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[Moss]

Hi - any advice would be helpful - before I may do some harm here...
Just took apart my head on my EVOD - to clean it out and do a dry burn on the coil
Most unfortunately when trying to remove the stem it cracked down the sides. Anyway did the burn and that went as it should - got the gunk of the coil.
Put it back together - it works - however - with a crack in the stem may I be at risk of getting liquid in the battery area?
btw - that stem was SUPER hard to get off - which is why it got cracked with the use of plyers.
Hmmm did not look that hard in the 10 odd you tube videos I watched....
thanks in advance

 

[Susan W.]

I use pliers to get the chimmey stem off too. There's no way I can pull it off with my hands. I've never cracked one though. I'd probably use a new head, just to be safe.

 

[TylerJ]

I have a real EVOD and never had issues. Was it an EVOD or a fake EVOD? I would call the place you got it from and see what they tell you.

 

[atcsat64]

Are you talking about the chimney part of the atomizer assembly? Just replace the whole atty. Cheap and easy, no worries!

 

[Jonathan Tittle]

Were these the stock Kanger heads or a generic brand? I've never had the Kanger heads crack and I can usually just tilt the stem to the right and left a little and wiggle it loose without the use of pliers. If you bought the generic heads (which a lot of B&M's sell), they may not be built to the same standards, or if they are indeed Kanger heads, perhaps you got a bad batch that missed QA.

Unless you really cranked down and put a lot of force on the stem, it shouldn't have cracked.


As for juice running into the battery, it really depends. If the crack is bad enough for juice to flow through it, it'll probably increase flow to the wick which can push more juice down in that area than the wick can absorb, which means it's going to pass through the base. The potential is there, it just depends on the size of the crack. I'd simply change out the head, or the stem, with another and vape on.

I wouldn't use pliers to remove the stems though. Use a rubber gripper or something similar and wiggle it off. They're pretty tight at first, but they ease up once you've removed them a few times.

 

[Moss]

yeah - that's a no on using the pliers gain - I agree. It really should not be on that tight.
Think these are the ones that came with the starter kit.

 

[Grimwald]

The stem, or chimney, goes up into the center tube, and is cut off from the juice by the gasket at the base of the chimney. As long as the crack is up in the tube, it should not allow juice to get in. However, there is condensation in the center tube when vaping, so that could get it. So, it may work fine...or not. Either way, a replacement is cheap, so no big worries.