IGO-L Rebuildable Stainless Steel Dripping Atomizer Anyone have one of these?
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If you want to be able to use your drill bit again afterward you'd probably want to stick with cobalt or titanium.
Any cheap bit will do. This isn't high grade stainless, and you're only increasing the hole size a TINY amount. Any bit is fine. It's really not as bad as people make it out to be. Once you've got the cap secured, it takes less than 5 seconds to drill. Not a big deal.
That's good to know, I had read some posts a while ago from people who were commenting about how much of a pain it was to drill the IGO out. Maybe they just didn't have the cap secured well.
i chamfered my holes real nice with a dremel after drilling em out with titanium bits.
You've never done it, but you still felt you could offer advice? It's nice to try and be helpful and all, but if you don't have any experience in the matter...
The airhole in my clone is about 3/64". I'm going to have it drilled out to 1.5mm or 1/16", depending on what the shop has. I'll post my thoughts after having it done. This is my current build, which I think could use a slightly larger airhole:
I based my advice on speaking with a family member who regularly works with metals and whose opinion I trust; he suggested using cobalt or titanium drill bits for drilling holes in stainless steel. And as I said, I had seen people post elsewhere who had drilled out the cap say that they had some problems.
EDIT: After thinking about my response I wanted to clarify. I'm glad that people have been able to improve their vape experience with the IGO-L by drilling out the air hole with a general use drill bit. I never said it couldn't be done, I was just saying that (based on research and a recommendation from someone who has knowledge about metalworking) if you don't use a drill bit designed to drill through stainless steel you can't expect your drill bit to perform well for very long. Personally I'm waiting to get a set of small metric titanium bits before I start experimenting with larger air holes.
Your point is valid, however. For future readers: I personally have not drilled out the air hole in my IGO-L cap (yet).
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Good advice here, will be drilling soon, so one more question.. Saw a couple pages back (more like 10-15) someone drilled holes in the posts for the wire to pass through, like other Rba's (will try to find the post # or a pic of it) - My question is, will this mess up the screw threads causing the screws themselves to not tighten properly?
Thanks in advance, would like to have holy posts, but my wraps are fine without the added convenience.
Thanks in advance, would like to have holy posts, but my wraps are fine without the added convenience.
Was post #572, contacting the author also.
I drilled holes on my igo-l's post to make it easier to build coils, hated wrapping around the screws. Now it works perfect with ribbon or round wires
If done properly, no. It would be best to run a bottoming tap through the threads afterwards to make sure, but should be fine without.
This is my new setup. I had a build I posted in the working setup thread, but I had 28 gauge kanthal. It was taking too many wraps to get around 1.5 - 1.7 ohms, the coil was large and took a long time to heat up. I could a micro coil type thing, but wanted a thinner coil, so I just bought 30 gauge and set this up and it's working great. 2.7 ohms firing at 5.5. I'm going to rebuild it again later to drop the ohms a bit.
I drilled out my airhole to 1/16" and IMO, it is great. Not too airy, but the stock hole makes for a very tight draw.
I agree...1/16" is perfect for me. I do have a few others with different sizes to tr out different things, but the 1/16" is the one i enjoy the most.
I built a perfect 1.9 OHM coil stuffed it with cotton. I get a super strong TH but very little vapor. I guess unless someone can tell me otherwise I will drill mine to the 1/16.
Make sure that the air hole is aligned with the coil other wise you'll get a lot less vapor than you would if it is aligned.
That makes sense. I've got it stuffed and wrapped around pretty good. Thank you.
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