While we are waiting the birth of a new Vision (and other goodies) try this if you feel the need. (Usual disclaimers, blah blah)
A way to clean and dry burn your Vision 2 without removing (and without melting) the plastic tube.
Begin . . .
* Remove mouthpiece and dribble cup from your Vision 2
* Gently remove silicon spouty ceramic cup cover (for this I use a small metal crochet hook. In through the juice filling slot, hook under and lift)
* Remove Vision from battery
* Rinse out tube with warm water or whatever takes your fancy
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Being ever so careful of the wicks . . . dry the inside of your tube with a pipe cleaner (I've recently been using a twisted chenile pipe cleaner from the craft section in the $2 shoppe. Works better than the regular ones for drying etc)
* Use a hair dryer, put it out in the sun, leave under the griller tray when the oven is on (if you have a separate griller under the oven that is) to assist drying the wicks
* Place your still un-reassembled vision back on your battery which you use for dry burning the coil
NOW the inventive part (which I hope no one else has already come up with or this has been a real waste of time). I would have put this next bit at the start but it would have given the surprise away
* Take the tube off a stainless steel CE-2 carto or atty or whatever and slide it over the cup (careful of the wicks now). I hold it in position with some sturdy tweezers
* Now you can burn the daylights out of the coil and the plastic is protected from the direct heat. It is a bit of a juggle at first but if you hold the vision in the palm of your hand and the steel tube in position with the tweezers with the same hand you can easily operate the power button and see how the coil is going. If you have an XL steel tube you can slide it a fair way down into the Visions tube and the wicks (now also inside the steel tube) get a little extra help drying out from the heat.
(( BTW - take a look - you have just about made a de-constructed tube mod - without the grommets
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* Next is to refill and replace the bits, but first adjust the positioning (and fluffing) of your wicks if necessary
** I also cut a tiny bit out of the wick slots in the spouty silicon ceramic cup cover thingy, (but that is just me, (as I like my wicks well fluffed) it's totally not necessary. I think its just a hangover from the CE2 days
* I refill before replacing the spouty silicon ceramic cup cover thingy, making sure I get a little bit of juice splashed around the tube to help upcoming slippage
* I then replace the spouty silicon ceramic cup cover thingy, taking care not to force it down too far and squeeze the wicks (its best to leave it a little short and when the mouthpiece goes in it will push it the extra distance required)
Have you noticed when putting the mouthpiece in after refilling it can push the juice into the centre tube producing the gurgles. I may have a way around that.
* Reassemble the mouthpiece and dribble cup and replace it into the tube only partway onto the spouty silicon ceramic cup cover thingy. What I have found works for me is I then put my lips on the mouthpiece and push it into place with my mouth while taking a drag (with the button depressed like normal). It seems to help relieve the pressure before it gets too much and pushes the juice through the wick slits, into the ceramic cup and into the centre tube.
Job done.
As I said -- it works for me, but ymmv. You go ahead and poop on me now.
