Trinity Bar, Hawick, Scottish Borders, Friday evening; conversation between myself and my neighbour, Stevie, about vaping, which has taken off big style here.
“Oh did you try yin o’ they Mutition ( sic) things as weel. Aye they’re rubbish, mine’s in a drawer back hame, ye kin have it fir spares if ye want.”
“Well as Ah said, couldnae get mine tae work no way, chucked it in the bin, but maybe the screws an’ O rings’d come in handy. Ah’ll have it if you no wantin’ it - I’ll get ye another pint afore Ah go though.”
Having been born under the sign of Taurus the Bull, I tend to plug away at difficult things but occasionally I admit defeat... and no matter what I’d tried with my Mutation X V4 a few weeks previously I couldn’t get it work. It leaked juice from everywhere, spat, crackled and either produced very little vapour or burned my lips. Neither could I get two coils to fire evenly no matter how carefully I built and tuned them.
And so when my wife and I got home on Saturday - there the thing was lying on the doormat. My wife turned her eyes up, having lived through my previous tussles with a Mutation.
It snowed a bit off and on on Sunday so I adjourned to the spare room determined to give the thing one more crack. I made two eight wrap coils round a 2mm mandrel. On testing I found together they came out at 0.7 ohms. To my surprise after only minimal pulsing and compressing they lit up together, and after wicking and priming produced adequate amounts of vapour.
However once the thing was assembled, it was back to the old routine of sitting with a handful of tissue as it wept juice and or condensation, even though it wasn’t spitting and I’d gone to some lengths to position the coils and wicks well away from the bottom air holes. By evening however I had that tamed after fitting the silicone plugs to the lower air holes and running it at 20 watts with the top air holes virtually closed.
With the normal metal top and proprietary wide bore drip tip however it remained a lip blisterer. Stevie however had posted the box with all the extras though our letterbox and fitting the plastic cooling adapter top and using a 510 drip tip helped. Clouds could be produced but flavour was lacking.
This morning over after breakfast coffee I remembered in my spares box there lurked a narrow bore longer drip tip from a failed Lemo that I’d kept.
I fitted it...and the difference was night and day - cooler vape, good flavour, fine nic hit. Success at last!
Mind you, I really don’t think the designers got the thing quite right; one really shouldn’t have all this faffing about to get a result - but the moral of the story is definitely not to give up with a thing too early.
Looks like Stevie’s owed a few more pints this coming Friday!
“Oh did you try yin o’ they Mutition ( sic) things as weel. Aye they’re rubbish, mine’s in a drawer back hame, ye kin have it fir spares if ye want.”
“Well as Ah said, couldnae get mine tae work no way, chucked it in the bin, but maybe the screws an’ O rings’d come in handy. Ah’ll have it if you no wantin’ it - I’ll get ye another pint afore Ah go though.”
Having been born under the sign of Taurus the Bull, I tend to plug away at difficult things but occasionally I admit defeat... and no matter what I’d tried with my Mutation X V4 a few weeks previously I couldn’t get it work. It leaked juice from everywhere, spat, crackled and either produced very little vapour or burned my lips. Neither could I get two coils to fire evenly no matter how carefully I built and tuned them.
And so when my wife and I got home on Saturday - there the thing was lying on the doormat. My wife turned her eyes up, having lived through my previous tussles with a Mutation.
It snowed a bit off and on on Sunday so I adjourned to the spare room determined to give the thing one more crack. I made two eight wrap coils round a 2mm mandrel. On testing I found together they came out at 0.7 ohms. To my surprise after only minimal pulsing and compressing they lit up together, and after wicking and priming produced adequate amounts of vapour.
However once the thing was assembled, it was back to the old routine of sitting with a handful of tissue as it wept juice and or condensation, even though it wasn’t spitting and I’d gone to some lengths to position the coils and wicks well away from the bottom air holes. By evening however I had that tamed after fitting the silicone plugs to the lower air holes and running it at 20 watts with the top air holes virtually closed.
With the normal metal top and proprietary wide bore drip tip however it remained a lip blisterer. Stevie however had posted the box with all the extras though our letterbox and fitting the plastic cooling adapter top and using a 510 drip tip helped. Clouds could be produced but flavour was lacking.
This morning over after breakfast coffee I remembered in my spares box there lurked a narrow bore longer drip tip from a failed Lemo that I’d kept.
I fitted it...and the difference was night and day - cooler vape, good flavour, fine nic hit. Success at last!
Mind you, I really don’t think the designers got the thing quite right; one really shouldn’t have all this faffing about to get a result - but the moral of the story is definitely not to give up with a thing too early.
Looks like Stevie’s owed a few more pints this coming Friday!
