I am having some issues with Magma

[t man]

I'll start out by saying I am new to vaping. I ordered the Magma starter kit, a pass-through, a pack of refillable mega-cartomizers, cartomizer refill kit and a 10ml bottle of v-liquid tobacco.
Here are the issues I am having. The only way that the cartridges that came with the kit will work on the battery is if I seal off the area where the battery and atomizer screw together with my fingers. I can't get the cartridges to work at all with the pass-through. The refillable cartomizer works very well with the pass through, but not so well with the battery. Same issue, I have to seal off the area where the cartomizer and the battery screw together with my fingers. I hope someone here can help me with these issues. Thanks.
I should also note that I did remove the foil seal on the cartridge before installing it on the atomizer.

 

[deback]

I had nothing but problems with all of the cheap-quality Volcano products I bought when I first started vaping. Will never buy any Volcano products again.

 

[The Hoss]

You can't get the battery to activate unless you block the air holes? Or you can't get vapor from the prefilled carts?

If the battery isn't activating, keep in mind they are activated by sound, you may not be hitting it hard enough. If blocking the air holes is they only way you can get it to hit, you're not going to hurt anything, keep doing what you're doing. If it's the prefilled carts that are giving you trouble, try playing with the filler. You can use some tweezers to pull it out a little, so it makes better contact with the bridge of the atty.

I have given up on using carts; inconsistent hits, juice everywhere, and nasty tastes when your atty dries out. I drip on all of my equipment now, even my Magma.

 

[MahBohMan]

First thing is I usually buy and mod all my stuff from volcano, namely magma 510 atty's and batteries. Do yourself a favor and get rid of the auto batteries. Life is so much easier with manual ones. I got a few dud autos. My atty's on the other hand still rip a year later. I haven't had one of thier magma(510 modified from SLB) atty's burn out yet. If you want to really make a vapor monster, get a pack of the mega cartomizers and mod them the way I did. I am making a video right now on step by step how to do it. They are awesome.

 

[classwife]

By not working at all on the battery do you mean no heating up at all ? (the cartomizer) Check to make sure it is really connecting to the battery...make sure your connections are clean.

Sometimes on the auto batteries you have to give it a puff puff draw...

The carts and atty...maybe not quite enough juice..try 2 drops on the atty....make sure filler material looks almost slushey....not too much tho if the battery is automatic (you don't want juice to get into the battery)...Some attys need a bit more juice in the to get them "conditioned" or "broken in".

Don't forget to not draw on it like a real cigarette...longer slower drags..(gentler)...don't try to suck the battery through the atty !

Post back how you're doing....