The Erlkönigin : PICTORIAL
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Agreed 100%. Unfortunately, when dealing with belligerent, uninformed ANTZ, it's extremely difficult to remain polite. Luckily, I've only had one experience where I had to raise my voice and put someone in their place.
im not so polite....
Must be an English thing
As long as I am not blowing it in some ones face I suggest they don't poke this dog with a stick unless they want to get bitten
Ab-sol-lute-lyMust be an English thing
As long as I am not blowing it in some ones face I suggest they don't poke this dog with a stick unless they want to get bitten
Agreed, except that Central Park and Washington Square Park are the only places where cops will cite all sorts of stupid regulations at ya because of the tourists and college kids. Otherwise, they have better things to be doing.
Honestly, I don't follow that rule at all. Now part of this, granted, is that I spend most of the year in China, where people routinely smoke where they shouldn't smoke (I have a picture here someplace I took at the train station in Shanghai, with a couple of cops standing under the huge "No Smoking" sign...lighting up. It's a weird country - malls routinely have designated smoking rooms, usually in the same hallway as the public restrooms. I never see anybody in the smoking rooms, but the restrooms always reek of cigarette smoke, and there are mountains of crushed butts on the floors...), but mostly it's because I think it's silly. I don't permit anybody to smoke in my apartment, but (if you happen to find yourself in Yiwu) you're more than welcome to stop by and have a vape with me...
In more relevant news, I've been playing around with titanium wire and temperature control on the Queen (finally joined the modern age and got myself a TC mod - Pegasus Mini. Fantastic device, I'm very happy with it, and thrilled to see one of the Big Three realize that not everybody is a cloud-chaser) and...holy wow.
Tourists, college kids and end of the month ticket quotas. Ironically enough, one of the guys at my local B&M told me that a lot of their clients are cops. NYPD prohibits cops from smoking while on duty (a regulation that I've seen being routinely flouted), so they get around it by vaping.
Nice user name/avatar, by the way! Yozhik v tumane, by any chance?
I have a Erlkönigin nano clone, and was wondering if anyone knows where to get some spare tubes. They are discontinued at Fastech. IBT has glass but are 1.5mm bigger in dia. than the plastic tube I have. Thanks.
Rumours say the Orchid v4 glass tanks are a perfect fit. The kayfun ones are a tenth millimeter too short.
I'm posting this because, to date, I2R hasn't released glass nano tanks for either the erlkönigin nor the Erlprinz. I would call it an upgrade rather than cloning.
Speaking of which, if somebody wants the plastic nano tank for their erlkönigin or Erlprinz, get the original. The quality is about 20 times better than the clone ones that were around some time ago. It pays off after about 3 months.
I tried the fasstech plastic ones (when they were available) and managed to crack 6 in a month. The original plastic tank lasted 14 months of non stop abuse. I only tried the other ones because I boiled the original one too much and it became milky in color. Still working fine though.
I'm posting this because, to date, I2R hasn't released glass nano tanks for either the erlkönigin nor the Erlprinz. I would call it an upgrade rather than cloning.
Speaking of which, if somebody wants the plastic nano tank for their erlkönigin or Erlprinz, get the original. The quality is about 20 times better than the clone ones that were around some time ago. It pays off after about 3 months.
I tried the fasstech plastic ones (when they were available) and managed to crack 6 in a month. The original plastic tank lasted 14 months of non stop abuse. I only tried the other ones because I boiled the original one too much and it became milky in color. Still working fine though.
I think I'll go ahead and order a couple glass tubes from IBT. I got a couple of regular sized from them, and they fit pretty good, and even at 1.5mm larger dia. they still look ok.
If you have easy access to IBT, it's probably your best option. Orchid glasses are for people like me that can't get the IBT ones without having to place a second mortgage on the house on import fees and taxes.
Yeah, I've been using the IBT glass tanks on my erlk - they've been decent. Got down to my last one (a blue-colored "prism" one) from my order of 4 last year and ordered 6 more clear ones about a month ago. I didn't like the blue color on these much, it's more of a "teal" than a "cobalt" blue, so I treat the blue one as the last resort.
Unfortunately 2 of those 6 cracked and broke in about a week - was starting to worry something was wrong with the new bunch. I might have had something like a small sliver of glass around the edge I didn't clean out well enough or something. But I replaced the o-rings and cleaned everything fully. No problem with the third one, it has made it 2-3 weeks now. I'll chalk it up to not getting the parts in contact with the glass clean enough or o-rings replaced before putting the next tube on.
Has anyone purchased the Spectrum Tanks glass tank tubes they make for these? Curious what you think of them.
Tried my first vertical coil build this morning on an erlk. 3mm diameter coil, 6/7 wraps of 28ga - approx 1.4ohms. It went pretty well except that I think I will need to go in and trim off a bit of the wicking wrapping around/over the edge to thin it out a bit more.
All in all, the Erlkonigin has been a great primary/daily tank for the last year!
Unfortunately 2 of those 6 cracked and broke in about a week - was starting to worry something was wrong with the new bunch. I might have had something like a small sliver of glass around the edge I didn't clean out well enough or something. But I replaced the o-rings and cleaned everything fully. No problem with the third one, it has made it 2-3 weeks now. I'll chalk it up to not getting the parts in contact with the glass clean enough or o-rings replaced before putting the next tube on.
Has anyone purchased the Spectrum Tanks glass tank tubes they make for these? Curious what you think of them.
Tried my first vertical coil build this morning on an erlk. 3mm diameter coil, 6/7 wraps of 28ga - approx 1.4ohms. It went pretty well except that I think I will need to go in and trim off a bit of the wicking wrapping around/over the edge to thin it out a bit more.
All in all, the Erlkonigin has been a great primary/daily tank for the last year!
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