Always get cartos from CCV this last batch of 15 I tried the 1.7's, clear wrap, and they suck. Should have stayed with Boge. Will finish current batch of 1.7's and go back to my reliable and consistent Boge's. You are not crazy.
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Always get cartos from CCV this last batch of 15 I tried the 1.7's, clear wrap, and they suck. Should have stayed with Boge. Will finish current batch of 1.7's and go back to my reliable and consistent Boge's. You are not crazy.
This will probably cloud the issue but I ordered the 15 carto deal in stainless and every single one was perfect. When It was time to re-order they were out of the stainless so I got the black ones. Out of fifteen 3 were DOA and 2 tasted burnt from the beginning. The rest were fine. I am now sticking with the stainless as I believe them to be a totally different carto versus the black. FWIW...the black all came in clear packaging.
Same here on the coughing, couldn't stand it. Also had a weird taste. Funny, my reason for getting them was to try on a carto tank and they were sent in a bubble pack which apparently means "abuse me" to the postal service. They were quite squashed when they arrived- I had to put them in my vise to make them good again.
Needless to say, they weren't round enuf to use for a carto tank. When I mentioned the bubble pack damage it was suggested that I use the postal insurance option. That kind of negates the whole free shipping thing tho.
I've tried the DC's, but they weren't that good for me on an ego. I hope someday for a xxlBoge lr. an I'd be a very happy camper!
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Not sure if it's relevant, but I noticed the same thing with dual coil Smok Techs.
My first order of dual coils from a domestic vendor, was excellent. Sold in a three pack. Each lasted about two weeks. Great flavor all the way through, ditched them when the draw got tough, took two apart and saw that the diapers were burnt so they were definitely done. Green wrapper.
My second order was a five pack, shipped from China. These are maybe one mm taller for some reason. Clear plastic wrapped. It's already been a week and I've tossed 4. Two of them tasted burnt from the get-go, and the other two started acting funny after a couple of days, took them apart and saw that they were scorched.
Looks like I'm ordering some more of the pricey, shipped from the US ones
Not sure if it's relevant, but I noticed the same thing with dual coil Smok Techs.
My first order of dual coils from a domestic vendor, was excellent. Sold in a three pack. Each lasted about two weeks. Great flavor all the way through, ditched them when the draw got tough, took two apart and saw that the diapers were burnt so they were definitely done. Green wrapper.
My second order was a five pack, shipped from China. These are maybe one mm taller for some reason. Clear plastic wrapped. It's already been a week and I've tossed 4. Two of them tasted burnt from the get-go, and the other two started acting funny after a couple of days, took them apart and saw that they were scorched.
Looks like I'm ordering some more of the pricey, shipped from the US ones
My mileage differs: I ordered some "good" ones last week from a vendor I know has sent me "green packaged" ones previously. They came in yesterday - and were stainless steel (I didn't order stainless so that was a mistake) and they were in clear packaging and so far have filled 2 and both were absolutely horrid like the others that have come in clear wrappers. Gotta ship these back - I have way too many icky cartos now, lol!!!
Also, after trying to vape on these my mouth feels all funny - acidic, metallic like. Can't get rid of it either (been like that since yesterday afternoon when I thought I'd try these thinking maybe the SS ones would be ok - NOT!)
the bad ones taste like burnt waffles ewwww lol
almost threw out my liquid before i relized it was these.
almost threw out my liquid before i relized it was these.
It gets old all these made up names and/or not listing the manufacturer.
I buy from MadVapes.
Smok Tech 1.7 ohm 510 Cartomizers
I wish they had the naked 45mm ones though.
I buy from MadVapes.
Smok Tech 1.7 ohm 510 Cartomizers
I wish they had the naked 45mm ones though.
this may be true... but a sales rep from smok tech that i spoke with directly confirmed that the 1.7 ohm cartomizers are indeed being shipped in clear plastic wrap as well as green plastic. if madvapes is getting new stock of the green wrapped ones, i would be curious to try them to see how they compare. i have some from madvapes that i got a couple months ago that are green wrapped and all good thus far.
It gets old all these made up names and/or not listing the manufacturer.
I buy from MadVapes.
Smok Tech 1.7 ohm 510 Cartomizers
I wish they had the naked 45mm ones though.
I just recently got some of the green wrapped ones from madvapes and have already come across a burnt tasting one. This problem looks like it's not the vendors fault, but smoketech themselves dropping the ball on quality. This really upsets me as these are my favorite cartomizers. Now I have got "bad" ones from CCV and Madvapes, both clear and green wrapped, also black and stainless. There is no constant to which style are the "good" ones. For the mean time I will still purchase these from CCV because of the great price I can get them. If I get a few bad ones every 15 it won't be too big a deal, but it still sucks. If the Boges had more throat hit I would switch back but I am in love with the TH the resurrectors provide.
I got some from Hoosier. The price is good - $7.25 for five. They seem fine so far. They are in clear wrap. The only thing I have noticed is they start out needing about 1/3 more liquid than my dual coil XL cartos, and are the same size.
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Here's my theory, from experience.
A good friend of mine is opening shop soon here in Los Angeles (Cerritos, CA to be exact). He has literally thousands of Boge & SmokTek cartos. We've been using these two brands of cartos for a while now, and with regards to Smok, their entire line. There was a time when I even swore off Boges (blasphemy, I know) in favor of the then-new 1.5ohm DCC's - they were just so awesome.
A month or so ago, I remember I did the usual punch a new carto for my tank. It leaked. I'm pretty OCD with punching my cartos: check the fill and punch on the thicker side, 3/4 turn from when the punch punctures the tube, etc. I pretty much had a 100% success rate with carto tanks up until that carto, so I thought meh, just bad luck. Next one, leak. Next one, same. I went through about 12 cartos, different boxes/wrapping color, & leaks. This is with 40/60 VG/PG KBV juice, btw, which is already pretty thick.
A few days ago, we got in a new batch of Smok cartos. Kid you not: we opened a few boxes and looked at the filler, and it looks terrible. You can acutally see the "roll" of the filler, like a rolled up carpet. It's no longer "tight", and yes, I have come to find that Smoks are typically looser than Boges, but these are just sloppy. None of these cartos are appropriate for tanks, let alone actually vaping.
We then look at all the flanged cartos, the ones that are meant for carto tanks like the one Madvapes & CCV sell. Conspiracy! These are tight, and the filler looks amazingly uniform. No leaks, perfect draw.
I'm of course joking (kind of) about the conspiracy angle, but there is definitely QC issues at Smok. When I get home I'll post a picture - the fillers are seriously terrible, uneven, loose, sloppy. I know in this infancy of vaping there is always the next big thing...before Boge was the only answer with cartos, then Smok came along and are really picking up steam and gaining a huge following. I bet that they are just hammered with more orders than they can fill and QC is suffering.
A good friend of mine is opening shop soon here in Los Angeles (Cerritos, CA to be exact). He has literally thousands of Boge & SmokTek cartos. We've been using these two brands of cartos for a while now, and with regards to Smok, their entire line. There was a time when I even swore off Boges (blasphemy, I know) in favor of the then-new 1.5ohm DCC's - they were just so awesome.
A month or so ago, I remember I did the usual punch a new carto for my tank. It leaked. I'm pretty OCD with punching my cartos: check the fill and punch on the thicker side, 3/4 turn from when the punch punctures the tube, etc. I pretty much had a 100% success rate with carto tanks up until that carto, so I thought meh, just bad luck. Next one, leak. Next one, same. I went through about 12 cartos, different boxes/wrapping color, & leaks. This is with 40/60 VG/PG KBV juice, btw, which is already pretty thick.
A few days ago, we got in a new batch of Smok cartos. Kid you not: we opened a few boxes and looked at the filler, and it looks terrible. You can acutally see the "roll" of the filler, like a rolled up carpet. It's no longer "tight", and yes, I have come to find that Smoks are typically looser than Boges, but these are just sloppy. None of these cartos are appropriate for tanks, let alone actually vaping.
We then look at all the flanged cartos, the ones that are meant for carto tanks like the one Madvapes & CCV sell. Conspiracy! These are tight, and the filler looks amazingly uniform. No leaks, perfect draw.
I'm of course joking (kind of) about the conspiracy angle, but there is definitely QC issues at Smok. When I get home I'll post a picture - the fillers are seriously terrible, uneven, loose, sloppy. I know in this infancy of vaping there is always the next big thing...before Boge was the only answer with cartos, then Smok came along and are really picking up steam and gaining a huge following. I bet that they are just hammered with more orders than they can fill and QC is suffering.
I got the rejuvinators from Smoktek, they came in clear plastic and they've been sensational. I vape them with an adaptor on a 808 threaded ego. I've had one filled with Boba's Bounty for over a week now and it's still going great guns. No complaints from me.
I love my resurrectors from ccv. Green wrappers and no problems as of yet. I've been through 3 so far and cleaned one and it still works. I will order more soon and hope they are the same. Has anyone any idea what happened to the joye 510's that had the hard plastic tip to pull off and the small whole you had to puncture to fill with syringe. I loved them and now nowhere to be found?
just got 5 black clear ones with my new e power and guess what. not a problem so far. maybe there was a bad batch.but the filler seems to be wound alot better than the old ones.
i love it besides the switch sticks sometimes. I have noticed that one one of the cartos that came with it leaked for some reason and left a small black puddle . so far one was toast to begin with. burnt taste everytime. also sometimes it says bat is dead but i unscrew it and out it back and it says its fine idk. maybe switch is faulty.
Mine does that sometimes, and I unscrew it and screw it back in and it works fine, who knows why but it happens. I have put a small drop of E-juice on the edge of the button and press it up and down a few times then wipe off any excess, and that seemed to help with the sticky button. I unscrew the carto each time I change a battery and clean the center of the battery switch and the bottom of the carto with a tissue or napkin, it is not unusual to see some fluid in it, so thats why I check it. Once I thought my switch was dead and I cleaned the treads and post with alcohol and Q-tip and it worked fine after the cleaning.
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