hello. I have got into a habit of just checking my batteries, resistance and then I fire away.
Do you all check your insulators on the positive at the beginning of use?
Do you all check your insulators on the positive at the beginning of use?
Insulators
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Every now and then, but if with a fresh build yes. I clean up the contact on the atty and check the connection and insulator.
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I visually check all my insulators with a 5x loupe every chance I get, when things are apart and such. This goes for atty`s as well as mods. Looking for cracks or any melting or deforming, any thing out of the ordinary. The thing with an insulator is that it works until it don`t, and when it don`t its a hard short. So a visual inspection is about the only way to prevent anything bad from happening. Magnification helps!
BOL. :?)
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I probably should check, but I don't.
How often do you find a potential problem?
How often do you find a potential problem?
Yes I do.... Im a bit OCD.
Every time I change a coil on some of my heavier used atties, I clean, polish up, take apart as much as I can and clean everywhere I can. A clean atty is a great atty !!!
As far as my mechs and even my regulated mods, another big YES.
I clean them every time I take one out that I havent used for a while. Even in a case with silica bags etc, metals oxidize, even the supposedly gold, rhodium, sterling plated ones oxidize. Brass bits get polished at least once a month on mods and atties, sometimes more. Theres nothing uglier than a brass positive pin especially on any Origen atty.
SOme manufacturers use better brass than others. I have to say that GP and GUS brass bits are some of the best ones. Some of the worst brass were on Super T devices, even thier SS got more oxidized than any other gear ( at least the ELAs, never had the pleasure of their original line )
I could go on and on. Part of the reason I love mechs vs reg is the fact that I can break them down and clean and blow out dust etc. I worry about the insides of my box mech. I have more access to my old Provari. I can at least clean the contacts and blow out the insides.
I had a buddy that had a bunch of high end mechs. He was always buying new ones and Id seem many of them lined up on a desk. Id ask about them and he'd say they no longer worked good.
I took a look at them and geez, they were SO DIRTY, juice in the wells, in the tubes. THe switchs were so gunked with food, grease, you name it. I cleaned a few of them and damn was he impressed.
I told him how could you be so OCD with your motorcycle bits and bobs and not think of cleaning your vape gear.
Every time I change a coil on some of my heavier used atties, I clean, polish up, take apart as much as I can and clean everywhere I can. A clean atty is a great atty !!!
As far as my mechs and even my regulated mods, another big YES.
I clean them every time I take one out that I havent used for a while. Even in a case with silica bags etc, metals oxidize, even the supposedly gold, rhodium, sterling plated ones oxidize. Brass bits get polished at least once a month on mods and atties, sometimes more. Theres nothing uglier than a brass positive pin especially on any Origen atty.
SOme manufacturers use better brass than others. I have to say that GP and GUS brass bits are some of the best ones. Some of the worst brass were on Super T devices, even thier SS got more oxidized than any other gear ( at least the ELAs, never had the pleasure of their original line )
I could go on and on. Part of the reason I love mechs vs reg is the fact that I can break them down and clean and blow out dust etc. I worry about the insides of my box mech. I have more access to my old Provari. I can at least clean the contacts and blow out the insides.
I had a buddy that had a bunch of high end mechs. He was always buying new ones and Id seem many of them lined up on a desk. Id ask about them and he'd say they no longer worked good.
I took a look at them and geez, they were SO DIRTY, juice in the wells, in the tubes. THe switchs were so gunked with food, grease, you name it. I cleaned a few of them and damn was he impressed.
I told him how could you be so OCD with your motorcycle bits and bobs and not think of cleaning your vape gear.
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