Plain a2 no tank talk

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WillyB

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hmm I may need to rinse my wicks before I use them, I'm getting a terrible taste out of the a2
Rinse, boil, flame... do something. :)

Also flame the wire before starting your coil.

Another wick idea.

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Anyone have links to good tutorials on setting up the a2, i can't seem to make a small enough wick and coil
This one by Cetin ("Bulli") is for the A1, but the technique is the same for the A2. The written instructions for the A2 here are in German, but she shows each step, so you don't need them.
 

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Has anyone got a Bulli A2 recently as well as owning one from a few months back.
Reason i'm asking is, there are 2 air holes? on the connector just above the threads on the old one and none on a recent one i bought which seems to be standard now when buying the A2.

Definitely noticing a difference between the two, the one without the holes is a bit harsher and slightly less vapour.
The air hole is in the correct position on the two of them centred across from the posts but it feels like it's not one of them.

Must try that SS wick sometime.
 

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Did you get them both directly from Bulli-Smoker in Germany? I've got both a Classic and some Megatanks, bought over several months last year, and they all have just one air hole. I haven't seen anything on the German forums about a design change.

If you bought one/them second-hand, somebody may have drilled a second hole in your older one. If it's an aluminium one, the hole might have moved a bit, so the first was sealed and a second one drilled so that it was more or less centered between the posts.

No holes at all means an update-to-a-tank or downgrade-to-a-classic kit, and a hole has to be drilled. Either that, or the parts were bought separately, which some people were doing because the full sets were out of stock. Bulli-Smoker A2 Classic update A2-T - YouTube
 
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Did you get them both directly from Bulli-Smoker in Germany? I've got both a Classic and some Megatanks, bought over several months last year, and they all have just one air hole. I haven't seen anything on the German forums about a design change.

If you bought one/them second-hand, somebody may have drilled a second hole in your older one. If it's an aluminium one, the hole might have moved a bit, so the first was sealed and a second one drilled so that it was more or less centered between the posts.

No holes at all means an update-to-a-tank or downgrade-to-a-classic kit, and a hole has to be drilled. Either that, or the parts were bought separately, which some people were doing because the full sets were out of stock. Bulli-Smoker A2 Classic update A2-T - YouTube

Cheers, yeah i bought both off Cetin (SS) and my new one i bought the base and tube separately as the A2 was out of stock online like you said.

I knew before buying that the tube would have no air hole in it, so i asked him to drill one for me.
I received it but the air hole he drilled was not centred across from the posts so i had to fill that and drill another.

A few days after i ordered, the A2 was back in stock so he had some in stock but not online.

However, the holes i was asking about in the other post is on the 510 connection. The old one has two holes and this other one has no holes.

I'm asking if that makes a difference to performance?
 
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Slinger

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Thanks for the replies nicadd,

That's good enough for me :) I know the threads disappear into the battery, just wanted to be sure before i consider making the air hole a little bigger.

Bulli A2 is still King Of Vapor for me.

Have you ever tried the wick from intaste.de, is it good as Bulli wick if you have ?

And one more thing if ya don't mind, this thread about 2mm wick from Bulli shop.
Have you bought this, seems to be problems with quality.

Glasfaser irgendwie anders !
 

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I haven't tried the intaste wick yet, but it's supposed to be the same as the stuff from the Genesis board project and the Bulli shop.
The wick they were talking about in the thread was 1mm (he didn't have the 2 mm yet back then) and was from one shipment only, way back in July or August. Cetin speculated that a big roll might have been crushed somehow during transport, because his supplier swore that nothing had been changed. I got wick from the following shipment some time in September and it was fine.The two people complaining on the last page of the thread were talking about having trouble with the 1 mm wick. One of them had no trouble with the 2mm or bigger, and the other was cutting the wick with his wire and didn't know he could heat the latter to make it more flexible.

I don't see any wick in the Bulli shop right now - it's more or less closed till the end of the month, so an awful lot of items are out of stock.
 

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Thanks for clearing that up, can be confusing at times even with a translator add on with my browser when reading from that site.
I never have a problem with Bulli wick and i think it's great, i am always curious to what other wick there is available from different vendors or group buys.
intaste.de do not deliver to Ireland but i can get a german friend to post me some if i ever want to try it.
Heavens Gifts wick is not suitable imo, did not like that at all. Did not wick great resulting in the coil glowing too quickly.

Yes i noticed that few days ago on the Bulli shop with limited items stocked, thank god i'm not stuck for wick :)

I mostly have Bulli wick (4GF) doing a repair with (6 turns) Nichrome .20 @ 1.7 Ohms.
Normally use a shorter length of wick.

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Got me some 400 mesh ordered, was wondering about the pipe screens for the bounuts?? These the round kind you pick up at the local smoke shop??

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The screens (Bonuts) make good mini tanks to hold juice but are not good wicks. In the regular atty the Bonuts act as mini tanks but the wick is still the original.
 

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The screens (Bonuts) make good mini tanks to hold juice but are not good wicks. In the regular atty the Bonuts act as mini tanks but the wick is still the original.

Yeah that's the plan. 400 for wicks, pipe screens for bonuts. So I can get the pipe screens at the smoke shop??

Which do you prefer, bonuts in the 701 cart, or stacked in the A2 with a drip tip??


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Yeah that's the plan. 400 for wicks, pipe screens for bonuts. So I can get the pipe screens at the smoke shop??

Which do you prefer, bonuts in the 701 cart, or stacked in the A2 with a drip tip??


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I could never really get the bonuts to work on the A2, poor transfer of juice from bonuts to SS wick, worked better with SS wool in the cartridge.
 

Slinger

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Has anyone got a Bulli A2 recently as well as owning one from a few months back.
Reason i'm asking is, there are 2 air holes? on the connector just above the threads on the old one and none on a recent one i bought which seems to be standard now when buying the A2.

Definitely noticing a difference between the two, the one without the holes is a bit harsher and slightly less vapour.
The air hole is in the correct position on the two of them centred across from the posts but it feels like it's not one of them.

Must try that SS wick sometime.

Cheers, yeah i bought both off Cetin (SS) and my new one i bought the base and tube separately as the A2 was out of stock online like you said.

I knew before buying that the tube would have no air hole in it, so i asked him to drill one for me.
I received it but the air hole he drilled was not centred across from the posts so i had to fill that and drill another.

A few days after i ordered, the A2 was back in stock so he had some in stock but not online.

However, the holes i was asking about in the other post is on the 510 connection. The old one has two holes and this other one has no holes.

I'm asking if that makes a difference to performance?

It shouldn't - mine have two holes, but they're filled, on two of them completely, and the connectors fully disappear into the battery (mods), anyway. I can't determine any difference in performance between the two that are completely filled and the two that aren't.

Just read this on a Russian forum about the a2.

Glad to know i was'nt going crazy noticing a difference between old and new.

''A lot of members from Croatian forum got A2 from Bulli in last few weeks. This are not beginners with A2 , but people that are
using A2 and A2 clones for a long time. Not one of them can make a decent setup. I ordered one last week ,
got it yesterday and after 20 setups i have no idea what is going on. I had A2 for a long time and i can not get anywhere near
that vapor production that i was getting from it before. It is not just me , but 10 other members and some of them have "old"
A2 that is working great. We tried everything , 0.12 , 0.15 , 0.18 and 0.20. Nothing , very low vapor production.
If anyone have any idea what is going on , please help. ''

Something must of changed in production and if it's not the atty connector, what is it?
 

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Just read this on a Russian forum about the a2.

Glad to know i was'nt going crazy noticing a difference between old and new.

''A lot of members from Croatian forum got A2 from Bulli in last few weeks. This are not beginners with A2 , but people that are
using A2 and A2 clones for a long time. Not one of them can make a decent setup. I ordered one last week ,
got it yesterday and after 20 setups i have no idea what is going on. I had A2 for a long time and i can not get anywhere near
that vapor production that i was getting from it before. It is not just me , but 10 other members and some of them have "old"
A2 that is working great. We tried everything , 0.12 , 0.15 , 0.18 and 0.20. Nothing , very low vapor production.
If anyone have any idea what is going on , please help. ''

Something must of changed in production and if it's not the atty connector, what is it?

I have no complaints about the performance of any of mine. What are they thinking the possible changes could have been?
 

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I have no complaints about the performance of any of mine. What are they thinking the possible changes could have been?

There has only been a couple posts since i read that piece i quoted and nothing to suggest a cause for it only it might have been a bad batch.
Was driving me crazy, could'nt (can't) figure it out. Using same wire and wick getting same Ohm measurements on both A2's but harsher vape and lower vapour on the newer one.
The only thing i notice that is different is the atty connector, he changed these to a different type. The earlier a2 has two airholes on the connection and the other does'nt.

Having said that, it works fine but there is a difference in the performance and i just prefer the older one.
 
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