Oddy short mod(c) COV from VaporBreak – bad idea

[giles]

Odysseus/Nautilius Rebuildable Atomizer (Oddy short mod(c) COV) to give it its full title.

I bought this for £16 or so delivered. This was a mistake, although the genuine article costs three times that. It arrived ready built including the coil, so you can add juice and vape it just as it comes. Unfortunately if you vape it just as it comes then it leaks.

You don't buy an RBA unless you are prepared to frig around trying to get it to work, but I'd avoid this product, and anything like it, because the parts are NOT compatible with the genuine article. And you can't adjust the air flow (which I think is the whole point of this type of atty) because even when you screw the ceramic casing right down the centre pin doesn't protrude from the 510 thread. And the juice control sits up against the top cap, so it won't open unless the top cap is opened by a few turns. And the hole in the centre of the top cap is barely larger than the juice control tube, so you can't fill it with the cap on, so it holds less than 2 ml. And if you screw the juice control down too hard, then when you try to take it up half a turn it turns the ceramic as well, and breaks the wire.

On the good side it did come with spare ceramic, spare o-rings, and five ready-made coils. I got the plastic tank, but it also comes with steel. The o-rings don't include one which will go under the locking ring (there's one the right size, but it is much too thin and deforms when you screw the ring down).


I stopped it leaking by buying an o-ring to put below the locking ring and adding 3mm ecowool to the top of the coil. The o-ring stopped the top cap from screwing right down (even with the juice control down) (there are alternatives to using an o-ring, but I got fed up with trying to make them work on this). I also had to ditch one of the two o-rings that were assembled beneath the top collar.

But I got a very decent vape. Then I refilled it, and it is leaking again, and I've lost patience.

I'm curious as to how a clone like this gets made. It isn't the build quality that is bad, it is the design. It is difficult to believe that whoever specified it had ever used the genuine article, or vaped a prototype of this one. It wouldn't have cost anything much to add 4 mm to the plastic tank and 1mm to the bottom post, make the top cap hole wider, and assemble it with an o-ring below the locking cap and a short wick at the top of the coil. And then you'd have a working product at a killer price.

[Neil from Valley Vapes]

When I first had mine I had the same problem with the juice control and very quickly worked out if you tighten the locking ring down with pliers it works fine. It doesn't need an o ring under the locking ring if its all screwed down tightly. Did you have to flame your ceramics to get rid of the funky soap taste?

[andy01424]

would add 3ml to the main coil that will stop it leaking down the channles,basic same as Romlees post on Term C

[giles]

Oct 17, 2013 17:46:52 GMT andy01424 said:

would add 3ml to the main coil that will stop it leaking down the channles,basic same as Romlees post on Term C

I was using the wick it came with, but something thicker might be worth a go. If I get the patience to try again I'll do that.


Tried pliers Neil from Valley Vapes - though only with the wire it came with. If I try again I'll try that with silver wire. Of course yours may just be better built than mine.

[Neil from Valley Vapes]

I use 2mm wick but not the ones that came with it. I did try them but it was rank so I binned them straight away. Totally agree with you that one clone is not the same as another even from the same production line. Its a shame if you cant get it working properly as they are not bad at all for the price. Good luck though matey, hope you suss it out.