PDIB's Making MODs!

[CATastrophe]

Your oring assumptions are correct, Pdib! Two of the fat ones for batts would be stellar as well as for the atty. I needed one of the fatter ones under my Cyclone.

I'm on day 3 with my Dibi and just love it. It went out to breakfast this morning and then off running errands.

I did have my husband cut back the button coil about 4/5 of a ring. That made a noticeable difference in ease of firing for me. It's still got enough tension not to go off if bumped in my purse or pocket, but easier on my hand.

As an aside:
The husband convinced me to try the XC132 ceramic wick. So I used it for 2 days in 3 Cyclones. Blech! More dry hits in two days with that stuff than I've had in over a year of coiling and using cotton. I gave it a fair shot. Now I'm back to my happy cotton place and clouding up the room with tasty stuff.

 

[pdib]

ok, no changes in atty o-rings then. thanks, you two (and thanks for still talking to me . . . Kogijiki )

 

[Megan Kogijiki Ratchford]

ok, no changes in atty o-rings then. thanks, you two (and thanks for still talking to me . . . Kogijiki )

Of course Peter!

 

[MasterofNone]

ok, no changes in atty o-rings then. thanks, you two (and thanks for still talking to me . . . Kogijiki )

You got it dude!


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[Filthy-Beast]

I'm using the thickest of both on mine.

 

[timk]

I use the fat ones too, I like the squish

 

[X-Puppy]

Another vote for 2 of the fat battery O rings. Haven't used the thin one for anything.

 

[pdib]

Yeppers, ok, so; all atty o-rings, double the fat batt rings and no call for thinnest batt rings.

 

[MasterofNone]

The thinnest ones are actually the biggest in diameter.- never had need of one once


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[Alexander Mundy]

Yeppers, ok, so; all atty o-rings, double the fat batt rings and no call for thinnest batt rings.

Hang on to a couple for my next one. With the negative bypass strip and magnets I can't use the others.

BTW, got some mil surplus silver strips today HeHeHe

 

[glassgal]

Besides the battery, are there any other uses for all the o-rings?

 

[pdib]

well . . . . . . . . yeah . . . .. .

 

[SeaNap]

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[ValHeli]

OF COURSE! I just used one to fix a leaky hydraulic actuator on the helicopter

.. i don't have a DiBi so yes i have to make fun of my situation..



....actually Pdib, I'll need some part numbers for an open purchase...

Besides the battery, are there any other uses for all the o-rings?

 

[super_X_drifter]

Hang on to a couple for my next one. With the negative bypass strip and magnets I can't use the others.

BTW, got some mil surplus silver strips today HeHeHe

Mundy, you have sorta hot wired your mod no? I see sort of a jumper from the firing pin to the 510. What's that all about?

 

[Alexander Mundy]

Mundy, you have sorta hot wired your mod no? I see sort of a jumper from the firing pin to the 510. What's that all about?

I installed magnets where the spring was so there is not a spring. Without a spring the only path for current is from the side of the button blind screw through the sides of the hole for it. As can be shown by the change of springs to a better one, a good portion of the current goes through the spring. The bypass strap (currently brass) connects the base of the 510 connector to the silver contact I installed in place of the brass screw. The BeCu spring & silver contact that Peter is offering is as good as the brass bypass strip, but the button press was just a little too much for me, so now I have a softer button press with the magnets and as good conductivity.

I also installed silver contacts for the other end of the battery and the bottom contact for the central threaded rod and replaced the brass rod with a copper one. I am going to fashion a bypass strip out of silver strip to replace the brass one, and will try replacing the BeCu strip from the center post of the 510 to the central threaded rod with silver also. In the future I might even see about replacing the central threaded rod with silver if not cost prohibitive.

Am I nuts? Probably, but I just can't resist modifying things.

See:

 

[pdib]

kin'a makes you wish you knew a guy what had 6g Sterling Silver rod laying around . . .. . .


like a nice little 3" length, no?

 

[timk]

Cool stuff Mundy!

Only mod I've done is this matching drip tip. Not perfect yet but it'll do for now. Keep in mind I have no fancy tools. Flat file, hand drill, dremel, sandpaper, superglue, and steel wool.





From my lil blockette pdib thoughtfully returned with mod.

 

[pdib]

did you make that yourself, tim?

too fast for turnaround to have sent out for it.

either way, that looks farkin' great!!

 

[timk]

did you make that yourself, tim?

too fast for turnaround to have sent out for it.

either way, that looks farkin' great!!

yes sir. drilled a hole through the blockette you sent back, then roughed out a square roughly 12mm thick with the dremel. surfaced the ends flat using the drip tip as stop (I know thats prob not making sense haha) and then used the flat file by hand to make it a roundish cylinder. superglued the metal drip tip in the wood cylinder then chucked the oring side of the drip tip in a 1/2" drill for final sanding/polishing. superglue/ca finish. left it fat until I can engineer me up some other method of making that a flat sided cylinder. although I am kinda diggin the fatness/taper of it. I used a VA Chaplin drip tip to start with; cut the plastic sleeve off. sleeve is super thin so I may just leave it as is. had a good time makin it; took about 4 hours lol wife not so impressed.