Say you have a dabmaster heater, can you unscrew the dabmaster head and replace it with an apollo head? TIA.
Sorry for the late reply, my one the *weld* happened to give and it was a teeny weld the size of a pinhead allow me to remove the head and replace with a new heater core. my titanium V4 it seems more like they made a small nick in the metal to make it near impossible to unscrew it but I'll be taken it to a welder buddy and hopefully he has an idea how to undo, might just take a vice and a gentle turn to unscrew this one. I'll try to post some photos later today or this weekend of my head being disassembled and the heater core part that I sourced and purchased and it works!
I also had to open and repair a solder joint on one of my controllers, the way it was soldered was a very amateur job for what they charge for their goods, I love my sublimator but when I open his monkey controller and see it wired the way it was I can only think it was an actual "monkey" that wired it!
Heres an example a solder weld that broke in his monkey controller and you can see the round part, I believe its a piezo buzzer on the left side of the photo and you see a chrome looking wire just sorta sitting there not connected, well that was torn completely off the circuit board on the opposite side...to me it almost seemed like the solder heating slowly and it loosened and it wraps around to the other side of the board, seriously Enrico did you have some amateur develop these boards and they gave you a discount because you had to run an exposed connection around the edge of the circuit board? lol
Some didn't know how to properly design a circuit board and oddly had a external trace wrapping around the edge of the board, I can't make this shit up!
Bad soldering torn right off the board opposite side
Repair the solder joint with a small piece of solder core CAT6, solder the one end to the pad bypassing the damaged trace you see in the photo then flip the board and remove that silver piece and solder down the other end of my wire to finish my repair, use solder braid and sucker to remove excess solder, test before assembling with a heat gun sensor, or lick you finger and touch it for the "Ssssssss"
**Note when you are doing solder repairs like this and you've never soldered in your life then PLEASE have someone that can solder it for you or practice before attempting it, a cheap USB microscope and proper clamp to hold the board will make this so much easier to fix if your board is ever damaged or not working like this one, I suspect they sent out hundreds of controllers if not more soldered this same way and they will all fail the same way.
I'll post shortly with a part # that can repair you heater core in your Sublimator if you can disassemble it, of course this WILL void your warranty and I only suggest this repair if your desperate and being ignored by Enrico et al for your repair or your controller or your dabmaster/titanium V4 head that has died.
Here's the heater core part that will work to repair a titanium V4 head if the core dies
PN: 2113-4537
0.25” od x 1.5” lg, 36 v, 50 w, 7” fiberglass leads
Qyt 1 –4 pieces: $ 62.50 ea
Qty 5+ pieces: $ 46.20 ea
This is ordered from
https://www.zesta.com/ , note that they initially wanted me to purchase 50 units but I told him I only needed 4 for testing and this is the price I was given for four units, I figured it was best I order spares to repair in the future.
1. Remove Screws - Note that one of them loosens counterclockwise
2. Screws Removed
3. Slide off the BNC handle - **Remaining metal collar if weld came loose will need a new tack weld
4. Unscrew titanium head and pass wiring for new heater core through the pipe, if it gets stuck rotate while pushing through pipe
5. Resolder the BNC connector, only TWO wires needed!
6. Spot to tack weld handle if its loose, you may not have to do this but I had to.
**I also had to replace the BNC cable coming from the controler, when I mentioned about the poor soldering done by Sublimator in my previous post it actually caused heat damage to my BNC handle, I bought a BNC cable from Amazon and replaced it to be safe as the plastic was slightly melted like it shorted!
Good luck!
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