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I opened my last carto and here is what I found...

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It isn't water. I put a small drop on the white paper and then put the paper under a desk lamp. The water evaperated but the liquid from the carto has not.

The liquid from the carto feels oily but that is by no means a scientific evaluation.

Also. Why is the wick in the dis-colored on the right hand side? I not sure if it is related to the liquid that I found inside the carto.

ok so is that blue cause i cant tell. yes to me the primer is oily just like other atomizers i have , same smell same primer. but on the 9 fully cut open e2 there is none with any blue tint.
 

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I wish I could. I'm still on the road traveling and living out of a suitcase. No decent camera right now. Hope to be back home by Wednesday... doctors and hospitals permitting.

I'll see if my friend can take some pictures of cartos he has with bad threads. I'm sure he can one or two good pictures. 10% of his carto have bad threads and one almost ruin his battery.
 

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I wish I could. I'm still on the road traveling and living out of a suitcase. No decent camera right now. Hope to be back home by Wednesday... doctors and hospitals permitting.

Oh, ok. Sorry, I hope they permit home soon. (I have also edited the post to indicate that pics help more specifically when writing China.)

thanks for the alert too
 

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Warning Notice:

One of the very first 510 XL cartomizers that I unpackaged had a "dented" thread section at the 510 battery connector. The "dent"was bad enough that the deformed ID of the threaded end was in contact with the center pole, creating a short. Had I not noticed that and screwed it onto my eGo/Tornado battery, the battery would have been ruined within a few seconds.

Please inspect your cartomizers before use!

scott , noted and sent to them to take a look .
 

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ok so is that blue cause i cant tell. yes to me the primer is oily just like other atomizers i have , same smell same primer. but on the 9 fully cut open e2 there is none with any blue tint.

I think the blue tint is coming more from the silicone that the liquid.

So what's the Liquid and is it Safe to vape?
 

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I think the blue tint is coming more from the silicone that the liquid.

So what's the Liquid and is it Safe to vape?

zoid i was going to say that before but didnt know if i was correct, yes when looking in the e2, the color of the inner plug makes the liquid appear like a blue color, like a illusion from the inner metal sheening off it, but the liquid itself is clear as its primer and from what i know is safe and is used in many many atomizers not just the e2.
 

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no way to vape it though,...

What if you just soaked the wicks and then reinserted the frame back into the carto, would that allow for a couple good seconds of trying a wick section wrapped outside of the coil?

I know there are no wicking issues now, and it's probably too time consuming, but I'm just thinking as many things while it's outside the box, lol

I know that the old filler cartos have a good blast of flavor sometimes in the first 2 or 3 vapes (but no vapor at all), and so I'm wondering how the flavor would be affected by adding a wick outside of the coil.
Just wondering.
 

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What if you just soaked the wicks and then reinserted the frame back into the carto, would that allow for a couple good seconds of trying a wick section wrapped outside of the coil?

I know there are no wicking issues now, and it's probably too time consuming, but I'm just thinking as many things while it's outside the box, lol

I know that the old filler cartos have a good blast of flavor sometimes in the first 2 or 3 vapes (but no vapor at all), and so I'm wondering how the flavor would be affected by adding a wick outside of the coil.
Just wondering.

I didnt say there is no wicking issue, some might still experience it depending on the ohm and voltage used or the juice they use, im saying im not having issues like before and the wicking issue is vastly improved with the looser coil, nothin is perfect and there is always room for improvement. but ill get into that when i do the full review.

If i take 20 puff back to back and then get a dry taste then that can be considered a whicking issue. even though that happens in cartridges and in old style cartomizers.

So far overall the design, build is vaslty improved.
 

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zoid i was going to say that before but didnt know if i was correct, yes when looking in the e2, the color of the inner plug makes the liquid appear like a blue color, like a illusion from the inner metal sheening off it, but the liquid itself is clear as its primer and from what i know is safe and is used in many many atomizers not just the e2.

I sure hope you are right.

Because I'm sure there are a lot of people trying these right now who have not washed them out before using.

But then again, since it still hasn't evaporated under my desk lamp. It might not be water based. So washing with water might not remove the liquid from the wick, right?

BTW - Why is the wick brown on the right hand side of the picture I posted? It is a Brand New, Unused carto.

Should the wick be white as new snow?
 

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I sure hope you are right.

Because I'm sure there are a lot of people trying these right now who have not washed them out before using.

But then again, since it still hasn't evaporated under my desk lamp. It might not be water based. So washing with water might not remove the liquid from the wick, right?

BTW - Why is the wick brown on the right hand side of the picture I posted? It is a Brand New, Unused carto.

Should the wick be white as new snow?

well I did make posts pages back form yesterday to let everyone know it has primer on many of them, so to dry burn it away until the carto smells clean using 10 second dry burns and then you can wash it if you like, some peoople are used to primer form atomizers and will puff through it, im asking to have the primer removed so we dont even have to deal with that.

you can still wash a new e2 with primer and some will wash off and the rest you can dry burn off if you want to do it that way.

Now with the brown spot, it was on all the old e2's and alot of it , these dont have nearly as much but to be honest im not sure what that is, that could be form a test runned at the factory to see if it fires causing that spot to turn brown but maybe someone else knows that answer.
 

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ok so is that blue cause i cant tell. yes to me the primer is oily just like other atomizers i have , same smell same primer. but on the 9 fully cut open e2 there is none with any blue tint.
Bad, quit cutting open so many of those XL's. Just think about all the children in the rest of the world who are drooling to death over the ones you have already wasted. Shame on you.
 

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Bad, quit cutting open so many of those XL's. Just think about all the children in the rest of the world who are drooling to death over the ones you have already wasted. Shame on you.

oh im done with that, i showed what needed to be shown and opened more and found noithing and we have come to the conclusion it was the inner plug making it look blue but its not so thats a non issue now.
 

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God this thread moves way too fast!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the ceramic E2s, don't want to use anything else. Killed only one from pushing WAY too hard and breaking the cup off the...whatever is holding it where it is...other than that I've dry burned over and over and my second one is still going strong 3 days later and it's the only thing I'm using.
 

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Bummer. I just did a dry burn on Shorty, my favorite E2. While cooling in between burns, a few coils in the center came together and are now shorted. That part of the coil no longer gets red hot. I'm afraid to mess with it, so left it that way. It still vapes good, so I'm not worried. I'll be getting some more soon. That is, whenever soon gets here.
 

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Bummer. I just did a dry burn on Shorty, my favorite E2. While cooling in between burns, a few coils in the center came together and are now shorted. That part of the coil no longer gets red hot. I'm afraid to mess with it, so left it that way. It still vapes good, so I'm not worried. I'll be getting some more soon. That is, whenever soon gets here.

I can see naming your mod, but your cartos? Man, that's hard-core right there. :p
 
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