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.
. 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 ‘