washers for the aga t2

[martydmb]

I went to home depot and all their washers where either zinc, or aluminum. Where do I find ss washers? I also have a menards by me I need to go check out to see if they have them. I really need to get these top coil hot legs out from the positive post. Killing me here.

I can get the coils to work and glow perfect with not shorts or hotspots but the top legs to post is always glowing. I add juice none of the coils glow just that top leg and I get that harsh taste. So I'm hoping this helps. I notice my agat2 is setup different than most youtube vapors. Here is
A pic of it.

Here is the coils glowing evenly

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What I seen is on pbursardo (sp) his wick and neg is swaped around than mine. I also made my air hole bigger. Had the tool room at my work make it to 1.2mm as mine was at 1mm. That's the only mod I have done and I think I might go to 1.4mm as the draw seems too tight still but I'm waiting on doing that till I get this running for the radiator pluid I bought this for works without the hot leg.

The wicks I been making I did how ehuman said in his blogs. Tightly rolled solid wick. I bought a mini torch after a few days of trying this out using stove but was sick up going up and down the stairs to use. So I torch the mesh before rolling. I crease both ends before also. The first to help get a tight solid wick and second for no frays for coils to touch. I have the crease end to the left of my veiw so the top coil leg to the positive post doesn't touch it.
I also do the juice burns 4 times.

Can you over torch wicks?
Been a full week of trying this out.

 

[Rule62]

If you have an Ace Hardware nearby, they should have a pretty good selection of metric stainless steel stuff. I've found washers there. Take your AGA with you, so you get the proper size.

 

[martydmb]

Yeah I'm going to take it with me for sure. The ace hardware we did have closed 2 years ago. Just have home depot and menards. I checked yellow pages and we have a trillings? Not even sure I spelt that right either. Going have to do this after I take my daughter to the milwaukee zoo today. Its my weekend so I don't want to neglect my attention from her by trying to get this right all day.

 

[Sicarius]

Just wondering why haven't you trimmed the legs off that are excess ?

The problem though is that the coil is being cooled faster than the legs due to the wick heatsinking the coil. The only way to avoid that is to double wrap the legs or make them as short as possible between the wick and the terminal.

 

[martydmb]

They were not trimmed off as I just made that coil. Took a quick pic to show how mine is different where the wick and neg ground is from other youtubers. I do wiggle them off. What do you mean double wrap the legs? I have tried wrapping the positive leg around the post twice and didn't do anything.

 

[Sicarius]

Double wrapped legs.

From your pic though the first thing I would recommend is using the left hand screw for the bottom leg. Much shorter path.

 

[martydmb]

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Double wrapped legs.

From your pic though the first thing I would recommend is using the left hand screw for the bottom leg. Much shorter path.

Ah I see ill try that next. I do use the left screw. This is the first coil I tried the right. Trying everything to get this hot leg away. Thanks for the replys. Ill do the washers, go back to the left screw for neg as this one was just a trial, and ill double leg the positive post.

I'm excited now.

 

[Sicarius]

Good luck and let us know how it goes.

 

[martydmb]

Anyone know the wick hole size on the agat2? Want to try the peterk method. I put 4 3mm ss washer on on got rid of the top hot leg. I bought a mm drill set but none are the right size. 3mm 2.3 2mm.... 3mm is to big and the 2.3mm is too loose. Guessing a 2.5mm? What size drill bit would fit that isn't metric? I used the 2.3mm for the peterk method but had to twist the wick and pressing down pretty good but right now that did work with no problems.

1.7ohm is where its set at right now and at 4.0v. Its alright I guess but need to work on this still but glad the top hot leg is gone.

 

[Kanj.nguyen]

- you so have a hot spot. Maybe you even worked it out before adding juice, but hotspots develop after adding juice all the time.
- that is not a solid wick. Big center channel there.

 

[martydmb]

Not the wick I'm using. Its completely solid. Don't have any hot spoys or any hot legs with this setup so far.

 

[Kevin Brown]

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Double wrapped legs.

From your pic though the first thing I would recommend is using the left hand screw for the bottom leg. Much shorter path.

woot beautiful twist coil

i learned this from an inexpensive soldering iron
and a broken hair curling iron,-- shhh it was broken haha..
also scored parts for badarse homemade atomizer and mechanical..

 

[Vault]

Anyone know the wick hole size on the agat2? Want to try the peterk method. I put 4 3mm ss washer on on got rid of the top hot leg. I bought a mm drill set but none are the right size. 3mm 2.3 2mm.... 3mm is to big and the 2.3mm is too loose. Guessing a 2.5mm? What size drill bit would fit that isn't metric? I used the 2.3mm for the peterk method but had to twist the wick and pressing down pretty good but right now that did work with no problems.

1.7ohm is where its set at right now and at 4.0v. Its alright I guess but need to work on this still but glad the top hot leg is gone.

The wick hole is 2.8mm diameter and you`ll need 2mm stainless washers for the pos post top
The closest imperial drill size is 7/64ths which is 2.75mm approx.

 

[martydmb]

The wick hole is 2.8mm diameter and you`ll need 2mm stainless washers for the pos post top

I only could find 3mm washers. They work great so far but 2mm would be perfect. Maybe ill drill out the wick hole to 3mm? Anyone done this? I'm not sure if the wick would be too close and will make the coils touch the neg screw.

 

[martydmb]

Got a imperial set. 7/64 is tad too big. 3/32 is too small. My 2.35mm is too small and next size up is 3mm which is way to big. I've googled for the size and people are saying 3 different sizes for the agat2. I don't have a drill to drill it to the 7/64. I don't really want to make it bigger because I think the coils would touch the -screw..

 

[Vault]

I`ve just double checked and the 2.8mm drill bit is maybe 0.1mm too big but would fit with a quick polish of the hole or a quick sand down of the drill bit.
It`s curious as I had a thought that maybe for machining purposes and speed of manufacture they might just leave the wick hole the size of the tapping for hole for 3mm which is 2.5mm. Hmmmm the 2.5mm drill bit I have falls through the wick hole with plenty of wiggle room.
So the conclusion is it`s somewhere between 2.6 and 2.7mm? 7/64ths is 2.7781mm btw so yes maybe a tad too big without a bit of a take down with some wet`n dry sandpaper?
Unless the thread is 3.0mm by 0.35pitch and not 0.5 pitch in which case the drilling size is 2.6mm and not 2.5mm.