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im new to the forums and instead of the typical "hey may name is" bullshit that no one gives a fuck about i thought i would put together a build/mod log and a quick little story of how it came to be.
i live in cottage country and the shop that is closest to me is anything but a propper vape store. really its a used computer store and they guy sells some basic stuff like twist vv batteries and some realy shitty e-juice ( not his fault but its popular up here ) he is a pretty cool guy and i like to pop in and give him some business when i can. never the less when i need any mod supplies or decent juice im off to a bigger city. it was one of these trips where i was struck with this little eleaf project.
so i poped into a little shop because i wanted to check out a new line of juice they were launching. i went in grabbed some kanthal and another protank3 for the car and a few bottles of their new juice they didnt have a testing station set up but i grabbed a couple anyway. long story short the new juice was absolutely vile. like SO FUCKING BAD there was no way i could vape this shit for a few weeks untill i get back to the city. so after about an hour of vaping all of the flavours testing them out i quickly jumped online and found another shop i could go to. now it was about 5:45 and i was freaking out cause the shop was closing at 6 with me about 20 min away. so needless to say i was tripping balls at the prospect of vaping this horse piss for 2 weeks.
The guy at the shop was SUPER chill. he said no worries ill be here for a bit. got to MoJo vapes and it was an awesome little shop. he insisted that i hop on the sampler and figure out what i wanted even tho the store was technically closed. there was one other guy in the shop and he was pretty cool too so we all got chatting. and they were talking about the eleaf and how shitty the usb connection is on it. id never had an eleaf but i wasnt surprised. the employee said they had a couple and went and grabbed one for us to fuck with.
we immediately ripped it apart and started of thinking about solutions we checked to see if it was the same battery size as an 18650 and low and behold it was. we all immediately thought "removable battery". at this time it was late and we were all done so the employee threw us each a broken eleaf and a battery and said go to town.
so a Removable battery Eleaf
this build log is my implementation of that goal.
here we go
lets show the parts
so not only was the usb an issue when we ripped it apart we fucked up one of the surface mount buttons
first things first i needed to fix the button
i grabbed a cap off a cheap bottom dial vv mod and i pulled the button from it and threw it onto the eleaf board
(spoiler) the next two pics are after the mod was done and YES i did get it working. so they are showing that the button works
now with the button working i needed to turn my attention to the battery mod. the first thing i needed was a spring. i looked through my shit drawer and found an old incandescent 3 volt flashlight with a great spring in it. 3.0 so i immediately ripped that shit out and it was perfect
now turning my attention to the construction of the spring for the bottom cap 3.2 and 3.3 i took just some card stock i had laying around cut the spring in half slotted one piece of card and applied some crazy glue and then used some accelerator. using this method makes the superglue wick through the card stock and make a rigid almost plastic like insulator.
in hindsight i would do this differently next time perhaps using a foam two sided disc as an additional isolater. never the less i was committed to get the unit working in 1 evening so i forged on. i connected the spring to the positive lead on the board and placed it on the bottom cap
fastened the bottom cap and checked the spring deflection
perfect (well not bad for not making a single measurement)
So now lets turn our attention to the top gap. i was very happy with the top gap as you can see
so i figured if it worked for the bottom a spring on my improvised card-stock wafer should work for that as well so i fashioned another using the same method as before. however this time i made the spring shorter as I didn't need quite as much bounce as you can see
it worked nicely and provided a very snug fit for the 18650 battery. i modified the wiring harness so the top could be removed easily for battery swapping
put it all back together and boom it turned on and worked like a charm and i present
i threw on the protank3 i bought earlier in the day filled it up with some whirling dirvish and punched it up to around 14 watts and needless to say it vaped great.
so Victory
now i would like to go over a few things i would have changed in my build
#1 i would have build it with the spring on the top cap so when you change the battery you have to pull the bottom cap and not the top. there is
too much shit going on under the top cap with the tank connecter and the wires for it to be poping it on and off all the time
#2 while i love the superglue $ activator combo i would use the foam 2-sided discsas isolaters between the top and bottom caps
#3 only 1 spring on the top cap. the tension when putting either cap on is insanely to high theres too much bounce
#4 probably the most important thing i would do if i were to make another Eleaf mod or realy any mod... I would have measured i probably could
have avoided #1 and #3 if i would have grabbed some quick dimensions.
again i would like to give a big shout out and thank you to MoJo vapes in Peterborough ontario. this shop is awesome and without doubt one of the
best shops in Peterborough and the entire kawartha lakes
you can go check them out at
(705) 808-3208
193 Simcoe St.
Charlotte Mews
Peterborough, ON
disclaimer: they didnt pay me for this. they did give me the parts but at no time was there an agreement that i would promote their business in any way for it. i even paid for the juice
Luke
im new to the forums and instead of the typical "hey may name is" bullshit that no one gives a fuck about i thought i would put together a build/mod log and a quick little story of how it came to be.
i live in cottage country and the shop that is closest to me is anything but a propper vape store. really its a used computer store and they guy sells some basic stuff like twist vv batteries and some realy shitty e-juice ( not his fault but its popular up here ) he is a pretty cool guy and i like to pop in and give him some business when i can. never the less when i need any mod supplies or decent juice im off to a bigger city. it was one of these trips where i was struck with this little eleaf project.
so i poped into a little shop because i wanted to check out a new line of juice they were launching. i went in grabbed some kanthal and another protank3 for the car and a few bottles of their new juice they didnt have a testing station set up but i grabbed a couple anyway. long story short the new juice was absolutely vile. like SO FUCKING BAD there was no way i could vape this shit for a few weeks untill i get back to the city. so after about an hour of vaping all of the flavours testing them out i quickly jumped online and found another shop i could go to. now it was about 5:45 and i was freaking out cause the shop was closing at 6 with me about 20 min away. so needless to say i was tripping balls at the prospect of vaping this horse piss for 2 weeks.
The guy at the shop was SUPER chill. he said no worries ill be here for a bit. got to MoJo vapes and it was an awesome little shop. he insisted that i hop on the sampler and figure out what i wanted even tho the store was technically closed. there was one other guy in the shop and he was pretty cool too so we all got chatting. and they were talking about the eleaf and how shitty the usb connection is on it. id never had an eleaf but i wasnt surprised. the employee said they had a couple and went and grabbed one for us to fuck with.
we immediately ripped it apart and started of thinking about solutions we checked to see if it was the same battery size as an 18650 and low and behold it was. we all immediately thought "removable battery". at this time it was late and we were all done so the employee threw us each a broken eleaf and a battery and said go to town.
so a Removable battery Eleaf
this build log is my implementation of that goal.
here we go
lets show the parts
so not only was the usb an issue when we ripped it apart we fucked up one of the surface mount buttons
first things first i needed to fix the button
i grabbed a cap off a cheap bottom dial vv mod and i pulled the button from it and threw it onto the eleaf board
(spoiler) the next two pics are after the mod was done and YES i did get it working. so they are showing that the button works
now with the button working i needed to turn my attention to the battery mod. the first thing i needed was a spring. i looked through my shit drawer and found an old incandescent 3 volt flashlight with a great spring in it. 3.0 so i immediately ripped that shit out and it was perfect
now turning my attention to the construction of the spring for the bottom cap 3.2 and 3.3 i took just some card stock i had laying around cut the spring in half slotted one piece of card and applied some crazy glue and then used some accelerator. using this method makes the superglue wick through the card stock and make a rigid almost plastic like insulator.
in hindsight i would do this differently next time perhaps using a foam two sided disc as an additional isolater. never the less i was committed to get the unit working in 1 evening so i forged on. i connected the spring to the positive lead on the board and placed it on the bottom cap
fastened the bottom cap and checked the spring deflection
perfect (well not bad for not making a single measurement)
So now lets turn our attention to the top gap. i was very happy with the top gap as you can see
so i figured if it worked for the bottom a spring on my improvised card-stock wafer should work for that as well so i fashioned another using the same method as before. however this time i made the spring shorter as I didn't need quite as much bounce as you can see
it worked nicely and provided a very snug fit for the 18650 battery. i modified the wiring harness so the top could be removed easily for battery swapping
put it all back together and boom it turned on and worked like a charm and i present
i threw on the protank3 i bought earlier in the day filled it up with some whirling dirvish and punched it up to around 14 watts and needless to say it vaped great.
so Victory
now i would like to go over a few things i would have changed in my build
#1 i would have build it with the spring on the top cap so when you change the battery you have to pull the bottom cap and not the top. there is
too much shit going on under the top cap with the tank connecter and the wires for it to be poping it on and off all the time
#2 while i love the superglue $ activator combo i would use the foam 2-sided discsas isolaters between the top and bottom caps
#3 only 1 spring on the top cap. the tension when putting either cap on is insanely to high theres too much bounce
#4 probably the most important thing i would do if i were to make another Eleaf mod or realy any mod... I would have measured i probably could
have avoided #1 and #3 if i would have grabbed some quick dimensions.
again i would like to give a big shout out and thank you to MoJo vapes in Peterborough ontario. this shop is awesome and without doubt one of the
best shops in Peterborough and the entire kawartha lakes
you can go check them out at
(705) 808-3208
193 Simcoe St.
Charlotte Mews
Peterborough, ON
disclaimer: they didnt pay me for this. they did give me the parts but at no time was there an agreement that i would promote their business in any way for it. i even paid for the juice
Luke
