Adrenaline is brown - mech battery went nuclear

[satanswombat]

Danged aerotank airflow threads.

At 3am this morning the aerotank in my astro clone stopped firing.

I wondered if the kick had gone so took it out and rebuilt everything.

THEN I noticed the tank was sitting squint so jiggled it a bit and screwed it on a little tighter.

You can probably guess what happened next as the base shorted - connected straight into a 10 amp high drain battery.

It took me two sets of pliers and a towel to get everything apart as the switch stuck in the on position with battery gunk.

By the time I got it apart the centre pin in the top of the mech came out and now only sits in place instead of holding securely and there are marks and blemishes all over the place.

The battery looked like I had gently blow torched it and was left venting slightly in a teflon pan with a glass lid held on with a towel in case it exploded.

The astro is still working but I still think I'm going to have to replace it because of the corrosion etc.

FML

[ronaldo]

geordie_vaper had a astro clone for sale the other day

[satanswombat]

Argghh Missed it.

[boyofford]

Shit, sounds bit scary.
Glad you didn't lose any fingers or out.

[ronaldo]

I just bought one off ionian about a week ago and I think they are great as well really glad I bought it stuck a 18350 in it and its tiny just the right size for me for work great little mod

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I thought a Kick was designed to stop that happening ??

[ronaldo]

Jul 23, 2014 21:12:05 GMT satanswombat said:

Danged aerotank airflow threads.

At 3am this morning the aerotank in my astro clone stopped firing.

I wondered if the kick had gone so took it out and rebuilt everything.

THEN I noticed the tank was sitting squint so jiggled it a bit and screwed it on a little tighter.

You can probably guess what happened next as the base shorted - connected straight into a 10 amp high drain battery.

It took me two sets of pliers and a towel to get everything apart as the switch stuck in the on position with battery gunk.

By the time I got it apart the centre pin in the top of the mech came out and now only sits in place instead of holding securely and there are marks and blemishes all over the place.

The battery looked like I had gently blow torched it and was left venting slightly in a teflon pan with a glass lid held on with a towel in case it exploded.

The astro is still working but I still think I'm going to have to replace it because of the corrosion etc.

FML

if its knackered keep the bottom extension piece as it will go on your replacement and I think it will look better if you use longer batteries than winding out all that telescopic tube

[VapingBad]

Jul 23, 2014 22:18:45 GMT ronaldo said:

I just bought one off ionian about a week ago and I think they are great as well really glad I bought it stuck a 18350 in it and its tiny just the right size for me for work great little mod

You can easily make custom pins and I put a circle of 0.25 kanthal between the -ve screw and the delrin so when the switch turns there is less friction to loosen the switch.

[ronaldo]

Jul 23, 2014 22:33:58 GMT @agenthoover said:

I thought a Kick was designed to stop that happening ??

he took the kick out before this all happened

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Jul 23, 2014 22:36:19 GMT ronaldo said:

Jul 23, 2014 22:33:58 GMT @agenthoover said:

I thought a Kick was designed to stop that happening ??

he took the kick out before this all happened

Oh ok.... i saw a lawsuit for a second there........lol...

[VapingBad]

If the delrin in the top-cap has had it, you could grind the top off to make a hybrid adapter, it's 20 by 1 threading on the switch and top-cap which is used in loads of mods.

[satanswombat]

If I can clean any of the tubes well enough they will definitely be reused.

It's the corrosion on the surface which will knacker the conductivity etc I think.

I'm vaping away on the thing ( with the kick back in ) at the moment and have ordered a v2 airflow control for the aerotank with the knacked threads. Hopefully they are made of stronger cheese. :/

This will be the second replacement airflow I have ordered in the last couple of weeks.

[GunJack]

another good reason to use vv/vw stuff with protection built in.... glad you survived satanswombat

[VapingBad]

But the safety features worked:
The most important one the operated: acted to disconnect the short.
The IMR batteries: only vented, didn't flame or explode.