Okay,
(for those of you wishing not to read the entire post:
I'm looking for already threaded tiny posts so i could use screws instead of sewing needles in a rebuildable atomizer mod plan posted and discussed here on this forum. I've been considering standoffs but am looking for further information and advice due to my rampant ignorance on the subject. I realized after writing the post it was a bit long and might be skipped lol. so, i added this.)
So, i'm wanting to make a rebuildable atty outa an RCA plug like in the thread for "the Smallest rebuildable atty" thats in this forum like probably a couple rows down from this thread. heh. But that thread's gone a bit dead and Since i'm trying to get help ASAP i figured, split off and ask my questions directly rather then in another thread. probably shoulda figured that out yesterday
SO! That thread calls for using Sewing needles for negative and possible posts to wrap your coils around. i don't wish to use sewing needles, I want to use screws. But i'm a relitively inexperienced modder and i really know next to NOTHING about hardware. In the last couple of days, however, I have learned a bit.
The problem, as i saw it, was if i was gonna use screws i needed posts for the screws to screw into. Some one in the thread i mentioned previously talked about using TAP n DIE to create said posts - i didnt know what that was so i reasearched it and figured it out. But it seems silly to me to be looking at learning how to use tap and die when there HAS to be an alternative for some one who doesnt already have tap and die sets and experience. (It wouldn't be silly for some one who already has the experience, know how and tools. But some one like me... doesnt make much sense.)
So, i started researching some more - and first i thought "Eyeglass repaire kit" should have what i need. And in the realm of screws, it probably does. But the screws arent the issue. I need two threaded posts made out of solderable cunductive material to thread my screws into and hold my coils in place with a stern, strong connection that wouldnt get dismantled if/when i dropped it! From what i began looking at it seemed possibly, perhaps, it resided in the realm of PC repaire rather then eyeglass repair! I've been looking at "standoffs" which seem to be threaded, tiny round or hex posts made out of various types of materials.
So this is what i have found thus far - M2.5-0.45 X 3MM 4.5MM Hex Standoffs (Female / Female) / Stainless - Fastener SuperStore, Inc.
What do you think?
Do you have a better idea or suggestion?
Should i be considering anything else?
Can you recomend SIZES i should be looking for?
do you have a recomendation of material i should avoid or look for? *aluminum doesnt solder, right? so i've been avoiding that.
ANY help would be so insanely greatly appreciated. I REALLY want to make one of these, i cant afford to buy one of the nice ones on the market, and this schematic is really EXACTLY what i wanted, right down to fitting 510 drip tips! ANY help would be so greatly appreciated.
I'd really like to order what i'll need, i just need to know what that will be lol.
Sachi
(for those of you wishing not to read the entire post:
I'm looking for already threaded tiny posts so i could use screws instead of sewing needles in a rebuildable atomizer mod plan posted and discussed here on this forum. I've been considering standoffs but am looking for further information and advice due to my rampant ignorance on the subject. I realized after writing the post it was a bit long and might be skipped lol. so, i added this.)
So, i'm wanting to make a rebuildable atty outa an RCA plug like in the thread for "the Smallest rebuildable atty" thats in this forum like probably a couple rows down from this thread. heh. But that thread's gone a bit dead and Since i'm trying to get help ASAP i figured, split off and ask my questions directly rather then in another thread. probably shoulda figured that out yesterday
SO! That thread calls for using Sewing needles for negative and possible posts to wrap your coils around. i don't wish to use sewing needles, I want to use screws. But i'm a relitively inexperienced modder and i really know next to NOTHING about hardware. In the last couple of days, however, I have learned a bit.
The problem, as i saw it, was if i was gonna use screws i needed posts for the screws to screw into. Some one in the thread i mentioned previously talked about using TAP n DIE to create said posts - i didnt know what that was so i reasearched it and figured it out. But it seems silly to me to be looking at learning how to use tap and die when there HAS to be an alternative for some one who doesnt already have tap and die sets and experience. (It wouldn't be silly for some one who already has the experience, know how and tools. But some one like me... doesnt make much sense.)
So, i started researching some more - and first i thought "Eyeglass repaire kit" should have what i need. And in the realm of screws, it probably does. But the screws arent the issue. I need two threaded posts made out of solderable cunductive material to thread my screws into and hold my coils in place with a stern, strong connection that wouldnt get dismantled if/when i dropped it! From what i began looking at it seemed possibly, perhaps, it resided in the realm of PC repaire rather then eyeglass repair! I've been looking at "standoffs" which seem to be threaded, tiny round or hex posts made out of various types of materials.
So this is what i have found thus far - M2.5-0.45 X 3MM 4.5MM Hex Standoffs (Female / Female) / Stainless - Fastener SuperStore, Inc.
What do you think?
Do you have a better idea or suggestion?
Should i be considering anything else?
Can you recomend SIZES i should be looking for?
do you have a recomendation of material i should avoid or look for? *aluminum doesnt solder, right? so i've been avoiding that.
ANY help would be so insanely greatly appreciated. I REALLY want to make one of these, i cant afford to buy one of the nice ones on the market, and this schematic is really EXACTLY what i wanted, right down to fitting 510 drip tips! ANY help would be so greatly appreciated.
I'd really like to order what i'll need, i just need to know what that will be lol.
Sachi
