PDIB's Making MODs!

[pdib]

tcad, do me a favor and try it with the original aluminum blind screw (contact head). I just don't see how the brass could be better than the aluminum since aluminum is right at twice the conductivity of brass. (Aluminum about 60% and brass about 30% as good as copper) I would bet it is the rest of what you have done that accounts for the difference.

Edit: clean the aluminum first as aluminum oxide is a poor conductor and that is the main reason we sparky's use Noalox on clean aluminum wire before we terminate it.

That's what I was wondering. Brass and aluminum both tarnish rather easily as well. Part of what appealed to me with the aluminum screw was the big, softly rounded head. It's very easy to clean and polish. (A small, flat head is awkward to rub). However, anything that's #8 x32 thread will fit in there nicely. (any silver machine screws out there?)


As for the stiffer spring. A great thing indeed! My dilemna, the reason (partly) why things are the way they are is as follows. ONCE one knows exactly which batteries are in the mod, THEN one can adjust the throw to a minimum, and incorporate a stiffer spring with better conductivity (based on shear mass). I can't send out mods with 1 mm of throw (because I don't know the battery length or the user's preference). I certainly can offer a stiffer spring in the goody-bag, and folks can custom tailor; but that's just the crux of the dilemna right there. It is a custom setup. So, the spring I use is not the best for voltage; but it is the "best" for everyone's mod firing out of the box. I think I HAVE to continue to do a "one size fits all" for delivery / initial setup, don't I? And then, game on, supremely moddable. And, like I said, I can certainly include the parts necessary for such modding.

 

[2pak2zero]

What i did discover since i am worried about the have-nots stealing my Dibi, is a stealth coating, but it makes it hard to find on my desk!

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Only works for wood so far, but i'm on the case!

T

Nice tear drop, or perhaps exclamation point!!

 

[glassgal]

Afraid that I fall into that same category. This forum and all you great people are my smokers anonymous chapter.

Goodness, just noticed in my sig that I am almost at a full year without a cancer stick! Went from 1 or 2 PAD to using Green Smoke for about a month and still smoking 5 or so a day then to 0 when I got my Evic, Protank, and 36 juice. That day is the one I am counting in my sig. Seems like yesterday.

I first heard of vaping end Sept 2013. That is, I'd seen ads at the convenience stores, but never took it seriously to want to try til then. Someone posted on another hobby forum (rock and gem forum) about how they successfully quit smoking with ecig and I started googling. I can't remember the actual day I stopped smoking, but it was a tapered situation, where I vape more than I smoked then less and less... I still take the occasional drag off my husband's cigs (he still smokes). Still, it's not been more than 5 months total.

Collecting and obsessing over vaping stuff keeps my guilt level too high to want to smoke... I can't justify spending all this money on vape stuff if I did. I have actually tapered my nic down already to a point where I might be able to stop vaping... but here's the thing about nicotine- it's easily available.

So if I ever got to a point where I could simply walk away from nicotine altogether, got rid of all my vaping stuff and called myself 'quit'... the first thing that stressed me out would have me buying a pack of smokes. So I have every intention of keeping my vaping stuff forever. I'm assembling quite a stunning collection, and while mods/atomizers keep coming out and vaping keeps changing like everything else, things with intrinsic value will continue to have value.

Besides, nicotine is one of the most easily absorbed through the skin substances we know. Fact that no one anywhere seems to acknowledge is that if we truly want to be cheap, we just make a nicotine skin lotion, satisfaction in 10 seconds as it passes from capillaries to bloodstream. So when I read about how mods are going to become obsolete because someone's already working on a patent for a no-heat vaporizer, I know it doesn't matter. How long have zippos been popular? Oh wait, they still are. How long have pipes been popular? oh wait, they still are. Enough people have turned coil-making into a ritualistic exercise that even if there were no need, people will still do it to control their own vape.

So I feel no guilt hoarding vape stuff, and still love talking about it.

 

[pdib]

I would suggest you should either keep it for yourself - OR - find out what it's actually worth by letting people bid (or at least make offers) on it.

Um . .. . . I thought I wrote "make an offer" .. . . I didn't. That is what I intended to convey.


I apologize. I'm an idiot when it comes to these things.



This is a one-time occurrence. This is the first mod I ever made and shipped. Aside from my prototype, this is the first mod. It's not so much a "list jumper" as it is a "collector's item".


Again, I apologize for my stupid, stupid, bad, vague, stupidness.

 

[pdib]

Something tells me I'm not done putting my foot in my mouth on this one . . . . . .





Feeling like a rube on a date with a princess . . . . .

 

[MasterofNone]

All the money ever. That is my offer. Take it or leave it, just make up your mind. My schedule is very busy collecting these wonderful leatherbound books and velour smoking jackets


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[SLIPPY_EEL]

dib you got msg

 

[supertrunker]

I'm not sure that nicotine thru skin is as effective as you think, because if absorption of stuff thru skin were so effective all the anti-ageing gear my mrs uses would make her about 24!

Besides, compared to smoking, e-cigarettes are a rather inefficient method, which is why i vape all day every day and all the "i'm now at 4mg" threads, i just go "cool", but i'll never manage it!

T

 

[Filthy-Beast]

dib you got msg

I'm sure he's got lots of them.

 

[ScandaLeX]

Um . .. . . I thought I wrote "make an offer" .. . . I didn't. That is what I intended to convey.


I apologize. I'm an idiot when it comes to these things.



This is a one-time occurrence. This is the first mod I ever made and shipped. Aside from my prototype, this is the first mod. It's not so much a "list jumper" as it is a "collector's item".


Again, I apologize for my stupid, stupid, bad, vague, stupidness.

I understood your initial post about this completely so I didn't find it stupid, bad, or vague.

It was clear to me this wasn't a list jumper & you did say it's more for the collector due to antique-ishness.

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[2pak2zero]

Um . .. . . I thought I wrote "make an offer" .. . . I didn't. That is what I intended to convey.


I apologize. I'm an idiot when it comes to these things.



This is a one-time occurrence. This is the first mod I ever made and shipped. Aside from my prototype, this is the first mod. It's not so much a "list jumper" as it is a "collector's item".


Again, I apologize for my stupid, stupid, bad, vague, stupidness.

Being the riddler, that you are, Always leaves you wiggle room.

 

[MasterofNone]

Just think, OliveR # 2 with a gold cyclone perched atop....


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[Rossum]

This forum and all you great people are my smokers anonymous chapter.

I'm just shy100 days and have said from nearly the beginning that having turned vaping (the alternative to smoking) into a hobby has been a big help to me. Lately I've been wondering why I'm still spending so much time on ECF. I'm not learning about vaping anymore; I think I understand state-of-the-art pretty well at this point. But the idea that it's sort of a support group is as good explanation as any. The only catch is a few of the folks in the Outside sub-forum. Some of them make me want to go back to smoking just to spite them.

 

[ratchet62]

I'm just shy100 days and have said from nearly the beginning that having turned vaping (the alternative to smoking) into a hobby has been a big help to me. Lately I've been wondering why I'm still spending so much time on ECF. I'm not learning about vaping anymore; I think I understand state-of-the-art pretty well at this point. But the idea that it's sort of a support group is as good explanation as any. The only catch is a few of the folks in the Outside sub-forum. Some of them make me want to go back to smoking just to spite them.

Don't have problems with the outside forum. I refuse to go there. Just irritates me when I do.

On another note, this is a support group, no doubt. It wasn't until I started frequenting ECF did I manage to quit smoking completely. It's a good way to stay up to date on the State of the Art.

 

[Filthy-Beast]

Just think, OliveR # 2 with a gold cyclone perched atop....


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Nothing but a Chalice would do.

 

[2pak2zero]

Nothing but a Chalice would do.

Hmm, I was thinking trenched igo-t and use it like a drunk coed. But that's just me. Perhaps I should just wait my turn.

 

[supertrunker]

i dunno - a second-hand prototype...how come it wasn't just sold on the classies, was it broken?

T

 

[pdib]

i dunno - a second-hand prototype...how come it wasn't just sold on the classies, was it broken?

T

I believe our not-so-anonymous friend was trying to do me a favor.











(something about getting me some salt and pepper for my shoe soup.)

 

[glassgal]

I'm not sure that nicotine thru skin is as effective as you think, because if absorption of stuff thru skin were so effective all the anti-ageing gear my mrs uses would make her about 24!

Besides, compared to smoking, e-cigarettes are a rather inefficient method, which is why i vape all day every day and all the "i'm now at 4mg" threads, i just go "cool", but i'll never manage it!

T

Skin absorption has everything to do with the size of the molecule. Our skin is designed to keep out large molecules like bacteria, but allows smaller molecules to pass. Also, you can get slightly larger molecules through by using a transdermal carrier molecule. Nicotine is a VERY small molecule. That's why nicotine patches can kill and have killed people, which is why they are prescription.

Anti aging creams don't work because all you can do is moisturize and plump up cells... your cells still don't replace themselves as fast as when young. You can't fix that any better than turning a rusted piece of metal into factory new by putting anti-oxidant on it.

 

[timk]

Skin absorption has everything to do with the size of the molecule. Our skin is designed to keep out large molecules like bacteria, but allows smaller molecules to pass. Also, you can get slightly larger molecules through by using a transdermal carrier molecule. Nicotine is a VERY small molecule. That's why nicotine patches can kill and have killed people, which is why they are prescription.

Anti aging creams don't work because all you can do is moisturize and plump up cells... your cells still don't replace themselves as fast as when young. You can't fix that any better than turning a rusted piece of metal into factory new by putting anti-oxidant on it.

Not inhaling something is the biggest problem with skin absorption. I think I'm more addicted to inhaling vapor than anything else.