Video - shorting a Grand and dropping a spring - how to avoid it, what happens and how to fix it

[super_X_drifter]

http://youtu.be/VM0i8j5xWjk

^ there's a video teaching you how to avoid shorts and what happens when you do short it out (yes, I sacrifice a spring for YOU and how to repair it.

Thanks for watching.
Russ

 

[Racehorse]

Very nice.

I sort of enjoyed shorting my REO GRAND once. It showed me how incredibly safe this mod is.

I didn't even know immediately that the spring had collapsed, I mean, I was a newbie and had never had the experience, but I went to take a hit and there was none, and there was this subtle rattling around of the battery inside

It was an entirely "gentle" event and not even scary.

 

[built4feel]

Lookin good and sounds great. Good topic for a vid. Thanks for showing us how to kill a spring hah

Here's me watching it in the man cave on the big screen....

(Just got a new phone I gotta show off with the the dual facing camera)

 

[Mrs C]

Thanks for another great vid. It was neat seeing just how the spring drops. No fuss just a plunk.

 

[Doffy]

Good work. I have embarrassingly dropped 2 springs. One the ribbon wire coil contacted the chamber, and the other was just stupid trying to get a voltage reading [lesson learned but the sparks were pretty]

 

[Susan~S]

Great video and LOVE the studio and your lighting! Very professional looking.

Now I know what to do should this ever happen to me. Thanks!

 

[Andigaut]

The smegma comment cracked me up . So what atty was making all that vapor? Ohm?

 

[jifjifjif]

It's probably an Odin, knowing Russ. Not sure what his ohm range is though.

Going to go watch the video now.

 

[super_X_drifter]

The smegma comment cracked me up . So what atty was making all that vapor? Ohm?

LOL. Yes schmegma

That atty is a an Loki Lab Odin BF with a dual microcoil setup netting .7 ohms. KGD wick and unflavored 10 mg nic base in about 98%VG.

Those attys are on all my mods.

 

[jifjifjif]

Another instant classic, my man!

 

[ckquatt]

Thanks for taking one for the team brother!! Great video!

 

[keepsmiling]

LOL. Yes schmegma

If you knew what that really was, you would never use that word.

 

[super_X_drifter]

If you knew what that really was, you would never use that word.

Oh I bet I'd still use it here and there

 

[ReigntheGamer]

Another awesome vid! New studio looks great and I always learn something with some lol's thrown in.

Edit: Quick question for the X-Man ( ) I noticed in the mod you were puffing on while making that video the spring in it was a little askew, is that to keep the tops of the batteries under the firing pin when you close the door. Or was it just the way you happened to install it?

The only reason I ask is my other batteries (thank goodness I got my AW's in finally) have a tendency to lean forward a bit towards the door when I close it and I have to open it up and push them back in a little or they won't fire. I am guessing that's not the case beacause I don't have that problem with my AW's and I know that's all I have seen in your mods from your vids. Thanks in advance.

 

[super_X_drifter]

Another awesome vid! New studio looks great and I always learn something with some lol's thrown in.

Edit: Quick question for the X-Man ( ) I noticed in the mod you were puffing on while making that video the spring in it was a little askew, is that to keep the tops of the batteries under the firing pin when you close the door. Or was it just the way you happened to install it?

The only reason I ask is my other batteries (thank goodness I got my AW's in finally) have a tendency to lean forward a bit towards the door when I close it and I have to open it up and push them back in a little or they won't fire. I am guessing that's not the case beacause I don't have that problem with my AW's and I know that's all I have seen in your mods from your vids. Thanks in advance.

I try to keep my springs parallel to the mod. The old one mounted for purposes of shorting was just slapped in there.

I'm not sure how much a difference it makes if they are askew but I like the aesthetic of a nice straight gold spring

I never have any alignment issues with AW IMRs regardless of spring straightness.

 

[ReigntheGamer]

I try to keep my springs parallel to the mod. The old one mounted for purposes of shorting was just slapped in there.

I'm not sure how much a difference it makes if they are askew but I like the aesthetic of a nice straight gold spring

I never have any alignment issues with AW IMRs regardless of spring straightness.

Thanks! The AW's seem to do just fine but my first batteries I had before getting a Reo seem to be attracted to the magnets and lean out slightly, must be the flat top or something. I appreciate the response.

 

[supertrunker]

Rule 42 says you put a penny and a nickel behind the spring base? something like that and then it screws in straight.

If your 510 has a short, then anything you screw on there is going to flop the spring. So not only do you have to test your coil build twice (cap on and off) on the black box, but you ALSO have to test it with a meter on the mod - with the cap off, between the posts, before you fire it.

Internal hard shorts are a swine.

T

 

[supertrunker]

Thanks! The AW's seem to do just fine but my first batteries I had before getting a Reo seem to be attracted to the magnets and lean out slightly, must be the flat top or something. I appreciate the response.

You must have a Reo that disobeys the laws of physics then, since the mod is made of aluminum, and the new contacts are made of beryllium copper coated in gold, none of which are magnetic.

T

 

[HgA1C]

I had an almost failure rebuilding a coil the other day. I was installing the coil on the REO and forgot to lock the button and bumped it. Sparks flew, wire snapped almost instantly, but the spring did not collapse. I chuck it up to luck as the coil was not screwed in, and must have failed before the spring did.

 

[built4feel]

Thanks! The AW's seem to do just fine but my first batteries I had before getting a Reo seem to be attracted to the magnets and lean out slightly, must be the flat top or something. I appreciate the response.

Not really necessary, but if you slide the door from the top down, then the battery won't getting pulled out at all... If your battery wobbles around, then your spring is probably sunk... examine it with a new one, and replace if shrunken... b

AWs button tops are flawless though...