Howdy folks! I have been reading everyone’s posts and have a burning desire to write. So enjoy…
-BB
The BarnBoy on GPonG – I love this damn thing! I have bumped it off my work bench many times to the concrete floor and it has not broken. The taste is so much better than the PonG, better flow than the interim TRVB GonG (sorry
@TherealVaporblunt, but I do love what you did in this act of kindness!), and it keeps the bullets fully inserted so there aren't any leaks giving excellent clouds. But after a few weeks of abuse, when you find the debris blow outs are harder due to screen cloggage, and when you hold the GPonG up to the light and it looks dark brown like a molasses bottle; then maybe it is time to clean the bugger! Here is a small photo series to show you how the BarnBoy does it…
First pull the inner glass sleeve out from the PES (?) holder, drop it in a small locking cap container screen end down, fill it with some ISO, lock the cap and shake for 10-20 seconds. Using a Q-tip, get the sleeve from the container and swab the insides poking out the screen to save and clean later. I will repeat this a couple of times until the sleeve is completely clean. Then do a final water rinse and mouth blow dry…
Set the sleeve aside and saturate more Q-tips with ISO to work on the screen. Don’t be rough with the screen, gently swab insides and out, repeating this until the screen is clean. Water rinse, dry, push the screen back into the sleeve and put aside. I will then take a dry rag or paper towel to wipe out the PES (?) holder as best as I can, maybe a dry Q-tip to finish the hard to get areas. With the O-ring seated away from the sleeve lip, insert it back into the PES (?) holder. As the O-ring penetrates, help it with your finger nail to make sure it gets in the holder’s tube and then push sleeve until fully seated in the holder. Sometimes a little spit will help with the insertion…
I have previously shown how I clean the PNP in
this posting so it will not be repeated…
The BarnBoy on bullets – I have
previously posted many times about the use of 50/50 0% E-Juice to clean my bullets. Well the stuff must have coated them like some Bakers Secret as it has been over a month now since I did this, they are all still clean and I easily blow the ABV wads into my ABV buckets. The herbs have not been sticking in the bullets like they use to, and I RARELY have to ISO clean them…
The BarnBoy on batteries – I’m starting to have what I think are battery issues. My unit will power down with a blue rising LED display. This only happens when I am not plugged in, and when at 4 bars of charge or less. As of late I have found (x2 successful 30+ minute sessions) that if I use my cars AC to keep the battery side of the PNP cool, the unit will not power down as described above. I am going to play with this some more, but my short/long term plan is to do what
@MileHighLife posted
here and do it with his recommended Panasonic ncr18650b. The price on these is anywhere from $15 -$25. So
@Sativape, if I factor this, shipping, suspecting the standard PNP battery will not cost as much as the Panasonic, I would hope TRVB will offer us a replacement program that would cost $25-$30 and have the standard 90 day warrantee. But if it was the Panasonic, then maybe $35-$40 for a premium battery with a 1 year warrantee. I would prefer the latter. As shown in the photo from MileHighLife, the battery is attached to a small circuit board. I don’t think TRVB will want to unsolder this like I will, but have someone refurbishing returned battery assemblies for used in warrantee issues. I personally would be very interested in buying just that PCBA and battery assembly for $45-$65 and do the swap-out myself…
FYI- I just ordered a ncr18650b so this story will continue…
Best of luck!
