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OK OK the problem is quite simple. There must be two different sizes of o-rings, very slightly different sizes. I just took the o-ring out of the top and put it in the bottom slot. Took me 1 minute.

Wish I'd tried that an hour ago. I put them side by side and on top of each other and they looked identical. But the bottom one must have a 0.5mm smaller ID or something ridiculous like that.

So now I don't know if this means the spares pack simply don't have the right sized o-ring, or whether one of the ones that looks identical to the others will actually work. Argh. Still, at least I now have the bottom o ring in and can try and get the top in instead which might be easier.
They expand a little bit when you put them in the ultrasonic as well. :confused:
 
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They expand a little bit when you put them in the ultrasonic as well. :confused:

Do they? I thought heat would shrink them? Good to know, thanks

But I don't think it was that - because the top one worked in the bottom slot, and I tried one of the spare o-rings and it wouldn't fit but then I found another that would.
 

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Do they? I thought heat would shrink them? Good to know, thanks

But I don't think it was that - because the top one worked in the bottom slot, and I tried one of the spare o-rings and it wouldn't fit but then I found another that would.
Yeah, I don't know if the material gets aerated or what, but on some atties, I have to force the top caps on and practically chew up the o-rings after a bath.
 

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Received my SXK as well this morning. Went straight for the extra B deck. Mediocre flavor so far, whistling on the second largest afc hole. Also the whole atomizer seems to be heating up. Must have a short somewhere. The 510 seems to not make a good connection. I will try the deck that it came with next. But so far not impressed.
 

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Better than what they were calling the Fuhattans a few days ago :D A word we can't use here that has 4 letters and begins with F.
Roxy, you don't wanna help them out with a rewrite? :p
I tried, but I don't know anything about that atty, and that goes way, way, way beyond grammatical errors so I was like :blink: the whole time. :eek: :lol:

In FC's defense, they didn't write that - they copied it from Ali.
 
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Roxy, you don't wanna help them out with a rewrite? :p
I tried, but I don't know anything about that atty, and that goes way, way, way beyond grammatical errors so I was like :blink: the whole time. :eek: :lol:

In FC's defense, they didn't write that - they copied it from Ali.

I don't know anything about the Horizon either. Isn't it a subohm clearo?
 

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I don't know anything about the Horizon either. Isn't it a subohm clearo?
Kinda looks like it, so I'm out. I'm done rebuilding clearo heads.

Edit: you're right, we were talking about the other one, with the 3 different configurations (dripper, nano tank, full tank). I wrote that one off because it's way too tall! :eek: And it looks kinda bothersome.
 
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Kinda looks like it, so I'm out. I'm done rebuilding clearo heads.

There seems to be two different things called Horizon. I think theyare talking about an rta made by Shenray. I just read the description, and its certainly bizarre, lol! Fireplace, dribbling :D I'm not sure I can help much. Looks like a kayfunish deck that feeds through holes? And comes with a dripper top cap?
 
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The reason you see the f-bomb dropped so many times in Chinese translations originates from a bug in a common translation software. Had a friend who came back from China a few years ago and report that you basically can't go to the a grocery store in Beijing without seeing it every other aisle. The signs are often hilarious.

Fascinating story if you're interested in linguistics:
Language Log: GAN: Whodunnit, and how, and why?
Language Log: The Etiology and Elaboration of a Flagrant Mistranslation
 
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The reason you see the f-bomb dropped so many times in Chinese translations originates from a bug in a common translation software. Had a friend who came back from China a few years ago and report that you basically can't go to the a grocery store in Beijing without seeing it every other aisle.

Fascinating story if you're interested in linguistics:
Language Log: GAN: Whodunnit, and how, and why?
Language Log: The Etiology and Elaboration of a Flagrant Mistranslation
In that particular case, the mod actually had it as one of its names - the FUhattan has been called many names - they just chose the wrong one. :facepalm: I emailed Doris and she agreed that it was a little too vulgar, so she had it changed. :blush:

Language is funny. When I worked at IKEA, names of products were getting changed constantly, because they turned out to be vulgar or derogatory terms in other languages. WIth that Horizon, it seems like Chinese translating German to English. :confused:
 
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Day two with the SXK Rs clone. I thought there was something wrong with the b deck so I went back to stock w deck. Still erratic resistance. The glass in the tank is too long and makes refilling with liquid very hard.
I am ready to write this off as a lemon clone.
I will mess around some more but with my URBA arriving soon this atty is going in the drawer.
 

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Day two with the SXK Rs clone. I thought there was something wrong with the b deck so I went back to stock w deck. Still erratic resistance. The glass in the tank is too long and makes refilling with liquid very hard.
I am ready to write this off as a lemon clone.
I will mess around some more but with my URBA arriving soon this atty is going in the drawer.

Sorry to hear all that. My SXK is pretty solid. None of the issues you describe.

What do you mean the glass is too long?

I now have three Squape clones - a clone of the original Squape, the one called "Triangle Windows" on FastTech (which I never got working due to shorting), and the Ivogo and SXK SQRS clones. All of them fill the same way, which I don't like hugely - there's a tiny gap between the central chimney and the outside of the tank. I squeeze liquid down that gap, and it's such a small gap that it's easy to get it in the chimney instead. That's my least favourite thing with these clones, however watching videos I'm pretty sure the same applies to the original.

So are you saying your window glass comes down as far as the chimney?? Actually I realised I have not yet tried filling the normal SXK tank, because I got the one that comes with both normal silver and the extra red, and I fitted the red. I'll try the silver shortly. Although I did look inside both of them (Ivogo and SXK) when I got them, and my window glasses are definitely the same - I remember checking that because at first I thought the window glass was removable, before realising it's fixed. All three of my tanks have a window glass that extends to just below the triangle window cut outs - I can feel the ridge if I put a finger inside. And in fact there's a line on the outside of the tank, just below the triangle windows, which I think corresponds to where the glass comes internally.

That line is much lower than where the chimney comes to, hence the glass is nowhere near the fill point (squeezing juice between the edge of the chimney and the tank). In all my tanks - SXK silver and red; Ivogo silver - the chimney comes to just below the thread on the tank, so when I put juice in, I'm squeezing it out to just under the threading on the tank.

I will say that I mostly use 50/50 and 60% VG juice and filling is a little slow - I can see that the juice takes a moment to sink through the narrow gap, so I have to squeeze and wait, squeeze and wait. With 80-100% VG it might take a long time, but I don't have any to test with currently. And now I look again, I can see that when I hold the tank and look straight down it from above, I can see the lower edge of the window glass through the gap between the chimney and tank. So yes there could be a chokepoint there, with liquid going down the narrow gap between chimney and tank, and taking a while to then get past the window glass.

But this is the same on all of my SXK and Ivogo SQRS and my earlier Triangle Window, and therefore I'm pretty confident it's also like that on the original. Not that that helps you, but I think it's not a cloning issue - just a 'feature' of the original tank.

I am using both my Ivogo and SXK for Titanium TC and the ohms are solid. It did take me a little fiddling to get the centre post in the right position, because it can be screwed as deep or as far out as you like, and if it's too far in the former it gets no or poor connection to the mod and too far the latter it gets no or poor connection to the atty. But it only took maybe three attempts with each atty to find a position where the cold ohms on the coil seemed to be reading correctly.

I've not yet tried measuring static resistance or resistance stability. But I am getting a good TC vape off both. Using only the W deck on both so far.

You ordered yours from 3F? Maybe they're quite variable, item to item.

Did you confirm that your post is tightened down fully (one screws down, the positive I think), that your lower deck is firmly in place, and the upper deck firmly pushed down onto it? I had crazy erratic resistance on the Ivogo when my lower deck was loose due to an o-ring problem. Also have you played with the position of your 510 positive pin, which as I say has a large range of up/down movement?
 
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From 3F. The spare black tank even though is of lesser quality has shorter piece of glass and I am able to refill. Yes the unit is assembled correctly, all pins screwed down tightly and all o-rings in place. With the 510 unscrewed almost al the way I get some better resistance but still not accurate.
The glass on the ss version extends further down making it impossible to refill. The black tank is lighter and of lesser quality.
 
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