Here are my first impressions of the X8 carto tank bought from fasttech.
$6.23 Authentic X8 2.5ml Electronic Cigarette Atomizer at FastTech - Worldwide Free Shipping
I was impressed by the look and feel of this tank as soon as I opened the packaging, it feels solid and well built and it has some weight to it.
In the description it was described as stainless steel, but it looks as if it's chrome plated to me (fasttech describe anything shiny as stainless steel) the tank is plastic but it looks and feels like glass and seems to be sturdy and a decent thickness.
It comes with two knurled screws, one for the fill hole on top, and one for locking the carto in place on the side, they are small and a bit fiddly but they do exactly what they are supposed to, the side screw does stick out a bit, but I have not found that to be a problem, it stops your PV from rolling off the table so it's less likely to roll onto the floor.
It comes with a nice metal drip tip (chrome?) which is a perfect fit in my Boge carto, because of the position of the filling screw you cannot fit wider drip tips such as ming drip tips to it.
The top filling hole is small, so you will need a needle top bottle or syringe to fill it up.
The included carto is said to be useless in the reviews I have seen, so I set mine up with a Boge carto instead, and I have put the included carto into my spare parts tin, it is designed for a standard sized carto, it holds around 2.5ml of liquid so it is a reasonable size.
Setting this up is a breeze, the carto slid in without having to apply too much pressure and the side locking screw holds it firmly in place, once you have primed the carto you fill the tank via the small hole in the top, if you don't have a needle top bottle or syringe you can fill it like other tanks by sliding the carto down and filling it through the gap, despite the carto sliding in fairly easy the seals seem to be good and I have not seen any leaks so far.
The carto is performing exactly as expected in this tank with no flooding or wicking issues, I am getting the usual amount of vapour and flavour from it.
I have put it on top of my SVD and it looks great, it matches the width of the SVD exactly and sits flush mounted on the top ring, if you have flanged cartos it will not sit flush mounted as there is no depression in the bottom cap to accommodate the flange, so flangeless cartos are best for this tank.
If I could make any improvements to this tank it would be to make the filling hole a bit bigger and replace the plastic tank with a glass one.
I am very pleased with this tank so far and will be ordering some more soon.
Mark
$6.23 Authentic X8 2.5ml Electronic Cigarette Atomizer at FastTech - Worldwide Free Shipping
I was impressed by the look and feel of this tank as soon as I opened the packaging, it feels solid and well built and it has some weight to it.
In the description it was described as stainless steel, but it looks as if it's chrome plated to me (fasttech describe anything shiny as stainless steel) the tank is plastic but it looks and feels like glass and seems to be sturdy and a decent thickness.
It comes with two knurled screws, one for the fill hole on top, and one for locking the carto in place on the side, they are small and a bit fiddly but they do exactly what they are supposed to, the side screw does stick out a bit, but I have not found that to be a problem, it stops your PV from rolling off the table so it's less likely to roll onto the floor.
It comes with a nice metal drip tip (chrome?) which is a perfect fit in my Boge carto, because of the position of the filling screw you cannot fit wider drip tips such as ming drip tips to it.
The top filling hole is small, so you will need a needle top bottle or syringe to fill it up.
The included carto is said to be useless in the reviews I have seen, so I set mine up with a Boge carto instead, and I have put the included carto into my spare parts tin, it is designed for a standard sized carto, it holds around 2.5ml of liquid so it is a reasonable size.
Setting this up is a breeze, the carto slid in without having to apply too much pressure and the side locking screw holds it firmly in place, once you have primed the carto you fill the tank via the small hole in the top, if you don't have a needle top bottle or syringe you can fill it like other tanks by sliding the carto down and filling it through the gap, despite the carto sliding in fairly easy the seals seem to be good and I have not seen any leaks so far.
The carto is performing exactly as expected in this tank with no flooding or wicking issues, I am getting the usual amount of vapour and flavour from it.
I have put it on top of my SVD and it looks great, it matches the width of the SVD exactly and sits flush mounted on the top ring, if you have flanged cartos it will not sit flush mounted as there is no depression in the bottom cap to accommodate the flange, so flangeless cartos are best for this tank.
If I could make any improvements to this tank it would be to make the filling hole a bit bigger and replace the plastic tank with a glass one.
I am very pleased with this tank so far and will be ordering some more soon.
Mark
