Can someone tell me how to take this apart? I guess the top needs to be removed, but I don’t know if it needs to be screwed off or if it’s pressed in. The problem is that the rim is tapered and I can’t grip it with pliers (I’ve also scratched it a bit). If I put a battery in it, it immediately shows a short circuit, but the ohmmeter shows 9.99 even when nothing is connected. If I tap it a bit, it seems to work, but as soon as I press the button, it shows a short circuit again. It could be a contact issue at the spring, but it could be something else entirely.
From the inside, I only see the positive pole. Very solid assembly . I’m usually not stumped by anything. On one side, there’s a plastic insert inside, whose edge sits into a metal plate (how that plate was fixed there is also a mystery ). Even if I unhook it on both sides, I can’t pull it down. For now, I was careful, I didn’t want to break it. Here are two more pictures, but I don’t think this can be figured out based on pictures. Without causing damage, I don’t know if it will come apart..
Great, then I need a flex . It’s fitted so precisely that there’s no sharp object that could be hammered in between. I didn’t want to mess it up like the guy in the video.
I think it should be heated up, and it’s likely to come apart. Wrap it in some soft cloth, clamp it in a vise, heat the rim all around (e.g., with a gas burner), you’ll need a screw “510” which you screw into it, but at least 10cm, and a lock nut, and a large washer, this way you lock the washer at the screw head, once this is done, then with a small hammer, alternately tap the fixed washer from below and from above, and this way it might slide out.
I was also thinking about something like this, but with a bearing puller method. However, for that, one would also need a long bolt with a thread pitch corresponding to a 510, on which a weight would need to be yanked. I have neither such a bolt nor a gas burner. I suppose that could still be replaced with a better quality storm lighter. I don’t know, what is the thread pitch on a 510?
Anyway, not much. I have a few more mods. I got this from someone a while ago, thinking maybe I could make it, and I imagined how good this would look on it:
You’d be right, but this way it’s just a lost cause.
It’ll be good as a decoration, but what’s the point of that?
If it doesn’t work, then it’s useless to me.
If it’s not good for anything, then there’s no point in messing around with it.
I also thought about a puller or an extractor, but I’m not familiar with these tools, I don’t know what the thread is like that’s why I wrote ‘510’
Yes, I think it can be heated alternately with two storm lighters, but it needs to be repeated several times, the surface is large, it cools down quickly.
Now I soaked the whole thing in isopropyl alcohol, because if the problem is that liquid got into it, like the guy in the video, then it will dissolve it. I think it was unnecessary for him to cut it apart with an angle grinder.
By the way, I don’t know what kind of thread 510 is either. Maybe this small thread wouldn’t even withstand the puller.
It’s not bad, but still be careful with isopropyl alcohol because rubber parts can swell from it. For example, in printer service, when it was difficult to get the soft ribbed feed roller for paper, they used to soak it, and thus the roller swelled up. It worked well for a while, but afterwards it hardened, and it fed paper in threes. They did the same with VCR tape pressure rollers, then they polished them with polishing paper. So be careful and don’t soak it for too long.
. I’m usually not stumped by anything. On one side, there’s a plastic insert inside, whose edge sits into a metal plate (how that plate was fixed there is also a mystery 
). Even if I unhook it on both sides, I can’t pull it down. For now, I was careful, I didn’t want to break it. Here are two more pictures, but I don’t think this can be figured out based on pictures. Without causing damage, I don’t know if it will come apart..
that’s why I wrote ‘
