Disappointment. Boro.

[SnapAsh]

Was never great with rebuildables so about a year ago I settled on a horizontech sakerz tank and have been sub ohming with stock sakerz coils.

No mess, no faff, just reliable wicking and vaping.

After being out of the loop for 2+ years I had a look at the Boro trend.

Opted for a delrin cthulhu aio and an Ether rba.

Considering the cost, the build quality of the Cthulhu out the box is awful. Scratched and bubbled door panels, glue holding the switch ribbon down half hanging off, awful, tiny drip tip.

Then onto the Ether, using pre wrapped 0.28 Boro coils by scott, hot spots all over the place that took hours to shift, then no matter what combination of wick I use, short, long, thin, fat, it just doesn't seem to wick fast enough. The flavour and clouds seem to be almost non existent when it is wicking then it's continuous threat of dry hits. Not to mention, the resistance never seems to read to the same when screwed into the Cthulhu as it does on other mods.

It would seem, when vaping with the fill port open (impossible day to day but interested as an experiment) it wicks fine but the flavour is still missing, as soon as the fill port goes back in, dry hits, less flavour, back to the hassle.

Is this just how Boro tanks seem to be? Ie, underwhelming, disappointing, hassle boxes or am I getting things massively wrong? (Hopefully, the later).

After 2 days of endless rebuilding and frustration, I'm begining to get the stark reminder why I switched to no nonsense, stock coils that just work to begin with 2 years ago haha.

Please help.

Have a great day everyone.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Not used an Ether but my Cthulhu AIO is excellent. I take it you’ve peeled the protective stickers off and it’s still scratched and bubbled? If so, I’d return it as that sounds like a QC error.

As for flavour I’d argue that a good boro can’t beat the flavour from a dripper but it should easily match your stock coil tank. As I say, I’ve not used the Ether but I’ve got quite a few and I’d say it’s definitely error. Hopefully, someone who used the ether will be able to advise

 

[SnapAsh]

Not used an Ether but my Cthulhu AIO is excellent. I take it you’ve peeled the protective stickers off and it’s still scratched and bubbled? If so, I’d return it as that sounds like a QC error.

As for flavour I’d argue that a good boro can’t beat the flavour from a dripper but it should easily match your stock coil tank. As I say, I’ve not used the Ether but I’ve got quite a few and I’d say it’s definitely error. Hopefully, someone who used the ether will be able to advise

I'm the idiot sandwich.

There was absolutely no indication that it had protective stickers on there was no peeling film around the edges, just bubbles in the centre, I should have noticed.

Thank you for that, that's halved my rage straight away.

Attempted a new coil tonight, longer wicks but flattened them right up against the inner edges of the wick hole basically allowing and open channel of juice to flow. Alot more air bubbles surfacing I'm the tank, the flavour is alot better and wicking steady 30 watts so maybe a dud coil, I will see how it goes for a few days.

Thanks.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Glad I could help pal. And…..we’ve all been there! The Cthulhu AIO is a good little mod. Did you get the 520 boro with it? If so, I can advise on building and wicking that!

Anyway, good to know it’s all moving in the right direction!

 

[Deleted member 54254]

Absolutely, the one with zero issues ever is fibbing I feel. That's the power of this forum, we all try to help where we can.

 

[SnapAsh]

Glad I could help pal. And…..we’ve all been there! The Cthulhu AIO is a good little mod. Did you get the 520 boro with it? If so, I can advise on building and wicking that!

Anyway, good to know it’s all moving in the right direction!

No, sadly not the 520, just the standard Cthulhu tank.

Taken some adjustment going back to a 510 drip tip. Used to a wide bore 810 that even when under heavy load still stayed pretty cool, tried numerous 510s and they all get hot very quickly with this.

The journey continues and I will see how I go.

Thanks everyone.

 

[SnapAsh]

Been

Absolutely, the one with zero issues ever is fibbing I feel. That's the power of this forum, we all try to help where we can.

Been a member for years but never really posted, my go to for help over the weekend was UKV (used to be a regular over there) but having not frequented the forum space for some years I was both shocked and saddened to see it's closure.

 

[Deleted member 54254]

It is what it is, we can't help them but we can keep on trying to help here

 

[mattc1]

Was never great with rebuildables so about a year ago I settled on a horizontech sakerz tank and have been sub ohming with stock sakerz coils.

No mess, no faff, just reliable wicking and vaping.

After being out of the loop for 2+ years I had a look at the Boro trend.

Opted for a delrin cthulhu aio and an Ether rba.

Considering the cost, the build quality of the Cthulhu out the box is awful. Scratched and bubbled door panels, glue holding the switch ribbon down half hanging off, awful, tiny drip tip.

Then onto the Ether, using pre wrapped 0.28 Boro coils by scott, hot spots all over the place that took hours to shift, then no matter what combination of wick I use, short, long, thin, fat, it just doesn't seem to wick fast enough. The flavour and clouds seem to be almost non existent when it is wicking then it's continuous threat of dry hits. Not to mention, the resistance never seems to read to the same when screwed into the Cthulhu as it does on other mods.

It would seem, when vaping with the fill port open (impossible day to day but interested as an experiment) it wicks fine but the flavour is still missing, as soon as the fill port goes back in, dry hits, less flavour, back to the hassle.

Is this just how Boro tanks seem to be? Ie, underwhelming, disappointing, hassle boxes or am I getting things massively wrong? (Hopefully, the later).

After 2 days of endless rebuilding and frustration, I'm begining to get the stark reminder why I switched to no nonsense, stock coils that just work to begin with 2 years ago haha.

Please help.

Have a great day everyone.

The good old Boro, never fails to disappoint with the highs and more lows, and not to forget the short error. If its not broken, and all of that.
Never really understood the reason why....

 

[Digbys]

Sometimes i will get a leak in the Ether, but not a dry hit or wicking problem so far, been using it a while