Getting the best from Vapeshell

[zouzounaki]

It looks similar to the vapeshell, the crossbow. Seems to be one of the styled items that has disappeared quickly...

 

[scotty7910]

I love the shell when right but have had to dump some builds / juice lately. Thru dry hits. Gonna strip them all down n wick dfferent to get to bottom of what consistently works

 

[Chris K]

So rebuilt the Vapeshell this morning, not had chance to use it yet but gone for a 2.5mm micro Clapton SS at 1.0ohm.

Looking OK to your eyes?

 

[decoy]

50 watts? Crikey, doesn’t it get too hot? It’s only tiny

it was some silly fused clapton ss wire that only just fit under the screws and i was just seeing what i could get out of it
with no air reducers in the vape wasn't that bad tbh so its ok at dtl as well as mtl as long as you don't go daft

 

[rew]

So rebuilt the Vapeshell this morning, not had chance to use it yet but gone for a 2.5mm micro Clapton SS at 1.0ohm.

Looking OK to your eyes?

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Looks fine to me Chris

 

[zouzounaki]

I always space mine quite widely and the tend to angle more towards the wide side, than the narrow side. I’m not really sure why, it’s just what’s always worked.

 

[zouzounaki]

 

[skinku]

Just done mine, 0.8 2.5mm spaced n80 just above hole and wicked ala Todd.
Vapes to perfection.
Haven’t built a tank for over two years but with this bugger I realise I need to buy some glasses.

 

[MavicP]

I've been playing about with a plain kanthal build this morning, the only wire I had lying about, was 22g. I've also been having some bad leaks on the original set up using an original Vapeshell, only when filling. I'm not doing anything different, so I'm at a loss as to what's causing it. My normal build is 3mm Nichrome Clapton wire, so this was also to see if there were any benefits from using Clapton vs Plain wire. (Along with trying to get to the bottom of why my juice was pissing everywhere).
First impressions are, that the flavour is on par using the plain, (even if it is a coil thrown together with what was lying around), plus I didn't get juice everywhere. I'm going to put a new Clapton together and try that later.
For info, the plain build came ot at 0.28 ohms, 2.5mm id, with 6 wraps. A Clapton build is usually around the 0.78 - 0.8 ohms on a 3mm id 5 wrap, at between 26 - 30w.

It's going well at 35w, flavour is good and my hands are dry, so maybe if it ain't broke, why even bother to try fixing it.

P.S. None of the clones are leaking and are going well, apart from a re-wick after about 3 days. (All are running Vapeshells).

DTL, as usual.

 

[MiscoDatt]

Im at a loss to why yours is leaking @MavicP ? My only wonder is how you are fitting the two sides together? I hold the chimney section at an angle so its poking out of the boro at. 45 degree angle and fix the base to it that way rather than lay it flat and let the pressure from the bottom o ring insertion close it.

One of the reasons I love the shell is that I've never had a leak no matter how ive built it and I can flood anything!