down, even after running the tap through it multiple times.

Also, how did yall do your bottles? I may try to adjust how I do mine.

My other mods are jealous, I haven't put my peko down lmao!

Love the Red&Black, but also love that the atty on the iStick is bigger than the iStick. Very hookah!

 

[moresalt]

LOL.....I like that. But yeah, I must agree. It should be relaxing and chilled out experience. I just pull up a chair and go through a set of parts painting. Could be your not using the right brushes or something in your process. But nothing is perfect and if you are looking at it under a magnifying glass.....hahaha....then I feel for you. Good thing my vision ain't that great. All mine look good that way. But imperfections are what make it art. But anyway, the offer is out there for anyone. Don't mind helping any way I can. I just enjoy doing it. If you're not, then maybe you need to find something else to do or way of accomplishing it.

I find that the sanding is very relaxing, and the painting can be quite rewarding when it comes out right. I'm using rattle cans for the painting and that in and of itself could be part of the problem. And I use the loupe because my vision ain't that great either. I don't need these to be perfect just damned near perfect. As far as OCD?...uh, ok, that's possible...ok, probable...alright I have OCD! I appreciate the offer of help and I may end up PMing you for the dipping, but I don't know what all I don't know yet. I'm not sure what question(s) to ask yet.

 

[ronnbert]

Love the Red&Black, but also love that the atty on the iStick is bigger than the iStick. Very hookah!

Red and black is for my favorite college team: NC State. I am going to get some small logos and put them on the shell.

The atty is a version on the Nautilus. It looked fine on my MVP, but when I upgraded to the iStick, I couldn't give it up, even though it looks massive on it.

 

[BlueSnake]

Red and black is for my favorite college team: NC State. I am going to get some small logos and put them on the shell.

The atty is a version on the Nautilus. It looked fine on my MVP, but when I upgraded to the iStick, I couldn't give it up, even though it looks massive on it.

It wouldn't look so massive if you would take the adapter off and screw it directly to the mod.

 

[RGLP4Lyfe]

Wow yeah J you wrote a freakin swirl paint noval! Hahaha. Nice techniques though and very good information.

-Mark

 

[junquedujour]

excellent info!!!
i am curious why you use a big bucket? i just used an ice cream bucket.

 

[junquedujour]

i bet a couple years ago, you never dreamed you'd be accumulating arts 'n crafts supplies to decorate vapes of all things. haha.

i have been somewhat of a crafter most of my life, but never thought it would go this far for vapes. heh. i like the rolling cabinet idea.

 

[ronnbert]

It wouldn't look so massive if you would take the adapter off and screw it directly to the mod.

I agree completely, but I have heard that the 510 threads wear out a bit too easy on the iStick, so I would rather use the adaptor and beauty ring so that taking the tank on and off won't wear down the threads. I want this thing to last as long as possible, that way when I pass it along to someone else who needs to quit smoking, they have something that will last a while.

 

[RGLP4Lyfe]

Actually no, I have done similar type things for a long time. Always been into building/modding anything/general handyman and my wife is completely 180 degrees the opposite. So when I built my speaker stands and component rack, did the wood/metal deal, the wife had to have her say. So had to antique the metal and patina all her "decorations". She has always had me doing stuff like that, distressed wood or whatever. So had plenty of paints and supplies at the house. And I use Testors paints in my other hobbies such as my RC quadcopters and helicopters. Though you're not gonna find any beads or sequence in any of my supplies...lol...I draw the line there. If she wants that stuff, it is time to learn.

Well, re-read the first line again. Well maybe to vaping. Wasn't much more than a few years ago that I even heard about vaping. It is really rather new to my area. Hell, I was the first person in my facility at work to start. That was right about 2 years ago, maybe 3, hell I can't remember.

I work in a warehouse with 300 plus people . I am the only vapor and they call me the cho choo train. Hahaha. Weird ....... people still smoking stinkys..

-Mark

 

[muzichead]

Ok, so just for sh!ts and g!ggles i was bored yesterday and got this wild idea. I had a copper sleeve for my Nuppin' that once was black and then thought, what if it was matched to my Peko... It's not exactly what i was going for, but it is close... I have a darker drip tip inbound that should match it better in a few days. I'm not sure as to how this will hold up to the abuse I sometimes put my stuff through, but what the hey..... All I had was some hammertone paint in the cabinet but thought it would be ok for now. It has about 10-12 coats of clear on it also. It can always be sanded or stripped back to the plain copper and be redone if need be. It seems to be holding up so far.... The ring on the Mephisto will be redone as well to a green or brown/tan to go with the camouflage theme.

 

[Tbev]

Love the black crowes!

 

[TheTurk]

Ok, so just for sh!ts and g!ggles i was bored yesterday and got this wild idea. I had a copper sleeve for my Nuppin' that once was black and then thought, what if it was matched to my Peko... It's not exactly what i was going for, but it is close... I have a darker drip tip inbound that should match it better in a few days. I'm not sure as to how this will hold up to the abuse I sometimes put my stuff through, but what the hey..... All I had was some hammertone paint in the cabinet but thought it would be ok for now. It has about 10-12 coats of clear on it also. It can always be sanded or stripped back to the plain copper and be redone if need be. It seems to be holding up so far.... The ring on the Mephisto will be redone as well to a green or brown/tan to go with the camouflage theme.

That looks great , good job [emoji106]

 

[RGLP4Lyfe]

Derringer came today! Came with a copper post so I replaced it with my already BF Rogue post/ screw. Works awesome and this atty is freakin GREAT. came with the matching drip tip too, can't beat that.

-Mark

 

[RGLP4Lyfe]

Liver of sulfur patina on my copper Nuppin sleeve! Oh yeah! Not gonna take it out an about but its a show piece! Love how the copper came through!

-Mark