My GGTS Firing Pin is gone!!!

[RippleInStillWater]

I was changing the battery and the firing pin dropped onto my floor and vanished into thin air, I looked for an hour and I am ...... -- 3 questions:

1. Why did this happen? Bad plastic piece? Is there supposed to be an o-ring somewhere?

2. What do I do to replace it? Nothing on VK site......anyone recommend a nail?

Edit: I'm now using a cut brass nail, its loose but I have a whole jar!!!!

3. How the hell do you keep it tight? I tried tightening the screw when I noticed it was loose but that obviously didn't work.

I have my avs arriving today (I HoPe!) and now this g-danged thing is useless.......

 

[Jturse]

You should have 2 small small small o rings around where your pin was. I believe IMEO said he was going to be putting 3 o rings in the updated version of GGTS... Kinda holds it in place and keeps juice from going into battery compartment

 

[RippleInStillWater]

I was changing the battery and the firing pin dropped onto my floor and vanished into thin air, I looked for an hour and I am ...... -- 3 questions:

1. Why did this happen? Bad plastic piece? Is there supposed to be an o-ring somewhere?

2. What do I do to replace it? Nothing on VK site......anyone recommend a nail?

Edit: I'm now using a cut brass nail, its loose but I have a whole jar!!!!

3. How the hell do you keep it tight? I tried tightening the screw when I noticed it was loose but that obviously didn't work.

I have my avs arriving today (I HoPe!) and now this g-danged thing is useless.......

Yes, I am replying to myself -- when you work alone and are a Gemini, this is a typical occurence........

The pin was in the middle of my cleaned floor when I returned from showering -- WTF?!?!?!??!?!?! I'm truly spooked!

It is still loose, though -- how do I fix that?

 

[mwa102464]

Ripple, in the early GGTS units I believe there was only 1 2mm O-ring in the paragon pin fitting and and the later ones had 2 and like JTurse said Imeo is going to be using 3 of them, try the Home Depot they carry the Danco O-Rings that I use and should have them a pack of 20 is like $3 bucs also Rob should have them over at VK's under the spare parts section, use at least 2,, 3 if you can and you should be fine

 

[Thierry-P]

O-rings for the fire pin connector are 2 mm (Inner Diameter) x 1 mm (Thickness)

 

[Firefly13]

I had the same problem, apparently i'd somehow lost the o-rings when takin it apart and not knowing they were there, but i ordered a pair from vapor kings and it's back to new thank god, it's a lot more fiddly for me though because i have my 808 thread adapter permanently fixed around that post so i had to use the blunt end of a needle to poke them down, holds the pin nicely again.

 

[imeothanasis]

Ripple, you tried to clean the pin , you put it out and you lost the o-rings. Please ask Cam to send you those 2 o-rings buddy. Dont worry, he will take care of you.

 

[RippleInStillWater]

Ripple, in the early GGTS units I believe there was only 1 2mm O-ring in the paragon pin fitting and and the later ones had 2 and like JTurse said Imeo is going to be using 3 of them, try the Home Depot they carry the Danco O-Rings that I use and should have them a pack of 20 is like $3 bucs also Rob should have them over at VK's under the spare parts section, use at least 2,, 3 if you can and you should be fine

Thanks my friend, I'm going past one tonight..

Thanks everyone else, too!!! I think they broke, I now remember some black semicircles on the desk when I cleaned......

 

[imeothanasis]

ask Cam, he will send you new ones, no problem ripple. And please dont lose your humor, I want to hear something funny from you !

 

[SSRob]

Imeo,

Why would Cam need to send them to him when I have them right here?

 

[imeothanasis]

I thought Ripple was at UK Rob. He said "Nothing on VK site......anyone recommend a nail?" and I read UK instead of VK

 

[JollyRogers]

Can someone confirm the size of these o-rings? I switched to a 510 atty today and pulled the pin out all the way by accident. The o-rings got tore up when I tried to replace it. I later noticed it was leaking liquid from the collector into the battery tube. I see 2mm x 1mm listed here... Need to stop by Home Depot to get them most likely and just want to confirm the size.

 

[RippleInStillWater]

Yeah, they're some tiny-... things, that sounds like them!

 

[Wylie]

There may be some useful info in this old post:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/gg/111839-ggts-2010-center-pin-o-rings.html

Or on the Wiki under AVS (if you go half-way down the assembly for the firing pin is listed in the Control tank section):
AVS - E-Cigarette Wiki

 

[imeothanasis]

yes, 2x1 Jolly

 

[JollyRogers]

Thanks all. Wylie, your thread will be very helpful. Wish I had taken the time to find it yesterday Now I get to make an o-ring hunt!

Follow up: Well 2mm X 1mm o-rings are actually pretty hard to source locally. I managed to find some 3mm X 1mm and I managed to ... uhhum... work them in to make a seal. Ordered a set of 10 of each o-ring online... just in case. The GGTS manual helped in ordering correct ones.