Yeah try the brass screw really cheap and with all the sizes available might do the trick further you could replace both top screw and the pin in the bottom as well.
Having issues with button on new mech mod. Firing issues.
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I noticed the spring is in contact with the bottom button and the other end rest on the plastic washer that is used to adjust battery wiggle. Other versions Ive seen have this plastic part mount on a piece of brass. so the spring touch the bottom button then the top brass and that touched the mod wall. In that sense is the spring also making the connections? If so could i put a tight fitting copper washer in there that would link the spring to the side wall of the body?
No offense but I think given the issues with what you are dealing with it would seem to me that it is safest for you to count your blessings you did not short a battery and move to something else. I would certainly try and work something out with the seller on Ebay to get a refund and they might be really ok with that if you point out the are violating ebays rules by selling this mod in the first place. To tinker with it at this point especially with a hybrid is like asking for trouble just my opinion
I have it worked out with him now, I like the mod and hes sending a replacement, if it has any issues im getting a refund. I was mostly curious as to how the connections worked. You have great advice and cant thank you enough for your insight!
So that's funny because my gnome clone--which has the atomo clone's recessed magnetic switch--is the best switch I've ever used! The gnome has supplanted my stingray in the last month as my go-to mod.
That is funny. I have three Atomos and I had the same issue in all three. I wonder if they did something a little different on the gnome.
I saw this the other day and tried it and it seems to work. Pretty interesting. Don't know if this would help you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqBTiXStVWc
It certainly appears to be a design flaw and will most likely be an issue on all of them. The button is free floating in the housing preventing a solid connection with the housing. The only long term fix would be to come up with a better connection point other than relying on the button to housing connection. Maybe a copper washer under the delrin retainer that is wide enough to make solid contact with the housing. The electrical path would then be button-spring-copper washer-housing so make sure the spring does not have high resistance properties.
i used a piece of copper tape, rapped it around the inside where the fire button rides. seems to have fixed it so far. i only just it did as i was reading. it took the hot button problem away to.
I had this problem on my dreadnaught, checked continuity of the mod, checked charge of the batteries, everything was all good, I took the switch completely apart and put it back together, then all I did was thread out the delrin in the throw contact, even tho the 26650 is too long for the chamber as is, but it's been firing ever since. Some how by playing the delrin a bit, or loosening it off some, it allowed the contact to do just that, contact. I wish I knew why tho
Have you seen any fixes for the battery being too long for the chamber??
I just got one of these Dreadnaught clones yesterday (early xmas gift from my awesome wife) from MyFreedomSmokes and I can get it to fire fine, but the big fat orange 26650 battery won't fit in the mod without the atty poking off the top, or the switch not being screwed down all the way and the big brass "beauty ring" rattling around (which to me is worse). I love how gawdy and ridiculous this mod is, but I want everything to fit.
I already have the plastic ring on the bottom (around the switch pin) screwed all the way down, and as far as I can tell, this is the only part you can adjust for battery fit.
Yeah man the battery is totally too long for the mod, I got the efest 26650 greens, and yeah the bottom threads on not all the way and the brass decorative sleeve does rattle, there's nothing I can do about it, kinda garbage But you do just get used to it. As for the issue with the sketchy firing, I figured out what was going on, the contact in the bottom piece definitely has no problem making good contact with the bottom of the battery, however it seems to have trouble maintaining good contact with the walls of the housing of the bottom piece, which is how the circuit completes it's continuity. So what I did was, I unscrewed the delrin in the bottom piece, the black plastic that pushes up against the bottom of the battery, it acts as a guide for the contact as well as houses the spring in the switch mechanism, take that off, I then took a piece of regular aluminum foil, and folded it in a little strip, I then took that strip and shaped it into a small ring which I then fitted down into the space where the spring goes, around the outside of the spring, enough so the foil is always in contact with the contact as well as the housing wall around the spring. Put the delrin piece back in and give the button a couple of pushes, it may take a few to squish the foil in a permissive shape to allow the contact to move freely, but yeah ever since its been hitting like a champ. Hope this helps as it has definitely worked for me.
I had the same issue with a second hand Smoktech Magneto that was given to me. Basicly the switch and negative battery contact werent touching flat like they are supposed to. Played with it a couple of days but ended up throwing it away.
no need to go through all that, just take a little sand paper and clean off the coating from the fire button and where the button rides.
At the time I had no sand paper, I did however have loads of tin foil, and it really didn't take very long. But I mean I think it's kinda brutal that on an electrical contact, there would be a coating that would somehow inhibit solid electrical contact? Seems dumb
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