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Post by domesticextremist on May 13, 2012 3:34:02 GMT
Fit to a Stardust and admire your work  and vape  |
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Post by domesticextremist on May 13, 2012 3:32:53 GMT
Remove the tip from the drill (by running it slowly backwards), and wipe away the dust and plastic swarf. Apply two beads of superglue as shown (to keep it away from any juice) and slide the carto tube over and into place.  Allow 10 minutes to dry or, if you are messy like me, however long it takes to scrape away all the overspill and prints of superglue you spread around |
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Post by domesticextremist on May 13, 2012 3:30:10 GMT
Slide the carto tube down as far as it will go and turn the drill to mark the plastic. With the file lathe it out gently to a notch to provide a nice seat for the tube end:  |
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Post by domesticextremist on May 13, 2012 3:28:25 GMT
The interior of the Stardust tip has a lip (for some reason). I gently reamed this out (by running my drill in reverse) to 5.5mm. Running the drill slowly forwards winds the tip onto the drill tightly enough to use it as a lathe.  With an emery board or file (faster), grind away the lip on the tip until the cut end of the carto (it's a bit narrower and very sharp) just fits over:  |
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Post by domesticextremist on May 13, 2012 3:23:17 GMT
i have a few spare stardust tips from cracked Stardusts that have been stripped down for Frankentanks. i'm not particularly keen on the plastic they are made fom and would rather have the choice of a drip tip. So I got modding:  Sizing up. At the back is the prototype I made from arough bit of carto tube - it's a bit long  In front are two segments of a Ritchy Era carto I ws dissecting. It's nice tube - painted, not stickered. At the front is the Stardust tip butted up against a siam Mods drip tip. I picked that one as it seems to have the longest inserty bit (where the o-ring is), so if that fits, everything else should. I decided to use the shorter bit of tube. At 20mm, I reckon that's about as short as can be got away with. |
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Post by domesticextremist on May 13, 2012 3:17:57 GMT
Lol excellent. Will wait forthe post where you complain about losing it in the compost heap |
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Post by domesticextremist on May 11, 2012 22:34:00 GMT
Excellent guide there Gordy
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Post by domesticextremist on May 11, 2012 11:13:50 GMT
Anybody got their el clearos yet?
How are they?
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Post by domesticextremist on May 9, 2012 1:23:07 GMT
I'm curious to see where you get to with this. Could be a nice little side business for a skilled artist. The tubes I use for my Stardust frankentanks are 36mm by 15mm od and 13mm id (hint, hint ). |
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Post by domesticextremist on May 8, 2012 20:49:04 GMT
However, later... Found my JBL On Tour external speaker, plugged in to headphone socket and Bachman-Turner Overdrive are belting out In view of that, and also that the inbuilt speakers are playing very quietly both in WMP and VLC, and also that anything recorded on the Asus plays fine on other laptops, would you think that the problem is hardware related? It's going to be a nuisance to have to have external speakers. Sounds like it. Are there two speakers internally - is it possible that one ha packed up, say as a result of a loose wire? |
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Post by domesticextremist on May 8, 2012 7:09:00 GMT
Have you tried playing a CD through it, to be sure it isn't related to some other bit of software?
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Post by domesticextremist on May 6, 2012 18:09:10 GMT
This looks like a better method:
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Post by domesticextremist on May 6, 2012 17:22:21 GMT
I really wish you'd do a photo-how-to for this.
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Post by domesticextremist on May 3, 2012 20:43:06 GMT
I've been using this. It is a bit on the bulky side, but very flexible and can cope with the current loads. |
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Post by domesticextremist on May 3, 2012 18:22:48 GMT
Wot macca said, except that if your case is non-conductive,
you will need an extra lead from the battery negative to the
casing of the atty connector.
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