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I just got my Echo Stealth today. Freaking love it, but I ordered a cone for it to cover my regular 808 cartos on it not knowing it didn't have threads to for it screw onto. Will a cone work with the regular Echo batteries?

If you can pry out the threads. Take a needle nose and pry and turn and pry and turn and grumble and pry and turn. It will slip over the silver band if you accomplish this and provide some protection for the connection. Air flow may be a little tighter.


The threads are just glued into the cone.....very well
 

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I just got my Echo Stealth today. Freaking love it, but I ordered a cone for it to cover my regular 808 cartos on it not knowing it didn't have threads to for it screw onto. Will a cone work with the regular Echo batteries?

Unfortunately for you Sara, the normal Echo batteries don't have cone threads either. The igo is the battery you're after if you want to use a cone with your KR808 cartos.
 

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Well, it's no big deal. I've got 10 of the Echo cartos to look stylish anyway. I might try your needle nose pliers trick though, the cone was like $2 so it's no big loss if I mess it up! I'd rather have an auto battery than an iGo with a cone I think, so I'd say I made out pretty good. :)

EDIT: I was thinking of putting earth magnets on it, but I couldn't find any small enough and it would probably end up looking pretty ridiculous which would pretty much defeat the point of the cone. Haha!
 
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that's what I figured when I decided to see if I could pry it off. I have a previous post in this thread today where I removed the metal connector part of a dead echo cart. I now have a jumbo cone that fits almost all the way over an xl clearomizer.

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that's what I figured when I decided to see if I could pry it off. I have a previous post in this thread today where I removed the metal connector part of a dead echo cart. I now have a jumbo cone that fits almost all the way over an xl clearomizer.

1st rule of vaping: drink a lot of water
2nd rule of vaping: don't throw anything away
3rd rule of vaping: drink a lot of water

That's actually pretty brillant. I'll scroll through and look for your post. I foresee a new project in my future when I finally kill one of my big cartos!
 

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Have you perfected a method for cleaning the DC unit yet mohawkx?

Errol

I don't have a method yet for the dual coil echos. I did figure out a method for the dual coils gogos though. The outer shell comes off and exposes the filler for easy cleaniong and dry burn. Then it's a simple matter on the two coils to rewarap with a larger inner filler. They work great. Actually better than new with the added inner filler. But so far, there's no way to remove the filler on the EDCC without destroying the coils.
 

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SarraBee- Enjoy that stealth. I have had mine for a couple weeks and like them better than my regular Echos.

I was hyped about the dual coils everyone, but like many of you I may be going back to single coils. They do last slightly longer in my oppinion. I'm going to have my wife put one of each on my bats to see if I can tell the difference. I can tell pepsi from coke, but can I tell single from dual coil?
 

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yep. These things are perfect as is. I made an analogy the other day that 808s and 510s are like macs vs pcs. One is great right out of the box as is, the other offers more options to upgrade and play around. 510s may have needed the upgrade to a dcc, but these carts already performed well. It is a little better and I will probably always want both but I think I will wind up having more single coils. I also wish I went for the 650/1300 option that mtn vapor offers. I like the big batt but it is bit too much for carrying when you are doing physical activity. The 650 is a little safer.

One final thing is the sealed battery isn't the greatest thing to happen to autos. While I am more confident using clearos, the Change in the post is a step back in making the 808 more user friendly as they do not accept anything but other 808 threads. They don't work with adapters or 901s.:?: Next purchase is an unsealed 650 and a 5 pack of single coils.

Merry Christmas everybody. TTY next week!:toast:
 

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I don't have a method yet for the dual coil echos. I did figure out a method for the dual coils gogos though. The outer shell comes off and exposes the filler for easy cleaniong and dry burn. Then it's a simple matter on the two coils to rewarap with a larger inner filler. They work great. Actually better than new with the added inner filler. But so far, there's no way to remove the filler on the EDCC without destroying the coils.

Your comment on the gogos got me looking a little closer at the Echos. Have a couple of retired Echo-E cartos and screwed an old battery on and wiggled it back a forth until it came loose and pulled out of the shell. Appears the only difference between them and the 901 threaded units is the working parts are just pushed in further. Will try to figure out what I can thread to the 901 connection that will give me some leverage to be able to pull one of them apart.

The first step will probably be to place the carto on a firm wood surface, use a small socket just smaller than the shell and tap the working parts in further with a hammer to break the seal then pull it out with some threaded device. If I have any success I'll post the results.

Yes Folks, it's ridiculous, the trouble some of us will go to to add a little life to a $3 carto. :) It's not the money, it's the challenge to see if we can.

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Merry Christmas Echo people!

I'm having a bit of an issue with my charger and wondering if any of y'all could help? The red LED on the charger itself never turns green to tell me the battery is charged. It always stays red. I've charged each of my batteries for over 24 hours each, so I know they must be good to go. I have the Stealth version, so there's no big LED on the end that turns off to tell me when it's charged either and the pinhole light on my version isn't viable when it's plugged in. I'm worried about leaving my batteries charging too long and having them explode or something.

Here's my question; is my charger defective or is it just a Stealth thing? If you have a normal Echo, does your charger light turn green when it's done or does the light on the end of your PV just turn off?

My charger does work. I vaped a battery until it was dead and recharged it. I just don't know when to take it off the charger! :/
 

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I have 4 chargers......one has a red to blue charge and the end of the battery does not glow at all; one goes from red to green and no battery glow; another goes from red to green and the battery glows all the time whether it's charged or not and one that goes from red to green but the batttery only glows for a little while but it is not fully charged until the charger shows green. There doesn't seem to be a lot of consistency.

BTW I learned last night one of the things NOT to do with an echomizer. Don't try to adjust the draw on the echomizer by turning the screw slot on the bottom of the carto like you can do with an 808 battery or carto. RIP

Also Vapor Kings in Tulsa, OK Joye eGo | Joye 510 | Electronic Cigarette supplies Tulsa | Batteries, atomizers, cartomizers, e-Liquid and more! is having a sale on aluminum 801 drip tips. They are .95 each (don't know for how long) and postage to me in Louisiana is $2.50. Don't have any affiliation with them whatsoever but thought this was a very good sale.
 
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I bought some chrome drip tips and had to take a file and take off the chrome beneath the o-ring because they would not fit the single or dual coil echomizers. Now they fit the stainless single coil echomizers from SmokTek very well but will still not fit the dual echomizers from Mountain Vapor. I don't know how the aluminum tips will fit but I will report back when they arrive. At that price it's worth it to see if anything will fit right out of the box. Ikenvape advertises aluminum whistle tips which I would really prefer but they have been out of stock forever.
 
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