hey everyone, been awhile since i logged on. anyway, one day, i was checking my facebook, and saw their new fill plugs, SO i decided to buy a few and noticed, there were still some new AC9s, so i bought the basic kit. i also bought a few maintenance packs for my older ac9 also.
anyway, i didn't watch any reviews or anything or even read up on here. but when i got it, i disassembled it carefully to clean it and noticed that there wasn't a washer or anything separating the black insulator and the spring, but went ahead and set up a wick and coil, worked out the hotspot, and noticed a plastic taste... i thought it was the fill hole plug, because i didn't wash it, so i took it out, but the plasticy taste was still there. so i thought maybe it was the drip tip, so i swapped it out for a metal drip tip. flavor was still there but fading... i was going to switch out the SS mesh for some fc2000 wick, but noticed the washer was a bit loose... the spring had melted INTO the black insulator a bit. just enough that i can't pry the spring out of the insulator.