So... my intitial impressions after some testes yesterday are good, but i have to say I had this same experience as
@jardri... BTW how are things now with your ArGo?
There is only one concern with my unit and it is a big one: Taste is still plasticky and silicone-ish. I kept doing burnoffs yesterday and most of it is gone but there is still some residual aftertaste and I think its because of the thermoplastic housing of the heater. Could any of you tell me how much time this bad taste lasts and if it goes away completely? I am extremely sensitive to this particular bad taste and with my Solo1 I dont recall any similar taste.
Also as a sidenote this device gets really hot! I mean alarmingly hot in the heater area. It may not injure but it sure is unconfortable if used in house. When i used it in the street the wind cooled it enough to be warm but not unconfortable.
IMO it does get quite hot at 180 C but my two friends' ArGos get just as hot so this was not a surprise for me and to be fair, for such a small unit it's not that bad, and seeing all the vents next to the heater gives peace of mind.
The taste issue was kind of expected from the start since both my friends' units smelled just as mine did after unboxing it and they warned me that that same smell would be present in the vapor during the first week or so of use, but they didn't clean their units or accesories before using them the first time and only did a couple of short burnoffs. I find most of this "new" smell comes from the pushtop and the bottom plastic part of the vape, and since the pushtop is not supossed to be in the airpath I'm not sure why this smell would come into the vapor unless it's just coming from the bottom plastic part of the vape which is were the air comes in from... and well... the smell was also present in the vapor of my ArGo, and while I wouldn't call it a bad taste (it's kinda sweet in my palate) it does get me a little worried because it lingers quite a long time in my mouth/throat. I drained a fully harged battery just doing burnoffs (220 C - 15 min cycles), then put in a new battery, set temp to 180C and used some of my blandest tasting herb which allows me to easily see foreign flavors. I didn't use the mesh screens in the tube, but did clean all the cleanable parts with alcohol and warm water and mild soap before using them. Still... both me and my gf immediately tasted that "new" smell from the pushtop and bottom part in the vapor.
I had my friends try my Argo after me and they immediatly recognized the smell and were like "yup, that's it, wait around a week for it to go away". The smell has diminished a little bit from yesterday to today, but it's still there. I have used my friends' units several times and they don't have any signs of that smell anymore, neither in the vapor nor when smelling the unit, so I hope it goes away faster in mine since was more disciplined than them with the burnoffs and cleaning prior to using it.
More observations to come...