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Some of the autopsy is no longer pending 
Firstly, a quick word on metallurgy.
The cheapest metal you can get is lovingly referred to as "monkey metal" or sometimes "pot metal", depending on who you're talking to.
Basically, all the unidentified random scrap is stuck in a pot, and everything that melts at a lower temperature than iron is mixed together in whatever ratio happens to be present and used for cheap castings.
Anything can be in there - lead, antimony, tin, aluminium, zinc - whatever. It's light, bubbly and not very resilient. If you try to bend it, it sometimes bends a little but then just snaps and has an aero bar appearance - a bit like cast alu, but feels 'powdery' for want of a better term.
This is what I believe the tank is made from.
So, this tank.
It's horrible.
Drip tip
It's a work of art.
The plastic is poor quality, as is the metal cap.
The o-ring is too small, the glass wobbles on it so there's no seal.
The coil.
Again, feels like the same metal.
Oops
Not sure what that wicking material is, but it's not cotton.
And the tank body, the bit that sits in your juice.
Eleaf state their tank is made of 304 stainless. 300 series is non magnetic (as is this tank), but the thing with 300 is that it becomes magnetic if cold worked - cut, bent, pressed, spun...
Still not magnetic.
If that's 304 I'm a gibbon.
Won't work again, which is the best thing imo - unless you want your juice leeching lord knows what elements out of that metal.
I don't have access to the chemicals I once did, so I can't narrow down what's in it unfortunately - but I'm going to go out on a limb and say "some stuff that's not great".
If you happen to get one of these, it can be sort of identified by being suspiciously lightweight and the wrong type of shiny for stainless - look at cutlery for example, or another tank, or a saucepan. It's more chrome like. Bad chrome.
My recommendation would be to not use the tank or the coils (0.34 ohms with that many wraps and a hint of magnetism? I don't know what metal that is). Maybe use them for target practice, or getting used to a new hammer - but don't inhale anything hot through it...
Firstly, a quick word on metallurgy.
The cheapest metal you can get is lovingly referred to as "monkey metal" or sometimes "pot metal", depending on who you're talking to.
Basically, all the unidentified random scrap is stuck in a pot, and everything that melts at a lower temperature than iron is mixed together in whatever ratio happens to be present and used for cheap castings.
Anything can be in there - lead, antimony, tin, aluminium, zinc - whatever. It's light, bubbly and not very resilient. If you try to bend it, it sometimes bends a little but then just snaps and has an aero bar appearance - a bit like cast alu, but feels 'powdery' for want of a better term.
This is what I believe the tank is made from.
So, this tank.
It's horrible.
Drip tip
It's a work of art.
The plastic is poor quality, as is the metal cap.
The o-ring is too small, the glass wobbles on it so there's no seal.
The coil.
Again, feels like the same metal.
Oops
Not sure what that wicking material is, but it's not cotton.
And the tank body, the bit that sits in your juice.
Eleaf state their tank is made of 304 stainless. 300 series is non magnetic (as is this tank), but the thing with 300 is that it becomes magnetic if cold worked - cut, bent, pressed, spun...
Still not magnetic.
If that's 304 I'm a gibbon.
Won't work again, which is the best thing imo - unless you want your juice leeching lord knows what elements out of that metal.
I don't have access to the chemicals I once did, so I can't narrow down what's in it unfortunately - but I'm going to go out on a limb and say "some stuff that's not great".
If you happen to get one of these, it can be sort of identified by being suspiciously lightweight and the wrong type of shiny for stainless - look at cutlery for example, or another tank, or a saucepan. It's more chrome like. Bad chrome.
My recommendation would be to not use the tank or the coils (0.34 ohms with that many wraps and a hint of magnetism? I don't know what metal that is). Maybe use them for target practice, or getting used to a new hammer - but don't inhale anything hot through it...
