~The Billet BoX~

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Groundswell17

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Well I got my BB today and I am in love. This thing is gonna be my go to out and about as well as work device. Loaded it up with a standard boge carto and some Kentucky blue grass and it hits like a champ. I am truely a rebuildables guy but I do love this BB. I just can't seem to get the flavor out of a carto like I can a rebuildable. Are the Ikenvape cartos any better on flavor than the boges?

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i was hittin the same wall, used to rebuildable and 306's, try the kangers, my vapor store has a decent price. coming from another atty lover, i say they are decent enough. much better than those boges. just be careful on your hole size with thin juices, i got a leaky one right now, had to switch it to a thicker juice
 

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Imagine a BB with a finish similar to a pistol, oh yeah that would be sweet.

Wouldn't that be a ...

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... Bullet Box?


YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!.....
 
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I have learned very quickly that KBV Waffle 60VG/40PG is a mite too thick for a carto tank. I have to keep dripping on the carto to keep it wet. I started to get a burnt taste! I just ordered some 30VG/70PG in hopes that this problem will be solved.

Anyone have any thoughts on this issue?
You could try punching 3 holes instead of 2 into your carto, sometimes that will help.
 

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I have learned very quickly that KBV Waffle 60VG/40PG is a mite too thick for a carto tank. I have to keep dripping on the carto to keep it wet. I started to get a burnt taste! I just ordered some 30VG/70PG in hopes that this problem will be solved.

Anyone have any thoughts on this issue?

Personally I use a rotary tool with a cutting wheel to slot cartos. For thicker liquids, just cut a slightly wider and/or longer slot. May take a few tries to get it just right/not too big but it works better for me than most punches.
 

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I have learned very quickly that KBV Waffle 60VG/40PG is a mite too thick for a carto tank. I have to keep dripping on the carto to keep it wet. I started to get a burnt taste! I just ordered some 30VG/70PG in hopes that this problem will be solved.

Anyone have any thoughts on this issue?


Oooooo! I do, I do! :D

Burnt taste is always always invariably sourced at the coil. If the coil does not get enuf liquid, the outer sock almost instantly burns, and once it does, bye bye birdie. Toss it out. You simply must get the carto primed before using it. There are a ton of great YouTube vids on exactly how to do that (and there are a few different methods). Another trick I've picked up along the carto road is to start out a freshly filled carto at a very low temp. Turn your volts down to minimum for a bit til you sense it's broken in.
 

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Personally I use a rotary tool with a cutting wheel to slot cartos. For thicker liquids, just cut a slightly wider and/or longer slot. May take a few tries to get it just right/not too big but it works better for me than most punches.

ive tried a dremel myself to cut slots but they hammer on my tank seals when i slid them in, so what i do now is modify my carto punch's tips, basically i file the round tip into a sharp triangle so it is sharper and and actually cuts into the carto instead of just pushing through it.

ill make and put up a quick 3d model to give you the idea,,one on the left is how i make them one on the right is how they come,sorry if the pic dont help its hard to show a triangular tip in a 2d picture but basically it has three flat sides instead of a round one.

basically what this does is makes it so the punch does not deform the carto as bad actually it hardly deforms them at all compared to the standard tip they come with.

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Despite 6 stitches in the palm of my right hand and this glued shut incision on my elbow I managed to get a carto punched and installed and juice in the tank...I just couldn't wait any longer.

It truly is perfect for both righties and lefties, hits great and required zero fiddling to get started. My hand hurts like hell but I am smiling...
 

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So, yeah.

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The remarkable heft is the first impression I get upon tearing it out of the substantial bubble wrap. The finish, the weight... It reminds me of a finely crafted handgun, honestly. Something classy like a Hi-Power, not one of those newfangled plastic things. I used to think Super-T had the finest machine work in this business, but I think you've taken that crown, Doug. This is simply stunning craftsmanship.

I'm generally not a huge fan of carbon fiber, either. But, then, it's usually a cheap, fake veneer. This stuff is miles deep.

And if you didn't know where the door was, you'd never find it. The lockup is incredibly tight. It feels like the door is the same monolithic block of metal that the rest of the unit is. Three thousand years from now, they'll be digging these up and praising the unbelievably tight tolerances like we speak of the Egyptian pyramids. And like them, I suspect some BB owners will be buried with their treasures.. ;)

I've not had the opportunity to play with any of the super-fancy custom hybrids out there, but there's no way they compare to the value in this thing. $200 for a full kit? Madness. You could charge double that for this kind of work. I think that months from now, the mantra of "just spend the money on a Provari, it's rock-solid and it just works" will have a couple more Bs in it. You could hammer nails with this thing.

Which is the real kicker. My main desire was for an indestructible mod to carry at work. Something that wouldn't snap in half like my poor eGos. But this amazingly rugged device is also damn classy. This would fit just as well in a suit pocket as in my filthy work pants. The one flaw I see is that it's almost too pretty to abuse.

That's enough gushing for now. I'm sure we'll see more praise as more new Boxers wake from their nicotine overdoses...
 

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Despite 6 stitches in the palm of my right hand and this glued shut incision on my elbow I managed to get a carto punched and installed and juice in the tank...I just couldn't wait any longer.

It truly is perfect for both righties and lefties, hits great and required zero fiddling to get started. My hand hurts like hell but I am smiling...

Quite a scar you'll have there, Glad your able to enjoy the BB:)
 
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