I am sure this pushing of button straight syndrome should be fairly easy to solve. I don't have a dibi yet, but I suspect that the current is not being transferred from the screw to the spring. It happens on some other mods too. I might be off though, never looked inside Dibi's button.
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Grabbed an eGo, filled an Aspire with Strawberry/Banana.
Grabbed my re-wrapped & boxed Dibi.
Sat on my bed, took atty off, made sure o-ring was there.....check.
Put in battery, put o-ring in, placed top cap.....check.
Wouldn't fire.
Pressed fire button down on very edge (Instead of drop dead center) it fires.
It tough as ish to push dead on but not as tough this way.
Honestly the only thing I did differently tonight than I did Dibi day was the way I'm holding the fire button.......oh & vaping on that eGo.
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I had trouble firing too.... so you probably got the silver pin like I did... try changing it for the flat screw in your bag, it's got a much bigger surface area. You can still keep the button with the fancy spring, so while you're not using the silver end (with brass nut), you're still getting the benefit of the other spring
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I had trouble firing too.... so you probably got the silver pin like I did... try changing it for the flat screw in your bag, it's got a much bigger surface area. You can still keep the button with the fancy spring, so while you're not using the silver end (with brass nut), you're still getting the benefit of the other spring
What other spring?
I took the button off but I can't get the screw that's in there out without feeling like I'm going to crack the button. It's in there pretty tight.
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ok.
i figured it out.
I'm trying to put ALL the facts together here, and do some troubleshooting. So, Scandal's mod fires, and then it doesn't . . .. doesn't a lot. Glass is focused in on the button . . . . . something is not right . . . . . toggling. Filthy-Beast has some intermittent trouble, takes it apart, rearranges it (and alters the spring). Now Scandal gets her mod to fire . .. . by pushing the edge of the button (by making contact between the button stem and the grounding plate . . . toggling). THAT's what finally brought it home for me!
Honestly, it was just shear dumb luck (that I didn't catch this when doing "quality control") that all the mods fired in nice v-drop ranges before I sent them out. If any one of them had given me an unacceptable reading, I probably would have caught this. . .. . . . .. .
I had gone through my first aluminum framing square and had to acquire more aluminum for this run. I compared prices on a number of options for 1/8" aluminum stock, and even looked for used/old/character-ridden framing squares. I ended up buying a new one from my favorite hardware store (where I expected to find some classy old used one). As I was chopping it up, and then sanding it flat, and buffing it out, I thought . . .. "is this thing sand blasted? or coated with something?". Between trying to get it truly flat, and anticipating fit with the top of the mod, and wanting to keep it as close to 1/8" as possible (everything's connected . .. . 1/8" is good . . . .. new square, obviously thinner than old square, not even 1/8" to begin with), I ended up leaving some of the "matte finish" on some of the plates. I made sure to get most of it off, just in case, in the areas that would require conductivity. (Thinking, if it really is some kind of coating . . .. which I couldn't imagine the reason for the added expense in manufacture of the squares . .. I'll know it when I test for conductivity. Well, cr_p, I tested all the mods, and they were fine! "Must've been me just being paranoid on the new framing square", I thought.)
SO . . ... after looking at the pattern of problems, I put two and two together, and went out to the shop and tested the square itself . . . .. what's left of it.
Sure enough, sure e-farking-nuff, there's some coating on it! I put the nose of a battery against the flat of the square, and I'm not getting a voltage reading from the other face of the square and the tail of the battery. I tested the square for resistance and it's reading like it would waving the leads around in the air.
WHY DIDN'T I THINK TO JUST TEST IT THIS WAY WHEN I HAD THE INKLING? !!!!!!!!! IDK. Guess I'm stupid.
Anyway, the fix is simple. The problem is isolated. And I'm an idiot. Obviously, I will take care of it personally for anyone who doesn't want to DIY it. It's really just a question of whether you want to do the work, or outsmart the issue, or send your mod back to me. If you look in the button hole (must disassemble button to do so by screwing off the brass nut on the bottom of the cap), you will see shiny areas and matte areas on your grounding plate surface in the bottom of the hole. Shiny areas are conductive, matte areas are not. It only matters on this face of the plate (where the spring wants to touch). . . . . . and it only matters on this one run. .. . . . I'm so totally sorry, but lesson learned.
OPTIONS:
make sure the spring lands on the shiny area. (by altering the spring, rotating it, or spinning your button for a few days until that f-cker grinds off the finish in it's footprint)
buff off the clear coat (make it shiny).
send it back to me (just the cap will do).
I am sincerely sorry about this mistake on my part . . . . . . . .
i figured it out.
I'm trying to put ALL the facts together here, and do some troubleshooting. So, Scandal's mod fires, and then it doesn't . . .. doesn't a lot. Glass is focused in on the button . . . . . something is not right . . . . . toggling. Filthy-Beast has some intermittent trouble, takes it apart, rearranges it (and alters the spring). Now Scandal gets her mod to fire . .. . by pushing the edge of the button (by making contact between the button stem and the grounding plate . . . toggling). THAT's what finally brought it home for me!
Honestly, it was just shear dumb luck (that I didn't catch this when doing "quality control") that all the mods fired in nice v-drop ranges before I sent them out. If any one of them had given me an unacceptable reading, I probably would have caught this. . .. . . . .. .
I had gone through my first aluminum framing square and had to acquire more aluminum for this run. I compared prices on a number of options for 1/8" aluminum stock, and even looked for used/old/character-ridden framing squares. I ended up buying a new one from my favorite hardware store (where I expected to find some classy old used one). As I was chopping it up, and then sanding it flat, and buffing it out, I thought . . .. "is this thing sand blasted? or coated with something?". Between trying to get it truly flat, and anticipating fit with the top of the mod, and wanting to keep it as close to 1/8" as possible (everything's connected . .. . 1/8" is good . . . .. new square, obviously thinner than old square, not even 1/8" to begin with), I ended up leaving some of the "matte finish" on some of the plates. I made sure to get most of it off, just in case, in the areas that would require conductivity. (Thinking, if it really is some kind of coating . . .. which I couldn't imagine the reason for the added expense in manufacture of the squares . .. I'll know it when I test for conductivity. Well, cr_p, I tested all the mods, and they were fine! "Must've been me just being paranoid on the new framing square", I thought.)
SO . . ... after looking at the pattern of problems, I put two and two together, and went out to the shop and tested the square itself . . . .. what's left of it.
Sure enough, sure e-farking-nuff, there's some coating on it! I put the nose of a battery against the flat of the square, and I'm not getting a voltage reading from the other face of the square and the tail of the battery. I tested the square for resistance and it's reading like it would waving the leads around in the air.
WHY DIDN'T I THINK TO JUST TEST IT THIS WAY WHEN I HAD THE INKLING? !!!!!!!!!
IDK. Guess I'm stupid. Anyway, the fix is simple. The problem is isolated. And I'm an idiot. Obviously, I will take care of it personally for anyone who doesn't want to DIY it. It's really just a question of whether you want to do the work, or outsmart the issue, or send your mod back to me. If you look in the button hole (must disassemble button to do so by screwing off the brass nut on the bottom of the cap), you will see shiny areas and matte areas on your grounding plate surface in the bottom of the hole. Shiny areas are conductive, matte areas are not. It only matters on this face of the plate (where the spring wants to touch). . . . . . and it only matters on this one run. .. . . . I'm so totally sorry, but lesson learned.
OPTIONS:
make sure the spring lands on the shiny area. (by altering the spring, rotating it, or spinning your button for a few days until that f-cker grinds off the finish in it's footprint)
buff off the clear coat (make it shiny).
send it back to me (just the cap will do).
I am sincerely sorry about this mistake on my part . . . . . . . .
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don't beat yourself over it. I think it is an insignificant mistake. (easy for me to talk since i did not receive my dibi yet
"LIKE"
BUT SERIOUSLY, stupid stupid stupid!
Scandal, Glass, my profound apologies to you two. ... . . . I'm sorry!
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Not sure what cap you're talking about.... the whole aluminum plate is dull at the bottom except for 2 small shiny spots, at the end near the bottle, near 1 magnet, and a small patch not near the button. But to buff out the bottom, you have to take all the bottle stuff off... do you mean on the TOP of the plate under the button?? Just took the button out, and the whole thing is dull. I don't think you polished mine at all except incidentally, and I can't remove the richlite to get at that top spot inside the richlite.
The spring made no difference at all, even when I tried with no spring, so I think you hit the nail on the head, but I don't see how it's possible for any of us to get at it, without breaking the richlite off in chunks...
Glad you figured it out... thought I was going nuts that the Dibi vaped worse than my Egos for far more effort, even with the toggle (am not exaggerating one bit here). I was actually getting madder by the day... so glad it's fixable!
Also, I agree. Don't beat yourself up over it. Mistakes happen, you're human. But am soooo relieved there's a solution!!! Btw... LOVE the frame for the aluminum. It's so cute.
The spring made no difference at all, even when I tried with no spring, so I think you hit the nail on the head, but I don't see how it's possible for any of us to get at it, without breaking the richlite off in chunks...
Glad you figured it out... thought I was going nuts that the Dibi vaped worse than my Egos for far more effort, even with the toggle (am not exaggerating one bit here). I was actually getting madder by the day... so glad it's fixable
!Also, I agree. Don't beat yourself up over it. Mistakes happen, you're human. But am soooo relieved there's a solution!!! Btw... LOVE the frame for the aluminum
. It's so cute.
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yes, top of the plate. the 1/2" diameter bottom of the button hole. I've got spinny things that will buff out the bottom of that hole (on the TOP of the plate). If sending it back is unpalatable, gimme the morning to figure out a way anybody can remove the finish on the actual contact footprint of the spring.. . . . . . MacGyver-style.
It took me too long to be able to use my Dibi that I ain't taking nuttin' apart! #BOOM!
BUT what I did do was squish the spring together with some needle nose thinking maybe the spring was getting caught up on the inside cause that's what it feels like.
That didn't fix the toggle like push so I flipped the spring over. Narrow end up; wider bottom.
Button press is dead center now. No more toggle.
Does this make me a modder now?
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BUT what I did do was squish the spring together with some needle nose thinking maybe the spring was getting caught up on the inside cause that's what it feels like.
That didn't fix the toggle like push so I flipped the spring over. Narrow end up; wider bottom.
Button press is dead center now. No more toggle.
Does this make me a modder now?
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Speaking of top caps...
I rounded the edge of mine slightly- will probably do more, but wanted to see if it made any significant difference ( when pressing the button with my thumb, the joint of my thumb was catching on the corner, and it was mildly uncomfortable)
Even with this slight change it has improved.
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I rounded the edge of mine slightly- will probably do more, but wanted to see if it made any significant difference ( when pressing the button with my thumb, the joint of my thumb was catching on the corner, and it was mildly uncomfortable)
Even with this slight change it has improved.
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That's actually a pretty nice idea. A chamfer/beveled edge might improve ergonomics on the device. How hard was it to work the Richlite?
I used a metal nail file, than one of those buffer files
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Wow woW WOW!!!!!!!
I said it before my malfunction & will again..... my Dibi hits HARD! Harder than my REO!!!!
Folks thinking they need to go subΩ for massive clouds.... THIS right here is a freakin' fog machine.
I've been disappearing behind clouds all night!
*Vaping like a BOSS!
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I said it before my malfunction & will again..... my Dibi hits HARD! Harder than my REO!!!!
Folks thinking they need to go subΩ for massive clouds.... THIS right here is a freakin' fog machine.
I've been disappearing behind clouds all night!
*Vaping like a BOSS!
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When have you ever not vaped like a boss? Glad it's working for you Lex.
I can't wait for you & everyone else to get theirs!
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Yep, getting kinda excited now, and I told Peter to just make whatever he felt like. So, I don't even know what it's gonna look like. Never saw one I wouldn't take, so we'll see what we get.
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we'll start growing extra hair soon
tis mine today shh im also 14yr old nowwe'll start growing extra hair soon
if I had the money I would send professor pdib a nice pink block of wood for saying you don't mind hehehee
if I had the money I would send professor pdib a nice pink block of wood for saying you don't mind hehehee
Im still a bit worried about a hello kitty reference I made. If it did show up pink, im sure my wife would confiscate it. Wouldnt be a total loss, I guess. But since im not on the list for a second, it would suck for me.
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