Sigelei #19 Tips, tricks, and DON'Ts

[duke05]

When you drilled out that cup, did you just use a cordless or did you use a drill press? I wonder if there isn't a brass screw out there that I could just cut to length and thread directly into the bottom button and a could avoid having to drill anything at all? Anybody know the thread pattern on that post?

I used a cordless drill and a pair of pliers to hold the post. I got a little of center, O'well. As far a a screw to just replace post, Maybe. but a screw with a theaded shaft might not operate smothly. I don't know the the size of thread.

 

[minimalsaint]

The 19b I ordered on Friday night from akavapers shipped yesterday (Saturday service from a vendor? whaaaa?) and will deliver to my house tomorrow. Nice...... Very nice.
......And I can't wait to tear it to bits. LOL is that normal?

 

[NamVet68]

The 19b I ordered on Friday night from akavapers shipped yesterday (Saturday service from a vendor? whaaaa?) and will deliver to my house tomorrow. Nice...... Very nice.
......And I can't wait to tear it to bits. LOL is that normal?

Read my signature.......'ain't broken until you "fix" it

 

[alchemix]

Is 'akavapers' reliable?

 

[Stoneface]

I got a shipping notice for a stainless 19 with both top caps! Woot!

 

[gdeal]

Is 'akavapers' reliable?

No problem here with them. Recently placed on order on May 30th Shipped out May 31.

 

[gdeal]

Read my signature.......'ain't broken until you "fix" it

Hey nam...That's not in your sig. I just see Yoda.

 

[NamVet68]

Hey nam...That's not in your sig. I just see Yoda.

Hmmm it's supposed to say " "Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will" ~ Master Yoda" below the picture...shows up on every one of my posts in the thread from my end.

I recently had an admin tell me that the size of the image in my .sig was too large, so I brought it down in size to meet spec.... Maybe that screwed it up.

...have to look into that... Thanks for the heads-up.

 

[gdeal]

Hmmm it's supposed to say " "Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will" ~ Master Yoda" below the picture...shows up on every one of my posts in the thread from my end.

I recently had an admin tell me that the size of the image in my .sig was too large, so I brought it down in size to meet spec.... Maybe that screwed it up.

...have to look into that... Thanks for the heads-up.

Noooo. You are good on that..it was this piece....

Read my signature.......'ain't broken until you "fix" it

 

[NamVet68]

Noooo. You are good on that..it was this piece....

Got me .....

 

[minimalsaint]

Is 'akavapers' reliable?

Ordered after midnight on Friday (Saturday), order shipped Saturday, made it from LA to Detroit, and I am currently cussing and trying to get the switch apart. Pretty reliable I would say!

Side note:
I hate the nzonic cap. Blah.

 

[ricericerice]

Side note:
I hate the nzonic cap. Blah.

But it's so beautiful.

Yeah I dont use mine either



Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

 

[whit77]

Why you guys not flushing out your nzonic top caps or something

Here's mine

 

[Insanelysick]

Do you know the size of the button spring?

Next up was the spring in the switch. I'd still love to find a brass/copper "hot spring" to try here but I've found that even the steel spring that it comes with can be tweaked to work better. I actually used a spring I found at my local hardware store that is *identical* to the stock one, except it is perhaps 1/4 of an inch longer. I think this would work with the stock one too, in a pinch.

I took a pair of needle nose pliers and stretched the top most coils, furthest from the bottom, in effect making the top half of the spring slightly wider. It takes physical effort now to insert the spring inside the button assembly... not much but it's now large enough that at least part of the spring is *always* in solid contact with the locking ring and thus the rest of the button assembly. This worked great and got rid of the occasional "hot button" and misfires I was having. The only problem I ran into is that if I used the lock sometimes the very top most coil would then get trapped between the lock and the delrin, preventing the lock from screwing all the way back in again. A little more work with the pliers and I fixed that too. The spring is now sort of egg shaped, a bit wider in the mid section than at either end. I smeared a dab of Ox-Gard on the inside face of the locking ring as well:

 

[NamVet68]

....
Side note:
I hate the nzonic cap. Blah.

Dang...and I ordered one for my #19a because I thought it would work better with my RBAs....

 

[minimalsaint]

Flushing it out isn't the issue. It's just ugly and the stainless is a completely different tone than the rest of the mod. The spring is crap and the pin is not adjustable by any simple means. Blah.

 

[Minjin]

Use a dremel and notch out the magnet, you can then use a flathead screwdriver and a pair of pliers to remove the button.

 

[Brizzol]

My #19 With another sigelei bottom tube on (I kind of like it this way better) Just need myself a Nzonic head thing now and I'll be happy with it

 

[whit77]

Flushing it out isn't the issue. It's just ugly and the stainless is a completely different tone than the rest of the mod. The spring is crap and the pin is not adjustable by any simple means. Blah.

Try polishing it to match your 19 lol, and swap the brass pin and spring for a m4 brass bolt, its all quite really simple

 

[Statistic]

^^ this

Take the top spring out and throw it away.

Differing finishes between the mod and cap is unfortunate... mine match perfect and I didn't buy them at the same time or from the same vendor.