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SWMBO screws atty's on so tight anyone would thing they are permanently welded on. I've lost count of the times she's tried undoing one and only managed to unscrew the tank section with rather messy predictable results.

She's also a complete Jonah with regard to anything electrical, if it accepts voltage (battery or mains) she will feck it completely. Two words missing from her vocabulary are 'light' and 'touch', she even managed to push the fire button on an itaste vv so far in, it cracked the circuit board in half.


If I could trust her with a mech I'd get her something bombproof like a Kato clone, however my money is on her buggering one of those as well.

Straight into the bellows is the only way for me.

The old woman's permanently affixed to the dashboard, I just stick whatever device I'm using in her teeth then hit the throttle. Best clamp in the world.

I have the Nitecore i4 which I'm more than happy with, but that D2 looks a nifty bit of kit. Shame it wasn't around when I was looking for a new charger.

Oh all right then, what about



Or the original by Alanis Morissette?

I've heard lots of comments regarding Win8, none of it encouraging.

I've owned an Aqua/Origin (clone) double act for a while and whilst I use the Origin mech mod frequently I could never get the Aqua to perform properly and the problem is airflow.
This is a twin coil device that utilises a Stainless Steel chimney and a Stainless Steel tank, it has one pair of air holes on one side of the body and air flow is controlled by screwing the tank up and down to expose more/less of the holes.
The main issue with this device is that the airflow holes only connect to one coil, vaping the device 'as is' leads to constant dry hits and the thing becomes so hot it's a hand warmer.

This video shows how to modify the Aqua for better airflow



The most important modification is enlarging the two grooves in the Delrin insulator that fits in the bottom of the device, what the video does not make clear (there is no commentary) is that these two grooves need to join each other thus providing airflow to both coils, the guy in the video creates a chamfer around the top of the insert which does the job but it's something I missed first time around, what I did yesterday was to create a trench across the top of the insert thus connecting the two grooves.
I haven't drilled out any of the metal parts mainly because I don't own any cobalt drill bits that small.
I rebuilt the device with two .23 x 8 wrap coils and cotton wool wicks, the device measured out at 1.5 ohms with this build.
What a difference, it's a veritable cloud monster with no overheating problems. I'm  impressed at the improvement that such a simple fix has created, I really like this device and it looks the dogs BLX on the Origin especially in hybrid mode.

So for anyone with an Aqua clone discarded in a box somewhere, dig it out and sort the airflow problem out, it's a five minute job that will bring this device back to life.