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jc2013
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Good thinking - I just received mine from a group buy, cleaned it, put it back together and cracked the tank the entire length of the tube ! Wish I had ordered an extra tank. (PS. I did not think I had tightened it too hard when I cracked it -I have multiple genesis, kayfun, kanger sub tanks, etc. so it was not my first experience with glass tubes - oh well......)
That sucks. Myvaporstore has them for 2 bucks. I am having dry hit issues. Maybe I have it toghther too tight.
Definately seriously of thinking of picking one up this weekend. These comments about dry hits are somewhat concerning. I plan to build nickel coils on this and use it with the SX M so I wont get a dry hit but at the same time, would rather not have to spend my time screwing around with it getting it to wick correctly. Do you think these dry hits are design flaws or possible operator familiarization issues.
I wonder if anyone is getting dry hits with the original wicking? Mine was perfect until I rewicked! Now I seem to have a leaking issue - so I'm guessing I need more wick (probably longer, because it's fairly thick in the coil like the original wick).
Hi @AmandaD , how did the rewicking work for you?
So far, perfect. I'd tried the 'pancake' wicking method. Not so good for 50/50 juice, and I'm guessing the wick wasn't long enough!
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Got mine in today, machine oil city. The airflow isn't what I was expecting. That huge chimney is deceiving, I need a lemo 2 4S kit. Two piece base is annoying, I think its dumb, but whatever, its working OK with my ni200 build right now so I can't complain too much.
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Yea, it does seem to like the wick thick.
Also, for anyone using this on a mech, try a 26ga parallel build at around 5wraps. You wont be disappointed.
Also, for anyone using this on a mech, try a 26ga parallel build at around 5wraps. You wont be disappointed.
Yes, but if you don't like ("hated") the kayfun or the subatank nano (two TOTALLY different tanks) , you probably won't like this.
Why don't you sub ohm? Have you tried it? .5-.8 in the lemo 2 is amazing. It all depends on the watts/volts you use.
My Lemo 2 was stuck in limbo in the USPS tracking system since the 28th... Just checked and it's finally out for delivery. The thing got to Honolulu at 2:30 this morning.
Between 2:30 and now it:
1) Arrived in Honolulu
2) Got sorted
3) Got put in a transfer truck
4) Was sent to my local post office (About 30 minutes from Honolulu)
5) Removed from transfer truck
6) Sorted AGAIN
7) Placed on the delivery truck
And this is all in a matter of about 5 hours... It's more than they were able to accomplish in Anaheim in FOUR DAYS! FUCKERS!
I don't know what they were doing in Anaheim but those guys suck ass! All those bitches had to do was stick the damn thing on a plane! So they either had the slowest plane to ever deliver mail, or put it on the fastest ship on the planet. Neither scenario seems very realistic.
Regardless, I am looking forward to finally working with this thing!
Between 2:30 and now it:
1) Arrived in Honolulu
2) Got sorted
3) Got put in a transfer truck
4) Was sent to my local post office (About 30 minutes from Honolulu)
5) Removed from transfer truck
6) Sorted AGAIN
7) Placed on the delivery truck
And this is all in a matter of about 5 hours... It's more than they were able to accomplish in Anaheim in FOUR DAYS! FUCKERS!
I don't know what they were doing in Anaheim but those guys suck ass! All those bitches had to do was stick the damn thing on a plane! So they either had the slowest plane to ever deliver mail, or put it on the fastest ship on the planet. Neither scenario seems very realistic.
Regardless, I am looking forward to finally working with this thing!
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If you don't like either the Kayfun or the subtank, I'm not sure! You can certainly run it at whatever ohms you want . Just be sure to put enough wick in it so it doesn't leak if you're using high PG.
I have built as high as 3.1 ohms just to see and the flavor was great. I usually build at 1.5 to 1.8. Hope that helps you.
Sounds like the vendor printed up a label and didn't ship it. That's all. Don't let it ruin your life. Relax, take a deep breath, and buy shit in fucking Hawaii if you can't take the wait. Jesus man. Settle down. Go to the b and m an d buy one. Take a nice slooooow vape on all the other shit you have. And REEEELLAAAAXXXXX. Maybe raise your Nic level.
Oh, and no one give a FUCK about your shipping schedule anyway, except you..... Obviously.
Sounds like the vendor printed up a label and didn't ship it. That's all. Don't let it ruin your life. Relax, take a deep breath, and buy shit in fucking Hawaii if you can't take the wait. Jesus man. Settle down. Go to the b and m an d buy one. Take a nice slooooow vape on all the other shit you have. And REEEELLAAAAXXXXX. Maybe raise your Nic level.
LoL... I'm not really mad... Just being a bit dramatic
Glad to hear that. Nothing wrong with a little drama.
I think you'll enjoy it when.... If it arrives.
They are, but their price was like $10 more than where I got it. I usually order from Eciggity if their price is right, I get the stuff the next day. Another issue ordering from them, I have to pay sales tax to them 
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Personally I think its a design flaw for higher VG, I'm of the belief that the area between the glass and evaporation chamber is too narrow to allow proper wicking with thick juice.
I'm using it on the SX M with a twisted 28g ni200 coil, and while its working OK, its not quite keeping up. No dry hits, or dry wick, but I hear that hiss of juice burning after a hit that would normally result in a dry-ish hit toward the end of a puff using kanthal.
I've only had it a day, but that is my initial thought after trying 97, 90, 80, and 77 VG juice. It keeps getting better with lower VG. I don't have anything lower 77, but I'm sure if you get down to 60/40 or 50/50 juice it would have no problem keeping up. Again on day two, so maybe its my wicking. The bubbles and juice just move soooo slowly between the glass and evaporation channel its hard to believe that's not an issue.
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If you loosen the top by a quarter turn or so you'll see it start to bubble faster.
When tightened all the way the glass pushes the bottom oring into the juice channel slowing the wicking up.
I'm running max VG with zero issues after I figured it out.
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I dont think that's really what is going on, you are just loosening the vacuum slightly, which does let it wick faster. I've used that technique in the past on other tanks (fogger, goblin mainly) if I over wicked them and didn't feel like redoing it right then.
I get doing that can help, I was doing it last night with the stock coil when I tried it out briefly.
I still think the root cause is what I mentioned previously. The o-ring that the glass piece sits on the bottom was smaller than on the top for mine, so it already sits a bit lower and is stretched out more, I don't think I'm tightening it so much that its impeding on the juice channels at all. I'm not even sure it would if I wrenched down on it.
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I could be wrong too, maybe it does restrict the juice channels, next time I take it apart I'm going to try wrenching down on the glass to see if I can put enough pressure on it to actually make the o-ring obstruct the juice channels.
Just got the Lemo 2 in...
I had to clean it out, some kind of moisture in the fill hole, airflow controller, and in the top cap. Not sure if it's machine oil, it doesn't smell like machine oil. I cleaned it out anyway with some hot water + dawn just to be sure.
Did a 26g nickel build to .08 ohms, and decided to try something a little different. Did this one with contact coils. Oooh! LoL... It's working great so far on the SXmini, 22.5J @ 480F. No problems filling it, no leaks or anything.
The flavor is excellent, great vapor production with airflow around half way open. Better flavor than the Subtank Mini with RBA. Flavor is on par with the KFL, and maybe even a bit better?
I did notice like @efektt mentioned the bubbles only seem to be coming from one juice channel. The develop slow but rise to the top at a regular speed once they release from the channel. Doesn't seem to have an effect on the wicking though.
So far, very happy with this!
I had to clean it out, some kind of moisture in the fill hole, airflow controller, and in the top cap. Not sure if it's machine oil, it doesn't smell like machine oil. I cleaned it out anyway with some hot water + dawn just to be sure.
Did a 26g nickel build to .08 ohms, and decided to try something a little different. Did this one with contact coils. Oooh! LoL... It's working great so far on the SXmini, 22.5J @ 480F. No problems filling it, no leaks or anything.
The flavor is excellent, great vapor production with airflow around half way open. Better flavor than the Subtank Mini with RBA. Flavor is on par with the KFL, and maybe even a bit better?
I did notice like @efektt mentioned the bubbles only seem to be coming from one juice channel. The develop slow but rise to the top at a regular speed once they release from the channel. Doesn't seem to have an effect on the wicking though.
So far, very happy with this!
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Yeah, mine seem to be coming from one side too majority of the time.
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Heh, I guess that's one way to fix it.
You just stuff the wick agianst the hole you drill? I cant seem to get mine to keep up with how I like to chain vape. Any gurgling or leaking after you drilled?Fixed my dry hits!! . Even loosening the tank wasn't working for me.
2 minutes with a #50 drill bit. Works like a champ now.
I don't know why they don't do this. I did the same to my subtank RBA and it's amazing now.
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Lmao!!!!! Awesome!!!!Fixed my dry hits!! . Even loosening the tank wasn't working for me.
2 minutes with a #50 drill bit. Works like a champ now.
I don't know why they don't do this. I did the same to my subtank RBA and it's amazing now.
Now if you could get ahold of a few of those and drill them out, you'll be a millionair
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Getting discouraged. It's been absolutely fantastic until today. Used the original coil and wick for about a week and decided to bring the resistance down a little and try rayon. It's at .36 ohms. The rayon I'd wicked it with needed changing so I pulled it, did a dry burn and went with the cotton it came with and I can't prevent it from leaking almost as fast as I pour it in. It seems to over-flow into the air hole and out through the air flow control holes. Using 50/50 liquid. The first time I lost an entire tank of liquid. The second time I only filled it about a quarter of the way and let it sit for about 10 minutes. When I didn't see any sign of leaking I filled it the rest of the way and opened the air flow control. Within a couple minutes I lost another tank. All the o-rings are intact. Everything was screwed down tight.
I have a couple of RDA's but this is my first RTA. Am I missing the obvious?
I have a couple of RDA's but this is my first RTA. Am I missing the obvious?
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Are you laying it on its side to fill it?
Also double check your orings see sitting correctly on the indents, make sure you have the oring on the chimney going into the top piece.
There should be a black oring on the neck of the chimney, its famous for falling off.
You really have to stuff the cotton in there - wick it so tight it would distort the coil if you pulled it out (you'll have to cut it out).
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I'm filling it as upright as possible. The black o-ring on the chimney is there. Both white o-rings for the tank are there as well as the smaller white o-ring between the lower base and the build deck. When I close the air flow control, screw on the chimney and set the glass in place, when I put my mouth around the glass and suck, I'm not getting any air. When I screw on the top piece and close the filler hole and suck on it I'm not getting any air.
Before I bought this I did a lot of reading about RTA's and one thing I didn't understand is, how is it that when the liquid in the tank is far above the air hole under the coil, why doesn't the liquid just drain out the hole? Could I have not gotten enough wick covering the top of the juice channels to prevent the liquid from flowing freely up and over the air hole? I'll re-wick and try it again. I have to be doing something wrong.
Before I bought this I did a lot of reading about RTA's and one thing I didn't understand is, how is it that when the liquid in the tank is far above the air hole under the coil, why doesn't the liquid just drain out the hole? Could I have not gotten enough wick covering the top of the juice channels to prevent the liquid from flowing freely up and over the air hole? I'll re-wick and try it again. I have to be doing something wrong.
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Maybe I didn't ask the right way.... You need to lay it on its side to fill it.
If its upright its gonna leak.
DO NOT FILL IT ALL THE WAY
you have a leave a decent air bubble.
The tanks are pressure dependant and you need the air bubble to pressirize.
Close the airflow, lay it down, open the fill port, fill it leaving a bubble, close the airport, turn upright, open AFC
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I think you nailed it. Not enough wick. This time I cut the wick long, juiced it up, pulled the wick upward, slid the lower chimney over it and then pushed the wick down inside the chimney with a screwdriver. All's well in vaporville. Thanks!
It's actually better without the cotton against the hole. Like you would with the regular juice channels, leave it open, the pressure holds it back until you inhale. No gurgling or leaking, just nice juicy vapor.
I'm thinking about making it bigger so I can do even more watts, but it's great at 30 right now.
Yes, on the twenty first, you're going to fill it like they tell you.
ON THE SIDE!!!!!!
And the other way is..................?
It doesn't go out the air hole because vacuum. It must be sealed everywhere but the air hole. Like holding your finger on a straw and picking up the liquid, when you release, it all comes out. Right?
You can't ask, you have to tell
