Video: Experiment with a atomizer-less e-cig

[robw]

I have a cnc milling machine too, they are really cool.

 

[kender]

Someone made a hot air reflow out of a soldering iron. Some of his ideas might work here.

Heres a link
DIY Hot Air Soldering Iron

 

[iam0z]

Hi IamOZ.....I am afraid for some reason I can't see your pic.....yes I know what you mean about repetitive accuracy, with a CNC.....set it up right and away they go......the old machinist's skills aren't necessary any more.

Excuse me? The old machinist skills aren't necessary anymore? Someone who knows something about machining and material fabrication has to teach the machine how to go about doing the work thank you. I think the only benefit to having the CNC is it repeats what the old machinist taught it to do tirelessly. Sure with CAD/CAM systems they have these days can write the programs from a design but I am of the opinion that it takes a real machinist to show the machine how to do it's work reliably. That being said i still have to come up with a way to attach a device to the tip of a cold heat tip and a cartridge to feed it the juice.

 

[surbitonPete]

Excuse me? The old machinist skills aren't necessary anymore? Someone who knows something about machining and material fabrication has to teach the machine how to go about doing the work thank you. I think the only benefit to having the CNC is it repeats what the old machinist taught it to do tirelessly. Sure with CAD/CAM systems they have these days can write the programs from a design but I am of the opinion that it takes a real machinist to show the machine how to do it's work reliably. That being said i still have to come up with a way to attach a device to the tip of a cold heat tip and a cartridge to feed it the juice.

What I meant was that CNC has taken all the skills and the pleasure away from the person who has to 'operate' the machines these days.....I used to set the machinery up for the machine operators to use but pretty much all they had to do was 'feed' the machines and check the work coming off and then call me if something went wrong......extremely boring.

 

[iam0z]

pretty much all they had to do was 'feed' the machines and check the work coming off and then call me if something went wrong......extremely boring.

LOL!!!!! Looking at your picture reminds me of a name we used to have for "machine operators". We called them green button monkeys. And yes in the private sector I was the guy who did the setups and the edits and even in one job i was the also the programmer.

But staying back on the subject let me see what my little machines and myself can accomplish.

 

[Variable]

I'll introduce myself eventually, but first I need to ask:

Any news on this?
That's the most promising everlasting atomizer idea that I've ever read about.
Any updates?

 

[surbitonPete]

I'll introduce myself eventually, but first I need to ask:

Any news on this?
That's the most promising everlasting atomizer idea that I've ever read about.
Any updates?

Hi..If you are talking about what happened with the cold heat soldering iron idea ....I did try wrapping a coil of wire around the tip of the soldering iron, unfortunately I had been prematurely excited by the idea, it certainly did work in the sense of making the wire hot enough to create vapour to vape with ....but the taste from the graphite tip was unbelievably and frightenly bad. I ended up getting rid of the graphite tip and converting the soldering Iron into a normal e-cig using penstyle atties....and it's absolutely brilliant for that.....all you need to do is add a momentary button and an atomizer connection ....all the wiring is already there and in the right place! The cold heat soldering iron is now pretty much the only PV I use.

The truth is the more I have thought about how a battery driven atomizer works, I don't think there is much that can be done to improve upon how they are made now.

 

[Variable]

I ended up getting rid of the graphite tip and converting the soldering Iron into a normal e-cig using penstyle atties....and it's absolutely brilliant for that.....all you need to do is add a momentary button and an atomizer connection ....all the wiring is already there and in the right place! The cold heat soldering iron is now pretty much the only PV I use.

I don't get it. So are you using the soldering iron as the atomizer, or are you using it as one of those screwdriver or prodigy thingies just to hold the batteries and using the usual atomizers that break all the time?

Because what I'm looking for is a way to not use the atomizers that keep breaking, and finding a solution for that.

Could you clarify what you did there?