Exactly Cyberwolf. And over the last few days I've been immersing myself in a vaping crash course. I'm familiar with a decent amount of acronyms now; cartos, attys, PCC, PT, TH, volts, tanks, feeders, etc. Watched all the you tube videos I can get my hands on, been reading ECF like a man possessed and am beginning to figure out who the faces of the industry are. The go-to folks that people rely on for good reviews, trends, and advice.
To all the above folks, thanks for replying. Remember my perspective will be different from most. I'm a pipe smoker ONLY. Never smoked cigarettes - I don't inhale. I tried to inhale cigarettes a few times in my life and every time, I coughed up a lung. It's quite comical for this Marine to be brought to his knees by a 3" stick but that reaction has never stopped. You’d think by now, through second-hand inhaled pipe smoke, I could do it but nope.
Kidding aside, given my profile, I can be somewhat limited in what I may enjoy vaping off of. My intention going into this is to never pick up my analog pipe again. Once I have a unit that works, I'll be fine. I did try my gfs bloog's but we pipe smokers, rhythmically smoke our pipes and the bloog cart burned out in mere minutes. It's not up to the task. No harm done, just popped a fresh cart on and away she went. It's meant for cig smokers and seems to work very well as such. I needed something more heavy duty that can handle being smoked like a pipe and that’s why I started with the DSE-601 because according to the reviews it was stellar. Unfortunately, and I know this now but not two weeks ago, these reviews are way out of date. I consider that device a “keep smoking analog validation unit” or more lovingly, “firewood”
So right now, I'm the new owner of a Jazz Cartopipe- except I don't have the right parts for it because of the above. The incorrect parts should arrive today (yep, they actually were shipped late). So there my Jazz will sit until the new vendor I selected reco'd by Grimm Green sends me a pack of 510 LR Cartos. To your point, I could use an atty with it but probably not effectively. Assuming the 510 atty is shorter than the 510 carto, it would be very difficult to get it back out of the pipe once it's screwed in without risking the integrity of the pipe.
P.S. I ordered the correct cartos (Boge 2.0 ohm LR 510 cartos) from the above mentioned vendor and then began typing this forum message. I just received a shipped notice with a tracking #. So they received my order on a Saturday, packed and scheduled it for shipping out today in 8 minutes. Live and learn eh?
