My first flashlight style mod

[hoogie76]

Uses aluminum 3aaa style flashlight stripped of it's internal parts except for the bottom on/off switch which acts as a safety switch.

I'm using a protected 18500 1600mah battery which last more than a day. I swap it out every morning so I'm not sure sure how long the batt actually lasts. I thought an 18650 would be too long for this case but I may try and squish one in on a later build.

I'm using a 510 atty and it produces vapor like crazy. Wicked juice hog though.

Other than a nicostick, it's my first build(that has lasted more than 15 mins) and took about a week of spending an hour here and there working on it. Between trial and error and some tools, the first one cost about $70 but should cost between $10 -$15 to build including protected battery but not the atty.

I may try to adapt to warps pvma connector next time too but I've got to order parts no place local to get stuff.

The flashlight comes in different colors too!

Sorry for the crappy pics..

Happy vaping..

 

[doots]

Very Nice hoog. Looks powerful!

 

[warp1900]

Very nice first mod hoogie, looks real clean.



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[Carlos49]

Man I wish my first mod looked like that... very nice job.... not going to even talk about my first...LOL


Mod that is

 

[AmplexorJ]

I like it Hoog. Looks pretty sweet. Well Built !!!!

 

[breakfastchef]

Nice job. Let us know how you feel when the momentary switch fails several times. Changing them out is a PIA.

 

[hoogie76]

Nice job. Let us know how you feel when the momentary switch fails several times. Changing them out is a PIA.

Yeah, I guess nothing is built to last forever. It's time to strip out the usable parts and swap over the the next project when any part of it dies.

I learned my lesson with ratshack as my nicostick switch crapped out in under a week.

I ordered some decent switches from jameco for this project
C&K KTP11P4CM, 4 mm hard plunger, 1 amp, 50v rating, cool click sound when you press em. I'm sure it'll still crap out eventually

 

[kardjunkie]

Nice looking mod and love the 18500 battery.

 

[Hangtime]

Uses aluminum 3aaa style flashlight stripped of it's internal parts except for the bottom on/off switch which acts as a safety switch.

I'm using a protected 18500 1600mah battery which last more than a day. I swap it out every morning so I'm not sure sure how long the batt actually lasts. I thought an 18650 would be too long for this case but I may try and squish one in on a later build.

I'm using a 510 atty and it produces vapor like crazy. Wicked juice hog though.

Other than a nicostick, it's my first build(that has lasted more than 15 mins) and took about a week of spending an hour here and there working on it. Between trial and error and some tools, the first one cost about $70 but should cost between $10 -$15 to build including protected battery but not the atty.

I may try to adapt to warps pvma connector next time too but I've got to order parts no place local to get stuff.

The flashlight comes in different colors too!

Sorry for the crappy pics..

Happy vaping..

cablesforless.com has good prices and decent shipping.... nice mod

 

[cddz]

NIce looking mod, love the color choice!

 

[drzen99]

Do you sell these ? (flashlight mod) and if so how do I find you???? Also is there a video clip on construting one like it?? Still thinking I can do this,I can do this, I can...well I HOPE I can do this...hahaha..reply appreciated. ~ dale drzen on the forum

 

[Jason365]

Nice nice nice.
Great job!

Jason

 

[catwoman19]

Do you sell these ? (flashlight mod) and if so how do I find you???? Also is there a video clip on construting one like it?? Still thinking I can do this,I can do this, I can...well I HOPE I can do this...hahaha..reply appreciated. ~ dale drzen on the forum

Yeah, count me in also, I would love to be able to build these

 

[hoogie76]

Do you sell these ? (flashlight mod) and if so how do I find you???? Also is there a video clip on construting one like it?? Still thinking I can do this,I can do this, I can...well I HOPE I can do this...hahaha..reply appreciated. ~ dale drzen on the forum

I can't post links but here yet but so I'm repeating what I put under Cisco Hawaiin shirt mod thread:


For those of us who don't have a machine shop handy, here's how I made mine with wire cutters, drill, soldering iron, epoxy and solder.

Search ebay for 9 led flashlight, you can get them in plain colors, 4 for about $10 shipped. They are similar to the one Cisco has but a little different.

Once you get them:

A 7/8" fender washer fits perfectly into the light end of the tube once you take the guts out by pushing them through the top from the bottom with a socket, dowel or something round like that.

Make sure you get fender washers that can be soldered to, usually zinc coated ones work. Hardened steel washers can't be soldered.

If you take two of the 7/8" fender washers and solder them together and get a little bit of solder around the edges then it ends up being a good stable press fit into the end of the tube. You can actually sand them with some fine sand paper to give them some sheen, then give em a coat of something to keep them from staining.

The hole in the washers is where you drill out and press fit or solder your atomizer connector.

You'll also find that the tube is a little bit too long for an 17500/18500 battery. If you look at the inside of a water bottle cap, not the sport kind or a soda bottle cap, just a regular clearish white water bottle cap, there is an inner ring. Cut the outer ring from this and use the inner ring part as your top battery contact. I used a small washer,soldered a wire to it, drilled a hole in the cap, put the wire trough the hole then glued the washer to center of the cap for a top battery contact. I then put the cap in the tube down a bit, put an 18500 battery into the bottom of the tube and screwed the switch portion back on. Where the cap ended up in the tube is where it got epoxied in.

Make sure you do a dry run with placement of caps, wires, and switches before you epoxy anything.

The switch is the biggest PIA of them all. Mine, a 6mm square tactile switch with 9 mm actuator, is just epoxied into a 1/8" in hole drilled randomly into the second ring of indents at the tops of the flashlight.

Use a small amount of epoxy just to mount the switch then backfill once your sure that no epoxy can get to the actuator of the switch itself. Guess it depends on what type of epoxy you're using, mine is liquid type. Putty type would probably be easier to work with.

The 7/8" washers contacting the tube act as ground, the inner bottlecap wire goes to one side of the switch, then the other side of the switch goes to the atomizer positive connection.