SM V3 Semovar VS Provari

[Phone Guy]

Pep boys has it for $14
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There are a couple of metal paints too, silver and copper on amazon.

You could always try Noalox which is conductive, and that might help... apply to all the threads, thats at home depot for like $4 or something.... Noalox helps a lot with mechs and voltage drop, and I've used it on the threads of my vw devices, and it does help....seriously.

 

[jkusmc]

Maybe some cheap paint will make me like my overpriced sticker lol.

 

[Phone Guy]

Maybe some cheap paint will make me like my overpriced sticker lol.

Conductive paint....

 

[Pamailman]

PhoneGuy, glad to hear you are keeping it. Were you going through mech mod syndrome. I think I am, I've been using my mech's more than the Semi. Just bought a Super-T ELA with a bunch of extra stuff. Could have really pimped out the Semi and my Kayfuns for what I paid but wanted a nice SS mech.

 

[jkusmc]

Conductive paint....

Lol I understand that. I didn't mean I'm gonna soak my sticker down with krylon[emoji6]

 

[ethermion]

Painting the sticker might make me like it a bit better. Maybe racing stripes.

But the problem is that the sticker does not like me. It has too many parts. Months, and months ago, I gave it a good clean, and it behaved for a few days. Then, went back to bad behavior. That's how I cracked my yeller windr.

All the same, been in sticker mode for a the last week or so. Getting most of a full day (24 vape minutes or so) on gray Panasonics.

 

[Phone Guy]

I would imagine the "problem" with the sticker is too many threaded connections... every threading is a source of voltage loss as I understand it. I would imagine copper tape on the threading would help, its gonna be a female dog to tape all those threads, thats why I think some conductive coating would improve it overall. The only ones I know of are the Noalox (noalax?) and the copper paint for defogger window repair. It may not do a thing? I dont know.

If it were me, I think replacing that plate with a copper plate would be my first step, and copper being as soft as it is should be pretty easy to make fit with like a tin snips or something. May not look is good but that piece is inside so it really wont matter. Then improving the connectors threading with the copper paint or noalox might help too.

Very surprised Svoemesto didn't put more love into that design process.....?

 

[ethermion]

It was designed by a caveman. It uses countersunk screws to mount that "plate" thingie, but the plate is not countersunk. Amongst other problems. Actually, it looks like it was designed by some dude who just went to Home Depot and came back with a pile of stuff and some tin snips.

Somewhere waaay earlier in this thread, somebody noticed that the sticker needs button top batteries, of which I have none. So I had to swap out one of the screws to a round head to just get the thing to do SOMETHING!

 

[Phone Guy]

It was designed by a caveman. It uses countersunk screws to mount that "plate" thingie, but the plate is not countersunk. Amongst other problems. Actually, it looks like it was designed by some dude who just went to Home Depot and came back with a pile of stuff and some tin snips.

Somewhere waaay earlier in this thread, somebody noticed that the sticker needs button top batteries, of which I have none. So I had to swap out one of the screws to a round head to just get the thing to do SOMETHING!

Wow.......... talk about a side project for SM.... oh well........ sorry fellers.

 

[ethermion]

I think you need to take one for the team, and buy one and fix it. Though, if the solution can be found in a can of conductive paint, I would be really shocked. One of my boys has welding gear. That's where my brain is. Zzzzzz zap.

 

[ZeroOhm]

It was designed by a caveman. It uses countersunk screws to mount that "plate" thingie, but the plate is not countersunk. Amongst other problems. Actually, it looks like it was designed by some dude who just went to Home Depot and came back with a pile of stuff and some tin snips.

Somewhere waaay earlier in this thread, somebody noticed that the sticker needs button top batteries, of which I have none. So I had to swap out one of the screws to a round head to just get the thing to do SOMETHING!

I actually did as you did and swapped out the csk screw for the kayfun fill screw to do some tests for you, the VD was the same from memory then I forgot about it! When I sold the Semo and Sticker I forgot it was in there
never mentioned it to the buyer as I had forgot!

I only have tube mechs now and box mods.

 

[ethermion]

What? You sold a semo AND a sticker without saying so on this thread? Darn, I would have picked it up. Huh. Two stickers, I could have been unhappy in stereo.

 

[jkusmc]

I'll forgive SM on the sticker fiasco since the rest of their stuff is dead sexy. Buddy of mine is in Germany as we speak and is bringing home one of the new SM logo battery caps!! Now I don't have to stare at CE when I am in sticker mode.

 

[Phone Guy]

That's what I need to get for mine is the embossed battery cap.

 

[Tamer El-Meehy]

I was that close to ordering it from Estonia's DigitalSteam with the other stuff but I decided against it for the simple reason that I do not have a sticker and I am not planning to get one after all the issues I read about in this thread.


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[jkusmc]

Haha even without the sticker it's still sexy!

 

[Tamer El-Meehy]

Anybody knows anything about future upgrades to the chip?


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[ethermion]

Haha even without the sticker it's still sexy!

With the sticker it can look hot too.

Yellr display windr.
Yellr makrolon tank insert.
MH Mods top cap from Germany via intaste.
Custom commissioned drip tip.


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[ethermion]

Hey JK, Want to Quit! Wherz youz guys?

Was the Semovar with the bum 510 connector new? I just got a brand new Semo and am having the same problem. I am NOT happy.

 

[Phone Guy]

Ether, you got a new semo and your kfl are not sitting flush in the 510 cap?