PDIB's Making MODs!
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not the adhesive. the burr. On the end of the driver slot at the head
SUCCESS!
A sharpening stone took care of that burr. I'm confident the problem was only on the end shown in the photo, but I cleaned up both ends of the slot for good measure. Reassembled. No more short! Wound and installed a new coil; 28 gauge, 5/64", showed 1.35 ohms on the tester and 1.3 ohms on a dna, where it fired fine. Pulled some cotton through it. Primed it. Put some juice in the bottle ("Peaches N Cream", 35-65-15). And...
I'm vaping it!
OK, OK, I know; 1.35 ohms is a "lightweight" coil. But it's a dead-stock Cyclone with a teensy air hole.
It rawks!
A sharpening stone took care of that burr. I'm confident the problem was only on the end shown in the photo, but I cleaned up both ends of the slot for good measure. Reassembled. No more short! Wound and installed a new coil; 28 gauge, 5/64", showed 1.35 ohms on the tester and 1.3 ohms on a dna, where it fired fine. Pulled some cotton through it. Primed it. Put some juice in the bottle ("Peaches N Cream", 35-65-15). And...
I'm vaping it!
OK, OK, I know; 1.35 ohms is a "lightweight" coil. But it's a dead-stock Cyclone with a teensy air hole.
It rawks!
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Sitting hear reading all this about using flat tops in the reo. I've been running my Sonys in it since I got it. Umm, am I not supposed to be?
Well, I was running my flat tops in it til today... but that's because the metal tongue part wasn't fully seated up on top over the juice bottle. Once I pushed it up, the other metal part wouldn't come down low enough to make contact with anything but a button
. (resulting in all the ideas of how to extend the tongue down further)
SUCCESS!
A sharpening stone took care of that burr. I'm confident the problem was only on the end shown in the photo, but I cleaned up both ends of the slot for good measure. Reassembled. No more short! Wound and installed a new coil; 28 gauge, 5/64", showed 1.35 ohms on the tester and 1.3 ohms on a DNA, where it fired fine. Pulled some cotton through it. Primed it. Put some juice in the bottle ("Peaches N Cream", 35-65-15). And...
I'm vaping it!
. . . . . .YAY! . . . .. 
generally speaking, it doesn't become problematic until you get into the sub-ohms. generally speaking.
Well, I was running my flat tops in it til today... but that's because the metal tongue part wasn't fully seated up on top over the juice bottle. Once I pushed it up, the other metal part wouldn't come down low enough to make contact with anything but a button
How bout this http://www.madvapes.com/flat-top-battery-adapter.html
SUCCESS!
A sharpening stone took care of that burr. I'm confident the problem was only on the end shown in the photo, but I cleaned up both ends of the slot for good measure. Reassembled. No more short! Wound and installed a new coil; 28 gauge, 5/64", showed 1.35 ohms on the tester and 1.3 ohms on a DNA, where it fired fine. Pulled some cotton through it. Primed it. Put some juice in the bottle ("Peaches N Cream", 35-65-15). And...
I'm vaping it!
OK, OK, I know; 1.35 ohms is a "lightweight" coil. But it's a dead-stock Cyclone with a teensy air hole.
It rawks!
AWESOME!
My BF fail saga continues:
I fiddled with the centerpin a bit more and got the empty Cyclone reading close to a half ohm.
So I dug up my gunsmithing screwdriver set. One of the tips fit the slot in the center pin perfectly. I clamped the atty upside down in a bench vise and started unscrewing. This took quite a bit of force at the beginning but eventually loosened up. I kept at it and after a while, I was able to get the center pin assembly out.
Inspecting it under a lighted 2x and 5x magnifier revealed no obvious source for the short, so I put it back together -- and got the same results as before, now about 0.44 ohms. The only plausible explanation I can came up with is that there's a piece of something conductive embedded in that insulator. That means I have to find something that's the right size with which to drift out that insulator.
Oh, and a rant/digression: The atty tester I picked up... The ON/OFF switch will not budge from the ON position. But since I bought it locally, I'm confident they'll swap it out for one that works as it should. Still, this seems like yet another sign that I should put #0002 in away in the safe for a while.
Do you have a different Atty you can test with that ohm meter?
Those things are not of the highest quality. Could be the tester?
Edit.... I'm slow. Glad ya fixed the problem
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Anyone have a site for the Cyclone?? Indy Vapor is out of stock on the bottom feed model. 
Anyone have a site for the Cyclone?? Indy Vapor is out of stock on the bottom feed model.
The Cyclone RBA by Vicious Ant
I'm not sure whether it's OK to post a link, but I got mine (defective, now fixed) from Mountain Oak Vapors; they show 57 in stock.
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Mama beat me by one minute.
And an aside: It really is trivially easy to ream out the air hole in these; totally unlike my Igo-L in that respect.
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Mama beat me by one minute.
And an aside: It really is trivially easy to ream out the air hole in these; totally unlike my Igo-L in that respect.
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Yeah, I just drilled a second airhole from scratch on one of those. Very easy (comparatively)
Just found a clone at: Cyclone Clone Rebuildable Drip Atomizer by Ehpro
I know I know, it's a clone. But maybe it won't have unfinished burrs you have to finish machining yourself for the $15. The posts appear to be brass tho. With that level of finishing, the clone may be better made.
After seeing that screw, and that level of Q&A, I wouldn't buy it for over $20. I don't mind paying for quality. That ain't quality there.
I know I know, it's a clone. But maybe it won't have unfinished burrs you have to finish machining yourself for the $15. The posts appear to be brass tho. With that level of finishing, the clone may be better made.
After seeing that screw, and that level of Q&A, I wouldn't buy it for over $20. I don't mind paying for quality. That ain't quality there.
I think the quality was there until it was modded for bottom feeding. It's not that easy to do while making it look like it was originally made that way.
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