TONIGHT ON CLICK BANG!

I join Russ tonight on CLICK BANG to discuss some head.  Aspire heads that is.  His show starts at 9PM and I should show up around 10PM.

CLICK HERE to listen to the show live.

As mentioned in the “Air Video“, I was going to take a look at some Aspire heads to see if I could see where the “rubber” taste is coming from for some people.

Russ of Click Bang radio on the VP Live Network send me his heads (in some rather unique packaging 🙂 ). He claimed to taste and smell rubber.

I tried his heads with the liquid he had in his tank and next to mine. I then drained his liquid, cleaned the tank, and reloaded it with my liquid. I could sense a little of what he was talking about, but nowhere near as bad as some of the worst T3 heads I’ve tried.  So I continued on. This is what was done…

Step 1

Vape several heads I received side by side to find the “best” and “worst” flavor.  The tank style that was used in all the experiments 3 packages of the eGo type were opened and tested.

Observations

• They all tasted somewhat similar. I did notice some tasted slightly better than the others, however not enough to trigger any review comments.
• Note that my “best” had some vape time on it.
• One had a slightly perfumy taste when first vaped which quickly went away.
• I did notice some threading issues.  1 wouldn’t thread onto an eGo. 1 just kept spinning on a SID and wouldn’t tighten down.  QUALITY CONTROL!!!

Step 2

Compare the one head Russ had in his clear with my best and my worst.

All photos are attached. In all photos from left to right… Russ’s head, Phil’s Best, Phil’s Worst.

• Image 1 – The three heads. No difference.
• Image 2 – Disassembly begins.
• Image 3 – Fully disassembled.
• Image 4 – Bottom coils side by side. The joins appear to be SLIGHTLY lower on Russ’s and my worst.
• Image 5 – Top coils side by side. No noticeable differences.
• Image 6 – Heat shielding. No noticeable differences.
• Image 7 – Bottom rubber plug, bottom view. Tough to say on this one. They all show discoloration. Whether or not this is from burning is hard to say. No extreme damage is visible.
• Image 8 – Bottom rubber plug, top view. Tough to say on this one. They all show discoloration. Whether or not this is from burning is hard to say. No extreme damage is visible.
• Image 9 – “Filler Material”. No noticeable differences.
• Image 10 – Main outer casing. Side view. No noticeable differences.
• Image 11 – Main outer casing top view. My worst appears to have a smaller opening. My best appears to have the largest.
• Image 12 – Bottom metal plug. No noticeable differences.
• Image 13 – Inner casing. This is where the biggest difference is. Russ’s and what I have deemed my worst are substantially taller than the one I deemed to be my best.
• Image 14 – Inner casing view 2. In this photo you can see not only the differences in height, but the taller ones have two larger slots and to smaller slots. The shorter one only has the two larger slots.
• Image 15 & 16 – Testing each coil to validate resistance/no resistance joins. All pass.
• Image 17 – Coils after firing. Nothing to see here. Just cool to see how the spread if I apply any pressure while firing them. 😉
• Image 18 – Out of curiosity, I pulled apart another one of my known “good” heads. Guess what. It’s the last one in the picture. Hmmm.

CONCLUSIONS

I was sincerely hoping I didn’t find any significant differences between the heads I received from Eigate and the heads Russ purchased.  For example, mine used resistance/no resistance while Russ’s had only resistance.  I’m glad I didn’t find that as the “shit storm” would have been massive.  🙂

I did expect to find wire joins at different distances from the coil, which I thought could potentially lead to the problem some are experiencing.  I did see this, but it was very slight, however…

When working in a world this small, the slightest little difference could impact your vape and taste.

This, when combined with different inner casings, different liquids, different airflows from different devices, different and subjective tastes, and people being used to the “taste” of other devices only compounds any potential issue.

Every device has it’s own “taste”.  To some, that taste may be acceptable, to others it may not be, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

I personally believe that even if these were 100% identical in every way, people will still have different experiences with them, perhaps due to the airflow of their device, perhaps with how their liquids and flavorings react to the filler, tank, other materials within the head, etc, or perhaps just their perception of how this particular device “tastes”.

For example, during BogeGate, I noticed the “turkey bacon” flavor was much more prevalent when using Green Peach Tea over other liquids.

Regarding the different inner casing heights, I will be contacting Eigate to see what’s going on there.

Not sure how much this helped, but some of you may at least find it interesting.