How to cleanly disassemble Joye510 batteries, McGuyver style.

[Suwat]

Hi all, my first post here.
This is a mini tutorial on how to disassemble Joye510 batteries without damaging anything in the batteries using around-the-house tools. It may be applied to other battery models too. I don't know whether anyone posted instructions on how to do this before. I already searched a while back and counldn't find anything on the subject. If this post duplicates anyone else's technique in any way, I sincerely do apologize. I just want to report on what I did. By the way, I only had one dead battery so that this was the only time I did this. You guys may need to try it and verify whether it works for you.

Since we are playing with lithium batteries which are dangerous, the usual disclaimer apply here too. I did mine on a really dead battery so I didn't use insulator to prevent short circuit on some of the steps.

Here's the steps:
Step 1 : Disassemble an atomizer. We only need the connector even without the positive pole.

***Since it's my first post (<15), it looks like I cannot post pictures on this board. You may need to go to the following url to see the picture until someone, who can, posts them here.

1st picture on
thaiecigforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=967.0

Step 2 : Attach the connector to the battery.

2nd picture on
thaiecigforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=967.0

Inside an atomizer, there are ridges that the tools can catch and find leverage.

3rd picture on
thaiecigforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=967.0

Step 3 : The tool. You can use any L-shaped metal such as hex wrenches instead. I just found that piece of metal in the drawer at the time. It came from linkage rod inside car door-locks.

4th picture on
thaiecigforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=967.0

You can see the tip of the tool will latch on the ridges inside the atty connector.

5th picture on
thaiecigforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=967.0

Step 4 : With your left hand holding the battery close to the connector, use the L-shaped tool like when you open a beep cap. Use soft to moderate force. We don't want to bend the battery. Then rotate the battery a little bit and repeat the cap-opening action. After a while the connector will get loosened up from battery case and the whole inside can be pulled out.

6th-8th pictures on
thaiecigforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=967.0

 

[Hotot]

I'm not able to find your picture links but with them it looks like it would be a great post if u pm them to me i can post them for you. (just got to 15 myself ) I wish you would have posted it last night. I spent hours and a couple cuts ripping mine apart little chunk by chunk lol. The atty i used to try and pull it came apart on me and even with the nub still in it i couldn't break the link with the sturdy metal tube they use. I was expecting it to be a little more flimsy but that metal they use for the battery is THICK!

I did manage to get it done and made a beautiful rca connector useing those same pesky ridges to secure it like a rock.

 

[Suwat]

@Hotot
PM uses the same setup similar to when posting. So, pictures uploading seem to be impossible too. Since I can't post external links even links to my own album, I had to edit out the "h ttp://" part. You only need to supply the quoted text in front of my links to go to the site.

 

[Liscab]

those links take me to an asian webside, I can't that language to find yours pict, but that have been post before,but it is very good for the newbes that don't know how to do it, you should post htat againg whe you reach your 15 post

 

[Hotot]

ahh yeah sorry I thought u were just shortening the url for this forum, i see the pictures now but I cant link to them because the url's have a session id etc.

 

[Carlos49]

If you can make an album, in your user cp...very top left of screen) add the pics to your album and then it's easy to put them in your post. hope that works for you

 

[Liscab]

Here are yours pictures, now I am learning Thailand's language

 

[warp1900]

How to cleanly disassemble Joye510 batteries, McGuyver style. Hi all, my first post here.
This is a mini tutorial on how to disassemble Joye510 batteries without damaging anything in the batteries using around-the-house tools. It may be applied to other battery models too. I don't know whether anyone posted instructions on how to do this before. I already searched a while back and counldn't find anything on the subject. If this post duplicates anyone else's technique in any way, I sincerely do apologize. I just want to report on what I did. By the way, I only had one dead battery so that this was the only time I did this. You guys may need to try it and verify whether it works for you.

Since we are playing with lithium batteries which are dangerous, the usual disclaimer apply here too. I did mine on a really dead battery so I didn't use insulator to prevent short circuit on some of the steps.

Here's the steps:
Step 1 : Disassemble an atomizer. We only need the connector even without the positive pole.

***Since it's my first post (<15), it looks like I cannot post pictures on this board. You may need to go to the following url to see the picture until someone, who can, posts them here.

1st picture

Step 2 : Attach the connector to the battery.

2nd picture

Inside an atomizer, there are ridges that the tools can catch and find leverage.

3rd picture

Step 3 : The tool. You can use any L-shaped metal such as hex wrenches instead. I just found that piece of metal in the drawer at the time. It came from linkage rod inside car door-locks.

4th picture

You can see the tip of the tool will latch on the ridges inside the atty connector.

5th picture

Step 4 : With your left hand holding the battery close to the connector, use the L-shaped tool like when you open a beer cap. Use soft to moderate force. We don't want to bend the battery. Then rotate the battery a little bit and repeat the cap-opening action. After a while the connector will get loosened up from battery case and the whole inside can be pulled out.

6th-8th pictures

 

[Suwat]

Thank you very much everyone. You guys are life-savers.
Since I can't even edit my own post, there's one mistake in the above post. It's "when you open a beer cap", not "when you open a beep cap".
Please try the method and please report back for success and failure. I have several other ideas but they require machining and the like. Too complicate.
Thanks again.

 

[Hotot]

Thanks Suwat and warp! good info when u put the pictures in with the step by step, i recommend against the peeling it open like an orange method 8-o