Mistic air flow part 2

[MitchMitchell]

If there is a better place to put this please move it and or let me know. I'm putting it here because from what i have gathered the 808D threading is the closest.

In this I am responding to the closed thread in the new user's forum and putting this out there for anyone who might or has run into this problem. Here is the previous thread:http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/new-members-forum/265426-mistic-brand-airflow.html

if your using the mistic bats but I just ran into the air flow problem. Pull the red cap off. Look at the LED. On either side of the LED (contacts are top and bottom how I'm looking at it. Wires trail downward) there is a small air hole. It probably wasn't the smartest action but I had a dental pick and gently probed the holes. I figured worse case scenario I get a tiny zap and or I kill the bat. While probing on the right side I activated the battery when spinning my slightly bent pick. So that right side hole appears to be the switch hole. Now it seems to draw a little better but still not as well as my newer bat so I'm pretty sure there is still some gunk in there somewhere on mine. I think my new bat will be getting a bit of cotton to act as an air filter. Ill get into the poor draw one more when it becomes entirely un-useable and try and post back, or for that matter if someone has a dead one to dontate...PM me.

 

[MitchMitchell]

It should go without saying but use my tips at your own risk.

Well I killed and recovered my other battery and learned some stuff. The batter became non operational when the center contact had broken free from the wire inside. Now the black cylinder that holds the circuit board with the switch and LED came out enough that I could get a look at it. It appears that under the circuit board there is a second layer consisting of a metal plate with 5ish holes in it. I suspect this is the other contact of the switch. When poking around on the two holes mentioned in the above post, on this battery the left side hole seemed to activate the battery. While I had the battery in a non operational state a took a dremel with a pointy abrasive tip and just slightly enlarged the air holes on the pc board. I will recommend you NOT do this. When I got the battery working again, I have to draw faster to activate the battery. In the process of flutzing around with this I found myself a round toothpick to poke in the holes. Lightly poking and spinning gave me about a 1/16th of an inch long cylinder the width of a newly cleaned hole. In hind sight I should have just done that and been done with it. When I used this on my second battery it restored it to like new draw.

In hindsight this should probably be in the maintenance forum. MODs can I get a move?