Hellvape md rta fixes

[Superuser187]

I make this thread to show what I did to my hellvape MD rta and I don't get leaks anymore plus i don't need to use lot of cotton to wick it or have any problem with it....

1) my sliding topfill mehcanism didn't felt it was sealing properly on the rubber seal as I was sliding it....
I removed the rubber seal and then took some aluminium foil and put it underneath to push it up and then it was tighter as I slide it to provide better seal....go slow in that to make sure u don't over tighten it.....
Also as I see in all the mds even in YouTube videos as u close the slide mechanism u can see the rubber seal getting dragged by it at the point showen in the picture

Then I used some food safe glue and removed the seal and put a little glue underneath Soo it can't be draged while the slide mechanism closes...
After this not only I didn't had problems with flooding but I even got a dry hit....why?
Cause now it seals good and it creates a vacuum and the juice it's not running easy to the coil....since then I wick it using with much less cotton and I fluff it and I can see while I vape it bubbles come out in the tank cause it draws air from the cotton....

2) the next problem I had was that I was getting a minor leaking few times from the airflow just few drops but still was annyoing to me even if it was rare....the problem was the aiflow disks inside the building deck....they may have a rubber ring around them but when they sit on the deck it's metal to metal contact....that don't provide good seal....
So what I did that I stuffed some cotton into the disk hole that I am not using and put some aluminium foil underneath Soo it sits on it and not letting juice run to airflow of the deck....

Let's say u use turnable number 1 with the large hole....I stuffed cotton from.undernearth and also put the aluminum foil on the one I don't use...
That was it never leaked again...

Those fixes worked for me and are tested many days maybe a month or something to verify them and they worked for me...for you maybe it's ok cause maybe it was a bad manufacturing process on my hellvape md.....

Happy vaping

 

[sonicbomb]

Its called a shim. Well done for fixing the problem.

His handlebars had started slipping. Not badly, he said, just a little when you shoved hard on them. I warned him not to use his adjustable wrench on the tightening nuts. It was likely to damage the chrome and start small rust spots. He agreed to use my metric sockets and box-ends. When he brought his motorcycle over I got my wrenches out but then noticed that no amount of tightening would stop the slippage, because the ends of the collars were pinched shut.

"You’re going to have to shim those out," I said.

"What’s shim?"

"It’s a thin, flat strip of metal. You just slip it around the handlebar under the collar there and it will open up the collar to where you can tighten it again. You use shims like that to make adjustments in all kinds of machines."

"Oh," he said. He was getting interested. "Good. Where do you buy them?"

"I’ve got some right here," I said gleefully, holding up a can of beer in my hand.

He didn’t understand for a moment. Then he said, "What, the can?"

"Sure," I said, "best shim stock in the world."

I thought this was pretty clever myself. Save him a trip to God knows where to get shim stock. Save him time. Save him money.

But to my surprise he didn’t see the cleverness of this at all. In fact he got noticeably haughty about the whole thing. Pretty soon he was dodging and filling with all kinds of excuses and, before I realized what his real attitude was, we had decided not to fix the handlebars after all.

As far as I know those handlebars are still loose. And I believe now that he was actually offended at the time. I had had the nerve to propose repair of his new eighteen-hundred dollar BMW, the pride of a half-century of German mechanical finesse, with a piece of old beer can!

Ach, du lieber!

Since then we have had very few conversations about motorcycle maintenance. None, now that I think of it. You push it any further and suddenly you are angry, without knowing why.

I should say, to explain this, that beer-can aluminum is soft and sticky, as metals go. Perfect for the application. Aluminum doesn’t oxidize in wet weather...or, more precisely, it always has a thin layer of oxide that prevents any further oxidation. Also perfect.

In other words, any true German mechanic, with a half-century of mechanical finesse behind him, would have concluded that this particular solution to this particular technical problem was perfect.

For a while I thought what I should have done was sneak over to the workbench, cut a shim from the beer can, remove the printing and then come back and tell him we were in luck, it was the last one I had, specially imported from Germany. That would have done it. A special shim from the private stock of Baron Alfred Krupp, who had to sell it at a great sacrifice. Then he would have gone gaga over it.

That Krupp’s-private-shim fantasy gratified me for a while, but then it wore off and I saw it was just being vindictive. In its place grew that old feeling I’ve talked about before, a feeling that there’s something bigger involved than is apparent on the surface. You follow these little discrepancies long enough and they sometimes open up into huge revelations. There was just a feeling on my part that this was something a little bigger than I wanted to take on without thinking about it, and I turned instead to my usual habit of trying to extract causes and effects to see what was involved that could possibly lead to such an impasse between John’s view of that lovely shim and my own. This comes up all the time in mechanical work. A hang-up. You just sit and stare and think, and search randomly for new information, and go away and come back again, and after a while the unseen factors start to emerge.

What emerged in vague form at first and then in sharper outline was the explanation that I had been seeing that shim in a kind of intellectual, rational, cerebral way in which the scientific properties of the metal were all that counted. John was going at it immediately and intuitively, grooving on it. I was going at it in terms of underlying form. He was going at it in terms of immediate appearance. I was seeing what the shim meant. He was seeing what the shim was. That’s how I arrived at that distinction. And when you see what the shim is,in this case, it’s depressing. Who likes to think of a beautiful precision machine fixed with an old hunk of
junk?

- Robert M. Pirsig ¬ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

 

[Superuser187]