The Little Beast: Vivi Nova, raidy style, cotton over wick marriage made in heaven

[l3oertjie]

Just two pics of what I think is the perfect match.

• Easy to change the wick and coil
• Easy to build.
• Holds approximately 2ml juice
• Cheap to build (if you have a small lathe in your office....)
• Silica wick, S/S wick, cotton wick - whatever you prefer
• Real nice and hot TH - I like it this way
• Strong TH depending on your ohms on the resitor wire
• It's small
• Clouds that would make Apple envious....

If anyone is interested I will post a "How to".






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[Sonar505]

Yes please by all means post a how to. Looks great.

 

[asdaq]

Sleek and bullet like, not like the 3/4" knurled tank vivi novas I've seen. Before a nice how to, could we get a nice shot under the hood please?

 

[l3oertjie]

Sleek and bullet like, not like the 3/4" knurled tank vivi novas I've seen. Before a nice how to, could we get a nice shot under the hood please?

Asdaq, in the AM yes, sure! Nothing special or innovative there, just the usual stuff. I do however believe the combination and positioning makes a huge difference....

I've vaped on a lot of mods - this one is by far the best setup. For me.

 

[Scubabatdan]

Is that a Kanger convert?
Dan

 

[l3oertjie]

Is that a Kanger convert?
Dan

Dan, pardon my ignorance but what is a Kanger? Sorry - our exposure to the latest and greatest is somewhat limited here in the South....

 

[Cyrus Vap]

Man I have no lathe and have even less building chops but I'd sure love to see a how to and fuel the fire in my pocket

 

[Underwhelmed]

Can't wait to see the how-to.

 

[Scubabatdan]

Dan, pardon my ignorance but what is a Kanger? Sorry - our exposure to the latest and greatest is somewhat limited here in the South....

Sorry, the Kanger T3 came out a month or two ago...

Just curious if it was built on that platform.
Dan

 

[Wooky]

Just two pics of what I think is the perfect match.

• Easy to change the wick and coil
• Easy to build.
• Holds approximately 2ml juice
• Cheap to build (if you have a small lathe in your office....)
• Silica wick, S/S wick, cotton wick - whatever you prefer
• Real nice and hot TH - I like it this way
• Strong TH depending on your ohms on the resitor wire
• It's small
• Clouds that would make Apple envious....

If anyone is interested I will post a "How to".


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A how to would be great!! Would like to see your ideas, especially if it vapes hot with a good th!!

Wook

 

[l3oertjie]

Sorry, the Kanger T3 came out a month or two ago...

Just curious if it was built on that platform.
Dan

Dan, no I don't think so - not sure how the Kanger T3 works - looks like a removable twist in coil?

I'll post a few pics in the next post - should be clear enough how it works.

 

[l3oertjie]

Silver Bullet

Black bullet

Just in case you think I have big hands....

The guts

Week old S/Steel coil (about 1mm diameter) and my pinkie finger

Battery connector side with spring on the atty holder shown

Same coil up close (sorry I don't have my decent camera with me today)

New cotton to sit over coil through tube holes

Trimmed cotton in tube over ceramic part - ready to screw into polytube bottom half
Note the silicon o-ring seals on the bottom part and also on the cap a bit later.
The ceramic cup with needles and pins just push over the thinner air tube in the middle. The needles touch the central air tube and the outer tube (the two are insulated from each other) It just clicks in position and conducts current perfectly.

The guts screwed in with the dry cotton wick over coil slightly twisted by the two needles - keeps it firmly inplace.

Nice and wet when filled with juice. Easy to fill too - just unscrew the cap and fill with your bottle into the polytube.

The cap has also has a short sleeve that fits over the larger tube to prevent juice directly to the vapourising chamber.
Initially I was hesitant to carry the assembly upside down for fear of leaking out the air hole in the cap. Interestingly this setup does not leak at all and my shirt pockets have no juice stains in them anymore. I must also add that I made sure all the tubes fit snug into each other.

 

[asdaq]

Snug tubes make me smile, LOL. Quite nice for ego batts too, diameter length and overall looks. I'm still unclear on what atty this started out as, what the spring is for and which of these parts am I going to be unable to make. The last part I'm only mildly worried about.

It doesn't in the slightest resemble this well thought out design:

 

[l3oertjie]

Snug tubes make me smile, LOL. Quite nice for ego batts too, diameter length and overall looks. I'm still unclear on what atty this started out as, what the spring is for and which of these parts am I going to be unable to make. The last part I'm only mildly worried about.

It doesn't in the slightest resemble this well thought out design:

Asdaq, I used many different parts - let me try and remember...

• Small 510 battery shell for the removal tool.
• Ego battery shell for the bottom part of the tank - it sits over polytube that had to be lathed in a bit so the OD's match.
• I used and old cartomizer battery connector for the bottom section because I prefer the tank to screw on the outer thread of the ego battery - for strength.
• I used the same 510 battery connector (female thread) and soldered that into the cartomizer connector to be able to screw the air tube and coil part to the bottom section.
• A CE5's connector and air tube is used for the inner part.
• Any small ceramic cup that fits over the tube will do - as long as it has a small diameter. The CE6 will work fine.
• I found a small S/S tube about 4mm diameter (parker pen refill) and machined all the parts to fit snug into it where required. (rectractable antennas will also work....)
• I also used a CE6 cap and machined that down to fit over the central tube.

I think that's the list. Does it make sense?

The spring is to ensure good connection to the battery positive pole - failsafe method. It's obvioulsy connected to the inner air tube for conductance.

 

[l3oertjie]

So far I'm impressed with the miniature stainless steel mesh coil. It has lasted two weeks now without any drop in performance.

It still seems pretty clean and absorbs the juice well. No dry hit until the juice in the tank is finished. I might actually make another one with one less wrap. This one measures 2.9Ω with 5 turns. Think I will make another one with four turns to reduce to approximately 2.3Ω. Even with the 2.9Ω is performs really nice - for me. Hot and great TH. Maybe it has something to do with the close proximity of the heating coil to the air outlet to your mouth.

And PS - no juice leaks thus far despite my initial fears.... Quite a robust and friendly little bugger this. Have orders for 3 of them from my friends so far. Just gotta get the time to make some more.

One more thing: The stainless mesh - its a tiny and tightly rolled mesh - I'd say 1mm in diameter x 5mm long. Think it was a #330 grid, not so sure anymore - there are so many pieces of mesh in my "vapebox" I cant be sure anymore. I doubt the grid makes a significant difference though...

Here's a picture of the coil in it's current state without any cleaning or dry burning. Did that after the pic...

 

[asdaq]

Hey, good to see you liking the mesh again, now get that coil cleaned up proper.

 

[perlionsmitnick]

what is that part made out of under the threaded wrap?

Sleek looking little device,

 

[l3oertjie]

what is that part made out of under the threaded wrap?

Sleek looking little device,

Gonna have to do a writeup on the "how to"....

There were so many part of so many thing I used....Sorry, cant answer your question without pics.

All I will say is that this li'll thingy performs as I want it to.......