This looks great. I may have to buy one of these and soon!
hmm, my white rubber donnut fits very snug also, the condom on mine does get pushed down a bit when i tighten on the cap but the condom is loose enough where it slide down and not the donnut, i did use nailclippers and notch out 2 small channels for the wicks, you might try that.what i've tried using is the white cap from a boge, and i smacked a hole in the centre using a miniature pen tube that is just about the right size. its a pretty tight fit onto the ceramic cup but it goes on there. once its on, it just touches the wicks and the ceramic cup is about 1.5mm down inside the centre hole, maybe only 1mm. i then took a condom, cut out part of the centre of the sealed end like in the picture, and put it on over the white thing. i found that it didn't have to be up very high above the white thing for it to seal, not at all. when i put it all together, i did notice that when i screwed on the top cap, the centre assembly did seem to get pressed on slightly, which i assume HAS to happen for the top to seal properly, but i also suspect it maybe pushed everything down a bit onto the wick, but how can you make that not happen, because the condom fits tihtly on the white thing, so if it gets pushed on the white thing AND the condom will go down a little bit together, its just how it would work. the only way i can see that not happening is if there was something keeping the white thing from going down further, and even though its a damn tight fit on the ceramic cup, it still wants to move down i'd assume
i dunno, i'm about half a second from throwing both these stones against the wall, then stomping on them, then feeding them to the dog (and hoping there isn't enough juice in them to kill her, cuz my roommate wouldn't like it if i killed his dog
deezdrama , Your Mod simply works, used it on one of my Stone 2 Tanks and vapes perfect, Nice Job
I purchased 4 of the V3 and had not used them because I heard (after purchase, of course) that there were folks having issues. When I found this mod thread, I promptly followed the instructions modded one. It works very well. I am not having any problems. I do think I had to lift the new o ring up slightly once off the wick. Nice vapor and flavor. Good job on the mod technique...it works!
I ordered one of these tanks with my eGo starter kit when I was at my 2 week mark. Today is like day 93... I love them, but I always have all kinds of issues, like everyone does. I tried this simple little trick and I have to say, Thanks! I thought these hit good b4, well now this one really rocks. Great idea.
Nice mod! but probablly more work than some are willing or capable to do, I would worry about cup flooding with no seal at the top,and nothing to seal off the wick channels in the ceramic cup... but sounds to work great as long as the tank remains verticalHa, even better,, I got a ton of the old CE2's so I just pulled the ceramic cup off one of them, pulled the wire and wick off since they have the old thin wick, used the wire coil wrapped a new piece of the thicker wick I have making a whole new coil, put it all back together soldered the wires, and set it so the ceramic cup just touches the bottom of the top cap when screwed on all the way. Now no silicone piece is even needed and the thing is cranking out plumes of tasty thick vapor with a new coil and wick and set up like this, give that one a try will post a pic in a bit.
This works killer
Thanks deezdrama. Used your original mod technique and it works sooooooo great !!!!!! I gave up on my V3 Stone until I came across this thread. Man is this a vaping machine on my Provari. EXCELLENT !!!!!!! Works great. And only took me about 15 mins to do. Instead of a carto white cap, I just used an old black silicone ce2 cover and used a condom cover with cut hole in top and cut to size. Worked from the get go and still vaping strong. No runs, no leaks, no errors. Chit yeah Bro !!!!!! Thanks for the wonderful idea. Vape on !!!!!
Okay, tried this tonight. I actually ended up using a cheap silicone drip tip I got sent with a clearo. It already had a hole at the atty end that was big enough to slip snugly over the cup. I then took a short condom from a carto, cut it down a bit, punched a hole in the top, and slipped that over the new seal.
So far I'm having mixed results. There's a lot of fiddling and delicate positioning of the new seal, because there's a fine line between starvation and flooding with this thing. I've gotten it to a point where it's vaping fine, but I have to tip frequently and for several seconds to feed the wick well enough to get a couple good vapes off it.
No leaks though, so there's that. I'll have to play with it more to see if I can get the perfect position.