The brass looks nice.I got my reduced chamber top caps from CapitallVapes yesterday.
They are shorter and less room on the inside - which does help produce a bit better flavor.
I opened up the intake holes to 3/32" (came with 1/16").
I think I'm liking my air holes bigger with smaller chambers a lot more.
Most of my builds are between .6-.8 ohms.
I am liking these better than the stock cap both in aesthetics and performance.
Since they are shorter, you may have to build your wick/coil a little shorter; but no big deal
- if anything I prefer it to keep it short, tight and closer to the juice source.
I got one in brass and one SS. Now I need glass tanks
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Actually, I've found my leaks aren't coming from the positive post so much as they are coming from the tank.... that tank isn't sealing with the body, so juice is making it up and over the post and down the outside metal tube into the base... I might get a drop or two of juice on the center post on my K100 now and then... but it was the juice weeping from the seam between the tank and the metal base that gets a little messy.
Last night, when I rebuild my RSST into an cotton-wicked auto dripper, I wrapped the metal post threads with some thread seal tape, which might help the plastic tank from leaking down that gap.... so far, so good.
Ideally, there would be an o-ring or gasket that would sit up top, around that metal post, to seat between the top of the tank's tube and the post... bit it would have to thin. I tried using a condom from an old cart, but it was too clumsy a fit and made to hard to reseat the two end caps.
Does everyone use these with the fill plug OUT? What's the advantage?
I guess I'll have to try but I'd hate to deal with leaks. As of now I am using #500 mesh with flat kantal ribbon, the setup has never failed to wick even with heavy use [I do tilt it sometimes], flavor is there, vapor production is great, and no leaks because I use the fill plug IN.
I guess I'll have to try but I'd hate to deal with leaks. As of now I am using #500 mesh with flat kantal ribbon, the setup has never failed to wick even with heavy use [I do tilt it sometimes], flavor is there, vapor production is great, and no leaks because I use the fill plug IN.
Well if it works, then leave it in like BuzzKilla said. I have problems with wicking when the plug is in so I leave it out. I have to make sure it stays upright when I set it down or it will leak. I also have to do the genny tilt or I will get dry hits but I am using the 1/8" FC2000 ceramic wicks. But if yours is working with it in then I would just use it that way.
I use it with the plug in and out with cotton and mesh despite all the posts I've come across that say use it with the plug out.
Initially I had leakage until I took the whole thing completely apart and put it back together starting from the bottom up.
This is my current setup. Do you have the wick touching the bottom?
I don't have to tilt at all.
One of them is on the bottom. Another one is off the bottom by a little bit, like maybe a mm or so. And another one was a broken piece. It broke where the wick went into the deck so I used the longer piece that was down in the tank.
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I've been using some thread seal tape rather liberally... I solved the problem of juice seaping out the seal at the top of the plastic tank... just wrapped some tape around the seat on the plastic tank. I will probably have to put some around the top of the metal post to seal the top of that post for the plastic tank... and maybe some tape around the bottom seal as well.
Plumber's Duct Tape.
I've always kept mine in. Only time I had a problem wicking was when I had the mesh rolled so tight I could barely get it in. Cut a bit off to loosen it up and never had a problem since.
You know, that might be the problem... I can't keep my wick going... after a fire or two, it'll peter out on me.
I'll snip some mesh and see if that helps.
$10 for 15 is pretty expensive. I was looking around for insulators for my AGA-T2 and found these, according to the comments people have used them successfully with the RSST as well: AGA Series Positive Post Insulators - 10 pack - Kidney Puncher
I'm not sure about the fill plug, I haven't seen them anywhere.
I use nylon screws for my wife's fill ports. 6-32 I think. A hair too big. Just heat quickly with lighter and squish a little with pliers.
Careful with those. If used really need to keep an eye on it. The stock insulator is hard plastic. These AGA seals are silicone. If the spring is placed directly on top of the AGA seal, overtime the silicone may get squashed (depending on how much tension) & the spring will short on the top deck. To use these safely a non electrically conductive washer should be used between the AGA seal & the spring, like a nylon washer, etc.
I used a different approach for sealing. I installed an oring under the insulator (posted a while back in this thread).
Thanks for the nylon washer suggestion. Mine are coming in tomorrow and I initially was going to use the spare metal washer so it could provide even pressure on the insulator. I'll be hitting Home Depot in the morning for nylon washers now.
After seeing the reduced top cap that Koman got I ordered one. I like it and this is what I think of it:
- $27.95 + shipping, costs as much as the RSST itself. But the SS is thick, well made and gives the RSST a different look.
- Comes a bit dull but easy to polish. I took pics for a friend and included them in this post. The pic in the day light is as it comes. The pic at night is with the top cap and Fatboy drip tip quickly hand polished with Mothers chrome polish.
- I already add cotton to reduce volume in the top cap which improves the flavor and vape, see pic. Using the new fauxgatti reduced cap with the cotton 1) increases the flavor just a tad over the cotton I use. Note regarding flavor, I liked the stock cap better with the added cotton over the new reduced chamber cap without the added cotton. Best setup was with the new reduced chamber cap and cotton filler. 2) the vape is warmer to hot if I chain vape. I had to add the black drip tip stay cool thingy which you can see in the pic.
- Suppose to come with a 1/16" airhole pre-drilled, it was not fully drilled through. I ended up drilling a 1.9 mm airhole for it.
Chris
- $27.95 + shipping, costs as much as the RSST itself. But the SS is thick, well made and gives the RSST a different look.
- Comes a bit dull but easy to polish. I took pics for a friend and included them in this post. The pic in the day light is as it comes. The pic at night is with the top cap and Fatboy drip tip quickly hand polished with Mothers chrome polish.
- I already add cotton to reduce volume in the top cap which improves the flavor and vape, see pic. Using the new fauxgatti reduced cap with the cotton 1) increases the flavor just a tad over the cotton I use. Note regarding flavor, I liked the stock cap better with the added cotton over the new reduced chamber cap without the added cotton. Best setup was with the new reduced chamber cap and cotton filler. 2) the vape is warmer to hot if I chain vape. I had to add the black drip tip stay cool thingy which you can see in the pic.
- Suppose to come with a 1/16" airhole pre-drilled, it was not fully drilled through. I ended up drilling a 1.9 mm airhole for it.
Chris
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