Waiting on a few parts to arrive bit what I would really like is an automatic retractable atomizer or cartomizer . Anybody have any ideas on how to accomplish that ?
Retractable atomizer/cartomizer
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There was talk that I remember a while about this. If memory serves, most of the ideas all came down to wire binding while trying to retract. Some kind of drawer type slider would probably give the best results. Would probably have quite a bit of wiggle too.
K&S Engineering makes telescoping brass tubing with .005" tolerance between sizes. A #135 3/8" tube is slightly larger than a 510 connector and it telescopes into a #136 13/32" tube . Solder the connector to the smaller tube and solder the ground to the larger and have a longer wire for the positive coil inside. The same thing can be done for larger sizes too.
Hey Quigs, have you seen the Terrox? It looks like it's got some of your Busbox happening in it too. Sorry OP, non-retractable. 
Hey Quigs, have you seen the Terrox? It looks like it's got some of your Busbox happening in it too. Sorry OP, non-retractable.
Really??, I mean come on...Gutten Tag, I am lead machinist at the Maybach USA factory and built this during my coffee break...I'd love to see him bang that off using a Dremel and a glue gun...ok, it's serious cool but so demoralizing
Ok rant over, oh and thanks TC, at least I didn't have to hunt to ruin my day, you served it up for me
...another idea I tinkered with on the retractable atty is to mount the atty con on the blade holder of one of those cheap retractable blade box cutters (you know the ones that can lock) and power it with a piece of 18 awg coiled cable from a 12v car charger...the box is slotted so that the thumb slider/lock is accessible...it'd be kinda gimmicky plus I thought why would you ever want to have more than the drip tip sticking out?...which lead me to my typical recessed atty's designsEdit: sorry OP, you said automatic...about the only thing I can think of aside from a long throw selenoid or servo would be to try the spring loaded catch system from one of those kids "plunker" dart guns...which might be kinda cool (and easily weaponized
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If you used the telescoping copper tube, I'm wondering if you could use that tube as ground, and use another telescoping system inside of it, (perhaps insulated with a few cartomizer caps), for the positive....that way no wires to fatigue. I'm thinking something like a small antenna off of a remote control toy. Something narrow in diameter that still telescopes. This way you can have a solid base that both the ground and positive are connected to, and no bending wires as it moves in and out...
I've been thinking about the old school telescoping car aerial idea since asdaq brought it up a few posts up...the only issue I see with that is the possible v drop across multiple friction connections...fine for an aerial collecting RF but may be a bit of an issue pounding 2 amps through it
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