steffijade
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It was probably about a year ago that I first tried to make my own box mod.
After a few weeks of ordering the wrong parts, knackering them through incompetence, much swearing, screaming and hair pulling I finally had a box mod that worked .... when it felt like it.
I recently asked Garry Dibley to make me a mod but he was a bit skeptical about the specs I wanted, so I decided to leave it. Then I noticed he had some vv boxes up for sale on UKV and thought 'great, I'll nab one of those' only to find out that they'd been sold and poor old Garry hadn't got round to updating his thread.
It was at this point that I suddenly had the strangest thought .... why don't I just make my own? I mean, how hard can it really be? (I can't be sure, but at this point I think I heard a Clarksonesque chuckle in theback of my mind).
Anyhoo, I rationalised to myself that I'd learned a fair bit by watching Tin Your Tip and if I invested in a half decent soldering iron, I'd do much better than my first attempt.
That was the idea anyway.
I sent off for some parts and took a trip to Maplins to buy a snazzy soldering iron and sat back waiting for the bits to arrive. The parts have arrived (in dribs and drabs) and I had a go at doing a test setup today.
It was going fairly reasonably until it came to soldering up the 510 connector. I'd honestly forgotten just how much of **** these things are to do. I had a couple of connectors left over from last year and after an absolute age, I finally managed to get one of them connected. (Hurrah!)
I tested the setup and it actually worked .... voltage was showing correctly and the atty I connected was firing. (Wohoo!)
Then I moved the battery box slightly and it all stopped working (Oh FFS!) I moved the battery box again and it worked again, intermittently and then stopped again.
I assumed that it was my dodgy soldering and got the multimeter to work checking out the connections. The strange thing was that I couldn't get a reading from anywhere ... not even from the battery box fly leads. I puzzled and pished about for a good 10 minutes before it suddenly struck me that the pos end of the batteries didn't look quite right. Without even thinking about it, I'd picked up a pair of nearly flat top batts to use and they were only just about making contact with the box terminals ... hence the very intermittent connection. (Slaps forehead).
I swapped the batteries out for some with bigger nipples (honestly, behave) and that sorted the intermittent firing out. (Yay!)
Pleased as punch, I picked up the parts to clear desk space to measure up for drilling holes/positioning in the box.... and the 510 connector promptly fell off the wire. (OMFG NOOOOOOO(pause for breath)ooooooooooo (etc.) )
Try as I might, I couldn't resolder the connector back on and buggered the other one up trying to do the same.
So, that's brought my little project to halt for now, but I've decided to try a (hopefully) easier option and ordered a few pre soldered connectors from Stealthvape.
No doubt, I'll find new and interesting ways of fecking them up too.
After a few weeks of ordering the wrong parts, knackering them through incompetence, much swearing, screaming and hair pulling I finally had a box mod that worked .... when it felt like it.
I recently asked Garry Dibley to make me a mod but he was a bit skeptical about the specs I wanted, so I decided to leave it. Then I noticed he had some vv boxes up for sale on UKV and thought 'great, I'll nab one of those' only to find out that they'd been sold and poor old Garry hadn't got round to updating his thread.
It was at this point that I suddenly had the strangest thought .... why don't I just make my own? I mean, how hard can it really be? (I can't be sure, but at this point I think I heard a Clarksonesque chuckle in theback of my mind).
Anyhoo, I rationalised to myself that I'd learned a fair bit by watching Tin Your Tip and if I invested in a half decent soldering iron, I'd do much better than my first attempt.
That was the idea anyway.
I sent off for some parts and took a trip to Maplins to buy a snazzy soldering iron and sat back waiting for the bits to arrive. The parts have arrived (in dribs and drabs) and I had a go at doing a test setup today.
It was going fairly reasonably until it came to soldering up the 510 connector. I'd honestly forgotten just how much of **** these things are to do. I had a couple of connectors left over from last year and after an absolute age, I finally managed to get one of them connected. (Hurrah!)
I tested the setup and it actually worked .... voltage was showing correctly and the atty I connected was firing. (Wohoo!)
Then I moved the battery box slightly and it all stopped working (Oh FFS!) I moved the battery box again and it worked again, intermittently and then stopped again.
I assumed that it was my dodgy soldering and got the multimeter to work checking out the connections. The strange thing was that I couldn't get a reading from anywhere ... not even from the battery box fly leads. I puzzled and pished about for a good 10 minutes before it suddenly struck me that the pos end of the batteries didn't look quite right. Without even thinking about it, I'd picked up a pair of nearly flat top batts to use and they were only just about making contact with the box terminals ... hence the very intermittent connection. (Slaps forehead).
I swapped the batteries out for some with bigger nipples (honestly, behave) and that sorted the intermittent firing out. (Yay!)
Pleased as punch, I picked up the parts to clear desk space to measure up for drilling holes/positioning in the box.... and the 510 connector promptly fell off the wire. (OMFG NOOOOOOO(pause for breath)ooooooooooo (etc.) )
Try as I might, I couldn't resolder the connector back on and buggered the other one up trying to do the same.
So, that's brought my little project to halt for now, but I've decided to try a (hopefully) easier option and ordered a few pre soldered connectors from Stealthvape.
No doubt, I'll find new and interesting ways of fecking them up too.