Howdy folks,
Being a noob and all I screwed up my top cap of my RM2 pretty good and was wondering if anyone had any ideas how to make it pretty again.
Long story short my girlfriends brother got a hold of my RM2 and decided the draw was too tight and drilled it out to 1/16 without telling me. Several confusing conversations later with Rob, I realized something was not right and learn and important lesson (make sure I ship all my vaping stuff to my work address instead of home address
). With the airhole at 1/16 too airy for me I went about the forums and internet trying to find a way to bring the airhole back to the original size. I could have probably sent the top cover back to Rob to fix (since he is a saint and all), but seeing as I had been bugging the hell outta him, and also being slightly embarrassed for asking him to make me a top cover that was 3/64 when the came stock that way. I decided to take it upon my self to fix the error myself.
I first learned that JB weld would be a suitable plug. Once dried it was supposed to be non-toxic and would drill out nicely, however even after two days I could still smell jb weld in my juice. I followed the instructions and let it cure 24 hours, and 48 hours later it still smelled. Not satisfied with my juices tasting like jb weld/epoxy. I tried the next most recommended solution, silver solder and redrill the hole. Next lesson I learned was that when soldering silver solder to brass, make sure you use flux. If not it just balls up and makes a mess of thing.
So now my airhole is silver soldered and holds nice and tight with the flux, and the airhole is redrilled back to 3/64 and working like a champ, I find that I had not cleaned the outside of the top cover properly and when I applied heat for the soldering and all kinda of dirty stuff fused. The RM2 works great but just looks dirty. I was wondering if anyone know how to polish or clean up the top cap without stripping the plating. I have tried vodka/rubbing alcohol soak as well as dawn and a good scrubbing, but neither of those seem to get it clean again.
Pic of the burned on nastyness
pics of the soldered airhole
Being a noob and all I screwed up my top cap of my RM2 pretty good and was wondering if anyone had any ideas how to make it pretty again.
Long story short my girlfriends brother got a hold of my RM2 and decided the draw was too tight and drilled it out to 1/16 without telling me. Several confusing conversations later with Rob, I realized something was not right and learn and important lesson (make sure I ship all my vaping stuff to my work address instead of home address
). With the airhole at 1/16 too airy for me I went about the forums and internet trying to find a way to bring the airhole back to the original size. I could have probably sent the top cover back to Rob to fix (since he is a saint and all), but seeing as I had been bugging the hell outta him, and also being slightly embarrassed for asking him to make me a top cover that was 3/64 when the came stock that way. I decided to take it upon my self to fix the error myself.I first learned that JB weld would be a suitable plug. Once dried it was supposed to be non-toxic and would drill out nicely, however even after two days I could still smell jb weld in my juice. I followed the instructions and let it cure 24 hours, and 48 hours later it still smelled. Not satisfied with my juices tasting like jb weld/epoxy. I tried the next most recommended solution, silver solder and redrill the hole. Next lesson I learned was that when soldering silver solder to brass, make sure you use flux. If not it just balls up and makes a mess of thing.
So now my airhole is silver soldered and holds nice and tight with the flux, and the airhole is redrilled back to 3/64 and working like a champ, I find that I had not cleaned the outside of the top cover properly and when I applied heat for the soldering and all kinda of dirty stuff fused. The RM2 works great but just looks dirty. I was wondering if anyone know how to polish or clean up the top cap without stripping the plating. I have tried vodka/rubbing alcohol soak as well as dawn and a good scrubbing, but neither of those seem to get it clean again.
Pic of the burned on nastyness
pics of the soldered airhole
