oh who the heck am I kidding, yeah I know I said I guess it's not so bad, but truth is, to me, it is just BAD!. now I really know where the saying "don't loose any sleep over it" actually comes from because I've literally lost a whole lot of sleep past few nights over this problem here. my design had months of tweaking and tuning to get everything to be just perfect, and then, now, all of a sudden having to add anything at all to the width is just not sitting too well with me. one hundred and fifty thousandths???... as a machinist .150" is just HUGE, especially when everything has already been fine tuned down to the last .001" in the width, the width is a big deal here and it's why I came up with the over and under design in the first place, hell it may as well be an extra inch and a half wide as far as I feel about it, I had everything nested together perfectly and it was as narrow as possible for my design and it just felt great, no wasted space at all, now all of a sudden the new one just feels too wide... yes that little difference makes a big difference to me, I can't help it, after feeling the way it was before I just hate the way the new one feels.
the width of this mod is what made it so great, it felt awesome in hand, didn't feel too wide at all, it felt as good as any normal single 18650 mod, but now, adding that .15" makes it suddenly just feel wide. I just don't like it. if I had to add slightly to the height I think I could accept that easier because that doesn't change the feel, doesn't change the pocket ability and doesn't really hurt as much as having to widen it.
but the flip side is I really love this new 510, it's the best bf 510 by far and it's just really a great design. bottom line is I really want this 510 on my mod, but I don't want to compromise the width for it. until seeing this 510 I thought my own 510 design was pretty good, but truth is, this new spring loaded vt 510 is just superior to my own design, the compressed o-ring riding the bore is just genius, you have no idea how much this whole situation has tormented me the past few days... I must have this 510 in my mod but I also must keep the width to what it was before, I can't live with the extra width version, I don't even want to finish building the one I made to test it even, I don't like it, it's depressing just holding it, I don't even want to vape it
I just couldn't let this defeat me and ruin all of the planning and design work I've done so far, yes it really felt ruined, and I just refused to accept it, I just felt like I have to come up with a solution no mater what it takes and it was frustrating the hell out of me... even my wife looked at me the other day and said what the heck is wrong with you, you look so miserable... I just muttered something like I have a big problem with this thing, she said don't worry I have faith in you. def felt good when I had no idea what the heck I was going to do at the time. anyway, last night after thinking about this over and over again I finally came up with an idea for a way to have the best of both worlds, all I need to do is pull off some way of making an offset, a way to shift the pin over by .15" as soon as it exits the 510. maybe I'll have to raise the 510 by .1" or so, that I can live with, it won't change the feel of the mod at all, so late last night I emailed vt and also sent a msg to drunkj to try to find out what thread this 510 center pin is... I tried measuring it myself and it seemed to be very close to a 6-32 but it was def a finer thread, and measuring it as metric it measured to be right in-between a 3mm and a 4mm, so I wasn't sure exactly what the heck it was... well this morning I got answers from both. turns out it's a really oddball, 3.5mm X .6 thread.
so today I made a trip to a local tool supply house which happens to be an awesome little tool warehouse, they have every odd ball thing you could ever imagine and of course they did happen to have the 3.5mmX.6 taps and dies I needed for this and since I was going there anyway of course I bought a bunch of other stuff too, picked up a few toolmakers precision vices to revamp my whole vice setup while I'm at it, then I headed back home and designed and made an offset for this thing, and it works out great. I did have to slot the head of the pin so I can screw it into the offset tightly from the top
this is the first one, I have to take some precise measurements from this one to minimize the size and fine tune the final production version, but even as a rough prototype it works perfectly. solid, leak free and flows fine, so finally PROBLEM SOLVED!
I think i'll def get some sleep tonight finally
