LR 306 With the Precise

[atavanhalen]

Instead of attempting to pull the connector out of a cartomizer, I found it much easier and quicker just to cut the bottom 1/4'' off with a dremel and a cutoff wheel. It is easy to deform the carto tube in your attempts to pull that connector out.

Oh yeah I never even thought of that, good idea, I think it just depends on the atty or carto cuz my tube came right off pretty easily but this sounds good for stubborn ones.

 

[NCC]

I just received my P18 yesterday. Love it. Got a question regarding it and the 306 though.

When I went to attach the 306 it started just as smooth as a 510, but very early on I began to feel resistance. It is as though the threads don't mesh perfectly. I stopped as soon as I encountered resistance, not wanting to damage the threads.

I checked both threads, everything is clean. So far as I can tell, the 306's threads appear undamaged.

Thoughts?

 

[Vaporologist]

Hey NCC, you will encounter that problem occasionally with some atties especially some non-Joye atties. Don't worry about it, you won't damage the P18 threads but you will need to work the atty in. Tighten until it stops, back away half a turn, tighten again, back away and so on until you make the center post makes the contact....

 

[forcedfuel50]

Put a dab of noalox on the threads too, that works. Some of atomizers can be a bit tighter then others in there.

 

[NCC]

Thanks for the responses y'all. I'll give it a shot again with the Noalox. I just got my Noalox yesterday, along with a clear bumper to keep the P18 from rolling, some tubing for my VapeMate, and some polish for the brass. Well, Wally World only had a couple selections for metal polish. I was looking for something specifically for BRASS. I ended up buying Brasso. Although it says it's for a number of different metals (including stainless steel), I assume the name originated from it being a brass polish.?.
Is Brasso ok, and is there something better that I should look for?

 

[Vaporologist]

Yea, Brasso is great. But you can also clean brass contact points including the center pin of the adapter with rotating/spinning toothbrush and toothpaste. It works great...

 

[vapn]

I prefer using Cape Cod Cleaning cloths on brass accent parts. I found that a mechanical pencil's eraser fits down into the 510 atty connection on my Precise and cleans that contact point pretty well.

 

[Vaporologist]

I prefer using Cape Cod Cleaning cloths on brass accent parts. I found that a mechanical pencil's eraser fits down into the 510 atty connection on my Precise and cleans that contact point pretty well.

Are those available in stores or do I need to search online? (sorry don't feel like googling for it, haha)

 

[vapn]

I believe you can pick them up at Wally world if not then Ace Hardware will surely have them. I got some from Amazon because I didn't want to search the stores... lol...

Lisa took a bunch of really good picks of them here...

 

[Vaporologist]

Cool, thanks...

 

[NCC]

I'm probably going to buy some of these Cape Cod polishing cloths to try out. Do they really give better results than the Brasso, or are they just more convenient to use?

 

[vapn]

I would say that they are more convenient, they don't leave much residue behind in the crevices etc. I have never used brasso on my mods so I can't really make an objective comparison. I have used Mother's polish though and that might be similar to brasso.