Hey guys, I've been recently calling any vendor I can get ahold of in my State to see if anyone has ever experienced what I have with faulty heads (and if there may be any rare cause like battery issues or whatnot) and while most of the vendors try to skirt around the problem at first, when I eventually get very adamant with them about my level of vaping experience and knowledge, they finally admit to me that "faulty heads are an extreme problem" and "we've gotten entire boxes upon boxes of Protank/iClear/Whatever heads that burned up juice instantly and none of our tests could explain it." I'm actually shocked by this explanation because it's come from both big and small vendors alike, and every single vendor has said this.
To me, this sounds like an epidemic. They all claim that these events have happened quite recently. Are our companies using different wicking material? Are they using cheaper wire? Are they placing rubber or other materials too close to the coils? What is going on here, and how do we protect ourselves from this type of fraud? I myself have been severely financially damaged by faulty heads and faulty products, and this is not the type of emotional stress and financial setback that someone needs when trying to stop smoking - it only makes the smoking habit worse.
The question has to be asked: Are the good heads that are still going around possibly just older models that still exist? What would you do if suddenly all of the heads of your favorite tank (and every other tank in your stock) burnt up and tasted like acid or charcoal on the very first hit, no matter what you did to prepare the tank? Are you really prepared to take up rebuilding or dripping? To me, it seems like there may just be a problem with the wick material used across multiple brands, and does it strike anyone that brands like Kanger, Innokin, ect ect may just order wicks from the same exact company? Wicks are made in controlled labs that are way too expensive and complex to run, the company that makes silica wicks makes them in spindles and ships them out to Kanger and whoever, Kanger or Innokin or whoever don't own their own wick factory.
I mean, it doesn't take much chemical altering for the wicks to change from fire-resistant to combustible. A slight change in chemical composition could make these things taste horrible and actually give off a lot more smoke than usual when dry, it could be anything. I just know that across the board, I am getting such extreme and strange results with the heads of my e-cigs, and to be honest, the only luck I've had in the last month is with a CE4 clearomizer where the head was brand new, but MONTHS old (sitting on a shelf.) No new product I've bought in the last month has worked. I think there's some epidemic going around and I hate to sound conspiracy about it, but all the vendors are now saying it too.
P.S. Just to ask, if I didn't want to use silica, and I wanted to take a Protank head and simply slide the original wick out, and slide some new wick back in (nothing complex), what is the absolute safest material to use? I probably don't want to use cotton....
To me, this sounds like an epidemic. They all claim that these events have happened quite recently. Are our companies using different wicking material? Are they using cheaper wire? Are they placing rubber or other materials too close to the coils? What is going on here, and how do we protect ourselves from this type of fraud? I myself have been severely financially damaged by faulty heads and faulty products, and this is not the type of emotional stress and financial setback that someone needs when trying to stop smoking - it only makes the smoking habit worse.
The question has to be asked: Are the good heads that are still going around possibly just older models that still exist? What would you do if suddenly all of the heads of your favorite tank (and every other tank in your stock) burnt up and tasted like acid or charcoal on the very first hit, no matter what you did to prepare the tank? Are you really prepared to take up rebuilding or dripping? To me, it seems like there may just be a problem with the wick material used across multiple brands, and does it strike anyone that brands like Kanger, Innokin, ect ect may just order wicks from the same exact company? Wicks are made in controlled labs that are way too expensive and complex to run, the company that makes silica wicks makes them in spindles and ships them out to Kanger and whoever, Kanger or Innokin or whoever don't own their own wick factory.
I mean, it doesn't take much chemical altering for the wicks to change from fire-resistant to combustible. A slight change in chemical composition could make these things taste horrible and actually give off a lot more smoke than usual when dry, it could be anything. I just know that across the board, I am getting such extreme and strange results with the heads of my e-cigs, and to be honest, the only luck I've had in the last month is with a CE4 clearomizer where the head was brand new, but MONTHS old (sitting on a shelf.) No new product I've bought in the last month has worked. I think there's some epidemic going around and I hate to sound conspiracy about it, but all the vendors are now saying it too.
P.S. Just to ask, if I didn't want to use silica, and I wanted to take a Protank head and simply slide the original wick out, and slide some new wick back in (nothing complex), what is the absolute safest material to use? I probably don't want to use cotton....
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