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When you first receive your T-Tip (mine anyways). Only the outsides are finished. The very tip (mouth part), the very bottom, and the inside hole is somewhat smoothed out, but it could be better. To smooth out the tip and bottom, use 400 grit sandpaper, then 1000 grit sandpaper, then finer if you desire. Use the dremel and polishing compound to really finish it off and make it super shiny. Use the tiny sandpaper rolls from the link in my previous post to sand down the concentric rings in the inside of the hole, start with the rough to get most of the circles out, then move to the fine. Use a cotton swab and some polish to remove any metal dust, then use pure grain alcohol to clean out the rest. You can use the dremel polishing tips for the already shiny outsides. To me, most important is the very tip and the hole. You wanna make that as smooth as possible.

go to this website http://www.widgetsupply.com/page/WS/CTGY/dremel-sanding-band-0 this will allow you to sand down and smooth out the inside surface of the drip hole! By doing this, the liquid runs down the hole much better, and doesn't form a bubble. It decreases the chance of you getting juiced. We were able to smooth out the insides to the point where you could no longer see the unfinished grooves inside the hole with a flashlight! For the outside, just use your regular dremel polishing tips and some good polish, I got mine from Auto Zone. If you need new gaskets for your tips, they can be found at ACE hardware. I forgot what size and model number, but they are not hard to find. I bought a dozen because the gaskets tend to expand from heat and get chewed up from removing and inserting attys.

I'm absolutely lovin' those stainless steel T-Tips. It's my standard setup now. My friend polished mine with a dremel to smooth them out even more! As soon as I get the correct tools for my dremel, I'm gonna polish my other ones the same way!

Glad to see that you like it! I've had my VP2 for a few months now. After a month of constant, I mean constant, like always vaping, the switch finally started to act wierd. In the end all I had to do was take a small hex driver and adjust the set screw on the opposite side of the switch. Over time, it worked its way loose. Then I found out that regularly cleaning the atomizer connection keeps juice out of the connector and restores the contact with the atomizer or adapter. I clean mine with EVERCLEAR pure grain alcohol. I just put some in one of those little plastic cups that come with cough medicine and dip the connector into it, swirl it around, and use compressed air to dry. Don't get any in the light holes, but even if you did, the alcohol will evaporate quickly. Just don't put your adapters in the alcohol cuz it can eat at the rubber o-rings, use water or vinegar for those. EVERCLEAR also works great for cleaning atomizers. I use one of those snot suckers that you use on a baby's nose, cut the nozzle end to fit an atomizer, and draw everclear through the atty, then squeeze out. Several times and all your juice and residual crap in the atty gets flushed out. Be careful when vaping after cleaning. You have to puff out all the alcohol, don't inhale, but drip your fav juice while doing it. this will re-condition your atty after cleaning. The vape will be HOT, while all the alcohol vaporizes, hot and nasty tasting. Geez, I dunno where all of that came from, but take my advice if you like! Those VP models are super reliable, low maintenance, and built like a tank. Good luck.

I'm gonna agree with Wagex, a box mod will cost you under $10 in parts from radio shack. If you're able to do a little solder work, the simplest form is a battery, switch and an atomizer connection in a plastic battery box! You'll have to spend a bit on rechargeable Li-ion batteries, but that's still going to come out to be much less than a $100 mod.

Yup. I'm getting the same results, as far as flavor goes. It seems to wear out, or I'm really getting used to it!

Brandon, Put your finger over one of the holes and try to tighten the draw. See if that changes your vaping experience. Keep in mind that your're going from 2.2 ohms to 2.9 ohms. 901s burn cooler, they probably need a reduced airflow rate as it vaporizes liquid. Let me know what you think.

What????? No difference in taste? Need more information please. What device are you using and how are you connecting to it? I bought all of my atomizers from ElectroNicStix, and they all have SLB printed on the bottom. Yes, they do have the metal washers inside, and yes, they do run cooler (especially with a stainless T-Tip). But no difference in taste? How is the draw on it? I can say that the draw is tighter than a 510, but you should not have to collapse your lungs to get air through it. Is the little hole on the side obstructed in any way? You should get air from two places, the hole on the side and the hole in the bottom. If you're using an adapter of some sort, then make sure you are getting air through the adapter as well. There should be a hole on the side of it as well. If you have an adapter for your passthrough, use that and let me know how that works out for you.

Was it the switch that failed? If it was then I can fix it. My friend came up for a visit last weekend. He has a prodigy V2 and he had in intermittent switch problem. We pretty much drove all over town looking for hardware to make it better. We succeeded, and it works great. Would you like to sell me yours? Seeing how they are backordered for two months, I'd love to buy a used one, or in your case a barely used one, if you're interrested in parting with it.

Have my sights set on a Prodigy V2.1 now that the site is back up and running. Just checked it tonight. Still can't order one, but the homepage said that there is a new device coming out in the next few weeks. Hmmmmmm. I hate it when this happens. Anyone know what this new device is?

I have two of these new magnum atomizers and I must say, there are a definite improvement to the 510 as far as higher temp vaping, vapor production and in some cases, better flavor, but that's subject to the juice and flavor itself. Some juices stood up with the magnum, and others didn't taste as good with the additional heat. I still love the low heat sensation of a 910 atomizer on many of the fruity juices. Now that I've said that I like the the new magnums, I will add that the low-resistance magnum on a 3.7 volt battery only simulates high voltage vaping, but is not actually the same experience as vaping at higher volts. I'm using 14500 model batteries which are rated at 900mAh. I now have two different types of 14500s- protected and unprotected. I've been walking on the wild side lately and experimenting with the unprotected batteries. I wouldn't recommend this to newbies, but I've noticed a few things about them. To keep things simple and to keep the numbers, specs and calculations out of this post, I'll just comment that the 14500 model battery in general is just a little "weaker" than what that magnum atty needs to operate at its peak performance. Any 3.7 volt battery smaller in rating (it's not just the mAh rating) is just not going to give what the magnum "wants" to run at its best. Please be careful when using the smaller batteries. It the battery part of the unit gets hot to the touch. Put it down, and don't try to get another vape off it. Disconnect the battery from the atomizer and report your findings somewhere in this forum so others can know about it. If your battery appears to work just fine, then at least for you, the result is a much better experience that what you were used to with the regular 510 atty, but its still not what it "could" be. I've already experienced HV vaping, and let me tell you, there is a huge difference. My birthday is coming up on the 2nd of this month, and I'm going to buy my first HV mod. Can't wait! I didn't mean to rain on everyone's parade here, but i thought some of you might be interested.

You know, while my friend was here this weekend, we ran the numbers based off what we thougt was the trustfire C earlier in this post. We determined that at 2.5C, the 14500 was just under what was required for the current draw on a magnum atty. Something like the max current for the trustfire 14500 was close to 2.25 amps and the magnum atty wants 2.5 amps, or close to it. So the battery should get a little hot for it being underpowered, or drain faster than it's rated because of the slightly higher demand of a magnum. But when I found that spec that it was the unprotected tenergy 14500 that was rated at 2.5C and the protected trustfire is rated at only 1.5C then I figured I wasn't getting what I though I was getting out of the trustfire and the magnum. it was only when I put in that tenergy did i notice the physical difference with the heat and all.

Please confirm, thanks Tek

I went ahead and looked it up. Here's what I've been able to find: Trustfire 14500 protected: 1.5C max discharge current Tenergy 14500 unprotected: 2.5C Max discharge current Hmmmmm.....

Tenergy website says 2.5C. Is that where mcquinn got his specs in his post? I wonder if the protected Trustfires have the same C rating as the tenergys.

Brandon, I've been talking to this guy who owns a battery shop. He sells the tenergy brand of cells in all sorts of sizes. I got him to order me some 14500s and keep them in stock. He called me today to tell me that they arrived. When I arrived, they were 14500s, but the unprotected version. I don't think tenergy has a PCB version of this particular model. I bought two and charged one of them this evening. When I got a green light I tried it out. The magnum atty I've been using gets hot very quick, I mean hotter than what I'm used to with the protected trustfires, and that's even using a stainless T-tip. On a magnum atty with the trustfires and T-tip the atty never got this hot: the t-tip would dissipate well. With the unprotected tenergy, I can't tell if the battery itself is getting hot because the heat from the atty dissipates down the casing of the VP2 and warms about half of the battery casing. The battery is not hot (not like HOT) just a little warmer. Can you please try and research the "C" - max discharge current- of this unprotected battery- think that maybe the battery may be putting out more current than the protected trustfire version. I also notice that when starting off with a cold magnum, RY4 juice looses its taste on a tenergy when compared the same way with a trustfire. Higher current? That's what I'm eluding to.

Just did a side by side hole comparison. You can't tell when you look down into them from the "top" or tip, but when you flip them over, and look at them through the bottom part that goes into the atty, you can definitely see that the stainless t-tip hole is larger.

I think that's because the inside hole of the T-tips are unfinished- they are still rough on the inner walls. My friend is coming up this weekend for a visit. He polished the insides so that liquid runs down it more smoothly, or so he claims. I'll follow up this weekend.

Nerd Alert! Nerd Alert! Nerd Alert! All battery nerds please report to this thread immediately! It would be nice if somebody with a VP-PT and 510 atty could get some good readings off it (volts and amps, we already know the resistance of a 510 atty) so we could use it as a baseline for comparisons to high volt portables. It's the only constant we have in this world of seemingly infinite variables. Oh, the chaos! AAAARRRGH! We need references, man! OCD: "every thing has its place, and every place has a "thing""

Just finished reading a wordpress blog from this guy. He was at Vapefest 2010 and had some positive comments on Vaping and the vaping community. http://smokles.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/bill-godshall-at-vapefest-2010/

I've been struggling with my own weight for about ten years now. The Air Force will only let you get so heavy before they kick you out. I know that once I quit smoking for good, I'd have one serious problem on my hands. That was one of my idiotic reasons for sticking with it for so long. I've tried to quit in the past, and during one smoking cessation class a little factoid stuck out in my mind: When you smoke cigarettes regularly, your metabolism is kept up not just because of the nicotine, but because your body is fighting off all the toxins that cigarettes put into your body. It's like fighting off a cold virus or bacterial infection. When you quit smoking, you are no longer exposed to those toxins, and your metabolism relaxes. Your body adjusts and for many people the result is an increase in weight. i don't know how true that is, but is sure sounds reasonable.

I received a 510/901 T-tip at Super T Manufacturing and a day later, received two drip tips from Nhaler after hearing all the rave about them from Vaporcast during Vapefest 2010. First off, I like both. I like the drip tips because they make it so much easier to direct drip, plus I like the feel of the contoured design. I like the T-tip for aesthetic reasons; they look great when paired with a stainless atomizer (901 style from ElectroNicStix). The two together look like one piece that was meant to be coupled together from the start. First off, let me say that I've completely moved over to using a 901 atomizer. I prefer the higher resistance, the length, and the cooler vaping experience. The only factor (for me, anyhow) that makes me more partial to using the T-tip is because it's made of stainless steel. I've mentioned in a thread before that the T-tip helps dissipate heat from the atomizer. This, to me makes a world of difference. When my atomizers get hot to the touch, the juice that was already in the atomizer but somewhere below the heating element (and therefore not vaporized) tires to escape, and runs out of the atty either through the bottom, or through the little air hole on the side, which would otherwise not happen because the hole is too small for room temperature liquid to pass through, except when it's heated up (change in viscosity, or resistance to flowing). The heavy stainless steel T-tip greatly helps keep the atomizer from getting too hot. When I use my VP2, the aluminum/steel casing also helps dissipate heat, but with the addition of the T-tip the atomizer rarely gets hot enough for liquid to run out of it. When I'm using my plastic box mod, the only significant piece of metal in the whole assembly is the atomizer itself, and it gets very hot when using the Drip-tip or any plastic cartridge for that matter. If I switch to the T-tip, that alone is enough of a difference to keep juice from running everywhere. These are just some observations that I've made because I have been switching back and forth between the two trying to decide which I like better. I guess the next step would be is to make the T-tip more ergonomic, which would add to the overall appeal of it. I have a friend who I've recommended Vaping to, and he took off with it and hasn't gone back to smoking analogs since he started. I told him to order the T-tips, and he's already taken a dremel to it and smoothed out the edges around the opening. He also noticed that inner walls of the hole itself was not finished and smoothed it out so the liquid runs down through it much better. He's coming up this weekend to show me the improvements he's made. If I ever figure out how to post pictures here, I'd like to show all of you what he's done. I've seen many comments on the forums about how our vaping experience has improved using these two tips. I wanted to throw my two cents in as well.

That looks great, Brandon. How's that single 14500 holding up? Does it get hot? So two attys in parallel drops the circuit resistance, is that just like vaping at high voltage without the magnum attys but instead using regular 510s? How does two magnums work with that? I love the idea! I wanna see the inside!

I'd like to think that as long as you're drawing air through the atty while you're heating it up its not as bad as just holding the button down with no air. Remember the old autobatts used to go through a cleaning cycle every once in a while? What ever happened to those little keyboard vacuums? You could use one of those to draw air as when you dry burn.

I only q-tip it every once in a while, when i hear/feel bubbling right at the hole. If you had that much juice, it probably needed to come out anyway :rofl: