Tanger T3 Seal Kit?

[boreddddd]

I hope this is in the right place as I have my T3 on a Twist battery, and I know it is a popular combo. I odered three T3's and one of them seems pretty leaky. It's leaking in between the two tubes, and I am getting juice in my mouth. Gross! Also, it is leaking ever so slightly onto the battery and I can see the O ring was pinched. This was most likely all my doing, as I was covering an air hole to get a little more vapor, causing a higher than designed vacuume. Also, I may have over tightened it onto the battery, pinching the O ring. All in the learning process I guess. So why stop? I figured it would be a good opportunity to learn about these little guys with a rebuild.

Who sells parts? Seals, wicks? Heads are pretty easy to come across.

I will hit google and post what I find, but I know a lot of you have your personal favorite vendors for certain things and it would be good to know of trusted vendors and eliminate a little gambling if I could.

Thanks for any help!

-Ryan

Edit: The Post title should have read, "Kanger T3 Seal Kit?" I can't edit it. Crap. Sorry.

 

[spider362]

I'd like to know if seal kits for the T3 are available, too.

Looks like the one on my current T3, which just crossed 19 weeks , might wear out before the coil goes.

 

[Shaboubalah]

which seal do you need to replace? couldnt totally tell from your post my t3 came with a missing seal and i just use the condoms and rigged up seals by cutting from them, works amazingly well.

 

[spider362]

I don't actually need to replace one, but the one that seems to get the most wear would be the large diameter one on the threads between the head and tank. It seems to be very thin and would easily break if crimped.

However, a kit with both the large (the one for the large threads) and small (the one that slides on the air tube and down against the wicks) would be nice to have in case of emergencies.

 

[boreddddd]

^ What they said, plus the one that seems to be a paper like seal near the battery contact.

 

[Skillyb]

Hopefully this tip will help in some way: when I was using a T3 on an automatic battery, I found it far too airy. I was able to help with this problem by applying a simple "seal fix." Find a rubber end cap from a carto -- the ones that usually come on both ends when you get a new one. Then trim the bottom third, away from the sealed end, and cut away a thin rubber ring. It's important to only do about a third, much more than that and you'll have trouble stretching the rubber over the batt. I was able to pull the ring all the way down over the T3 and cover both airholes, which didn't eliminate the airiness problems (which I suspect was probably mostly due to having to activate the vacuum switch on the auto batt) but it definitely did make things a bit better.