the atty spring in the ceramic cup

[mwa102464]

I have a question for you Atty builders and Pros.

That little spring in the top of the ceramic cup, since this seems to be the prime suspect of my Attys going bad when that spring breaks what would happen if I dropped one little bead of solder on either side where the spring is attached or just filled that spring with solder on top of it on a brand new Atty to try and strengthen it up a bit >??? These springs seem to be so week why don't they make them stronger too

 

[rannox]

I can see repairing it, but you would need some acidic flux and silver solder (not very realistic I believe). Covering it solder would ruin its heating capabilities. Or at least drastically reduce them.

They are weak 'coils', but they are very small gage nichrome wire. With the amount of power our units can supply, it needs to be a small guage wire. Smaller wire is typically weaker, so not too much you can do there.

But comparing to the proposed life of homemade coils, I expect the nichrome wire in most manufactured atomizers isnt really high quality.

 

[Throat hit]

I would not try any of your Ideas. Now please don't take this the wrong way I can see where you are comming from HOWEVER the coil is made of nichrome and it is not the best thing to be soldering. Second you need silver solder to do the job third the length of the coil is part of how it works so filling the gap will make it run hotter and just go again fourth if you can solder someting that small thats amazing. Yes it is the weak link but that is at the moment the way it is. Look at the tutorials an this section to see how to re build your attys as it can be done and is no more difficult if you are that way inclined than what your idea was. I will add that I had a bar fire and it broke the wire in the middle of the bar I did solder in an Inch of normal cable and it fixed it. I think the atty is probably just to small a thing for this to work but hope you prove me wrong. Enjoy your tinkering regards from Rob..

 

[atavanhalen]

I have a question for you Atty builders and Pros.

That little spring in the top of the ceramic cup, since this seems to be the prime suspect of my Attys going bad when that spring breaks what would happen if I dropped one little bead of solder on either side where the spring is attached or just filled that spring with solder on top of it on a brand new Atty to try and strengthen it up a bit >??? These springs seem to be so week why don't they make them stronger too

I am by no means an expert but will let you know what I have learned. The coil in an atty is what gives you resistance(nichrome wire). Solder does not have much resistance at all, so if you filled the coil with solder you would have hardly any resistance which would make for a pretty bad vaping experience. The reason for this is that electricity takes the path of least resistance which means it would go through the solder and not the coil. Hope I made sense to you, oh and they do not make them stronger because then you would not need to buy them so often.