Rebuilding vs buying a new one? Which one would you prefer?

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canonikon

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My ego mop head clearomizer leaks and I was thinking if I should rebuild it or just buy a new one. Rebuilding it is like $10 for the A-1 32awg wire for 100 feet, $10 for the wick. But the ego mop head clearoimizers or other tanks are just $5 to replace...so I'm just wondering if I should just buy a new one and not think about it or pay a little more now to rebuild and save in the future.

What are you inputs?
 

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Well, wick and wire won't fix the leaks, but you will have much more re wicking and coiling if you invest some now. It really comes down to if you want to do more fiddling than now. Some prefer the ease of disposability, but that still is not fiddle free as compared to analogs. Financially it is comparing several years to two months.
 

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Well, wick and wire won't fix the leaks, but you will have much more re wicking and coiling if you invest some now. It really comes down to if you want to do more fiddling than now. Some prefer the ease of disposability, but that still is not fiddle free as compared to analogs. Financially it is comparing several years to two months.

What do you mean by fiddling?
 

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Every clearo I have ever owned started leaking. Usually it was where the plastic and metal are joined on the tube. You can buy a new tube for it, but I just replaced the whole thing and eventually moved on to something that wouldn't ooze out all my juice.

Mine lasted a few weeks at most, just for an idea on lifespan YMMV.
 

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While rebuilding is undoubtedly a fun adventure, HHV sells replacement heads for 3 bucks. Not the best price I've seen for replacement heads, but it's another option.

When you say "head" do you mean the whole thing? or just this?

I think I need the whole thing since it's leaking juice. I just want to start fresh.
 

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Every clearo I have ever owned started leaking. Usually it was where the plastic and metal are joined on the tube. You can buy a new tube for it, but I just replaced the whole thing and eventually moved on to something that wouldn't ooze out all my juice.

Mine lasted a few weeks at most, just for an idea on lifespan YMMV.

ON THE SPOT !! Same place where mine is leaking ! Do you think I can put a little bit of these white seal tape to prevent it from leaking?
http://www.uline.com/images/product/Medium/HD_6439_M.jpg

Replacing the tank is $3...getting the whole thing new is $5.50 and maybe even cheaper else where.
 

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Every clearo I have ever owned started leaking. Usually it was where the plastic and metal are joined on the tube. You can buy a new tube for it, but I just replaced the whole thing and eventually moved on to something that wouldn't ooze out all my juice.

Mine lasted a few weeks at most, just for an idea on lifespan YMMV.

By the way what did you move on to that wouldn't ooze juice?
 

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By the way what did you move on to that wouldn't ooze juice?

I like carto tanks. You punch a hole in a regular carto (or buy one prepunched) get a tank tool, get a tank. Fill the carto, slide it into the tank, fill the tank and viola! Self filling carto. IBTanked.com sells them at a reasonable price with fair shipping charges. Higher end would be a custom tank from Phinaic or one of the many other places that sell them. Cartos last longer because they are constantly wet, and when they start getting hard to hit I just pull it out and put in a new one (and time on that varies with the juice). I save them in a bag for cleaning, but have never cleaned one yet because I bought a gripload of them in a coop.

I also use RBA's now on my tube PV's, but those will leak on you if you don't keep them upright so they stay at home. When I go out, I use a carto tank though.

My favorite has become my REO with the 6 ml bottle on board that I just fill my atty with at will by pressing the bottle which feeds juice up the tube into the atty. It's like dripping, but no having to unscrew a bottle. It's a nice, self-contained PV with lots of juice and big battery. Simple, indestructible. Then I only need to take a spare battery and atty as backup, which fit nicely in one of those little battery boxes.

As for your clearo, I put some electrical tape (cuz its black and matched) around the leak and it held fine for short term. I finally just gave up, they just weren't worth waiting for the inevitable leaky mess. The vivi's were burning out heads too often and I got sick of fiddling with them also.
 

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I like carto tanks. You punch a hole in a regular carto (or buy one prepunched) get a tank tool, get a tank. Fill the carto, slide it into the tank, fill the tank and viola! Self filling carto. IBTanked.com sells them at a reasonable price with fair shipping charges. Higher end would be a custom tank from Phinaic or one of the many other places that sell them. Cartos last longer because they are constantly wet, and when they start getting hard to hit I just pull it out and put in a new one (and time on that varies with the juice). I save them in a bag for cleaning, but have never cleaned one yet because I bought a gripload of them in a coop.

I also use RBA's now on my tube PV's, but those will leak on you if you don't keep them upright so they stay at home. When I go out, I use a carto tank though.

My favorite has become my REO with the 6 ml bottle on board that I just fill my atty with at will by pressing the bottle which feeds juice up the tube into the atty. It's like dripping, but no having to unscrew a bottle. It's a nice, self-contained PV with lots of juice and big battery. Simple, indestructible. Then I only need to take a spare battery and atty as backup, which fit nicely in one of those little battery boxes.

As for your clearo, I put some electrical tape (cuz its black and matched) around the leak and it held fine for short term. I finally just gave up, they just weren't worth waiting for the inevitable leaky mess. The vivi's were burning out heads too often and I got sick of fiddling with them also.

No wonder the Vivi Mini sells them with 2 extra heads...
 

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I'm kinda confused with the hole punching carto and tank thing...

I thought the cartomizer is the tank?

Can you point me to what to buy at IBTanked.com? I don't see the prepunched carto.

I like carto tanks. You punch a hole in a regular carto (or buy one prepunched) get a tank tool, get a tank. Fill the carto, slide it into the tank, fill the tank and viola! Self filling carto. IBTanked.com sells them at a reasonable price with fair shipping charges. Higher end would be a custom tank from Phinaic or one of the many other places that sell them. Cartos last longer because they are constantly wet, and when they start getting hard to hit I just pull it out and put in a new one (and time on that varies with the juice). I save them in a bag for cleaning, but have never cleaned one yet because I bought a gripload of them in a coop.

I also use RBA's now on my tube PV's, but those will leak on you if you don't keep them upright so they stay at home. When I go out, I use a carto tank though.

My favorite has become my REO with the 6 ml bottle on board that I just fill my atty with at will by pressing the bottle which feeds juice up the tube into the atty. It's like dripping, but no having to unscrew a bottle. It's a nice, self-contained PV with lots of juice and big battery. Simple, indestructible. Then I only need to take a spare battery and atty as backup, which fit nicely in one of those little battery boxes.

As for your clearo, I put some electrical tape (cuz its black and matched) around the leak and it held fine for short term. I finally just gave up, they just weren't worth waiting for the inevitable leaky mess. The vivi's were burning out heads too often and I got sick of fiddling with them also.
 

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Find the leak and fix it. Buy some heads too. That 10 dollar mesh (should be) around the size of a sheet of paper. Thats how much I got for 10 bucks from a different vendor a week or so ago. With a sheet of paper amount of mesh and 100 feet of wire your good to go for at least a year and a half. lol. You should have a bunch of clearomizers anyway... You need backups for your backups. (notice both of those backups are PLURAL) Your setting yourself up for going back to cigarettes if all you have is one clearomizer, no extra heads, and no kanthal/mesh/wick.
 

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This is a cartomizer with prepunched holes in it:

808 Tank Replacement Dual Coil Cartomizers, 1.5 ohms

This is a cartomizer tank:

Dual Coil 510 Tank Cartomizer, 3.5ml

Notice the cartomizer (with holes in it's side) slip INTO the tank.
The tank is then filled with juice and as you vape the juice will enter the carto thru the holes.
this is not a clearomizer. This is a cartomizer tank. lol.

If your the type of person that doesn't or cannot do research for whatever reason, then rebuilding is not for you and rather than stocking up on rebuilding supplies, stock up on 5-6 tanks and 10 or so heads. (the HEAD is the portion of a clearomizer that contains the coil/wick that can be replaced) So if your not going to do a an hour or two of youtube watching and/or research on rebuilding then you might as well just buy a bunch of heads. And either way... you should have at least 4-5 clearomizers, not one.
 
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