Has anyone ever built

[Thomas Simms]

A wet-tube design. I have seen plenty wetbox's. But what if i still like the cylindrical design but have a bottom feed design. \

I am thinking have the battery on the bottom of a tube and the bottle above the battery with wires (maybe some of those flat old antenna wires or like the ribbon wires in computers) run up the side to the atty. Im thinking have the top and bottom unscrew. You unscrew the bottom tpop change the battery and unscrew the top of it to change bottles. This might be too much to ask but ill give it a shot. Im doing some sketchs right now to see if this might work. Gimme some feedback on this one.

 

[oldsoldier]

I think the reason that you don't see wet tubes is they would end up being pretty long when you consider you'll be inlining the battery and the reservoir. I could see the overall length hitting 8 or more inches long. Somewhere someone posted the measurements and showed how fast they would add up...

 

[asdaq]

If you use a 18350, you could somehow get it to 4.5" not counting the atty. Hence a dual tube design works out to be more practical. As for single tube, I'm trying to do one with a bottom switch, 14500 and a tank/atomizer that hopefully will stay under 6".

 

[oldsoldier]

If you use a 18350, you could somehow get it to 4.5" not counting the atty. Hence a dual tube design works out to be more practical. As for single tube, I'm trying to do one with a bottom switch, 14500 and a tank/atomizer that hopefully will stay under 6".

Yeah when I replied I was counting the atty and cart in the OA length. The dual tube idea is cool Petercro made a prototype out of PVC that looked really neat if you get past the color.

 

[Thomas Simms]

I was thinking of maybe making it out of something like conduit or copper tubing. I think any tubing would work. PVC would be a really good material for proof of concept or prototype i think.

 

[Thomas Simms]

@oldsoldier Do you have a link to petercro's post?

 

[Scottbee]

Have you seen this thread by any chance??

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/product-feature-design-requests/70591-dream-pvs.html

On the right is a full, bottom-feeder, auto-feeder "wet tube".

 

[asdaq]

Scottbee, you're teasing us again

 

[Scottbee]

Scottbee, you're teasing us again

Yeah.... the holidays really bring out the "..." in me.... ;-)

 

[oldsoldier]

The dual tube is buried in another thread, I don't know if he ever dedicated a thread to it. Here is a picture in case you dont want to dig around.

This is the thread. There may be another thead that has this too, Peter and HP did a lot of posting on the subject.

 

[asdaq]

That's pretty far from the finished project, Peter used PVC which allowed snap on covers for the battery and bottle if I recall. Having dabbled myself, all I can say is that for a tube sized for an 18xxx battery, having a 2nd for the bottle of the same size is rather cumbersome to wrap your hand around. A smaller 2nd tube (or 2 smaller in the 1st place) is much more comfortable.

 

[oldsoldier]

yeah I couldn't find the picture he posted that has the micro switch cover and all that, but that pic shows the general design pretty clearly.