Fix Smok Nord with stuck pins - Taking apart a Smok Nord - How to disassemble a Smoke Nord
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2019
- In this video I disassemble a Smok Nord that will not fire due to one of the pins being stuck down. I have never done this before, and couldn't find a tear down video so thought I'd record the process. It's not the best video ever made, but it did "fix" the vape. If you're a bit more careful and take your time, you will likely be able to permanently fix the vape without damaging it.
SOLVED IT.
So. I tried it. And well. The spring is broken.I pull it back up and when pressed just goes back down. So what I did was (saw it here in the comments) got a flat wire coil (colossus) and stuck it through. Theres a metal plate underneath the rubber so as long as both ends touch the connectors you're good. I kept cutting it short enough though, to make sure the pod flushes right. Get any conductor to connect both ends and it'll work. Also be careful with foil because if it touches the other pins it will short. I tried. The only way to turn it back on is if you charge it after a short. So just stick a pin through it you're good.
Also tip, if you guys are gunna leave it for a while, take off the pod head AND the coil. Because the coil WILL stick to the pod head and you'll have a hard time replacing coils. in which case YOU WILL break the pod head by trying to force it out and have to buy a new one. I know. Because I've broken 2 heads already.
So
1)stick a conductor where the pin is stuck
2) never leave the head and the coil together when not using because it will fuse together AND IT WILL LEAK.
3) don't ever fucking buy smok again
Hope this helps guys. I just didn't want to give up on it and justify why I spent money on it in the first place.
@SneakerHead Cris Too stupid?Really man? It's faulty as fuck. We're doing the best we can with this janky ass product. lmao "smoke rejects" getthefuck outta here.
I have a FIX for this:
1)take off the sponge behind the circuit board and unscrew the WHITE plastic that protects the pins.
2) get some sanding paper and sand down the flat part of the white plastic piece. You need about 0.6mm so it won't take long. Just make sure you apply even pressure to keep the surface flat. this will make all three pins protude 0.6mm up when you reassemble, the trigger button seems to have enough margin to allow this.
3) reassemble or repeat if needed.
You want the pins to move UP to the point where it no longer matters if they don't have a working spring. this means the tank will most likely not click into place anymore.
I have permantly fixed 2 old nords like this.
happy tinkering!
I took the time out to do this and it worked well, but because I kept sanding eventually the white piece snapped at the edges where it screws into the motherboard so be careful for that. Also between going back and forth from testing to see if there was enough sanding - the two wires, the red and black, for the usb came detached. So I'd watch for that too if your reading this. Ukno despite these issues I ran into, and my lack of carefulness, the bitch still works astonishingly lmao. (and ofc I had to solder back the wires for the charger, this was the biggest pain in the ass of all so just be careful not to make the same mistakes I did)
Finally someone made this video, I've had a dropped pin for like 5 months I just stripped an old cable I had that I didn't need and rolled some of the wire into a ball to make the connection from vape to pod since I couldn't find a video on this 🤣
same goes to me
You have a bigger brain than me I threw mine in the garbage
@@YB-oy5oj same brother
Dude! I Thank You soo Much! - I Watched this video maybe about a Year ago... And Never thought I would have to One Day TODAY come running back to it!!! Thanks for the Video! Gave me A HECK of a hard time, but, You Saved my NORD! Thanks!
Thank for showing step by step, Idk if I had the same problem as you but taking it apart piece by piece helped a lot. I fiddled with it until it worked!!
I was just about to buy a new mod and did this and it worked. Thanks alot. I think this will be my last smok pods.
l followed along with everything you did and now my vape works like new, you the man!!
Thank you!!! Worked like a charm! Also, take the black plastic off mouth part and it stops leaking.
Thanks. That was helpful in taking mine apart. I didn't have stuck pins, needed to clean it since it fell in my drink, but now I'm having a problem with the button being stuck down or something because it won't stop hitting as soon as I put the pod in.
the sensor inside was still wet, causing the auto-firing. you need to wrap it in a tissue for the best absorption. now, i know you don't need this information anymore (you probably have a new one now) 😂 😂
Great video had the exact same problem
What we decided to was to take a soldering iron remove the middle pin and swap it for one of the outter pins. It creates the same circuit and works normally
I’m on my third Nord and the middle pins on my first two did the exact same thing after several months of use, I still have them so I’ll try to fix them. Excellent video, thanks
Lmk how it turns out My first nord Is like that it looks the the middle pin is completely missing and it was a special edition colors So I want to fix it Stuck with a green one for now
I almost lost my mind as you explained "so, well this is completely knackered" 😂❤ absolutely love it!
Cheers for the video. I managed to get one apart without damaging thanks to watching this. You need a mobile phone repair tool kit which has mini torx screwdrivers and spatula type tools perfect for prying the cover off.
Thank's, buddy. Not only was your video captavating and suspenceful, but by the end my unrelated problem was magically solved. You're a hero, saving my ass from across the pond.
🤣 you’re welcome my friend.
Woooow, i was hanged out with this problem, now i fixed mine, working perfect. Thanks a lot
Thanks this helped alot. I have two, one with the center spring broken, and one with the anti-static thing tripping out (Wont turn on). The spring I fixed by putting solder on the tip, and the other one not turning on by cleaning the pins
Thanks a lot! It work pretty well, in my case i've put tiny tinfoil between the stucked center pin to make it connect to the coil. now it works again.
It does work..i dont have the right tools to open my pods...so i cut a tin foil and fold it into tiny square..snuck it a little bit beside the stuck pin..voila..it start firing normal again..thanks for the tips..
Lots of thanks! I don't have the tools either, I made an aluminum ball and put it on top of the pin, it works perfectly
Effectively! thanks
Thanks for sharing bud.... I couldn't get the 1 step done, pulling out the cover. Gotta look for some tools to do that.... Thanks for sharing again.
My nord 2 is actually firing by itself, the vape thinks the button is being pressed. I will try this on the Nord 2 and see if I can clean the button out. I have to pull the pod because if I shut it off with 5 taps it’s very hard to get it back on because it sees random button presses.
Update: the tape that keeps the outer button in place came off so the button was sticking to the fire button on the board, I added a small piece of scotch tape and got it working. Thank you for the tear down!
Hahaha this was fun to watch, mate! Thanks for the tip and very fun to see that you've succeeded in fixing it in the end! Will do this to my dad's nord which has the same problem at the moment. Thanks! 👌
WATCH MY VIDEO..... 2 SECONDS TO FIX... do not need to take apart at alllllll
Dude. Holy shit! You saved me from having withdrawal symptoms! Thank you so much!!!
Cheers from Australia Tom !! Now I can fix the 2 “dead” Nords in my drawer, charge them and keep them as spares for my wife and I 🇦🇺👍
Daryl Clifford glad it helped!
Your video helped me fix mine. The same thing happened to the two on the end for me
Your fix worked for me too. Thanks for making the video!
Thank you for your video. I have the same issue and I used electronics welding kit to stop the pain from moving back
Excellent video with your help I was able to fix my nord
Thanks bro
You the man! A work around and it works like a charm!
I have a nord 2 with this issue and it just keeps getting worse, but this vid did help make it last a bit longer :) I would really like to see a nord 2 teardown though
bro its magic i just fixed mine when i watch your vid i just did what you did and it work thanks alot bro
👏👏👏👏 congrats! Unbelievable patience!! I need to get me a screwdriver kit like yours tomorrow!! 😉😂
Helpful video. I've fixed my middle-prong issue in the past by cutting a small circle of rubber out from the rubber panel around the prong. It worked for about a month but now I'm having the same issue again. This time it lights up when I slam the carriage down, as if it's making a connection, so it could just be the coil. It semi-fires, so I can still use it if I repeatedly press the fire button, but it's a bit annoying. I've had my Smok Nord vape for about one and a half years, so maybe it's time for a replacement.
Thanks for making this video I thought I was screwed with all this crap going!
I took a very tiny piece of welding wire and I laid it down over top of that pain. My vape works now. I had watch this video and brainstormed a little more because welding wire is a conductor of electric so by laying it down directly over top of the PIN it gave a good connection
Thank you very much Tom! You probably saved me from starting to smoke cigarettes again.
Thanks for the help, it was just exactly what was wrong with mine, actually it was a used one given to me. Anyway I fixed it just like you did except I just took a pointy knife and pulled on the pins til they made contact again. I think its time for me to buy a new one. I actually just started vaping after 38 years of smoking, thanks again mate!
Joseph Brauninger I did about the same thing tried to bin it but couldn’t cause all I got is needle noses but pulled it up and put the pod down softly and it worked
Joseph Brauninger my pleasure! Congratulations on stopping smoking, if nothing else it’s much more convenient to Vape and no one complains you smell of smoke anymore. 👍
Thanks mate. My wife has 4 of these. Her fav colour decided to fire without touching the button. Thanks to you, I was able to swap the guts out of her black one to the purple one. Good work!
I didn't bother reading if this was mentioned yet, but you can also swap the center pin with either outer pin. Both outer pins have continuity and connection to the neg bat lead. You'll obviously need a soldering iron, some previous experience/skill, and proper safety precautions like removing the battery before you start (keeping the leads very far apart), but so far mine is functioning again with the rubber piece intact and without modifying the pins/bridging the gap by other means
This was extremely helpful and saved me a ton of time and headache! Thank you! I couldn't find my star bits, but suspected that the spring was broken because it wouldn't stay up. I just used needle nose plyers and pulled the rubber out from the top (knowing the thing was toast now anyway), and then did the same thing you did to squeeze the base the pin is seated in to make it stay out. I imagine it will either drop again eventually or the juice will flood the board, but it's working like a charm for the time being. What a shit design. As much as I have loved almost everything else about this vape, it's not even my main vape and less than three months old. Will not be buying another smok product.
same with me man! i have like 50k usd worth of tools that i can get to and could not get a star bit that would work. so i took some needle nose and squeezed as hard as i could and its working. smok deff missed the mark on this one.
Same bro honestly the vape itself is such a good device but the flaws in the design eg( the pins staying down, the pod leaking 24-7,etc) make me not wanna buy smok because if u look online I’d say 80% of users have the same problems so it’s inconsistency in theyre products it’s not just like 1 in 1000 of them do it
You are a scholar and a saint my friend.
james gamez thank you James 👍
Thank god for tutorial guys like you
I tossed a tiny piece of tin foil over my center pin an bam it’s been working pretty good
@M Via what u talking about squire I'm British and I fixed mine with a tea bag!!!!
@M Via 😂 apparently humor is lost in translation too
Same here it works
Is it still working? I thought about doing that but I am worried it might cause something I don't want to happen.
I tried a tiny piece of the rolls of foil and it wouldn’t work until I used the thin type crinkled up foil off of a Hershey’s kiss candy! I made it into a ball and put it on the pin that wouldn’t stay up and it works perfect! So try a thinner type of foil if others won’t work!
All I did to get it firing again was just to remove the rubber base of the pins and assembelled it back again. Works perfectly, but the downside is to remove the tank when not in use to prevent direct leaking onto the circuitry below
Cheers from Philippines bro 🇵🇭 👊 thank youso much for your video. i finally fixed my nord.
I've tried different way. Just soldering on tip of that stuck pin about 1mm and it works like a charm 👍🏻.
People at my vape shop say this is a pretty common complaint. I've had one unit do the same thing. It wasn't stuck down, the spring broke or was dislodged. I suppose if its within 6 months you can use the warranty but after that you're just screwed. So its either gonna get stuck because of leaked juice or the spring will stop functioning. So it becomes a balancing act of keeping the pod in and risking it leaking or taking the pod out when not in use but wearing the spring out.
You help me a lot ❤️❤️
Really helpful video, thank you friend
Good stuff, enjoy your vape
Thanks for the tutorial! I didn't have pliers atm so I decided to use nail nippers lol. It destroyed the copper pins but atleast it works hahaha.
Lee Song glad it worked :)
Thank you this helped me so much
Guys...trust me 100% If the middle pin inside the nord pod goes inwards....USE a "Cuticle Nippers" and pull out the pin...EZ I literally just did it right now. You DO NOT need to unscrew or ply anything out!
for me it was my side pins that became stuck i took them apart following this video but the springs would not pop back up even with alcohol so i pulled one of the pins out and i found no springs? just a little ball, weird maybe its some kinda air spring or something? ether way i read in the comments about soldering the pins so i ended up putting a little ball of solder on the tips, it took a few tries to get it even but works like a charm!
I pulled the tiny piece out all the way by mistake, but then I just wedged it back in there and so far so good.
great video had the exact same problem but i fixed with you!
Mine just got a slight rust around the middle button after leaving it months without using. Kinda my problem when i was too lazy to drain off the juice from the pod. I was wondering how to dissemble after removing the top 4 screw and got to this video feeds. Just a protip, when trying to take out the back cover there's two hinges on each side if you carefully use a blade knife and hook it out, it would hardly damage the cover nor the body paint works. I decided to fix it after buying smok 80rpm pro. Anyway thanks for the video once again for helping out.
Thnks . It did so well . Thank you so much
I just pulled it with plaic and it worked
thanks bro :) ım from Turkiye
They all seem to have this problem even with the nord 2, haven't had any others though. What I've been doing is putting a tiny bit of solder on top of the pin so it makes a connection. I've had to do this multiple times but I've had mine for probably 18 months now. I also discovered that sometimes the pins can get stuck from getting gunked up. On the nord 2 you can actually pull the pin and spring out (carefully) and clean them. I was able to stretch the springs out to give them life once again, sadly this doesn't work on the original nord.
i mostly followed this but i put solder to hold the middle pin up and added a very small bit of solder on one of the outer pins to even them both out!
A little long winded but overall helpful. Thank you!
You can pull the pins out with out taking anything apart, but, my problem is that as soon as you plug the tank back in, they get stuck dow again.Might get one hit before it stops working. I am on my THRD unit. They are great, when they work! Utter RUBISH when they don't which is usually within a couple month depending on your luck.
Both of the side pins are ground, the middle is positive. the pins just snap in and out of place. so if you swap one of the side pins and middle pin it will work fine. you can even leave one of the side pin slots empty.
Most of the time, the vape juice gets in the pins spring. Take it apart as he did but get some alcohol and swab the pins generously.
I took the whole thing apart and squeezed the pin after I pulled it out and and worked fine
Salvou meu dia! Saved my day ty!
Eu fiz diferente eu peguei um pedaço muito pequeno de palha de aço e coloquei em cima do pino do meio e pega de boa
thanx man it's works
I'm on my 4th one in 7 months, my friend is on their 3rd. Unless you clean it everyday and make sure it doesn't get gunked up, the middle prong issue seems to be fairly inevitable.
Kristen Lemke yes you’re right. I’ve had mine over a year and so what you do but now my middle pin won’t stay up so it won’t fire! But I def got my moneys worth out of it!
It’s not my middle
I managed to fix mine with the same problem by dropping a little bit of solder on the middle pin to make is a bit higher and it made contact
StickyVelcroPig Thats actually a very good idea. Thanks for commenting.
I did a similar thing. You basically have 3 options with solder.
1. Make a bubble on the copper center of your coil.
2. Put enough solder on the middle pin to make up the difference.
3. Pull the middle pin up half way and solder it in place. As long as the 2 outside springs still work they will adjust to the right height.
Option 2 sucks. I did 3 after realizing I would have to modify every new coil with 1.
Nate Wilson you mean option 1 sucks?
Michael Heathfield is there a certain type of metal I need to solder on?
Dude you made my day ! todays Sunday all shops closed, was about to kill someone :)
Word bro... Not having the Vape working is way too much stressful!
I was not able to use mine for months and left it with juice. The juice leaked and the top part where the gold/bronze pin were wet for a long time. Will the juice go inside? Will it damage the system or explode? Its still working but I'm worried that it will explode. Is the top layer of those pin water/juice proof?
I do wonder why the center spring seems to be so much weaker then the other two. Thanks for the vid helped me out. I should just replace mine I've had it drop out of my shirt pocket about a hundred times so far. That probably hasn't helped.
This is my second unit!!! These things are awful.😡 However on my last one...it was stuck in the pod detached mode. I put some tinfoil down in and so far so good. We’ll see how long it lasts.
Thx from Russia, bro. My device have this problem too.
No problem, hope it helps! By the way, if you want to do a full repair the pins can be replaced if you don't mind a bit of soldering... I might do this myself, they can be purchased as "Spring Test Probes" or "test pins".
@@tombritten7841 I can buy this pins on Aliexpress?
@@arseniyafanasyev2477 Yes, I have seen them on there. You can even get them on amazon or ebay. Just make sure you get the correct size. I haven't had a chance to take one off and measure it, but it shouldn't be too hard to work it out. The pins seem quite cheap, just bear in mind, you will need to do a bit of soldering.
How to fix ijoy ai evo pod blinking red and white light.. Please help....any videos to show how to fix it..
Thank you that really help out my vape!!! And I have the same one as you!
Thanks for this video, my nord’s light was stuck on, but it’s firing normal, everything seems normal except the light always stays on, I don’t have the right screw driver for the star screw. So i opened my back case like what you did and the lights turns off, it’s now working well. Idk what seemed to be the problem though.
i always sandwich a piece of metal(small bits of cutter blade) between the middle pin and the middle section of the coil. and it's making contact. been doing in for like 6 months now. Smok Nord is a tank
Didn't get how you were able to make the pin stick out permanently. I just added soldering lead to the pin. Thanks for the video, got to open the Nord without breaking it.
Jerome Orbista the pins slide into themselves, by squashing the top of the pin it’s no longer able to slide into itself. Hope that makes sense?
Totally makes sense. I got it the point after watching the video again. Thanks again.
@@tombritten7841 If it works and is fairly easy to do then why not do it when you first get it so they won't end up failing later on?
I had 2 of these that both had the middle pin stuck. I tore one down, and tried to remove the center pin with a soldering iron, but before I could melt all of the solder, I somehow bridged a connection to the LED.
I ended up ripping out the center pin on the 2nd nord (I did not take this mod apart, i just used pliers to rep it out from the top side where you would seat the pod) and screwed one of the torx screws from the 1st mod into the hole of the rubber bushing. This provided the contact needed to get it firing again!!
Nice video and you really deserve that vape at the end of the video....hahahha can see that you are yearning for a vape....i can feel it thru your vid.
tq for everything!!!!
I’ve found that pushing juice out from from the bottom of the coil we’re the insulator is really helps. It looks to be negative wires there that make ground contact with the side of the coil. In my experience with this little trick even stuck pins still make good enough contact. Thank my later.
blow from the bottom of the coil?
Well you just kinda squish it out
It’s the insulator. The saturation build up underneath that white rubber piece
And I wouldn’t blow it unless your using compressed air
Im having the same problem with the prongs of my juul. One is stuck down and not firing. I thought I could fix it by just pulling it up like it was a spring or something but turns out it was old juice clogging it. I just used a q tip with iso pro and pushed the prong up and down till it released and that fixed it.
Yo i have the same problem, how long did it take you for this to work and for the prong to pop back up, as i have been trying for a good half hour now and it wont come back up?
For those who dont want to disassemble their smok, just fold up a small piece of foil as a pin extension, it works.
I did that and I think it fucked up my battery it won't turn on or charge idk
@@ur_boiaaden4167 There's probably something else wrong then, the foil is just a small conductive bridge to complete the circuit when you press the switch; I think the only way this could mess you up is if the foil bridged across or touched multiple contacts, then you're skipping the switch and basically melting your battery.
@@Lt-no4sy that's exactly what I was doing my high ass thought it would be smart to this while plugged in though
i was thinking of gluing it after sticking it out! but i think I'm gonna try the foil method
@@achannel6677 you can do that but most strong glues will become crystalline after curing and will shatter after prolonged use. Would probably work in a pinch for a few refills worth of reinstalling your pod, but enough repeated impacts/pressures on the post will likely break/jar it free again. I did the foil thing with mine when I posted this and it's still working fine today, just have to readjust the little foil square I made every once in a while.
Yo I found a fix that doesn’t require you to take anything apart. I’m not sure if it’s long-term or anything because I just did it, but I had this exact same problem with my nord 2, and after ripping the whole thing apart only to find out that I don’t have the right torx bit, it turns out that if you take a pair of needle nose pliers and basically take the pin and twist it clockwise, it fixes the issue. Before it was like the spring was completely gone but after I did this it came back. This was definitely a helpful video, but I wouldn’t recommend taking yours apart unless you can’t find ANY other way. Hopefully someone can learn from my mistake! :)
Rotate the firing button or like the pin inside I’m having same problem w nord 2
@@mrpines1o180 the pin itself. The one that’s stuck
Thank you
Same thing happened to me. You don’t even have to take it apart. The problem is the middle spring is broken and doesn’t push the middle pin up. All you have to do is connect a little piece of metal to the pin so that it reaches high enough to hit the coil. Or just super glue it in place, just to the point where it is low enough for the pod to fit in but high enough to reach the coil
What size bit fit in the screws?
Good video, but it gives me massive pain when I see someone chip a motherboard like that lolol. I think I'll keep trying to fix mine and maybe try some of the suggestions in the comments.
Just get tin foil off of a gum wrapper or from the kitchen, if from a gum wrapper strip the foil from the wrapper and make a tiny ball of foil and it will complete the connection and make sure it doesn’t touch either prongs in the sides
I always thought my middle pin was too low. Looked below even with the rubber piece. Found out it does nothing for the firing mechanism. Its like a battery problem for me I charged it and uncharged it until the 4 blinking lights went away before charging.
PLEASE HELP ME! at the subsystem "SMOK nord 2" the screen was flooded, the pixels were completely darkened, I accidentally dropped it in a puddle. tell me what to do? how to disassemble it?! respond
What do they sell replacement parts
Niceee video
Thanks from Russia
кайф,для тех кто не понял нужно плоскогубцами сплющить пин что бы он не уходил ниже и всё заработает. спасибо автору за помощь!!!
Just a question, as I'm dealing with the 2 outside pins being stuck down, middle one is fine. But, knowing now how its put together, could you just remove the black rubber cover over the pins without taking it apart ? Mine just started this , like an hour ago. Of course, it's my only vape and not able to get another one tonight. This sux .. btw. I'm feelin right where you were at . Lol.
You could but this is a death sentence for a nord. Pretty much all of them leak from the coil and the rubber is the only thing keeping the liquid from getting into the electronics. I suggest you grab very thin tweezers and wedge them around the pins and pull them out. Afterwards you can push your pod in very slowly until they just about make contact with the pins. Not ideal but there isn't much you can do other than that
I think you would have trouble getting the rubber out without taking it apart. It’s kind of held in from below if that makes sense? You might be able to get some tweezers in there and dig them into the rubber enough to grab hold of them and pull them up. Bit they will probably fall back down quite quickly. If you are really stuck you might just be able to do the little balls of tin foil trick. You roll up foil and put them on top of the pins that are stuck down. But again, that’s a bit of a short term fix but will get you through the rest of the day.
Well, I got in there with tweezers, needle nose pliers and a couple other tools. It dawned on me that the little rubber piece was wider underneath, so that it wouldn't pull out. But, get this .. while pulling the little pins up and trying to squeeze them so they wouldn't fall back down, well after several attempts, I accidenlty pulled out one of the little pins on the left side ...I thought , welp, I'm done for now. My middle pin was fine, the one that actually contacts the coil. I put the pod back in, just to see . And it started working ! Wth ? Oh, well, it'll get me through until I can grab another, hopefully. I've always cleaned that thing out. I think maybe its time to either try to wean myself off ( with this whole ban of flavored vapes starting to happen) or go back to E-leaf ( They last a hell of a lot longer, but are more expensive)
honestly the vape itself is such a good device one of my favourite hitting devices I owned 2 Nord 1s and A Nord 2, but the flaws in the design eg( the pins staying down, the pod leaking 24-7,etc) make me not wanna buy smok because if u look online I’d say 80% of users have the same problems so it’s inconsistency in theyre products it’s not just like 1 in 1000 of them do it
Man I've got the same the display screen has gone haywire sometimes I can access the settings but the power button doesn't appear to be working I think it's leaked and it's buggered the cpu or brain of the device it turns it self on after I've fiddling with it for ages it's pissing me of and I've not got a Alan key