Mech Mods with top venting holes?

[Nikea Tiber]

@sonicbomb
If you get a drill press, it would be possible to drill the topcap, and use a Kepler 510 heatsink (such as one of these: $10.25 Kepler 510 Finned Heat Sink for Atomizers (3-Pack) (22mm (Kepler), 3-Pack) at m.FastTech.com ) with the bottom fin drilled to match up with the top vents drilled into the top of the SMPL. This way you get an adjustable 510 centerpin, and hidden top venting with blast deflection. The heatsink works pretty damn well at keeping atty heat away from the battery + mod as well.

Just a few thoughts.

 

[Donnie Alexander]

Limitless mods have vent holes at the tops

 

[Ryedan]

I still do not understand. If your mod vents from the bottom, install the cell(s) with the positive facing down. SMPL/SMPL+ included. This has been done for years in the competitive vaping community (clouds + tricks). So long as you verify the integrity of your wrap(s) (which should be done regardless), a mechanical with vent holes and cell(s) installed with the positive oriented towards the bottom of the mod is arguably safer than the inverse.

I hear what you're saying sig-cmt and I agree with you.

OTOH, the competitive vape community probably does a better job of educating their participants and then following through, than what happens in regular vape circles. Putting the positive end of the battery at a bottom switch when the holes are there would make a venting episode less dangerous, but I suspect we would have a lot more of these events because people wouldn't be careful enough with their battery wrappers. We have enough of a problem getting people to understand other mech mod safety issues and getting them to take it seriously.

And some mods don't have enough venting to be safe even if your battery vents badly by the mod holes.

I'm not going to be advising the general vaping puplic to reverse their batteries with bottom vented mods. I'm just not convinced it would be safer overall and it could become a real problem.

 

[gardenia_bread]

i've got a noob question, does any chemicals come out of the vent holes in normal usage?

because if chemicals do come out, top venting isn't idea, especially with bottom fed atomizers

 

[KentA]

i've got a noob question, does any chemicals come out of the vent holes in normal usage?

because if chemicals do come out, top venting isn't idea, especially with bottom fed atomizers

No, these holes are active only when they are needed to reduce dangerous pressure from a battery failure.

 

[gardenia_bread]

No, these holes are active only when they are needed to reduce dangerous pressure from a battery failure.

ahhh, top vent holes are great then!

 

[Cacique]

$7.94 Oni Style Telescopic Mechanical Mod at FastTech - Worldwide Free Shipping

Oni telescopic mech mod clone seems to have vent holes at the top and the bottom. I want to say thanks for this thread, it brought up a flaw in mech mods I had overlooked.

 

[Baditude]

Limitless Mods have vent holes at the tops

The milled grooves were probably designed to allow airflow to those atomizers whose air control is from the bottom of the deliver device. Are the drilled holes in the top cap open to the battery compartment? If so, this design should allow adequate ventilation for a battery venting.

It appears from the above pic that the Limitless Mech is a faux hybrid or direct battery mod with no 510 center pin.

 

[Baditude]

$7.94 Oni Style Telescopic Mechanical Mod at FastTech - Worldwide Free Shipping

Oni telescopic mech mod clone seems to have vent holes at the top and the bottom. I want to say thanks for this thread, it brought up a flaw in mech mods I had overlooked.

 

[Donnie Alexander]

The milled grooves were probably designed to allow airflow to those atomizers whose air control is from the bottom of the deliver device. Are the drilled holes in the top cap open to the battery compartment? If so, this design should allow adequate ventilation for a battery venting.

It appears from the above pic that the Limitless Mech is a faux hybrid or direct battery mod with no 510 center pin.

Limitless are direct to battery mods

 

[sonicbomb]

Adequate venting

 

[Annie56]

my 'franken-mod'--silver dog hybrid mod--18350. I wanted to use 18650 in it, so i am using the brass extension tube from ChiYou clone. The collar around the hybrid atty connection has vent holes. Vent holes also at the bottom 'ying-yang' engraved design switch.

Fan Girl of Baditude's Battery Blogs also!!

 

[Tonkpils]

The overdose has two top vent holes

 

[LilWhiteClouder]

Adequate venting

Just posted this on another thread but saw that it fits in here. Maybe not as airy as your adequately vented (and awesome!) mech device @sonicbomb , but fits your request @Baditude - My apologies if this is already mentioned:
The 26650 TAC Mod:

 

[sonicbomb]

Please don't be offended, but that is a fugly (though very well ventilated) mod.

 

[LilWhiteClouder]

Please don;t be offended, but that is a fugly (though very well ventilated) mod.

No Offense taken. It looked sooooo much better in the pics on the web site. In person it is way too bulky. the switch is nice and the battery fits well (with little to no adjustment needed) and it hits very well. But what good is the mod if I can only vape it at the house for fear of looking like a complete tool.

I feel like im vaping on a soda can

 

[KentA]

Just posted this on another thread but saw that it fits in here. Maybe not as airy as your adequately vented (and awesome!) mech device @sonicbomb , but fits your request @Baditude - My apologies if this is already mentioned:
The 26650 TAC Mod:
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Since you are using efest, those holes may come in handy.

 

[LilWhiteClouder]

Since you are using efest, those holes may come in handy.

right. This batt has been good to me and has been handling my .3 builds well. The Green POS Efest I had in another mod vented a little and created a hot spot on the positive terminal. I haven't bought Efest batts since then. I've had them for a while now. I feel safer with it in here because of those holes & and I hold the thing at the bottom (as best I can considering how freakin wide the diameter is).

 

[bwh79]

The Hammer mod has venting at the positive end, although it's on the "bottom" when held in vaping position.

 

[Layzee Vaper]

Plenty of ventilation...........