News about the New Apollo Stainless steel vtube

[Homedude]

Sunny818, I was planning on waiting a few days before contacting ya'll but since you're pretty active on here this afternoon... Any information on SS buttons that are super tough to get to fire ? I originally thought mine was DOA because the button is so hard. It works know that I learned how hard to push it but it's 5:30 pm and my thumb is actually sore from using this thing. I'm not some dainty little creature either... more like a shaved ape. I have a tendency to crush fragile electronics and preform other brutish feats by accident. I just can't imagine this being normal. If it is, I've got to hand over my man-card and get myself a new pink eGo.

 

[sunny818]

Good luck with that!! Where I live you could coat copper with kryptonite and it would still turn green, for about 3 seconds before it turns black!

Indeed we may have to give up on this copper idea/production unless customers can accept the fact that copper will turn green at certain point no matter how you coat it, or unless some experts like you can give good solutions on the coating

 

[sunny818]

Sunny818, I was planning on waiting a few days before contacting ya'll but since you're pretty active on here this afternoon... Any information on SS buttons that are super tough to get to fire ? I originally thought mine was DOA because the button is so hard. It works know that I learned how hard to push it but it's 5:30 pm and my thumb is actually sore from using this thing. I'm not some dainty little creature either... more like a shaved ape. I have a tendency to crush fragile electronics and preform other brutish feats by accident. I just can't imagine this being normal. If it is, I've got to hand over my man-card and get myself a new pink eGo.

Hi homedude, this is quite odd. I guess the only solution right now is you treat it as a physical exercise for your thumb and continue to click it for a few more days until this problem disappears or until we have replacements available

 

[KeysBum]

Hi KeysBum, thank you for your suggestion. Can you draw a diagram and pm us? We want to make sure we communicate correctly to the factory. They told us it is really the CE4 problem because all other standard joyetech stuff works on it no problem.

Sunny, I can draw you a diagram, but it would be crude as I don't have auto-cad or a drafting table at home. Frankly, this is simple enough that a verbal explanation should be more than enough. The OD dimension of the ego 510 fitting ( I've checked ego, riva, Kgo, and the Buzz pro ) is .375 inches +/- 5/1000 in. on my micrometer. (9.5 mm). No coincidence, the same OD as a standard carto or atty. The OD on the connection for the vtube is significantly more. I can't get the micrometer inside the cap to make a precise measurement, but by eyeballing the micrometer, it looks like the OD is approx. .410 in (10.4 mm) Only about 1 mm difference, but that is significant and all it takes to make a vision ego not fit. The OD shoudl be 9.5 mm. Have the factory double check with their measurement tools against standard 510 connections.

 

[hmlessalky]

The discoloring of the copper might be cool to some; patina could be hot!

 

[Iffy]

Anytime you want a great Pizza and beer at the No Name Pub...

Oh yeah... I can vouch fer dat! BUT, I'd take one of KBs medium-rare burgers over the elbow drippin' pizza any time!

 

[KeysBum]

Indeed we may have to give up on this copper idea/production unless customers can accept the fact that copper will turn green at certain point no matter how you coat it, or unless some experts like you can give good solutions on the coating

No problem with copper as long as the customers understand that it WILL discolor and it WILL need constant maintenance, if they want it to stay looking new. I say don't coat it at all. If you want copper, you get copper and all that goes with it. If you coat it the coating will not wear off evenly and the tube will look like .... at that point.

 

[Bmays]

No problem with copper as long as the customers understand that it WILL discolor and it WILL need constant maintenance, if they want it to stay looking new. I say don't coat it at all. If you want copper, you get copper and all that goes with it. If you coat it the coating will not wear off evenly and the tube will look like .... at that point.

I agree completely. My mom had an old lamp that would look like crap but she would clean/polish it and it would look like new again. I had zero interest in the copper tube. But I may have an interest if it were sold as just plain ole copper. I think that's what folks like about the Stainless Steel. It can be buffed and cleaned. I personally like the idea of it looking like crap one minute then shine like a new penny the next.

 

[PoliticallyIncorrect]

A copper tube—coated or otherwise—would be an egregious error.

Brass would be ok. Steampunk.

 

[Bmays]

Well, the lamp was brass......But why would copper be bad other than the fact you would have to maintain it.

 

[Tourlounette]

Copper is very nice, I like it a lot I use it for diy mod and I dont coat if but you have to know if you dont coat it, not only it change quickly of color but it also SMELL copper. Some people dont like it at all.

 

[PoliticallyIncorrect]

I had a brass tube. Well, I still have it, but I only use it at home, safe from prying, judgmental eyes of the world at large, lest I be identified as a penniless, vaping pauper.

The maintenance of a copper tube is daily.

 

[KeysBum]

Indeed we may have to give up on this copper idea/production unless customers can accept the fact that copper will turn green at certain point no matter how you coat it, or unless some experts like you can give good solutions on the coating

In short, trying to produce a copper mod that will stay looking like new w/o constant maintenance is a fool's errand.

 

[502sphere]

I just hope they get all the kinks worked out before they send out the second batch. I know they have been working hard from start to finish on this lavatube and they have had some snags. I think it will be worth it in the end.

 

[KeysBum]

I just hope they get all the kinks worked out before they send out the second batch. I know they have been working hard from start to finish on this lavatube and they have had some snags. I think it will be worth it in the end.

Agreed. This mod rocks. A few details that are important got missed, but nothing that can't be fixed.

 

[Bmays]

It was worth the wait for sure. I've not really been using mine to much because the last thing I want to do is drop it and Apollo not honor the threading problem but I have been using it here at the computer. I have not ran a 18350 battery dead yet. What signal does this give when the battery is out? Does it just not fire?

 

[charmgraphics]

Mine just went dead I think. I did not notice any warning at all.

 

[PoliticallyIncorrect]

It was worth the wait for sure. I've not really been using mine to much because the last thing I want to do is drop it and Apollo not honor the threading problem but I have been using it here at the computer. I have not ran a 18350 battery dead yet. What signal does this give when the battery is out? Does it just not fire?

That's something I'd like to know about. I've heard from a trusted source who owns both an LT and a Buzz Pro powered by unprotected Powerizer batteries that both show a voltage drop—regulation notwithstanding—long before the end of the drain cycle.

 

[Bmays]

According to the Tube, My battery still has 3.6 volts. I thought I noticed a drop but it may just be in my head as I would have expected it to have gave out by now. I certainly could never complain about battery life on this thing.

 

[charmgraphics]

I know I was lucky and don't have any problems with mine but even if I did have some of the problems I think I would be ok because I really like it. It also seems like Apollo is going to make it right.

I feel bad for Apollo and the people with the problems.

I did try my first CE4 today and love them. I already had a really short 510 extension to make it fit. I see why people like them and wish they fit.