SPECIAL EDITION 2011 CE2-X Cartomizers
For those who don't know, the original release of these things was a huge flop and they are widely discussed with contempt. The problem was two fold... the wicking did not draw the juice well enough so a couple of good hits and you'd have to wait or shake it before you could get another hit. But the kicker was that if the wick wasnt COMPLETELY saturated you vaped this REALLY nasty chemical taste. I think people smarter then me concluded it was some kind of anti-bacterial chemical on the wicking that the factory did for some reason beyond me and they figured out if you took the thing apart and fluffed the wick and then took a butane lighter (one of those blue flamed things) to the wick you could clean the nasty gunk off. Incidentally, the modders liked them because if you went through all those steps they were ideal for MAP tank mods and such and supposedly worked well.
I had the stainless ones which did not come apart like the clear ones so I couldnt do that and they ended up delegated to my "box of shame". Besides who wants to do all that work for something that should work out of the box. My complaints to the vendor were largely unproductive so the whole experience was a lesson learned.
I am still so scorned over my last purchase of these things that I will wait for one of you nice people to try it first.
I wouldn't even post about it but I can't help but want these to work because the design seems so great to me. Horizontal coil... no polyfill... no drip drip wait, just squirt your juice in and go and also you can actually drip right onto the coil of these if you want to.
So... now I guess they are using fatter wicks and pre-burning them to resolve the issues... dare I give them a second chance?
how does that saying go... "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
For those who don't know, the original release of these things was a huge flop and they are widely discussed with contempt. The problem was two fold... the wicking did not draw the juice well enough so a couple of good hits and you'd have to wait or shake it before you could get another hit. But the kicker was that if the wick wasnt COMPLETELY saturated you vaped this REALLY nasty chemical taste. I think people smarter then me concluded it was some kind of anti-bacterial chemical on the wicking that the factory did for some reason beyond me and they figured out if you took the thing apart and fluffed the wick and then took a butane lighter (one of those blue flamed things) to the wick you could clean the nasty gunk off. Incidentally, the modders liked them because if you went through all those steps they were ideal for MAP tank mods and such and supposedly worked well.
I had the stainless ones which did not come apart like the clear ones so I couldnt do that and they ended up delegated to my "box of shame". Besides who wants to do all that work for something that should work out of the box. My complaints to the vendor were largely unproductive so the whole experience was a lesson learned.
I am still so scorned over my last purchase of these things that I will wait for one of you nice people to try it first.
I wouldn't even post about it but I can't help but want these to work because the design seems so great to me. Horizontal coil... no polyfill... no drip drip wait, just squirt your juice in and go and also you can actually drip right onto the coil of these if you want to.
So... now I guess they are using fatter wicks and pre-burning them to resolve the issues... dare I give them a second chance?
how does that saying go... "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
Ok i still cant buy there, but it gives me hope, that it one day will come to EU.
