re-purpose XL cartomizer tubes

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JohnKing

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All your tubes cracked?

If you have xls and standards, you can take scissors to the xls, cut off both cracked ends and make a standard size tube.

The one I'm showing hasn't been scissored, I was too lazy to take my current scissored cart apart (I'm vaping it) but it works nicely. It seems to hold up better too as I think they are sawing these things which puts tiny cracks into them from the get-go, by cutting, they don't seem to crack as easy, I haven't had one crack yet (a few days of use on one) and I'm shoving a drip tip on the end. The other end seems to swell vs. crack.

Maybe the Chinese QC folks will read this and stop shipping cracked (ever so slightly, but sure to grow) clearomizer crackomizer tubes. :laugh:

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From my understanding, that workes with CE2s because you are cutting the tube down at the base, close to the threaded body. Consequently, you have a ring of the metal sleeve still attached to the cart base facilitating a tight seal with the syring. If the clearomizers are cracking, and I know that I have one that is at the base, when you remove the clear tube and replace with a syring, the tolerances are not as tight, therefore requiring some sort of adhesive to keep the syring in place. Now, I haven't replaced the clear tube with a syring to see if this holds true but all the syringe mods I've seen have used the CE2 with the bottom portion of the casing still in place. Does any one use the syring mod on a cracked clearomizer without having to use glue of some sort? For the time being, I have found that just turning the tube around so the cracked portion is at the mouth end. It has no effect on draw or comfort on the lips and is not noticable, that is untill the new base end eventually cracks as well. That's the easy fix for me so far and so far so good.
 
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