Anyone else want plastic tanks to make a comeback?

[Mr_Classica]

Betcha it's a real looker eh?

Considering that the ego one battery I use it on already had electric tape wrapped around it(for grip), it actually kind of matches lol. I even use it without a drop tip, giving it a weird e-cigar look... Gotta make the best of things!

 

[stols001]

I always forget about metal tanks. I should check for some of my favorites that don't come in plastics. I tend to avoid them because I have a mortal fear of the dry hit, but really when getting down to last ditch, can I keep vaping my favorite tank options, it's totally not a bad idea, even slightly.

Sigh. Now, the work begins.

Anna

 

[Rockford]

Considering that the ego one battery I use it on already had electric tape wrapped around it(for grip), it actually kind of matches lol. I even use it without a drop tip, giving it a weird e-cigar look... Gotta make the best of things!

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looks better than I had imagined! you should get into designing

 

[BillW50]

I DO LIKE glass tanks with protective cages, those are the bomb although I have STILL been known to break the glass on them, so it's more of a band aid for me at least.

Wow! We surely live in different worlds. When I first got into vaping, you people scared the hell out of me and I stocked up on spare glass. I got boxes of them and I never broken a single one yet. So I stopped buying spares and I still haven't broken one. So how do you people who breaks glass tanks do it? By dropping them or by cleaning them?

There is mod called the Railbox (on sale at eciggity for $84.60 with coupon TENOFF - more off for this month only with XMAS16). Normally they go for like $320. They sport a DNA40 board and only does TC with nickel. But what is nifty is your tank or dripper sits inside of the box mod. I thought this would be perfect for those who breaks glass tanks a lot.

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I bought one a few weeks back because I always wanted to try one. Well I think you are better with a long drip tip otherwise you have this big box in your face. Airflow is horrible (very restrictive) and if you chain vape, your tank gets incredibly hot!!! Mine reads resistance almost double and nickel TC you set about 100F lower than actual. But otherwise it is fun to play with. But I can't see anybody breaking a glass tank in one.

 

[United States]

In my first week of vaping I dropped a mod that "splat" went down tank first. I was over glass early on. Yet it was an inevitable thing with my favorite tank(s) so I use rubber rings just in case.

As time went on I never dropped a mod again.
Now I use pods so the drop thing doesn't worry me none. Oh, and they use medical grade plastic.

 

[DPLongo22]

Two of my three faves are the Doggystyles and the Erlkonigin, both plastic. I love the light weight, along with the fact that both are ridiculously flavorful for me.

I have backups.

And backups for the backups.

 

[CaveFurby]

I like ultam and acrylic tips fine, some of the deep golden ultam tips are quite a beautiful color. But I don't like ultam or polyacrylic or any kind of plastic in place of glass on a tank, it just looks cheap and ugly to me. Especially ultam tanks. And I really hate seeing rda top caps made of ultam. Maybe most of them are heat safe these days, still just looks ugly to me. That's me tho. Part of the enjoyment of a tank or dripper is the aesthetic, as well as how well it vapes.

 

[Vinnybagodoughnuts]

I love plastic everything! I mean it's awesome! Just look at all the great things it's doing for our oceans.

 

[Eskie]

I've dropped a glass tank on a mod onto a tile floor. Bent the C frame of the mod but the tanks was fine. Go figure.

Only broken glass for me was once when a tank rolled off the desk, and two times when dismantling or reassenbling tanks for cleaning and busting it by pulling, pushing, or tightening too hard.

Glass breaks. Plastic breaks. Metal breaks (or in my case bent, and I could never get it straight again although it still worked fine, just looked stupid). I like glass. I don't worry about chemical reactions, leaching, cracking, crawling or anything else that can go wrong with a plastic tank (and yes, it can break too but I think I already said that). If and when I have a tank I like I either have multiples (sort of a complete set of replacement parts) and I'll order up some replacement glass from FT and stash it away. System works for me and I'm sticking to my story.

 

[440BB]

Polycarbonate and a lightly flavored minty menthol are my trusty friends. Even though I've enjoyed some acidic flavors in the past, they're not what I've settled in to making and vaping. No real need for the risk and weight of glass for me unless I want to do some flavor sampling at home.

 

[stols001]

I drop a lot of mods. I am trying to think if a day has gone by where I haven't dropped one. Most likely not.

I also can break other things, I have a gift. Like, I like living in a manufactured home because I never break my dentures which are surprisingly fragile (in my opinion) and they are made of probably some of the hardest plastic in the world, but when I drop them in a plastic sink, they're fine. Porcelain? Not so much. I needed mine repaired twice when I lived in one of those show homes, marble stone and tile for days. I do have a fine motor tremor.

But, it's more than that. The window I sit near has a leak. All the other windows are fine. Not mine.

I managed to SNAP OFF two of my upper dental implants and I don't even know what I DID. They are made of TITANIUM. The denture oral surgeon I went to said that had only happened ONE time to one patient in all his born days, and like, seriously, I have no clue , one happened in my SLEEP. I haven't even finished paying them off and one thousand dollar piece that snapped off, it was in my sleep.. I probably SWALLOWED it.

I guess I'm just, like, a super force for destruction and chaos. And this is AFTER sobriety and getting medicated correctly. My parents probably deserve medals and NOBEL PEACE prizes. Something.

The husband is really good at fixing stuff for cheap. We are made for each other. LOL.

Anna

 

[Eskie]

Not that I'm doubting the decision, but unless you're using an origami wind powered mod, an average box with batteries is at least 150 gm and up, with 200 and up more common. The glass alone, unless it's a 20 gallon fish tank, can't weight more than a gram. Even if you cut that by 75% to 0.25 gm, how do you even notice? I mean, a dime weighs more than a piece of glass the size we use on tanks (OK 40 mm 20 ml tanks may be an exception, but even there, so much of the weight will be from the steel of the tank and the weight of 20 ml of juice).

 

[DPLongo22]

Truth? The only glass tank I've ever actual broken was in my hand, not via a drop. I squeezed a Phiniac too hard while washing, back when I first began vaping. Lesson learned ("Bam! Bam!").

My preference for the ocean killers is strictly related to pocket weight, although I've seen a whole LOT of Billet Box Boro tanks broken, while their Delrin variety is literally unbreakable.

I know very little other than what I like. But I DO know what I like, and make dang sure I've got what I want/need to last.

To paraphrase Fox Mulder, "Trust no legislator."

 

[ScottP]

What I want to see make a comeback is "caged glass". That is glass tanks with a Stainless steel cage around it with just a couple of small vertical windows to see the liquid levels through. This gives you all the benefits of glass while making it quite a bit harder to break...or at least much less vulnerable surface area.

 

[vapdivrr]

I like my glass tanks, until they break. Which is rather inevitable in my opinion. If I can get replacement "whatever material" I do. I am not a fan of lemons, cinnamon and other notable plastic crackers (if they even still are these days.)

As to "leeching" well, I had the distinct pleasure of visiting a waste water treatment plan in high school, It was horrible, and that day they were filtering out a "dead person."

After that experience, I really stopped worrying about water. Not because it's not important, it is. But I sort of HAD to in order to continue drinking it.... and I still wonder if like, the school was paid by the manufacturers of "Evian" or something. (Which I quite like as it happens).

But I don't see leeching as being much of an issue anymore, to be frank.. Whatever plastic does to liquids, well, for water at least I know FAR WORSE things have been done to it.

I would LOVE if the water in my new location tasted remotely like filtered or even spring water sold in plastic jugs at Walmart. It is literally HORRIBLE, due to the high mineral content and well a bunch of other reasons I don't want to know.

I feel that way about plastic tanks, some stuff is just not worth bothering about and I will use glass until the moment it breaks and I kind of hate that I can't get acrylic for my sirens and I have a bunch of replacement tanks.

I liked that glass quartz with the kabuki until it disintegrated on its second fill because I looked at it funny.

I DO LIKE glass tanks with protective cages, those are the bomb although I have STILL been known to break the glass on them, so it's more of a band aid for me at least.

Anna

I forgot about this..I forgot what grade, but we also had a school field trip to a water treatment plant and it was nasty. Just really remember the sludge being rolled and the smell.[emoji37]

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[vapdivrr]

Not that I'm doubting the decision, but unless you're using an origami wind powered mod, an average box with batteries is at least 150 gm and up, with 200 and up more common. The glass alone, unless it's a 20 gallon fish tank, can't weight more than a gram. Even if you cut that by 75% to 0.25 gm, how do you even notice? I mean, a dime weighs more than a piece of glass the size we use on tanks (OK 40 mm 20 ml tanks may be an exception, but even there, so much of the weight will be from the steel of the tank and the weight of 20 ml of juice).

I agree. I'm a bit ocd on weight, 99 percent of my mods are like 140 grams with a single 18650 battery and I love small, 2 to 3.5ml rtas, but I never once thought that my set ups could be even lighter with a plastic tank instead of glass...

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[Beamslider]

I like glass for tanks. I usually get a couple extra pieces of glass for any tank just in case one breaks. But breakage has not been a problem with any of the tanks used. I have only broken on glass tube in over 2 years. It was broken by dropping the glass tube by itself onto a ceramic tile floor. I don't usually drop mods but have a couple of times, the glass on the tank didn't break,

 

[Letitia]

Glass all the time for me. In the 4-5 years I've been vaping I broke one; it was the hated nauti and unfortunately I had a spare. I vape heavily with citrus juices and just don't like the way plastic looks with metal.

 

[Eskie]

I have one tank I simply refuse to use anymore. The Serpent SMM is a nice single coil tank, but the glass is so thin it breaks if you stare at it. Now I know why they included 2 spares instead of one. That's still not enough as every time you clean it it's time for another. I'm really gentle and take care of my equipment, but that design was just plain bad.

 

[Letitia]

I have one tank I simply refuse to use anymore. The Serpent SMM is a nice single coil tank, but the glass is so thin it breaks if you stare at it. Now I know why they included 2 spares instead of one. That's still not enough as every time you clean it it's time for another. I'm really gentle and take care of my equipment, but that design was just plain bad.

I didn't break a single one.