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TLDR, skip this one.
My very first e-cig was a 1000 mah Joyetech passthrough with a CE3-style Stardust clearo. It was enough to get me off of real cigarettes. But shortly around the 2 week period, something happened. I woke up one morning, reached over for my morning vape, and tasted something awful. A foul burnt taste. I hit it again. And again. Back then you couldn't get into the wicks, so I went to the one and only person I knew, my mentor of sorts -- although he was only a few months further into the game than I. I asked him what was up, and he said, "Your atomizer's burnt out". I had no idea what that meant. He also told me I had lost my o-ring, which I had completely forgotten about when he first warned me. He fished through his tool chest and pulled out a DCT tank. He said, "I got this, but it sucks, it leaks." Neither of us knew what a DCT was, and he kept trying to fill it up like a clearo. Everything leaked HORRIBLY, and juice went everywhere. "These things suck, man!"
This was a year ago...
He had a dripping atomizer at the time, a 1.5 lo-res Joyetech 510, and he showed me how to drip. For five solid months I dripped, until I almost (almost) caused a car accident. Then I stormed into my B&M, ...... off. I told them I was sick of clearos and I was sick of dripping and I hate cartos (I was using them wrong...). The owners and employees were all using carto tanks. I looked at them and said, "Those things suck!"
The owner looked at me and said, dead straight, "You're doing it wrong." And even though it was dead straight, I got the vibe. He knew I was ready. He was being all Pei-Mei on me. That day, when I finally learned how to properly prime and fill a carto tank, it was like a shaft of heavenly light beamed down upon me and the Hallelujah chorus played.
AAAANYWAY, fast forward to April 2013. I work at that very same vape store.
I've used all of our products, but I kinda skimped over the clearos. But then, here in the past week, I really decided to give them the old college try. I slapped an iClear 16 on a 3.7 p/t, and the iClear 30 on the Vamo.
I like them. I really, really do. I can see how a little accident can decimate these things physically, especially the 16, but in all honestly, they're actually REALLY good clearos. I think noobs coming into vaping at this stage are the luckiest... Clearos were NEVER this good when I first started doing this a year ago.
I'm actually quite impressed. I'd never use them as my all day, go-to, permanent delivery device, but I'm satisfied in knowing I can have a super cheap back up just in case...
TLDR, skip this one.
My very first e-cig was a 1000 mah Joyetech passthrough with a CE3-style Stardust clearo. It was enough to get me off of real cigarettes. But shortly around the 2 week period, something happened. I woke up one morning, reached over for my morning vape, and tasted something awful. A foul burnt taste. I hit it again. And again. Back then you couldn't get into the wicks, so I went to the one and only person I knew, my mentor of sorts -- although he was only a few months further into the game than I. I asked him what was up, and he said, "Your atomizer's burnt out". I had no idea what that meant. He also told me I had lost my o-ring, which I had completely forgotten about when he first warned me. He fished through his tool chest and pulled out a DCT tank. He said, "I got this, but it sucks, it leaks." Neither of us knew what a DCT was, and he kept trying to fill it up like a clearo. Everything leaked HORRIBLY, and juice went everywhere. "These things suck, man!"
This was a year ago...
He had a dripping atomizer at the time, a 1.5 lo-res Joyetech 510, and he showed me how to drip. For five solid months I dripped, until I almost (almost) caused a car accident. Then I stormed into my B&M, ...... off. I told them I was sick of clearos and I was sick of dripping and I hate cartos (I was using them wrong...). The owners and employees were all using carto tanks. I looked at them and said, "Those things suck!"
The owner looked at me and said, dead straight, "You're doing it wrong." And even though it was dead straight, I got the vibe. He knew I was ready. He was being all Pei-Mei on me. That day, when I finally learned how to properly prime and fill a carto tank, it was like a shaft of heavenly light beamed down upon me and the Hallelujah chorus played.
AAAANYWAY, fast forward to April 2013. I work at that very same vape store.
I've used all of our products, but I kinda skimped over the clearos. But then, here in the past week, I really decided to give them the old college try. I slapped an iClear 16 on a 3.7 p/t, and the iClear 30 on the Vamo.
I like them. I really, really do. I can see how a little accident can decimate these things physically, especially the 16, but in all honestly, they're actually REALLY good clearos. I think noobs coming into vaping at this stage are the luckiest... Clearos were NEVER this good when I first started doing this a year ago.
I'm actually quite impressed. I'd never use them as my all day, go-to, permanent delivery device, but I'm satisfied in knowing I can have a super cheap back up just in case...
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