Precise ELA Telescoping Mod by Super-T!

[CenTexVpr]

After swearing to not spend any more money on my ELA set up, while browsing the Super T threads Nach's "family photo"(thanks alot Nach )forced me to break down & buy a solid top cap. Went with the polished flower because I am so secure in my masculinity & it is very cool looking. Now all I need are ss beauty rings & the Super-T Super tank that I just know David will engineer!

 

[Cucco]

Makes me wonder, thinkin that's to much information hahaha

That was good!

 

[anavidfan]

Springs have passed thru Anaheim which means they should be here tomorrow!!!!!!

 

[Symbolik]

Anyone have a Sat button they want to get rid of?

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[tnt56]

Hello all. Got back from Dallas kinda late last night. A VERY blessed member sent me his/her extension tube. Long story short. It's perfect for what I'm running in my ELA. Kick 2 in 18490 mode.

Thanks again Mike.


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[vdefazzio]

It seems that my options are limited this is my last resort: does anyone here have a ss accent ring for the ELA that they would be willing to part with? Due to my own stupidity, I am now without an accent ring for my ELA and I am absolutely despondent .

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[Cucco]

It seems that my options are limited this is my last resort: does anyone here have a ss accent ring for the ELA that they would be willing to part with? Due to my own stupidity, I am now without an accent ring for my ELA and I am absolutely despondent .

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So sorry to hear.

 

[MikeJA]

Hello all. Got back from Dallas kinda late last night. A VERY blessed member sent me his/her extension tube. Long story short. It's perfect for what I'm running in my ELA. Kick 2 in 18490 mode.

Thanks again Mike.

My pleasure, tnt. Glad to see it put to good use.

 

[forcedfuel50]

Totally broke down my ELAs, cleaned etc. Added a washer now they are firing strong with very little pressure of the button. I do get a warmer button, but loosened my atty and seems to be better. I was chain vaping so that could be part of the heat. I also noticed that on my Polished, the oldest one, there was a LOT of rust in the threads of the contact pin that screws into the button. I dont have rust on the Satin. Could be that there is a "flaw" on my plating? Its not the steel little pin with the bearing, its the Rhodium contact, it was real thick on the threads. I had to very carefully brush off the rust with soft micro brushes and alcohol a few times to get the q-tip to come out with no rust/ yellow orange colour. I will see if it happens again. Maybe I can exchange my Rhodium contact. I dont think the stainless steel button could have a flaw that would cause rust. Unless I exchange the whole button ? I hope David can provide his thoughts.

But for now they are both hitting hard and no slippage of the locking rings. Only thing with the added washer is that I cant stand it up with out firing, which I did a lot.

The rust you are seeing is not from the Rhodium plated contact (it can't rust, period, Rhodium is precious metal, like gold, it will never rust, corrode or oxidize. It's impervious to chemicals, even acids). Also, though stainless steel can rust when in water(anyone who's ever left stainless steel forks, knives etc in water in the bottom of their sink knows what I mean) it takes awhile. Likely, your rust is coming from the one steel part in the ELA (a part we don't make in house) the ball spring plunger. It is steel and if water got down in there, its right above the threads and probably just leaching down. Nothing to worry about. Remove the screw and put a drop of oil down in there.

 

[CenTexVpr]

It seems that my options are limited this is my last resort: does anyone here have a ss accent ring for the ELA that they would be willing to part with? Due to my own stupidity, I am now without an accent ring for my ELA and I am absolutely despondent .

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Sink mishap? Run over with lawn mower? Dropped down sewer clean out? Sorry to here of your loss. Hopefully David will be making more accent rings soon. I didn't realize you could get both types when I ordered my ELA. When I figured it out ss was sold out. He put some more up for sale & I was waiting for a certain drip tip to restock before I ordered the ss rings. I have since learned that if you want it you had best get it while it's in stock. Next time the stainless accent rings are in stock I will be on them lickety split! The sewer senario was how I lost an e-cig. Luckily it was only an ego. Still hurts though.

 

[anavidfan]

Weill, Im at my wits end. Got the HD springs and man, too much strength needed for my pinky or ring finger. My hands are numb from pressing and having to use my hands differently. My locking ring is still slipping, I used my last compression ring. My polished ELA is preforming really bad. My Satin is doing better , but still misfires.

I have no idea what Im doing wrong. ITs not my atomizers because they perform perfect on my Simplicity and on my Smok Natural. Its depressing to know that my cheap Natural is out performing my ELA.

 

[vdefazzio]

Sink mishap? Run over with lawn mower? Dropped down sewer clean out? Sorry to here of your loss. Hopefully David will be making more accent rings soon. I didn't realize you could get both types when I ordered my ELA. When I figured it out ss was sold out. He put some more up for sale & I was waiting for a certain drip tip to restock before I ordered the ss rings. I have since learned that if you want it you had best get it while it's in stock. Next time the stainless accent rings are in stock I will be on them lickety split! The sewer senario was how I lost an e-cig. Luckily it was only an ego. Still hurts though.

Storm drain mishap. All started when I decided to dunk my ELA into the pool as a terrified provari user watched on. I blew out the water and puffed away to their amazement. Well, loving my ELA as I do, I broke it down to completely blow out all the water. As I pulled the accent ring off, it flew from my hand.......this is burned into my memory.........bounced three times, and plopped straight into the storm drain. Slow motion noooooooooooooooo and flailing of hands about included.

 

[snork]

Weill, Im at my wits end. Got the HD springs and man, too much strength needed for my pinky or ring finger. My hands are numb from pressing and having to use my hands differently. My locking ring is still slipping, I used my last compression ring. My polished ELA is preforming really bad. My Satin is doing better , but still misfires.

I have no idea what Im doing wrong. ITs not my atomizers because they perform perfect on my Simplicity and on my Smok Natural. Its depressing to know that my cheap Natural is out performing my ELA.

Sucks to read that your experience has disintegrated. I have no solutions for you because I've never been in that position.

 

[MikeE3]

Weill, Im at my wits end. Got the HD springs and man, too much strength needed for my pinky or ring finger. My hands are numb from pressing and having to use my hands differently. My locking ring is still slipping, I used my last compression ring. My polished ELA is preforming really bad. My Satin is doing better , but still misfires.

I have no idea what Im doing wrong. ITs not my atomizers because they perform perfect on my Simplicity and on my Smok Natural. Its depressing to know that my cheap Natural is out performing my ELA.

You could try torching the HD spring 'till it glows red briefly to 'soften' it. Maybe wind up w/ a spring stiffer than the OEM but softer than the HD.

 

[forcedfuel50]

Weill, Im at my wits end. Got the HD springs and man, too much strength needed for my pinky or ring finger. My hands are numb from pressing and having to use my hands differently. My locking ring is still slipping, I used my last compression ring. My polished ELA is preforming really bad. My Satin is doing better , but still misfires.

I have no idea what Im doing wrong. ITs not my atomizers because they perform perfect on my Simplicity and on my Smok Natural. Its depressing to know that my cheap Natural is out performing my ELA.

At this point, I think we've tried all the other the internet diagnosis we can and though its a pain I know, the only way for us to remedy it is to take a look at them for you and get them fixed up for you which we will gladly do.

 

[anavidfan]

I will have to send them back to you. I hate doing that, you know how crazy I am about them.

I also wanted to let you know how reluctant I was about posting "problems" I hate to "mar" the reputation, but I also did not want to keep it a "secret" . I think that sharing problems is just as important as praising the quality of a product. I know others have had theirs as long as I have and theirs are perfectly performing. Either I have the ones in a million, or Im doing something wrong.

Here is a recap.

Both ELAs work sporadically, with satin working better.
Here are the symptoms. Sometimes they work fine. Other times they don't fire or fires weak. Then as the button rotates it will lose conductivity. I can spin it around till I find the "sweet spot" then again it will spin and stop working. Button then becomes hot as its still making contact with battery but not sending electricity to atomizer.

Its odd as it will sometimes work better when ELA is not on snug, with a rattle it performs better, irritating but at least it works. So with that, I added a second o-ring, and it seems to help. This doesn't make sense.
This can come on quickly or slowly over time which then causes me to apply more pressure and makes the locking ring slip. Then it becomes almost impossible to keep it tight without having to really tighten down hard, which I don't what to do and ruin my last compression ring and mar my tube.

The telescopic tube on polished is worn where the locking ring keeps of the slipping because of the loss of conductivity. Its hard to figure out what is actually happening, but can only come to the conclusion that it has to be the button mechanism. I switched out the buttons from polished to satin and then it started happening to the satin.

Someone posted about how they noticed their bottom contact had sharp uneven edges and that is the only thing I can think of that is happening. If it works sometimes and turning the button makes a difference is the only thing makes sense. Unevenness means that its not making complete contact as its not flat and covering the whole area. I can sometimes feel the power sputtering.

I will see about packaging them up and sending them back.

Either way, though its depressing, its why I got a Super-T device. I have the confidence that it will be taken care of.

 

[HauntedMyst]

I also wanted to let you know how reluctant I was about posting "problems" I hate to "mar" the reputation, but I also did not want to keep it a "secret" . I think that sharing problems is just as important as praising the quality of a product.

Agreed! We have to share problems too! For example, I put an Black Jack firecracker into my ELA, set it in the sand and lit it off - no problems. The lock ring really held! With a quick rinse out, it worked just like new. The next week, I got drunk and dropped an M80 in there and lit it off - big problems! The compression ring didn't hold and the extension tube and my Kayfun flew into the lake. I'll gonna have to return it under a warranty issue. Technically its not really broken but with the top flying off, I can't use it for anything but a pen holder.

 

[wfo_ak]

Could it be your batteries? I think sometimes I get one sitting in there funny somehow and will have to spin or wiggle the button to make it fire well, taking it out and putting it back in normally fixes it. Not sure how I can get one in there and not have it sit right, seems pretty idiot proof but I manage to do it on a regular basis. For the longest time I thought it was my compression ring since it was the original one but after comparing it to the new one I just got in I'm pretty sure that it's not the culprit. Have you tried different kinds and noticed any difference? Probably grasping at straws here, but figure anything's worth a shot right?

 

[anavidfan]

I thought it was batteries too, but Im doing that with all the batteries. It works great with batteries showing 4.2 and then it might go for while, but then it starts to misfire, I check the battery and it reads 3.9 when they start to misfire. Then I can place another battery in and still wont fire at all. I only have AW batteries. I am willing to try anything, and believe me, Ive torn my atomizers apart and rebuilt them over and over thinking it was them, finally brought out the Natural and Simplicity and atty works flawless and I get larger clouds even when batteries go down to 3.6 ish. 3.6 on ELA give me none or ego type clouds.

I just irks me that the Simplicity out performs the ELAs, Im stubborn and get quite resentful sometimes. I love the Simplicity, you all know how much I treasure it, but ELA ..... I mean if you compare 2 German cars, lets say Volkswagon Passat( Simplicity) to MB Gullwing (ELA) There should be a difference in performance for the price difference and engineering ?

 

[t8kiteasy]

Could it be your batteries? I think sometimes I get one sitting in there funny somehow and will have to spin or wiggle the button to make it fire well, taking it out and putting it back in normally fixes it. Not sure how I can get one in there and not have it sit right, seems pretty idiot proof but I manage to do it on a regular basis. For the longest time I thought it was my compression ring since it was the original one but after comparing it to the new one I just got in I'm pretty sure that it's not the culprit. Have you tried different kinds and noticed any difference? Probably grasping at straws here, but figure anything's worth a shot right?

The O-Ring in the bottom squishes down and the battery tilts to one side. It has happened to me and had to replace with new O-ring.