PDIB's Making MODs!

[turbocad6]

I just used my lazer......


















yeah, pretty much cut half of the penny away, leaving only the remaining half, first a grinder then a file then sanding. oh and I did crazy glue it to my hand this time while repairing it, really had to tear it off because I held it securely for several minutes before I realized I got some glue on my hand too unfortunately I couldn't just leave it glued to my hand... maybe I should have, but I didn't, it was glued to the wrong hand anyway

playing with this thing today while fully awake again I can see now that this penny actually makes this whole toe of the mod much much stronger. this ring breaks because it is thin and hollow and it doesn't take much force to compress the roundness, causing it to deform and crush and crack. the penny winds up keeping this round form reinforced and resisting the ring from crushing so no cracking as the O compresses. before I could have snapped this ring extension off by just squeezing it with my fingers if I tried hard enough, now it feels dead solid. it has to help quite a bit I guess. even though it's been broken twice already I believe it is now much stronger than it ever was, even before the first break.

 

[Rossum]

this mod now, past few days it's taken over as #1 spot in my daily vape rotation. a mech over a dna, that's saying a lot coming from me, I really love this thing

Half a day after getting mine running, I'm starting to feel that way too.

I love how compact it is. I like how it feels in my hand when I'm just holding it. However, I'm not quite entirely comfortable with its feel in my hand when I'm actually vaping it. I guess my thumb needs more exercise.

I really like the way it vapes on a freshly charged battery. But now after about a half a bottle of juice, it seemed to be losing a bit of oomph, so swapped in a fresh VTC5 and it's better again. The one that came out read 3.91V the moment I put it in the charger. I guess the bottom line is, I'm going to need to put a coil with lower resistance than the ~1.3 ohms I have in there right now in that Cyclone in order to be able to use more of the battery's capacity.

This of course, is the down-side of a mech vs. a regulated mod; you have to tune the coil to what you get straight from the battery instead of being able to tweak the mod's output to make the coil you built perform the way you want.

 

[dwcraig1]

You guys got me motivated, I got one Cy-Clone converted to BF
I removed the set screw, screwed on a 510 to 510 and put it in a small vise and drilled down from the top with a 3/64".
Then I used a cutoff wheel in a Dremel and cut a little slot in the bottom of the post.
I have nothing to try it on so can one of you send me your OliveR so I can try it out?

 

[turbocad6]

awesome, I would send you mine to try it but I'm afraid you might break it

 

[pdib]

This of course, is the down-side of a mech vs. a regulated mod; you have to tune the coil to what you get straight from the battery instead of being able to tweak the mod's output to make the coil you built perform the way you want.

To me, that's a question of perspective. Building my coil to suit the battery's output is second nature. This is probably a matter purely of personal preference; but I like that I'm physically tuning a structure to the resonance of the power source. Once you find your sweet spot for coil res., there's not much to think about.

I'd be ding-dang curious to see a chart for those Sonys. 3.9 is a strange place for it to drop out. I used to get that with the AW 2000s. I guess you were just riding on the initial punch. Yeah, you definitely want to build to hit the belly of the curve, not the initial peak.

 

[dwcraig1]

It just doesn't look right on here.

 

[pdib]

The Samsung's have a gentle and short lived initial punch, and basically settle into a full day of hitting almost the same. I wish't I had me a Sony to compare it to; but I have 6 good Samsungs in rotation and absolutely no need to buy more batts.

 

[Alexander Mundy]

Half a day after getting mine running, I'm starting to feel that way too.

I love how compact it is. I like how it feels in my hand when I'm just holding it. However, I'm not quite entirely comfortable with its feel in my hand when I'm actually vaping it. I guess my thumb needs more exercise.

I really like the way it vapes on a freshly charged battery. But now after about a half a bottle of juice, it seemed to be losing a bit of oomph, so swapped in a fresh VTC5 and it's better again. The one that came out read 3.91V the moment I put it in the charger. I guess the bottom line is, I'm going to need to put a coil with lower resistance than the ~1.3 ohms I have in there right now in that Cyclone in order to be able to use more of the battery's capacity.

This of course, is the down-side of a mech vs. a regulated mod; you have to tune the coil to what you get straight from the battery instead of being able to tweak the mod's output to make the coil you built perform the way you want.

So wheres the fun in that!

 

[turbocad6]

That's a phenomenal repair job!!! And the penny is a great idea.

Hope I don't drop mine! Would it have been possible to find a thin magnet penny size to glue to the bottom and then do what you did with the penny, so it wouldn't come apart from the base when dropped?

I did half consider something like this, but that diameter and this thin would make for a very brittle magnet if anything was even made that thin. realistically I think it would be better to do something like this, then add smaller magnets after

 

[pdib]

How bout this Flat Top Battery Adapter

oh, I was gonna mention on this thing; there are those in the REO forum who would say you need to be careful how much longer you make your battery's footprint. If you compress the hot spring sufficiently, it renders it useless. It works by overheating and sagging if it has too much Amperage running through it. If it's sufficiently compressed, it won't get any smaller when it sags. Then the circuit won't be opened (turned off) in a hard short.

 

[turbocad6]

one of the biggest things I like about a regulated mod is being able to run much higher voltage. a sub ohm coil at 4v will have much less mass than an equally driven much larger coil at 7v+. I like at least 12-13+ wraps of heavy gauge wire, most I can get with the dibi is ~7-8 wraps of 26 ga, to get more power I have to sacrifice surface area, it's all a balance really but the higher voltage is easier to build and tune for I think

 

[turbocad6]

oh, I was gonna mention on this thing; there are those in the REO forum who would say you need to be careful how much longer you make your battery's footprint. If you compress the hot spring sufficiently, it renders it useless. It works by overheating and sagging if it has too much Amperage running through it. If it's sufficiently compressed, it won't get any smaller when it sags. Then the circuit won't be opened (turned off) in a hard short.

so I guess my method of stuffing the spring with tin foil isn't such a great idea then, right?

 

[Aal_]

I render my spring useless by throwing another brass spring inside it on purpose. I believe locking the button (with Reo), using IMR and venting openings are safety enough for me. I mean I look at all other tube mods (chi, nemesis etc...) and they don't use hot springs. I dunno maybe I'm just too optimistic.

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[Xobeloot]

Are we past magnets yet? Monkey likes vape pr0n


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[MamaTried]

apropos of nothing at all, with my next batch coming up soon, what is the strongest and most drop-kick proof wood?

 

[pdib]

Any wood that doesn't grow near t-cad's house.

 

[supertrunker]

Damascus steel for t-cad!

T

 

[Rossum]

one of the biggest things I like about a regulated mod is being able to run much higher voltage. a sub ohm coil at 4v will have much less mass than an equally driven much larger coil at 7v+. I like at least 12-13+ wraps of heavy gauge wire, most I can get with the dibi is ~7-8 wraps of 26 ga, to get more power I have to sacrifice surface area, it's all a balance really but the higher voltage is easier to build and tune for I think

I'm not sure I follow all your logic here. To my way of thinking: Surface area is good for vapor production while mass is bad because it makes the coil slow to respond, no?

If we think about the coil as a cylinder and we want a certain amount of surface area inside it, then we can reduce the mass by making the walls of that cylinder thinner; i.e. using a thinner gauge wire. But this increases the resistance of the coil and to put the same power into it, we need more voltage.

Anyway, I'm hoping the local vape shop has some 26 gauge wire. I'm headed there anyway to swap out the atty tester for one with a working ON/OFF switch.

 

[Gigdujour]

Damascus steel for t-cad!

T

You can put me down for one of those as well




You DO have a forge don't you?

Master of Bassets...and not much else.

 

[pdib]

I'm not sure I follow all your logic here. To my way of thinking: Surface area is good for vapor production while mass is bad because it makes the coil slow to respond, no?

If we think about the coil as a cylinder and we want a certain amount of surface area inside it, then we can reduce the mass by making the walls of that cylinder thinner; i.e. using a thinner gauge wire. But this increases the resistance of the coil and to put the same power into it, we need more voltage.

Anyway, I'm hoping the local vape shop has some 26 gauge wire. I'm headed there anyway to swap out the atty tester for one with a working ON/OFF switch.

see if they have any 26g Nichrome. It has more punch as it has lower resistance per mass. (26N has same res. as 25K). It gives some people a sore throat, so don't buy 500ft of it.