Newbie tried clearamizers today.

[Credo]

PS
I agree these things should just work out of the box

If it's worth the trouble to you...with the carto attached to a good solid battery that's not likely to break at a bit of wiggling...carefully take out all the rings, wiggle the sleeve, pull the sleeve off, wash it all out real good, and burn the wicks, coil, and cup with a lighter.

If it still tastes bad after that...I dunno what else it could be. There's nothing else in there but silica rope which does not burn. So it would either have to be the actual sleeve leaking a bad taste into your juice...the juice itself, or maybe you just don't like the way it makes your juice taste.

If it ruins other juice flavors as well...oh well, the CE2 just isn't for you. It's not for everyone.

 

[Dougiestyle]

I love my CE2s. I know what's going on with the nastty taste. I have found that by turning the PV upside-down and dry firing (no puffin') it for 10 seconds gets. The juice flowing and gets some of the crud off the atty. You can do this several times. I also recently found that the 2.6-2.8 CE2s produce better flavor and vapor than the lower ohm 2.4-2.6. It's uncanny. It defies logic.

You should also check that the syringe holes are perfectly perpendicular to the wick/coil. There are grooves in the silicone cap where the juice flows up. If the cap is turned, it can pinch off the wicking. I have pulled the caps out with a paperclip bent 90* at the tip, so it goes into the hole where the coil is (don't damage the coil!!). Turn it under the lip of the cap and wiggle it up. Adding a drop of juice on top of the cap helps to lube the slide.

I use a syringe and PGA to clean flavors out. Draw out any juice inside. Dispose or save in a container of your choice. Draw 2ml of PGA into a sryinge with 18ga blunt needle. Insert needle into fill hole. Squirt PGA in. Draw PGA out. Repeat 3 times. Draw PGA out finally. Blow thru the battery end til no moisture comes out Set to the side with the mouth-end up. I set mine in a shotglass, so air can pass through the air tube to the atty and wait for the PGA to evaporate. 24hrs later, a couple of dry burns, then re-fill.

 

[Dougiestyle]

Edit: Double post

 

[Dirgon]

Been vaping 2.4-2.6 ohm ones from gotvapes since Monday on my eGo batts. I'll never go back to anything. These are amazing.

The only complaints I can have: Out of 3 boxes of 5 (15 total) One box had 4, not 5. One was DoA. Four were cracked at the base and the only one I filled leaked. Drip tips don't fit; on some the included mouth piece fits too tightly and causes me to suck juice up.

Note: This is the supplier's problem, not the retailer's. This has nothing to do with gotvapes.

For broken tubes: I syringe modded. Drip tips fit perfectly, but I had to mod a cone (cut it down with my dremmel) and now no problems. For the syringes, I use the BD 2ml syringes from liberty-flights. I cut the tops and bottom off, file the ends straight and flush with a nail file, and that little flare at the top end fits nice and snug into the base of the clearos. It seems (to me) if you squirt some juice on the syringes and let it sit, it'll erode the markings on the syringes, and you can just rub it right off with a paper towel.

They're not really fill and go, but with some tinkering they're more than worth it. Great flavor, great vapor (The most I've ever seen from anything) and holds lots of juice. SOME wicking problems, but flipping it over for a second fixes that.

 

[Cat_in_the_Playground]

re: removing that last inner silicone ring (with the fill holes). They simply will not come out. I tried using a paper clip from the top (it just tore up the ring) and from the bottom by removing the tube. Removing the tube just tore it up. The tube comes off the end pretty easily, but once its off the end, that silicone ring is stuck, so continued pulling pulls the metal rod from the black plastic (?) funnel part. I have watched so many videos to get that thing apart and none of it works. I was going to take it apart and burn it and try again. But that inner silicone ring won't budge. I was thinking it might be that these are V5 and the videos were done with older versions? Maybe they sealed this in there tight so it wouldn't have problems with leaking or something. I dunno....

 

[Credo]

Ouch...I tore one up pretty bad as well my first go around just messing with it.

The new ones should come apart the same way. Just the wicks and sleeves are a little different.

Is the whole box bad like this?

 

[tangentx]

I recently ordered some of the new CE2-X clearomizers from gotvapes and have had the same frustrating issue of cracked tubes that I did with their previous batch of CE2s. Unfortunately this batch seems to have slightly smaller silicone caps on the ceramic cup preventing the insides from being put inside a BD 3cc syringe. Not sure why

In response to:
..But that inner silicone ring won't budge. I was thinking it might be that these are V5 and the videos were done with older versions? Maybe they sealed this in there tight so it wouldn't have problems with leaking or something. I dunno....

It seems they put an adhesive on the bottom below the sleeve to keep it from spinning inside the tube. I simply wiggled and chiseled at the adhesive and then used the syringe plunger from the 3ml syringe to push the insides out.

 

[Credo]

A little thicker sleeve is one of the improvements promised in the revision right? Maybe that accounts for the slightly smaller silica rings. Even a little loose, it should all still work fine if not better. Maybe more prone to leaking if you want to put it all in your pocket and go.

I've left all the inner rings out of mine so far since I haven't needed a portable 'toss it in a pocket or purse' kind of VP set up much lately.

Dirgon above said a 2ml syringe works. Maybe those are a little smaller?

All of my rev 5 CE2s definitely have the new wicks, but they have various thickness and lengths of sleeves. As if they used some older tubing and some of the newer thicker tubing. They are not all exactly the same length.

 

[tangentx]

It seems that I have experienced the same inconsistency. One of the new CE2s I have recieved would fit in the 3ml tube and had a larger seal than the 2 that would not fit. Oh well. I will try the 2ml.

 

[Cat_in_the_Playground]

Ouch...I tore one up pretty bad as well my first go around just messing with it.

The new ones should come apart the same way. Just the wicks and sleeves are a little different.

Is the whole box bad like this?

3 out of 5. Didn't see much point in opening up the other 2. I poked, picked, prodded and scraped at that stupid little ring and it just won't budge - very frustrated. Using a paperclip, the ring would actually pull apart and tear before it would come out. Because it is so stuck in there, when I try to remove the tube, the metal post will pull out of the black part before it will come apart.

 

[Credo]

Ouch...I hope I have better luck as I've recently stocked up on the things from a couple of different places. So far I've liked them alot.

I've mixed'um up...some metal ones, some clear ones, XL and regular.

 

[quittin4mykids]

are y'all all getting the same exact type? or from differnt vendors and possibly differnt products? Maybe some of you are using higher PG/VG or the general makeup is differnt between the juices- ???? I REALLY would love to try one of these- but- Murphy hates me- SO- I know if I throw down $20.00 on 5- I will get 6 bad ones- LOL

 

[Secti0n31]

Couple of friendly tips from a guy who abaolutely HATED them at first, but now I won't use anything else.

1. For anyone getting that plastic taste: There are two things you can do. First and most commonly, there's a piece of hard black heatshrink that goes from halfway up the cup to a couple MM down the tube. This heatshrink is NOT on all of them and it's a funky QC issue. If your ceramic cup is smoothly attached to the air tube, then you don't have this problem. If it's got a piece of black shrink on it, take a razor knife or x-acto and gently slice it off. The second thing that you can do is remove the silicone fill cap and use a rubber tip (the solid round ones) from a discarded carto in its place. Set it down right on top of the cup and just remove it to refil. People call this the double soft-tip mod.

2. For anyone having a hard time removing the inner silicone cap, Needle nose pliers. Get 1/8" into the middle, be careful not to grab the ceramic cup itself. Get a really firm grip and pull up. If you can get the guts out but not the silicone cap, use a bic pen to push it out. I use a bic pen to also re-insert them evenly.

3. Wicking. Some juices over-wick and gurgle. Some don't wick enough, sometimes the wick gets pinched and you get an empty cart taste, etc etc. The best way to fix it is to cut a slightly (and I mean very very slightly) bigger slit where there's a wick slit. If you're wicking too much, turn the silicone cap and deliberately pinch it. In my experience the longer you use a ce2, the better it works. NOTE: PG doesn't seem to wick as well as VG in these, they're stuck on opposite-day-mode. 80/20VG heavy seems to over-wick and gurgle. For best results I recommend 50/50. 1ml of Vodka in a 30ml bottle of VG based juice seems to get everything working better.

I've still got 3 of the first 5-pack of XL's that I bought a couple months ago. I clean and dry burn them after 2-3 refils because my juice is kinda lethal to atty coils. I've even got the infamous Giantomizer to work like a charm. I'm actually gonna buy another giantomizer or 2 on payday this coming week.

 

[John R. L.]

I have the Ego, you say they work great together ?? you have the standerd Ego ?? (650 ma ) or ?? with cone or not ? let me know.

 

[Secti0n31]

The Giants are a perfect fit for an ego, ego XL or 1000mah ego-t. I can't vouch for this, but they also apparently fit the riva and v-go without an issue.

Just keep in mind that they were stopped in production for a reason. It takes a little bit of work and patience to get em to work properly, about the same as some troublesome ce2's. I sent you a PM with the details and I've also got some info about my experience on the CoV board on here.

 

[LegioX]

I found my CE-X clearomizers from gotvapes ONLY work without burning taste if I drip drops onto the wick at the top after removing all rubber pieces. So far they are seeming to work awesome, I only had to destroy 3 until I found out how to get it to work.

Does anyone find that they burn through juice quick, or no? I have the 1.8ml ones and I see a drastic drop already from a bunch of puffs, but more than I'd expect. Am I dumb and is the wicking just absorbing the juice and making it seem like its less?

Anyway, the CE3 seems like it will be fricken' amazing. Will these only be available from royalsmokers or you think madvapes will get them? I'd hate to have pay those shipping prices.

CE = greatest invention to hit vaping

 

[Credo]

Those wicks do hold a lot of juice and even when the thing appears to be empty, it's often much good vaping left just hanging in the wicks Some of my juices actually do their best when the thing is almost empty.

Yes...I go through MUCH more juice with these than I ever have before (not counting the 10ml I wasted getting my ego Tanks set up and learning to use them)...but I like vaping more and hit it far more than I ever did before.

 

[LegioX]

I thought so Credo, thanks. And the taste is incredible.

Johnson Creek chocolate truffle in CE = scrumdiddlyumpscious. A must try!

 

[Secti0n31]

I only had to destroy 3 until I found out how to get it to work.

Believe me I know the feeling. I like to take stuff apart, not always sure how to put it back together. My biggest problem with ce2's is the gurgle that I get from my favorite juice (pg80/20vg) nutty caramel. Every single other juice works fine. I may put a ml of crown royal or scotch in there to thin it a tad.

 

[Credo]

Believe me I know the feeling. I like to take stuff apart, not always sure how to put it back together. My biggest problem with ce2's is the gurgle that I get from my favorite juice (pg80/20vg) nutty caramel. Every single other juice works fine. I may put a ml of crown royal or scotch in there to thin it a tad.

I run several 80/20 juices in mine and sometimes get that gurgle as well. Fortunately it doesn't happen often. I just unscrew the whole thing from the PV and blow it out good...battery end into tissue. I guess the atty floods slightly from condensation and it runs down into the center air hole. Blowing it all out clears it up for a good long time for me.