just received my pipe order from e-cigs.. or at least part of it.. the small liquid bottles and batteries are being sent china post..
120 carts.. two "sanders" pipe kits.. four spare "black pear" atomizers.. four spare batteries.. plenty of pieces to get a good idea of whats whats.. no one off flukes..
total cost of order 380 dollars with express shipping.. about the same as one ruyan pipe kit..
nice packaging with no faulty parts.. the order was for two people..
first off its worth paying the extra ten dollars for the "sanders" bowl/atomizer.. its very pretty.. the black pear looks very err black.. he he
how do they work.. well straight out pf the box there isnt much smoke at first.. a good atomizer prime and a few heavy puffs soon has them going.. lots of smoke..
they seem well enough made.. more so the sanders one.. we think they might even be real highly polished wood.. its hard to imagine how the grain finish looking like its carved out of a square block of wood could be achieved with plastic moldings..
the downside.. after a relative short time the smoke drops off.. a good prime and cart top up has it all "smoking" pipe like again but that wasnt what we bought them for.. we wanted an e smoking device that would work with oodles of smoke all day long.. why else have a pipe.. he he
where we have got to so far.. remove the wool from a cart.. stuff it straight down tamped lightly on top of the atomizer gauze.. forget the plastic.. a pipe cart holds about 2 ml of liquid.. so does the wool on its own stuffed straight in the pipe stem..
because of the long pipe mouthpiece no liquid can get into the mouth.. air can be drawn straight thru the wool without any need for side flutes..
the big plus.. if the smoke drops off a blow into the mouthpiece (no air passes) squeezes liquid out of the wool and onto the atomizer top just like a drip prime would.. no need to dismantle anything.. a neat and unexpected benefit..
the small piece of black rubber (racing bicycle inner tube) isnt totally necessary but seals any pressure leakage from the stem join when blowing.. enabling more "sqeeze" to be applied to the wool..
getting the liquid from the wool to the atomizer gauze seem to be a problem with all these devices.. as the wool wetness diminishes so does the gauze wetness and so does the smoke.. removing the plastic with its side flutes seems to get around this problem.. it also make it far easier to top up the wool by simply pouring liquid straight into the pipe stem onto the wool.. no need to remove/replace fiddly carts every time..
when i say produce smoke i mean smoke in more quantities than is needed but there if required.. so far its looking good..
trog
(my first one was the super cig) I don't want to give up on e-smoking but I'm still a student so I'm low on budget :? (though i've been smoking for 8 years) Until I get enough money to buy a decent device I think I will experiment with my e-pipe, I thought of making a manual button so that you don't have to prime it every time. It shouldn't be that difficult, probably just connecting two wires and a button. Anyone knows how you can do that ? 
