Eleaf Istick

[Katya]

The first one works for me. The second one takes me back to your post...

Anyway. Here it is again--just in case:

http://kn100.info/hosted/scs.pdf

And the original response from Tina, now deleted, courtesy of The Ocelot:

I found a cache with one of the responses. From Tina August 13, 2014:

Dear Friend,

Thank you for supporting Aspire.

We use a ceramic fiber which is placed around the heating coil during its construction,which has undergone and passed rigorous SGS certification,and is both nontoxic and heat resistant,This ceramic material is,of course,exclusively researched and developed by the Aspire Company,and is only accessible by our manufacturing company,shenzhen Eigate Technology Co.,Ltd.

We at Aspire value our customer's safety and concern,and welcome these questions to help assure you of our levels of safety and consideration.But,although we work hard to guarantee the safety of our products,we cannot guarantee tthe quality or indeed the safety of the many counterfeit companies who work to imitate our products and materials.Because of this,BVC coils obtained from fake/non-authentic suppliers/manufacturers may be toxic and/or may not be able to endure the high temperatures of the original.So we urge you to please buy smart and buy safe,keep authentic and stay healthy

See more at :Aspire - Best E Cigarete, Clearomizer, Tank, nautilus
Attachment is the SGS certification,for your reference.
Thank you!

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[Night Hawk]

The second brings you back to this page but also sees a download pop up appear automatically to save it locally on your drive. The first has the download button on the main taskbar at the top of the page there and opened right up for scrolling down through the entire report.

 

[DaveOno]

Thanks. I edited my links since they were not as graceful as Katya's link.

btw, doing all of this while vaping on my iStick with a naughty mini using Vape Wild's Twin Mint Gum. I had been vaping 4 corner's Glacial Berry and before that, 4 corner's White Tic Tac. With a new coil some 3 weeks ago. I vape at 6.7 to 7.7 eleafVolts. After this tank, I figure it's about reached it's useful service life. I guesstamate about 35ml vaped thru this coil.

The next trial will be with Halo's Torque56. It's the cleanest vaping juice I've found. I could get really long coil head life in my Triton top coil with Torque. I'm interested in finding out how this juice does in the BVC.

I respect peoples concerns with these BVC coils. But I really enjoy their performance and I'll assume the risk.

 

[Katya]

Halo makes very high quality juices, BTW. I don't vape tobacco flavors any more, and I never much cared for Halo tobaccos, but their menthols are exceptionally pure and vape very cleanly.

 

[Poeia]

Thanks. I edited my links since they were not as graceful as Katya's link.

The coding is in red. The other stuff is what you add to it.
[url = paste in url ] type in label [/ url]
taking out the spaces, of course

ETA: If you're willing to let ECF's software label it, you just need:
[url = paste in url [/ url]

 

[Buster282]

 

[Night Hawk]

Halo makes very high quality juices, BTW. I don't vape tobacco flavors any more, and I never much cared for Halo tobaccos, but their menthols are exceptionally pure and vape very cleanly.

I've heard people rave about it but have never had any of their stuff. Others like Bloog, Crystal Canyon Vapes, Mt Baker, Vista Vapor, Sweet-Vapes had one flavor they discontinued, and a more recent one with some great stuff is Vape Garden.

 

[Boletus]

Well someone from the home town I see! I didn't actually come from Springfield originally just mostly by circumstances and employment. One thing you probably are not aware of if you have been gone for some time is how the downtown has changed with a new vape shop across the street from what was the Civic Center notw the Mass Mutual Center. Well you know how the insurance companies are the ones who own MA not Big T or Big Pharma! Several shops are springing from state line to state lately.

I used to sneak into that Civic Center through the vents in the roof to see rock concerts. I saw Edgar Winter with the relatively unheard of Lynyrd Skynyrd as the backup band that way, which may give you an idea how long ago that was.

 

[Night Hawk]

Well if Lynyrd Skynrd was a backup band that would be some time ago like the later 70s-early 80s time frame! Unfortunately things have changed around here not for the better either following the slump in the economy as well as places closing up in this part of the state over that long a period of time! People travel to the Boston area just to get a job at a car wash if not having a professional skill.

This year however I decided to "go for broke" on upgrading things a bit since I had a much better idea of what I would want even before the iSticks and other things came out. The only thing left besides waiting for orders to come in would be the new 8ml Kragen Atlantis tank which is essentially an 8ml reservoir you add onto the Aspire Atlantis to really increase the capacity! That won't be out until January however.

Last year I was trying out new tanks in October until BF day and then started looking at mods like the iTaste VV v3.0, later the Smok Groove II that went on me back in June, and then the eGo-V V3 1300 mah Mega batteries that replaced the V2 1200mah batteries,. The V3s and now the V4s are usb passthrough with the V4s having a much needed improved larger flush against surface button on the tube not piled up against the main connecter on the neck of the battery with a small wobbly button! Got two of each color(Black and Yellow) plus just got in a second pair of each(first place, Wizard Puff in Canada no longer seeing them then Fasttech) finding them at an even lower price!( $22.99 at WPuff and $19.99 at FT for the wait). More mods this time around however!

Lately one of the local tv stations paid a visit to one of the new vape shops and interviewed a few people with a much better light on vaping coming first hand from vapers and not the usual crap hearsay crock being spread! The one in downtown and actually one in Agawam and another in Chicopee get good reps!

 

[irwink]

no - but the next time you replace a nautilus coil take a look inside the old one .............

I haven't pulled one apart yet. I've been rinsing them out with a water pic and reusing them.

 

[Night Hawk]

According to the product information there's no wick material inside to begin with so that leaves rebuilding as far as replacing the wick out of the picture. The old coils could be pulled apart, drop some fresh cotton in, and then push them back together. The companies wised up and came out with the wickless type where you buy replacement if want vape!

 

[scaredmice]

RipTrippers has successfully re-built them...
And I usually rebuild my Kanger BDC as BVC. I even do them quicker...
Is that 'no wick material inside' referring to the coil assembly, or just the coil innards , its axis, which obviously is free of everything? In BVC, the material which drives the liquid externally encloses the coil!

 

[pokemom]

Interesting on all the gunk. How often do you guys change your wick? And since I'm asking here, I might as well ask how long do you guys charge your Istick?

I change my coil about every 2 weeks. I don't go longer than 4 (whether it feels like it needs it or not).

As far as charging the istick, I charge every other day (again whether it needs it or not). Takes between an hour and 3 depending on how low it is.


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[aldenf]

Interesting on all the gunk. How often do you guys change your wick? And since I'm asking here, I might as well ask how long do you guys charge your Istick?

I'm a pretty heavy vapor and charge my iStick daily, sometimes having to pass-through or change mods before I crash for the night.

As for coils/wicks: I don't use stock manufacturer's coils. I rebuild everything, including my Kanger heads. Coils are good for 3-6 months. I change out wicks (rayon) every 4-6 weeks, depending on how bored I am or the liquids I'm vaping. My Erlkonigin clone currently gets the most use and I rewick once a month.

I did pick up a Peakomizer Thanksgiving weekend and have some Aspire BVC heads in transit. Thought I'd see what all the fuss is about. My rebuilt Kanger BVCs are brilliant though. I probably won't be willing to continue spending the money on factory heads...

 

[USMCotaku]

I also rebuild everything I use, including kangers (when rebuilt a kanger aerotank will perform with the best of tanks). I re-wick as soon as flavor starts to change, or if I start to get a bit of leaking. That usually comes around 2 weeks, unless I put it through heavy use, then I go about a week. The coil, when cleaned dry burnt and re-wicked regularly, can last months
Sent with one hand, the other is busy vaping.

 

[four2109]

I haven't rebuilt anything. Bought wire a couple of years ago but never needed to bother.
My ego-c head last for months. I have a couple of tanks and they do too. I think it's because I don't mess with flavors. I tried a local vendor's liquid and it killed a head in 2 days. The flavors and sweeteners gunk up the atomizers. I don't need 'em.
The only reason I would bother is to adjust resistance.

 

[scaredmice]

The first one works for me. The second one takes me back to your post...

Anyway. Here it is again--just in case:

http://kn100.info/hosted/scs.pdf

And the original response from Tina, now deleted, courtesy of The Ocelot:

I've read the analytical report with the utter interest (did I tell you I'm an analytical chemist, even though I've been toying with duties more in the chemical engineering fields?), and the most important data were in the end: the photo of those fiberglass wicks, just rolled flat.

It's the same as the fiberglass cylindrical wicks, but in 'paper' fashion, i. e., rolled flat. I usually roll flat my cotton to prepare it for my hand-made BVC kanger heads,

But lately I just pick up 'nakamichi' cotton. I end up earlier and without paranoiac washing of the commercial cotton....

As lead contents show, it seems that in China they lost the leaded fuel after us... but it's not a big concern. In Spain, in the final eighties, all urban vegetable surfaces in parks were coated with plenty of lead... from leaded fuel. The rest of the report talks about non-measurable quantities of other heavy metals and hormone-active organic substances (the PCB -polychlorinated biphenyls-, phtalates, and so on...), but they are below LOD -limit of detection-, so..... vape happy, be happy!....

In case any of you is concerned about fiberglass particulates migrating from the heads to your lungs, without your consent....well, do not take a stroll in any dessert or beach...... the sand is there and has even more fiber-like-glass particulates! Or even better, Do Not Burn Your Heads So Heavily, for Gods Sake!.....

 

[Katya]

In case any of you is concerned about fiberglass particulates migrating from the heads to your lungs, without your consent....well, do not take a stroll in any dessert or beach...... the sand is there and has even more fiber-like-glass particulates! Or even better, Do Not Burn Your Heads So Heavily, for Gods Sake!.....

I agree. But I've never heard of people developing silicosis or cancer from walking on the beach. However: "Silica is generally considered to be potentially harmful when very small particles are inhaled deep into the lungs, where the macrophages are unable to remove the fragments which then become lodged in the alveolar lung tissue, causing miliary nodulation (classic silicosis) and scarring/fibrotic changes in both lungs." http://srs.unm.edu/industrial-hygiene/media/docs/silica.pdf

And our lungs are already damaged due to years of smoking.

Why use fiberglass in the first place??? Even if the risk is minimal, it's a risk that is completely avoidable and unnecessary. There are better and safer materials--like organic cotton (that you are using yourself, BTW). If Kanger can make commercial coils with Japanese organic cotton, so can Aspire.

And people do dry burn BVCs--there are already tutorials on YouTube demonstrating how to do it.

 

[Night Hawk]

I haven't rebuilt anything. Bought wire a couple of years ago but never needed to bother.
My ego-c head last for months. I have a couple of tanks and they do too. I think it's because I don't mess with flavors. I tried a local vendor's liquid and it killed a head in 2 days. The flavors and sweeteners gunk up the atomizers. I don't need 'em.
The only reason I would bother is to adjust resistance.

Once I got started first trying a disposable then onto prefilled until coming across one brand's refillable blanks I had limited flavors to choose from until upgrading out of that brand's stufff into the old DCT tanks that leaked like sives and onto Vision clearomizers for a number of months until deciding to take a look at other better tanks! A Vamo V2, Twists, a Spinner, and right when the new tanks were needed was the new MVP2.0 at the time needing something else! Now the big stuff is rolling in where the first RDA will be in later with the 32awg wire already in and then to wait for some Japanese cotton to work with!

When trying out various tanks I settled on the Tumblers at the time and at first only found one vendor who was selling that tank with 2ohm not 2.4 or 1.8ohm replacement coils. The 2ohm running at 6-11w work the best as far as both flavor and vapor output. Ironically that just happened to be the MVP's wattage range as well working out like the perfect mix!

I agree. But I've never heard of people developing silicosis or cancer from walking on the beach. However: "Silica is generally considered to be potentially harmful when very small particles are inhaled deep into the lungs, where the macrophages are unable to remove the fragments which then become lodged in the alveolar lung tissue, causing miliary nodulation (classic silicosis) and scarring/fibrotic changes in both lungs." http://srs.unm.edu/industrial-hygiene/media/docs/silica.pdf

And our lungs are already damaged due to years of smoking.

Why use fiberglass in the first place??? Even if the risk is minimal,

Walking on the beach exposed to UV rays can cause sun poisoning and skin cancers like Melanoma. That would be what to expect there.

Fiberglass and Asbestos are known to be high risk elements when exposed to in large amounts where the body isn't able to detox itself fully. Body shop workers and construction workers demolishing old buildings are the two most often exposed occupations however.

 

[scaredmice]

I agree. But I've never heard of people developing silicosis or cancer from walking on the beach. However: "Silica is generally considered to be potentially harmful when very small particles are inhaled deep into the lungs, where the macrophages are unable to remove the fragments which then become lodged in the alveolar lung tissue, causing miliary nodulation (classic silicosis) and scarring/fibrotic changes in both lungs." http://srs.unm.edu/industrial-hygiene/media/docs/silica.pdf

And our lungs are already damaged due to years of smoking.

Why use fiberglass in the first place??? Even if the risk is minimal, it's a risk that is completely avoidable and unnecessary. There are better and safer materials--like organic cotton (that you are using yourself, BTW). If Kanger can make commercial coils with Japanese organic cotton, so can Aspire.

And people do dry burn BVCs--there are already tutorials on YouTube demonstrating how to do it.

And I agree with you too. It's common-sense in motion!

Just a bit of clarification. Humankind has coped with fiber-like and grain-like silicates forever. In any case to consider, size and chemical composition matters, that's why asbestos-like silicates are harmful, whether other silicates are not, or at least not so dangerous. Fiberglass can be tailored (if you are a potentially crazy mass-murderer) to be harmful, with the proper size and coating -let's say making an artificial asbestos-, but I do not expect that approved-for-alimentary-uses fiberglass would be....

But then common-sense (the least common of the senses) applies.... better to discard fiberglass from the equation, as they have better materials, and even cheaper ones....it's just paper from cotton, like bank bills, but without inks!

About the dry-burns.... well, I never understood them quite well...it's so easy just to re-assemble (or change) the head, and it's funny to do so! But it is just my opinion, of course....