Rinsing with water is fine. It will not damage your o rings. The biggest hazard when rinsing with water for o rings is doing it under a blasting faucet and having one knocked off and going down the drain.
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First my ijust s has never leaked, second you should find a good u.s. website like eightvape or vapordna to get your mods, you are way overpaying at a vape shop. I know they have overhead but most of the shops I have walked in just to look are committing highway robbery. Glad you got the swag, I heard the polar sends a huge amount of power when you first fire it, could burn a coil.
I agree Vaporesso do great devices i too have the Revenger X, the Polar and the Luxe and also have the E-Priv, the Polar get's my vote over the E-Priv but the Luxe is the best of the lot. E-Priv is a very good power mod though and most of what is said about Smok is from a deserved bad reputation from the past but during the last 12-18 months their devices have vastly improved. There was a thread a couple of days ago about someone asking if the Mag was a good device and it was just person after person saying how crap it was following like sheep yet i could tell by the comments their wasn't a mag owner between them so pure ignorance.
Yes agree very reliable chargers i have the i2 and with both me and the wife vaping it has had some use over 2 years and still going strong, the only negative with the i2 don't know if it's the same with the i4 putting 2x700 batteries is very tight fit.
Your phrase "pure ignorance" is terribly offensive. As even you pointed out SMOK has a terrible reputation.
When a new person asks if they should buy SMOK, no one other than a SMOK fanboy at this current point in history is going to recommend they buy the SMOK. SMOK and Vaporesso are close to the same price point, I'll always recommend a device with known good reputation over one with a known history of problems, to do otherwise would be pure ignorance.
SMOK has a long way to go to live down their terrible quality reputation. I've tried SMOK coils recently and they are still as bad as ever, short life, bad taste, no flavor.
they are saying a device is rubbish without actually using it which is ignorance. I am not saying people shouldn't recommend devices they have good experience of my point is the answer should be i don't know i haven't got one so i would recommend x device or even i don't know but Smok have got a reputation for their devices not lasting is fine but that thread was people stating a device is rubbish when they don't know following like sheep. I would recommend Vaporesso over Smok but Smok devices are vastly improved and the Mag is actually a very good device.
My mate who runs a vape shop has had no issues with Smok products over the last 12 months, all though the only couple of Tesla products i have had have been fine the biggest issue he gets is tesla with doa devices and doors snapping after little use on the Punk devices.
got when first released and look at all the paint falling off and of course it's falling to bits.
Glad you are enjoying it.
Maybe after another year I may change my mind set if it appears their quality control has truly improved. But for new users who will only buy one mod or who can only afford one mod, I will continue to recommend mods that I have personally used and that come from manufacturers of reputable quality.
SMOK has made a lot money off of our industry, they know/knew their quality issues and rather than try to correct them they simply pushed out more mods of dubious quality. They took advantage of many new unsuspecting users. Hopefully you are correct that their quality has made a turn and they are now building better devices.
SMOK mods are fine for people like us, it it bricks we open the cabinet and grab another mod. The new user with only one mod and a limited budget sits there with a $50.00 paperweight.
Maybe after another year I may change my mind set if it appears their quality control has truly improved. But for new users who will only buy one mod or who can only afford one mod, I will continue to recommend mods that I have personally used and that come from manufacturers of reputable quality.
SMOK has made a lot money off of our industry, they know/knew their quality issues and rather than try to correct them they simply pushed out more mods of dubious quality. They took advantage of many new unsuspecting users. Hopefully you are correct that their quality has made a turn and they are now building better devices.
SMOK mods are fine for people like us, it it bricks we open the cabinet and grab another mod. The new user with only one mod and a limited budget sits there with a $50.00 paperweight.
There are a lot of users who joined many years ago then seem to go dormant for a couple of years and come back with a story of how they haven't kept up, my ego twist just died, I need something new. See a post like that once a week. I also assume if they are asking about SMOK their industry knowledge isn't that deep. They stopped in their local B&M store and the guy behind the counter is pushing SMOK kits. It seemed obvious to quite few replying to the thread he just wasn't catching on, based on this I assumed his vaping knowledge was a bit limited or he was trolling. Maybe a bad assumption. My personal experience with SMOK has been less than stellar and I wasn't just going to give him the answer he wanted to hear. I gave the recommendation I was comfortable with.
Going to bed now have an early flight, get to test whether or not my new Skrr tank is going to hold up and not leak on the flight. It should other than capacity and 3 airflow holes vs 2 it's pretty much an 8ml NRG. The NRG never leaks on flights.
We can carry on when I get back from this business trip.
No tank is 100% leak proof. I have 2 of them though and have not experienced any leaking.
The #1 cause of leaking in prebuilt coils like your iJust AND the Cascade Baby is that the centerpin on the coil is not pushed flush against the bottom of coil housing (with insulator in between).
This is a known issue on most prebuilt coils of this type for years.
When looking at a new coil, the horse shoe looking gold thing on bottom will be cocked slightly.
In the old days, the wire used in the coils was thin enough that simply screwing it in would fix it, but with coils using much larger gauges of wire it doesn't always.
Google videos on fixing Smok baby beast coils and you will find lots of videos of how to fix them in a couple of seconds better than I could explain it in text.
That being said I have the Vaporesso mod and the Cascade Baby, and it leaps above the Smok.
You will absolutely want to do the firmware update on it though when you get it. It fixes an issue where the mod fires at full power for a brief moment before settling in at the wattage you have set it to.
Your coils will thank you for it and last much longer and the mod becomes slightly more accurate at reading the resistance of your atomizer.
I took out the tank to clean it and change the coil today and I noticed that the round thing in the bottom of the tank that's around the metal part that's in the middle which connexts to the mod has some kind of black spot on one side, it looks like a wire but I'm not sure (I'll add a picture later) does anyone know about this?
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It won't hurt anything as long as you let it dry. I've recently started using the grain alcohol method I seen on a Rip Trippers video. I tried it with some my shine and it worked so I stopped and bought some cheap vodka and ever-clear. The ever clear seems to do better than the vodka so I assume higher proof the better/quicker it works. You just take the coil out before you scorch it too awful bad and drop it into a little Dixie Cups or other small bathroom/mouthwash rinse cup (or anything small that is deep enough to completely cover the coil), and let it soak depending on the severity(thickness, stickiness) for anywhere from an hour too overnight. Swirl,shake, aggitate it every now and again if you have time and it the vodka gets too dark and cloudy it doesn't hurt to change it out for fresh clean alcohol. Should not need to unless you vape really sweet juices. Sometimes they leave an utter mess. My recently acquired illusion mini takes SuperTank(Atlantis Style) or Vaperresso Gt coils (and many other Smok tfv8 baby beast sized). So I've been rotating a set of each every few days I drop a set in and grab the cleaned set. Anyway after the soak rinse under the sink real well with hot water. Use the water pressure to flood water through the middle. Wrap a paper towel or toilet paper around and gently squeeze. If in a hurry I use my wife's hair dryer. But usually just toss on counter on paper towel. Some people say to use boiling water to rinse but I haven't found it nessesary. If your careful not to dry fire the cotton or ccell ceramic to much then they come out almost like new. You may lose a tiny bit of flavor purity but not enough to really bother you. I'm on round 5 cleaning and I'd say still 75-80% up to par. I guess the really long way of saying no water won't hurt anything. Just make sure you let everything dry before reassembly. O'rings are pretty resistant to most things. My wife boils her tanks like once a month to knock out old flavors and gunk. Seen them sit in a pot on almost high heat for ten minutes and she's never had a melted or warped one. Sorry bout getting off on a coil cleaning frenzy when your question was about tank/o'rings. I can say that Vaperresso is one of the top quality manufacturers in vaping. So you shouldn't worry too much about them. Other than coil changes, you will probably get tired of it and retire for something new before it waers out/breaks. Hope I was more help than confusing
Due to the lighting it is difficult to see what you are referring to in your picture. There is an insulator surrounding the positive contact. Is that burnt or just dirty?
It's not brunt or dirty, I can't get a picture up close but it's like a wire
That area should be free of debris – see if you can pick it out. Or remove your coil and try washing it out with warm water and perhaps a brush.
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