Geekvape Athena Maintenance

[outlaw_cloud]

Hi Everyone,

I have an Geekvape Athena squonk mod which hasn't been used for a long while and im looking to use it however it has seen better days, Its needs a really good cleaning, The battery contacts have a weired green gunk on them, but i have no idea about taking apart the 510 connector or batter terminals for cleaning (Ideally i would like to completely replace the battery contacts and the metal plate used for firing) Can someone point me in the wright direction regarding taking apart the various parts and so forth.

 

[Mzr]

Those contact are silver plated try using alcohol swabs first for the removable strip of contact which is all the way from the fire button down to battery, to disassemble the 510 you would have to loosen the nut on the underside of the connector and then clean out there. Once all clean assemble back the way you removed them

 

[outlaw_cloud]

Hi Mzr,

Thank you, will try that

 

[outlaw_cloud]

Hi Everyone,

I have an Geekvape Athena squonk mod which hasn't been used for a long while and im looking to use it however it has seen better days, Its needs a really good cleaning, The battery contacts have a weired green gunk on them, but i have no idea about taking apart the 510 connector or batter terminals for cleaning (Ideally i would like to completely replace the battery contacts and the metal plate used for firing) Can someone point me in the wright direction regarding taking apart the various parts and so forth.

so i have tried loosening the 510 connector with no luck, So i am abandoning that effort in favor of using small cotton swabs to clean with alcohol, however my contact strip is pretty beaten up, any idea where i could possibly get a replacement? or atleast how to make a new one?

 

[Mzr]

How beaten up is it ?can you post a Pic im sure those strips are copper silver plated meaning that if you strip the plating you would still have a contact strip to use .

 

[outlaw_cloud]

Hi Mzr,

Yes it is copper silver coated, basically from the years of scrapping the arking marks off the top piece that makes contact with the 510 connector worn down a bit and on the verge of cracking on that top piece however i saw a video of a guy who did a walk through of the maintenance ( i cant remember if someone shared the video here or if i came across it on a google search) and he basically said he added a little bit of solder to the top piece which im going to try. Just havent had a chance as iv been hectic at work.

 

[blujeenz]

Hi Mzr,

Yes it is copper silver coated, basically from the years of scrapping the arking marks off the top piece that makes contact with the 510 connector worn down a bit and on the verge of cracking on that top piece however i saw a video of a guy who did a walk through of the maintenance ( i cant remember if someone shared the video here or if i came across it on a google search) and he basically said he added a little bit of solder to the top piece which im going to try. Just havent had a chance as iv been hectic at work.

Maybe you can get someone to silver solder the offending parts to create new wear/contact layers.

You can forget about using a soldering iron as its more akin to brazing, but with a high silver content rod instead of a brass brazing rod.