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Due to some work I did with DD early on, I had a spare brass ring sitting around. So...
I press fit a 510 connector into it and used a rotary cutting wheel to slot the sides to match the coin slots on the ring.
The bottom is just a standard Boge cartomizer that was sacrificed and gutted for the occasion.
The carto center pin was pulled out, and a length of hobby wire (probably 14 or 16ga?) with a short coil in it (just for some spare length) went through the carto body.
The carto center pin was soldered to the wire and re-seated in the body.
The top of the wire was soldered to the center pin of the connector in the brass ring.
The carto body and ring are not (currently) physically connected together, other than by the wire.
This gives a bit of freedom to make sure the bottom of the cart is centered over the positive pin in the BB before snugging down the brass ring/atty connector.
The diameter of the atty connector (on the underside of the brass ring) is smaller than the carto body, so it drops inside the carto body while the brass ring pushes down on the body itself to make the ground connection.
Et voila!
It's not as easy to drop in as a tank and can't really be put into a tank body as-is because of the wire connection to the brass ring/atty connector.
If I had the time, pieces/parts and some extra machinery lying around, I think it would be possible to make a spring-loaded center post for the inside of the cartomizer body to mate with the center post of the atty/brass ring when it's snugged down. That way the carto adapter could be fit into a spare tank (for easier installation and internal alignment) and wouldn't require the hard-wire connection.
Still, for a proof-of-concept, I'm happy with it.
Believe me, I understand. At its best something like this will never be as elegant as the native, internal tank. This is just the kind of thing that happens when I'm bored and the solderin' fingers get itchy.
Still, I think some folks would be interested in it should an inevitably better version ever become an official BB product.
I did a search on eBay for "Dispensing Needle 20 ga" and found quite a few, but had to buy a fairly large quantity (50 - not a big deal, since I will use them for other things, too). From U.S. sellers, qty. 50 can be had for ~$12 shipped; from China sources you can get 100 for even less.
I think someone posted a source in the thread for getting them piecemeal not too long ago, but as I recall it wasn't a source I would normally buy from so with shipping it made more sense to just get more.
Baby's r us had some, but for a premium since its baby's r us .. But in a pinch they are there .. Didn't see any at local drug stores though
Found these:
100x Green 14 Gage Tapered Tip Plastic Needles for Dispenser Controller | eBay
Great price. I also picked up a 5ml syringe that these will screw on to! Now I can always inject exactly 5ml into the tank each time. Suck it out of the 30ml glass cobalt container and right into the billet box.....
I think this would work anyways.....
100x Green 14 Gage Tapered Tip Plastic Needles for Dispenser Controller | eBay
Great price. I also picked up a 5ml syringe that these will screw on to! Now I can always inject exactly 5ml into the tank each time. Suck it out of the 30ml glass cobalt container and right into the billet box.....
I think this would work anyways.....
bummer, but AW are the best for a reason...oh well.
Your Profile pic reminded me i still owed you and brutus'aurus a vape face photo...
I love it!
Best charger and hard to beat that price. I have 2 of them, one for work and one for home.
Not that anyone will be interested in this, but. . . .
So, DD -- does this make me the first to vape an RBA on a Billet Box?
You are an evil genius.
Hey dd.. Question for you motorcycle related.. I'm looking into getting my first bike and I came across the HD iron 883, do you know anything about them? I have a few friends that ride, but they are all on sport bikes and I have no interest in buying one of those..
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As far as needle talk, I do think Doug mentioned that the BB does come with one, right? I overlooked that part. Got everything else but needles.
Hope so. I'm just gonna get the BB standalone since I've got everything else I need here. If it comes with needles without having to buy a kit, then I'm all set.
I would assume that you could fill the tank using a metal needle though, just from the cartomizer hole instead of the ball.
My next issue is making juice. I generally diy a 3ml bottle for my reo mini every night and carry it around, so I gotta find a dumb way of diying right into the tank
Yeah, completely unnecessary, but I'm also pretty damn lazy haha.
I would assume that you could fill the tank using a metal needle though, just from the cartomizer hole instead of the ball.
My next issue is making juice. I generally diy a 3ml bottle for my reo mini every night and carry it around, so I gotta find a dumb way of diying right into the tank
Yeah, completely unnecessary, but I'm also pretty damn lazy haha.
Hope so. I'm just gonna get the BB standalone since I've got everything else I need here. If it comes with needles without having to buy a kit, then I'm all set.
I would assume that you could fill the tank using a metal needle though, just from the cartomizer hole instead of the ball.
My next issue is making juice. I generally diy a 3ml bottle for my reo mini every night and carry it around, so I gotta find a dumb way of diying right into the tank
Yeah, completely unnecessary, but I'm also pretty damn lazy haha.
Yeah, you can do that. I've mixed juice in the tank before. Just double your recipe, use something like this: Tank Tool/Filler Tip - Phiniac Rugged Pyrex Glass Tanks if you want to fill through the carto hole, and give the tank a good shake when your done.
Nice, looks nifty haha. Gonna have to order one now.
Just realized I overlooked the part about priming the carto, can't really mix inside the carto lol. Dammit.
Just realized I overlooked the part about priming the carto, can't really mix inside the carto lol. Dammit.
You can just use straight pg, or if you have your pg/vg/nic blend premixed, use that to prime the carto. Then, when it's in the tank and your flavors are mixed, give a few primer puffs to get your juice mixed in with the base in the carto, and start vaping. You'll get the full flavor of your juice pretty quickly.
Kable, it's 4am here and I can't think for crap. Regardless, you're a genius.
Kable, it's 4am here and I can't think for crap. Regardless, you're a genius.
LOL, I've just been working with carto tanks for a while, so I've already had a chance to figure this stuff out. Get some rest if you can. Or maybe you're an insomniac like me.
Haha I'm heading to sleep now.
I was never really a carto user, the BB converted me over lol. I can't wait for the rebuildable option to become available heh.
I was never really a carto user, the BB converted me over lol. I can't wait for the rebuildable option to become available heh.
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