Lathe and CNC geekery - Driptips!

Delrin has a natural lubricating property. So you may be right. I have never tried to glue it. It would be like trying to glue two pieces of silicone together. But Acetone melts ABC plastic and PVC plastic and fuses them together quite well. I am not sure on the Delrin though. It would be interesting to see if Brad can try and see if the two could be fused together. But if not, Acrylic and Delrin are both very forgiving to some extent. An interference fit could be easily made on the two parts and after pressing them together youā€™d have a very hard time separating the two.

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Boy Howdy! I almost had to destroy a Delrin piece today because my (friction fit) was a little excessive. LOL

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How much interference did ya have? .001" should be plenty.

You could take the cap off the Aromamizer and lay it on a block of hard wood. Install the delrin core on the Aromamizer and use a press to press the Acrylic down onto the Delrin.

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Todayā€™s work. Blue Bronze. This thing was almost impossible to get a decent picture of because of the crazy light refractive properties of this stuff. It is a very pretty piece. It will fit standard 510 drip tips (shown) as well as the Aromamizer. :smiley:

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Too damned much! LOL

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Love the way that color finishes up! Donā€™t think Iā€™ve run across that combo at any vape shop Iā€™ve been to yet.

Damn I love that color. No you need to send your designs to a shop with Swiss machines and have them whip out 500 a day :wink:

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Ya, that piece has more stuff going on in it than a Bangkok whore house.
Swiss machines? Then they would lose there ā€œcrafted by a peckerwood in the hillsā€ appeal. LOL

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I am getting tooled up for limited production of this stuff. I got my tool posts all lined out today, boring bars and some ā€œmethod of madnessā€ for some resemblance of work flow. The next several I make should go fairly quickly now.

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. . .does it count that I was going to call dibs on one of the blue ones before you ever cut it. That stock looked sick, the tip is nuts.

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No reason to call ā€œdibsā€. Here is the deal. I am making them for $25.00 a piece. Half of that goes to Lars (daath) as a donation to e-liquid-recipes.com in the purchasers name to help maintain and pay for this wonderful website that we all love so much. I can take payment via PayPal only.
So see, for my time and effort and material I actually get very little.
My reason for doing this is for those that wish can have a cool drip tip for the Aromamizer, or any 510 drip tip hole out there. AND (this is the biggest reason) to help Lars keep this site up, running and improving.

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Dude, this is just awesome! If you still have stock in a couple weeks Iā€™ll take one. Need to wait for another paycheck though after holidays.

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The material is easy for me to order in. I will keep you a piece back Benny. It is you who pointed the Blue Bronze color out to me. As long as people want these things, I will use this as a method to fund raise for the site.

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Sweet!! :+1:

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If you have enough left overā€¦well that would make a great second one.

Great job on those brother. I hope people order these from you like mad. And Iā€™m sure each person who has never experiences the pleasure of using an acrylic drip trip are in for the shock of their vapelife.

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Works for me. I think you should put some kind of logo. . .somewhere. You could be the next JayBo. Maybe a serial number at minimum. . .just what you need, more work.

I for one see this as voluntary on your part and am not holding you to anything. BUT, if you have a tip for an Aromamizer that you donā€™t mind parting with Iā€™m here with a paypal account. . .I prefer PP, less detectable by the wife. I just bought a USC and one of those shaking mixers (both wrists broken twice, shaking SUX). . .oh, and $75 worth of whole leaf tobacco. . .and an impending ECX order from hell. Yeah, going off the rails over here, but let me know.

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Wow, thatā€™s really awesome of you. Theyā€™re beautiful and Iā€™d love to buy one if/when you get ready to sell them. :slightly_smiling:

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I guess I need to start a new topic for selling them. Iā€™m taking orders now.
So far I only have 2 colors, the Lime Mesh and the Blue Bronze. I have some others on order. If you want a specific color
you can go to http://www.exoticblanks.com/blanks-by-color/ and PM me the item number and what you want and I can get the material ordered. It takes 3-5 days for it to be delivered to me, and I can really only make them on the weekends. Maybe a couple of evenings through the week. It takes me an hour to an hour and a half to make a Delrin insert and the drip tip itself. It is fairly labor intensive as all I have to work with is a very old manual lathe. I donā€™t mind it, if I was doing it only for the money Iā€™d go broke. But this site, and the people in it are good enough cause for me. :smiley:

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Done! I will go ahead it make it tomorrow for you and it will be ready to go as soon as the red material comes in for the other one.

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I like the blue bronze just fine!

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