OK, call me CRAZY! Need ideas for juice feeder for Commercial Mods!

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CloudBurst

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Ok, as you can see...call me crazy but I have several mods that I spent alot of money on and have not even touched for a few months! Once I got hooked on the juice feeders, I can't imagine going back to filling/topping carts!

So, with that said, here's a few of my lame ideas to pull these outta the box and get some use outta them again. I don't typically haul my big mods around in public anyway (I'm a "closet" mod user) so, to start, I wasn't worried about looks as much as functional. My friends already laugh at my box mods so, who cares!

I wanted to start a thread for ideas and brain storming. If any of you know anything about brainstorming, there are NO bad idaes, so please put it out there so we can build upon it.

WARNING...these are not pretty!!! (and don't laugh) LOL :lol:

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I think wood would make a nice adapter. Curved to fit up against the pipe mod and velcro to hold it. Drilled out for the juice bottle area and cut for a squeeze area. Plus later I will add a picture to this thread with a juice tube kind of deal but need to work on it a little more.

So it`s juice feed everything now I see.
 

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LOL, thought of that too! I even looked up special bottles, you lnow...like a donut with hole in the center for the atty. Now, that would fit any mod in a minute! Or, a bottle theat's caved in at one side the shape og the mod, so it was snug up against it. I don't know...hurtin my head again! ;-)

Conman- Can't wait to see what you're workin on, it all juice fed for me too!
 

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LOL, thought of that too! I even looked up special bottles, you lnow...like a donut with hole in the center for the atty. Now, that would fit any mod in a minute! Or, a bottle theat's caved in at one side the shape og the mod, so it was snug up against it. I don't know...hurtin my head again! ;-)

Conman- Can't wait to see what you're workin on, it all juice fed for me too!

Try an enema bottle...complete with hose....:lol::lol:...I better stop pickin on ya....you might get Dreamy after me.8-o
 

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Here are some ideas I have been pondering:

- Gravity + capillary. Examples: fountain pens and inket cartridges. Problem is you need it to stay in a particular orientation so that the bulk of the fluid comes in contact with your capillary/tube.

- Nitonol (muscle) wire. Wrap it around a soft plastic bottle and you have an extremely cheap and compact "squeezer". Again this depends on orientation to keep the fluid at the output but maybe there are way to deal with that? You may also need some device to allow air back into the reservoir as it expands, eg a check valve.

- Syringe + linear actuator. Ever seen an insulin pump? OK those cost many thousands of dollars but the same mechanism, if mass produced for this purpose, would only cost a few dollars. This would work in any orientation and does not require an air inlet to displace the fluid, because the fluid is displaced by the plunger.
 

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One more possible nitinol application: position the tube in a rail, with a roller across the top of the tube. Use two nitonol wires attached to the roller, one to compress it and one to pull it down the length of the tube. Boom, you have a tiny peristaltic pump! You also need to prevent backflow - for that either use a second roller moving out of phase with the first, or use a check valve.

Or use a more conventional design with a rotary head (not a reciprocating design as I have described... but I think that might be harder to miniaturize?
 

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Enema bottle 8-o Suppose a new one would be ok. :oops:

Ok here was what I had in mind. This is actually using the tube like I made the Charger Tundra mod out of. This is if size doesn`t matter. Although the Tundra mod actually feels good in the hand like this. Certainly going to make that one for a try out.

This is actually only partially real some has been doctored up for the idea in both the following pictures. I just haven`t finished it as a project yet been on the back burner so to speak for a good while. I think to actually be connected maybe those powerful magnets could be used or Velcro as mentioned earlier.

The 3ml bottles fit fantastic in the Tundr mod tube by the way.

This is my Chrome pipe mod with it.

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Did someone say donut Mmm Donuts


And here is the Charger Tundra with it.

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