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A little while back I found a pic of a CWF Pele paisley….
OMG! I loved the look of it :heart_eyes: … but not enough to pay that sort of money :confounded:
I don’t have a 4th axis (but I dream about it) and I don’t reckon I could do any kind of etching that would be up to par so the paisley light remained out of reach for me.
Until now!! I found a ready made tube that can be machined into a torch. I’ve converted 1-2 mechanical mods before but wasn’t intending on going that route again. With the discovery of this one I couldn’t help myself and bought one in gold and one in brass.
Items arrived. I’m gonna work on the gold one first. I’ve since discovered the driver pictured is e-switch and I’ll need to order up some clicky compatible drivers as I’m all out at the moment.
One end will need boring out
While the other end has a rather deep threaded section (to suit the switch they used)
The top section of the vape (I don’t know the techy terminology) seems to have the paisley etched in a different scale, and possibly a stretched/distorted pattern. I’ll try and use it if I can.
After some head scratching and chicken scratching I came up with a plan. No need to see that so I’ll move onto the lathe work. For making the head I’m showing each step with a pic so this might get a bit slow and tedious.
Titanium bar stock
Cut
Thread
O-ring groove
Cooling fins
Drill the end
Bore it out with a step for the driver to sit in
Thread for a driver retaining ring
Roughly work out how where to cut the other end and give it a quick cut
Cut off
Spin it around and mount it to work the other end
Drill it
Because the boring out is not very deep but kind of wide I used tungsten carbide router bit. This makes the base of the hole relatively flat (compared to a conventional drill bit) and much easier to clean up with the boring bar.
You can see I had a little bit of chatter but I was going nice and slow at low revs so it looks worse than it sounded
Finish boring out with the boring bar
Press fit the top section of the vaper. It had a little step part way down the inside so I had to press it on halfway and bore it out some then press it the rest of the way.
Cut it back and think about how to do the next part. This isn’t really a step but I took a pic anyway.
I might’ve missed a pic here. The gold ring was cut back enough to make a thread and o-ring groove. I went with the slightly finer thread of 0.7mm here.
Main part of the head is finished. Still need to make a bezel and driver retaining ring to finish the head.