This past Black Friday/Cyber Monday Vaperev had a great sale on their carto tanks. $15 for their $40 Pyrex tanks. So I, and many of you, jumped on the sale and got some. I bought 2, with the slanted end caps.
They are back at normal price now, and seem to be OOS on some colors Alcantara Gray Rev Tank - Cartomizer Tanks - Accessories
I was wondering if any of you share the same experience I am having with them. Here is my review...
Beautiful tanks. Well finished. I love the look of the slanted/graduated end caps. Perfect length for my unflanged cartos. Great seal, (more on this below). I got one with clear pyrex and one with frosted Pyrex. Both are finished well with no rough surfaces on the ends.
They vape very well. Just as good as my beloved IBTanked tanks. With the slanted end caps, I can shove the tank all the way down the carto, and even into the end cap on my Provari with no blocking of airflow. With all my flat end capped tanks, I have to push the tank slightly up the carto to get good airflow on the Provari. Not a big deal, a hair width adjustment.
Here is my only issue/complaint.
The inner o-rings are TOO tight. I have to exert A LOT of force to insert the carto into the tank, even with using a carto filling tool and lubeing the shaft of the carto with eliquid. And then when refilling the tank, having A LOT of problems sliding the tank up the carto. My method to conquer this was to crank the carto and tank down as tight as I could into the 510 connector, thus locking the carto to the connector, and rotating the tank until the grip was loosened enough to slide the tank up, fill, and then slide back down. This, of course, created a problem when wanting to remove the carto and tank to switch it out with another. The only way I could figure out to do this was to slide the tank up the carto far enough to get a pair of thin pliers onto the carto to loosen it enough to screw it off. A problem if you don't have tools at your quick reach!
The fit is soo tight, that it sometimes rolled a part of the oring up into the tank when inserting a carto. Pinching it there. This eventually led to one of the orings to break, the other to become rough and cut up and about to fail. The seal remained fine until the oring broke. The tanks did NOT come with replacement o-rings, nor are there any to order from Vaperev (bummer).
One lucky thing for me is that the extra o-rings that IBTanked provided with their tanks I purchased actually fit the Vaperev tank, and is a better fit than the ones that came installed on the tank. So I have the tank with the broken o-ring working again with the help of a competitors provided o-ring.
The isue with these over tight o-rings makes me wonder if they designed them this way, and I am just using them wrong, or if they ran out of the correct o-ring during production and switched them out with the next best fit, which was the wrong fit. I also wonder if they had the greast sale on these because they knew of the problem and just wanted to dump them out so cheaply that no one would comment.
So, my review including the normal price and the o-ring issue is a 3 out of 5 rating. I do not think I would buy these again, at least not at full price. Not when I can get a custom IBT for $10 less and have it work perfectly.
How have you experienced these tanks?
They are back at normal price now, and seem to be OOS on some colors Alcantara Gray Rev Tank - Cartomizer Tanks - Accessories
I was wondering if any of you share the same experience I am having with them. Here is my review...
Beautiful tanks. Well finished. I love the look of the slanted/graduated end caps. Perfect length for my unflanged cartos. Great seal, (more on this below). I got one with clear pyrex and one with frosted Pyrex. Both are finished well with no rough surfaces on the ends.
They vape very well. Just as good as my beloved IBTanked tanks. With the slanted end caps, I can shove the tank all the way down the carto, and even into the end cap on my Provari with no blocking of airflow. With all my flat end capped tanks, I have to push the tank slightly up the carto to get good airflow on the Provari. Not a big deal, a hair width adjustment.
Here is my only issue/complaint.
The inner o-rings are TOO tight. I have to exert A LOT of force to insert the carto into the tank, even with using a carto filling tool and lubeing the shaft of the carto with eliquid. And then when refilling the tank, having A LOT of problems sliding the tank up the carto. My method to conquer this was to crank the carto and tank down as tight as I could into the 510 connector, thus locking the carto to the connector, and rotating the tank until the grip was loosened enough to slide the tank up, fill, and then slide back down. This, of course, created a problem when wanting to remove the carto and tank to switch it out with another. The only way I could figure out to do this was to slide the tank up the carto far enough to get a pair of thin pliers onto the carto to loosen it enough to screw it off. A problem if you don't have tools at your quick reach!
The fit is soo tight, that it sometimes rolled a part of the oring up into the tank when inserting a carto. Pinching it there. This eventually led to one of the orings to break, the other to become rough and cut up and about to fail. The seal remained fine until the oring broke. The tanks did NOT come with replacement o-rings, nor are there any to order from Vaperev (bummer).
One lucky thing for me is that the extra o-rings that IBTanked provided with their tanks I purchased actually fit the Vaperev tank, and is a better fit than the ones that came installed on the tank. So I have the tank with the broken o-ring working again with the help of a competitors provided o-ring.
The isue with these over tight o-rings makes me wonder if they designed them this way, and I am just using them wrong, or if they ran out of the correct o-ring during production and switched them out with the next best fit, which was the wrong fit. I also wonder if they had the greast sale on these because they knew of the problem and just wanted to dump them out so cheaply that no one would comment.
So, my review including the normal price and the o-ring issue is a 3 out of 5 rating. I do not think I would buy these again, at least not at full price. Not when I can get a custom IBT for $10 less and have it work perfectly.
How have you experienced these tanks?
