Well I went on an adventure today, looking for some plastic tubing that would fit my clearo form, to fix up some I'd cracked the shell on. Well....the closest I came to finding anything was at an aquarium store. Right type of plastic tubing, but all slightly too big. Nothing at any hardware store.
Soooo some tubing caught my eye. The clear er....vinyl I think it might be, tubing. I could be wrong about that, but it's clear. The kind you use to pipe water into an auto ice maker, the kind used in camel back backpacks, and the kind they use in fish tanks. I figured it was probably safe, if it's approved for piping water for human consumption. Packaging said non toxic.
I also vape a low nic solution (6mg, 12mg at the very highest), so I also figure my juice isn't any more corrosive that the chlorine "enhanced" tap water we all have. I also have my doubts that if there is anything mildly toxic in it, that it's any worse than the stock clearo bodies, that are made in China. But do feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Washed and dry burned some of my old clearos, and cut the piping to fit. Now, it comes in a roll, so a lot of it is bent. I clipped the end pieces that were straight for this project. I've got a big long piece tucked away under some heavy books straightening out. I'm sure a curved piece would still work, but it'd look a bit odd.
Anyway, that's really all there was to it. Cut the tubing to fit. I used 7/16ths sized tubing. At first I tried fitting in the cup seals; they didn't fit too well. 7/16ths is ever so slightly too small, but it stretches to fit over the metal piece easily. The next size up is far too big. So I ditched the cup seal, and just used the outer seal. Snug but it'll do. In fact it's so snug, it doesn't leak any more than with the cup seals. Works well. The tubing I got is also fairly thick, so it's not the most attractive thing on the block....but it works! I'm sure there are thinner tubes available. But my first concern was food/water safe material. If it's not safe for that, I'm certainly not putting it anywhere near my vaping equpiment.
Pictures very soon to come!
Soooo some tubing caught my eye. The clear er....vinyl I think it might be, tubing. I could be wrong about that, but it's clear. The kind you use to pipe water into an auto ice maker, the kind used in camel back backpacks, and the kind they use in fish tanks. I figured it was probably safe, if it's approved for piping water for human consumption. Packaging said non toxic.
I also vape a low nic solution (6mg, 12mg at the very highest), so I also figure my juice isn't any more corrosive that the chlorine "enhanced" tap water we all have. I also have my doubts that if there is anything mildly toxic in it, that it's any worse than the stock clearo bodies, that are made in China. But do feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Washed and dry burned some of my old clearos, and cut the piping to fit. Now, it comes in a roll, so a lot of it is bent. I clipped the end pieces that were straight for this project. I've got a big long piece tucked away under some heavy books straightening out. I'm sure a curved piece would still work, but it'd look a bit odd.
Anyway, that's really all there was to it. Cut the tubing to fit. I used 7/16ths sized tubing. At first I tried fitting in the cup seals; they didn't fit too well. 7/16ths is ever so slightly too small, but it stretches to fit over the metal piece easily. The next size up is far too big. So I ditched the cup seal, and just used the outer seal. Snug but it'll do. In fact it's so snug, it doesn't leak any more than with the cup seals. Works well. The tubing I got is also fairly thick, so it's not the most attractive thing on the block....but it works! I'm sure there are thinner tubes available. But my first concern was food/water safe material. If it's not safe for that, I'm certainly not putting it anywhere near my vaping equpiment.
Pictures very soon to come!
