O Ring Surface Requirements

The O-ring, stoney, is there for the purpose of sealing, preventing the liquid from leaking out, as you have diagnosed yourself. Now if nothing leaks out, the seal is doing it's job and never mind that "groove." Does it leak from anyplace else, like the atomiser? Does the whole gadget work well. If it does, what is the problem... where is the beef? There is an old saying among British Engineers. If it works, don't fiddle with it. It is a very wise saying. And if it does not work, return it for a refund or replacement.

A simple analogy I can use .. consider a mouses water bottle, the upside down ones with a tube.

You could suck on that tube and will only get a little water, when you stop a little air gets in and you can then get more.

This is how the tank functions .. now drill a small hole in the top of the bottle, all the water will dribble out, if you suck you will get water till you stop sucking.

Does it make a difference if the liquid in the tank is extremely toxic .. I think it does.

This is not raspberry cordial we are talking about.

Due to this air leak, the liquid will drip into the lower collection chamber when upright, it will leak out the top on its side. It can deliver much larger amounts og the liquid than it should.

Does it function correctly .. no, entirely due to the failure of this surface being machined correctly.

Do most users understand how this device functions .. absolutely not. My beef is that the manufacturer knows all these details and yet is selling them in this form uncorrected. Need a correction .. add vaseline and tape.

I am in the process of returning mine for a refund.

It sounds like this company has adopted the Bill Gates, "get it half way done and let the fools who buy it fix it for us." business model. Not to imply that you are a fool. I salute your efforts to quit smoking. O-ring failure seems to be a common problem, that they have no intention of fixing.

Quote from the site' "This device is not perfect, please don't expect it to be. It requires a bit of twiddling and may have slight issues for you to overcome. It is for experience users only."

Perhaps my annoyance is having some effect, as the site has had a few changes very recently the addition of that quote being one. No mention of fiddling was originally present as it was added maybe 2 days ago along with the removal of a few terms.

Assuming I was to adopt the attitude to fix instead of return, what would be the best method. The tank is too thin to allow clamping in a lathe chuck. The difficulty of performing a suitable repair is part of the annoyance.

I consider the best option filling the lower part of the thread with aluminium solder and scraping back carefully.

If this device is to help quit smoking(coulnt tell from their website) it would be cheaper to use the patch. I smoked for 29 years and quit on the patch which i only used for two weeks instead of six. If I can do it anybody can. the website for this product is very sketchy and uninformative.

I used the patch for a few weeks and became hyper sensitive to it.

I have been using these ecigs for around 3 months now and not had any normal smokes at all, not a puff since May 9th.

The vapour used is the same as in fog machines, glycerine basically.

So far all testing have failed to show any negative health aspects to using these, so there is no compelling reason to stop using them.

Its like smoking with most of the danger and cost removed. Due to the savings made by not smoking these devices can sell for a reasonable amount and many of us 'vapers' have quite a collection of various types.

You're right; O-rings are meant for sealing to properly sized smooth surfaces, not for threads, machining remnants, or other roughness.