How do you take apart a 510 atty?

[youngunner]

I'm sure there is some sort of technique to take apart a 510 atty. I unfortunately had 2 die on me- which is weird b/c I put them on the multi-meter and the reading 1 (or un-changed) I assumed that a bad atty would have a huge ohm number- any ideas on this first? I have them a lemon juice bath over night and they still don't work. Sooo I want to use them to make adapters. I tried to take apart a bad atty awhile back and I butchered it- the clamps I used squished the atty post and and warped it in to an oval and messed up the threads- how do you take them apart to use them to make adapters? any how-to thread or advice?

Thanks!

 

[crashtestjeep]

Very carefully!

OKAY- cut longways w/cable cutters, bush trimmers, etc. until you hit abt 1/8th inch? you will see the actual adapter piece in there if u clear out the guts w/tweezers or needle nose plyers. There is ceramic down there n if u break it thats fine, i always do taking them apart-you wont need it anyway.

Then, useing plyers and needle nose plyers, grip each of the split ends and start slowly peeling the parts away like peeling a sardine can. The adapter part should come unglued *fairly* easily once uve peeled it back far enuff.

Then make sure that adapter piece doesnt get harmed. If u have an old dead battery u can cut that down (watch out for the battery-itll explode if u cut into it) but leave ebuff room for the adapter thats in it to stay and the new adapter uve just cut out. press fit iit in there.

Theres a thread on how to do it all, but the title escapes me. I would search for "how to make an adapter" i *think* thats what its called. good luck n be sure to post pics!

 

[crashtestjeep]

PER NERF, an expert modder on here---

Solder a wire to the center connector of the first one from the inside. Set the other one on top of it, solder other end of wire from the top of other connector. Hold the two together using a pair of plumbers pliars so you're not exerting any angular force. Flux up the joint, run a bead of solder. Done.

If you keep the one end in that is still inside and connected to batt tube, just solder in the sire, then press fit the naked adapter into it, making sure u thread the wire thru, the cut it n solder it, u have a really nice looking adapter...

 

[Jason365]

I used a battery connector from an old mod, screw the atty to that. Hold the batt connector with some pliers, heat the outside of the atty with a lighter by the threads where the connector is pressed into the atty tube. Grab the tube with a wrapped up paper towel as to not get burned. Then bend and twist and pull till it comes apart. not hard at all. The wires inside that atty are very short you may break them but it does not matter if your going to rebuild it. Once you have the bottom off the atty, Use a small flathead screwdriver to push on the metal ring that surrounds the metal atty wicking stuff. it should just push out with out much trouble. carfully unwrap the metal wick from around the atty and remember where the pieces went so you can put it back the same way if you rebuild it.

I cut and paste from another thread

 

[youngunner]

Thanks for the imput guys- I think I am going to try the heating up method first- since it seems a bit less complicated... BRB- i'll deff let you guys know how it goes...

 

[youngunner]

After some serious torching- I got it out- now what? man that was a pain in the ....

sorry these came off my high res iphone camera

now what?

Why won't the pics post?

Ahhh hell - here is the links

http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g264/youngunner/?action=view&current=IMG_0190.jpg
http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g264/youngunner/?action=view&current=IMG_0191.jpg

 

[Jason365]

After some serious torching- I got it out- now what? man that was a pain in the ....

sorry these came off my high res iphone camera

now what?

Why won't the pics post?

Ahhh hell - here is the links

IMG_0190.jpg picture by youngunner - Photobucket
IMG_0191.jpg picture by youngunner - Photobucket

I lol'd Beer.... at the pain in the ... part. I guess I had good luck.
What kind of adapter are you wanting to make?
Just rebuild your atty. I guess.

Jason

 

[mnealtx]

If you're using a digital multimeter and it reads 1 with no decimal places, the ohms are higher than the scale setting - try a higher resistance scale.

All my 510s run between 2.0 and 2.3 ohms.

 

[youngunner]

i want to build a 510-801 atty- i have the 801 connector piece already

 

[crashtestjeep]

OK, this is the easy part. to rebuild the atty, or use any tubing that the connectors will ffit in, or even an "ugly" w/out tubing.

Ugly- place adapter 1 upside down- now solder wire from inner ring (pos) then thread wire thru hole of other adapter (other adapter rt side up) set other adapter on top and cut wire to length and solder the wire into center hole, leaving no wire exposed, make sure u drop a ball of solder to cover wire....now bead solder around the edges to seal the two together.

Nice connector (lol) or "atty rebuild", first. cut off any excess length of atty tubing (the tube u heated to disconnect adapter) make sure its not cut too short too...measure by placing one ontop of each other, facing opposite of each other...then glue in one connecter. wait to dry..

when dry, solder wire to inner ring then tthread wire thru and follow "ugly" instructions above for rest, only ull first press fit and glue in adapter 2

ZDont forget pics when done, lol!

Nice hint on the burnin it out btw--why didnt i think of that, haha!!!!

 

[crashtestjeep]

oops, looked at pics, you obviously wont be using the atty tube, haha...better cut up an old battery...jsut remember what i said about cutting into a battery---poof!

the vbattery in oem's are only abt an inch, inch n a qtr big so as long as u dont cut in the middle area, u should be fine...

 

[vendo]

Just remove everything from inside and you will be left with a brass connector. The threaded part can be removed from the bigger brass part (well it could on my Titan 510 atty) but I found this too small to fit in a 901 battery shell, so I left it in and ground it down with a dremel. I used a piece of a large paperclip pushed in the hole in the centre pins and cut the battery case to size. Used pipe grips to force it all together. Take care doing this as the connectors mark very easily

Good luck

Chris

 

[NikGrey]

I just took an atty apart and pictured my progress as I went - cant post the images here so I am going to have to direct you to my blog entry.

3xw's dot nikgrey dot com/blog/electroniccigaretteblog/62-attyanatomy

 

[RjG]

Posted on behalf of NikGrey, pictures linked:


Atomiser Anatomy

I have been waiting for a while for an atomiser to finally break so that I could take it apart and see if a 'Re-Build' would be possible.
I will probably try to build this up again in an attempt to bring it back to life as this one is a 'Clone' which had different characteristics and seemed to work better than my original JOYE atty's in my First Modification.

The tube used for these devices is made of some kind of high quality alloy - it is very hard but can get bent it your not careful.
I started by finding a drill bit that fitted the inside of the tube perfectly - that way I could clamp the tube in a vice whilst retaining the shape of said tube - this meant I could hold the tube sufficiently.

Once the tube was held securely I used a miniature blow torch to neat the tube where the atty was situated - you know when its hot enough to twist the brass fitting as the atty will start to smoke and pop out fluid - like a volcano.

At this point take your pipe grips and twist off the top of the atty (Brass threaded part).

Now you can see a white ceramic part and a couple of really thin wires that you just broke taking it apart - take your drill bit and push the whole lot out of the tube.
Don't put the tube face down on a bench and push otherwise you will damage the wick as it pokes out of the end with no where to go.

As you can see once its all been taken apart you are left with the element, this is again, REALLY THIN wire wrapped around a piece of the wicking - This atty was about 4 weeks old and I killed it by passing 20v through it in an experiment.
Even so I had a Black element.
These parts are cheap but it is human nature to try to save money.