Suck at soldering? Try this.

[AngusATAT]

Something I found as I was looking around at ThinkGeek.com. I think I might get some, as I haven't soldered anything in over 25 years, and I wasn't good at it back then.

ThinkGeek :: "Wire Glue" Conductive Glue

 

[bigozone]

i noticed that too.... but i like the challanges of soldering.

 

[codfish124]

dries over night..... solder is prity much instant.

 

[Lightgeoduck]

I would suggest this item to a newbee wannabee modder.. or making a prototype or something...I mean soldering is the way to go,,,,,but this is A option for the notso modder savy

 

[tinear]

i can see keeping some handy while traveling also. so what if you're a thousand miles from your home and all your tools. fix that broken connection or slap together a quick mod before you crash for the night and wake up ready for the road. heck, i can see spreading that stuff straight onto a piece of plastic and using it as a wire or even batt contacts.

 

[AngusATAT]

i can see keeping some handy while traveling also. so what if you're a thousand miles from your home and all your tools. fix that broken connection or slap together a quick mod before you crash for the night and wake up ready for the road. heck, i can see spreading that stuff straight onto a piece of plastic and using it as a wire or even batt contacts.

Some very good points.

If anything, it might be good to just add to your modding arsenal.

 

[dalton3699]

i think i might pick some up. there is always that one time you need something where the traditional solder wont do the trick just havent gotten there yet

 

[Some Guy]

I have some silver conductive epoxy.
Silver Conductive Epoxy
It does come in handy sometimes.

 

[lunaras]

I came across that stuff a while back and when looking into it I found this:
electro-tech-online. com/general-electronics-chat/85955-found-wire-glue.html (sorry, can't post links yet)

I'm not saying this wouldn't work as I've not tried it, but given that it has a resistance 500000x higher than copper, and a short connection could add around 1 ohm to the circuit, I think it wouldn't work well in the long run and could drastically change the quality of your vape. I think making a "wire" out of it by putting it on plastic or something could create a wire with a relatively high resistance and would be right out.

With that said, I think gluing two metal discs together to make a disc shaped resistor to regulate 7.2v -> 5.0v/6.0v or 6.0v -> 5.0v. Each could be custom made and would hopefully handle a large amount of power to make this a safe and easy way to reduce voltage to the atty. Plus, changing the vapor characteristics would be as simple as adding/removing a resistor disc to adjust the voltage.

I may have to get some and try to make some 0.5-1 ohm 10w resistor discs to experiment with...

 

[mnealtx]

Something I found as I was looking around at ThinkGeek.com. I think I might get some, as I haven't soldered anything in over 25 years, and I wasn't good at it back then.

ThinkGeek :: "Wire Glue" Conductive Glue

Depending on how good of a glue it it, could be just the thing for gluing battery threads into various mods....

 

[lunaras]

An update on making resistor disc out wire glue:
I made some wire glue myself at home by mixing liquid electrical tape and powdered graphite used to lubricate locks rather than wait on shipping (Make Conductive Glue and Glue a Circuit). The resistance varies based on the ratio of graphite to liquid tape, and I used about 1 part graphite to 1 part liquid tape.

It definitely conducts, but a 1/16th inch thick disc had about 40-50 ohms of resistance. I'm going to try this at 3 parts graphite to 2 parts liquid tape and may even try higher ratios, but I haven't had the chance to yet.

The commercially available version is supposed to use microcarbon particles (I assume something like buckyballs or carbon nanotubes) and so should have a lower resistance than my homemade goop. I'm not great with solder either and I've made many a poor solder joint that had a fair amount of resistance, so this might work well, especially if the solder isn't.