Repairable CE2
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This thread needed a bump, these are just so easy to make, these things rock
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I was never able to enlarge the holes (even after ordering a bunch of diamond burs). All I did was break the ceramic on the ones I tried. I did find it rather easy to just rebuild the whole thing with wire from Radio Shack (30 AWG).
sorry to hear this. I used a bauway ce2 maybe diferent ceramics are different strengths.
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thanks. i didn't know bauway and microcig had diff ce2 implementations.
I used ce2's from multiple venders and never had that problem. You may be using to big of a diamond bur, putting too much preasure, or using to high of a setting on yuor rotary tool.
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I ordered some of the Kanthal for making a SS mesh mod, but found this instead, I'll be doing this. I found this thread in trying to find out how to solder the Kanthal to the guts of the CE2, and the method you use is way better. Thanks.
These work good. I also bought some very small carbide drill bits and rasps for the dremel there. The package specifically said ceramic but they didn't work nearly as good as the diamond bits.
I just want to thank you for the easiest repairable mod ever. I've tried others that took me days to do and they never did work really good. I was able to make 1 in a little more than 30 minutes and it worked awesome.
I took a solderless approach. First I removed the wire and solder (with a file) from the center post. I put one of the coil j-wires through the cup and wrapped it to the center post using enamel coated wire. I then covered this with heat shrink. I took the wire that was soldered to the battery connector and stripped an inch or so of the insulator off. I put the other coil j-wire through the cup and wound the battery connector wire around it. Then I secured it to the post by winding it with more enamel coated wire on top of the heat shrink that insulated the center post j wire.
I can solder decently but I've had a hard time soldering things like safety pins to the center post.
I've made 2 of these so far and both of them work better than any of my previous atty attempts. Thanks bulli!
I took a solderless approach. First I removed the wire and solder (with a file) from the center post. I put one of the coil j-wires through the cup and wrapped it to the center post using enamel coated wire. I then covered this with heat shrink. I took the wire that was soldered to the battery connector and stripped an inch or so of the insulator off. I put the other coil j-wire through the cup and wound the battery connector wire around it. Then I secured it to the post by winding it with more enamel coated wire on top of the heat shrink that insulated the center post j wire.
I can solder decently but I've had a hard time soldering things like safety pins to the center post.
I've made 2 of these so far and both of them work better than any of my previous atty attempts. Thanks bulli!
I got a couple of pictures but it doesn't really show details very well. I gave a friend of mine the one that would show more details but any way...
This is the post where I've removed the wire and filed off the existing solder.
Make sure you put the heat shrink on before you start putting things together
Here I'm going to use that red enamel coated wire to wrap the safety pin to connect it to the post. I stripped a couple of inches of the enamel wire to ensure a good connection. Wrap until tight.
This the first one I did and I messed up and broke the negative wire off of the battery connector so I filed off that solder and just put a nice bend in the safety pin so it springs tightly against the inside of the battery connector. I'm not really counting on this one last forever like that but it's blazing strong right now.
The second one that I did correctly that I do not have pictures of I stripped about 1/2" of insulator off of the negative wire, wrapped that around the other safety pin then wrapped it in the same way as described above. I didn't put heat shrink over this part cause it really isn't necessary plus the red wire looks cool (I used an old clear ce2).
I'll try to get some pictures of the other one tomorrow if I can get it away from my buddy long enough.
Greg
This is the post where I've removed the wire and filed off the existing solder.
Make sure you put the heat shrink on before you start putting things together
Here I'm going to use that red enamel coated wire to wrap the safety pin to connect it to the post. I stripped a couple of inches of the enamel wire to ensure a good connection. Wrap until tight.
This the first one I did and I messed up and broke the negative wire off of the battery connector so I filed off that solder and just put a nice bend in the safety pin so it springs tightly against the inside of the battery connector. I'm not really counting on this one last forever like that but it's blazing strong right now.
The second one that I did correctly that I do not have pictures of I stripped about 1/2" of insulator off of the negative wire, wrapped that around the other safety pin then wrapped it in the same way as described above. I didn't put heat shrink over this part cause it really isn't necessary plus the red wire looks cool (I used an old clear ce2).
I'll try to get some pictures of the other one tomorrow if I can get it away from my buddy long enough.
Greg
great approach, I put leds in tanks with shrink wrap, wish I had thought of that, would have saved me a burnt finger ( I was inpaciant and grabed as soon as the solder solidified) 
common problem with me lol
common problem with me lol
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