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Well....it looks like the single battery squonk mod train is not showing any signs of slowing down just yet.....we've got every vape manufacturer in the game scrambling to get a hand on it, in order to get their share of the spoils....
After the mahoosive squonk review I did a couple of months ago I really don't know what else I can say about these mini mechanical squeeze machines.......do I like them?.......No not really......do you like them?....Apparently you can't get enough of the bloody things....evidently.....the problem is me (sigh).....here's to being different...
(cough-lonely-cough).
So.....Who's left?.....who hasn't made a single battery squonk mod yet that looks just like all the others and does pretty much exactly the same thing in exactly the same way.....? The list is getting shorter.....just like this review...(Yay!) .....bit rude..
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Hello once again my little steam billowing mist monkeys, I have to admit, I'm getting more than a little bored of the constant and unrelenting torrent of these single battery squonk mods......surely it's time for a new 'trend' .....but then...I guess you could say the same thing with 24mm RDA's ?.....But maybe...just maybe.....I'm simply being an old Cranky McCrankerson misery pants because they just don't float my boat.....I believe the word is....'selfish' ....regardless, you all still want them, so I shall do my damnedest to power though like the dutiful little soldier....that I am ...(fucking drama queen more like)...
This time around it is the turn of those stab wood aficionados Arctic Dolphin, a company whom....as a rule...live in the mid to high level realm when it comes to vape gear (depending on who you ask) but just like their influx into the stab wood market, these Dolphins always tend to keep abreast of current trends.....
But can their elevated status do justice to a traditionally lower priced device such as a mech squonker?.....let's take a gander....courtesy of my long time partners in crime Heavengifts, I give to you...the Arctic Dolphin Crea BF Squonk Kit...
The Super Low Down
Probably completely unnecessary for this bit but....as you can quite clearly see, the Crea is a single 18650 powered mechanical squonk box with an 8ml silicon bottle, an adjustable (not spring loaded) 510, silver plated contacts, removable side panels and a 22ml BF RDA......no wheels being reinvented here...
DISCLAIMER :- You absolutely MUST know your Ohm's law, as is always the case...but never more true than when dabbling with a mech mod....no safeties in place here, so be smart and know your stuff before you attempt to use one, mechs are for experienced vapers ONLY......anyway....
Onwards....
No...it's nothing new, but....there are quite a few pointers that put the Crea in the top end of the mech squonk list, especially when it comes to fit and finish.
The first thing you will probably notice, is just how cleanly built this thing is, the norm with a single battery squonker is to see all the gubbins, wires, contacts etc running around the inside of the box, but Arctic Dolphin have tidied the interior up......a lot....
On top of that you get a really nice silicone bottle with a SS collar, a fire button lock (we'll come to that in a minute) and the aforementioned silver plated contacts offering little..if any...voltage drop....they have certainly put the wrench work in when it comes to designing the Crea...I'll give em that.
Now..the fire button, nice and large and very in charge, gold collar is an odd choice but it does have a decent throw and if you take a closer look just above, you will see the instructions for the locking mechanism.
Yes...it works, but....first con, there's no knurling on the firebutton like on the Stentorian RAM box which has a similar system, so instead Arctic Dolphin have made the fire button spin quite loosely, it locks and unlocks really easily.....so where's the con then?....Well...the con comes when it locks itself constantly, I mean it's so easy to unlock it's barely a con but...it gets annoying after the 100th time you come to take a hit and nothing happens, causing you to offer the offending fire button a little slight encouragement.... to help it on it's way....
The body of the Crea is actually really...really nice, it's covered in a rubberised finish which not only feels nice in the hand but also offers quite substantial grip..
And although some vapers don't really care for over branding, in this case I kinda like it....you're certainly never going to forget its name...
The side panels are held in place with large dual magnets, which are also really nicely done, no magnet on the battery here.
Now...I have slight suspicion that Arctic Dolphin may well have fucked up a little bit during the design stage of the chassis, you'll notice the cut-out behind the battery?....Well that's used to push your battery out from the back (there's one behind the bottle too) ....yet....there's no way of getting the back panel off without first taking out the battery and pushing it off through said hole....you could argue that those holes are just to push the back panel off so that you can change them for different optional panels (which aren't available anywhere)...and indeed...this is is what they state, however...I call bullshit due to the size, placement and proportion of the cut-outs....they were totally meant to push the battery and bottle out, but they realised it didn't work at the end of the design phase so as a last minute addition one of the Dolphin crew panicked and had a brain fart.....
After the mahoosive squonk review I did a couple of months ago I really don't know what else I can say about these mini mechanical squeeze machines.......do I like them?.......No not really......do you like them?....Apparently you can't get enough of the bloody things....evidently.....the problem is me (sigh).....here's to being different...
(cough-lonely-cough).
So.....Who's left?.....who hasn't made a single battery squonk mod yet that looks just like all the others and does pretty much exactly the same thing in exactly the same way.....? The list is getting shorter.....just like this review...(Yay!) .....bit rude..
...................................................................................................................
Hello once again my little steam billowing mist monkeys, I have to admit, I'm getting more than a little bored of the constant and unrelenting torrent of these single battery squonk mods......surely it's time for a new 'trend' .....but then...I guess you could say the same thing with 24mm RDA's ?.....But maybe...just maybe.....I'm simply being an old Cranky McCrankerson misery pants because they just don't float my boat.....I believe the word is....'selfish' ....regardless, you all still want them, so I shall do my damnedest to power though like the dutiful little soldier....that I am ...(fucking drama queen more like)...
This time around it is the turn of those stab wood aficionados Arctic Dolphin, a company whom....as a rule...live in the mid to high level realm when it comes to vape gear (depending on who you ask) but just like their influx into the stab wood market, these Dolphins always tend to keep abreast of current trends.....
But can their elevated status do justice to a traditionally lower priced device such as a mech squonker?.....let's take a gander....courtesy of my long time partners in crime Heavengifts, I give to you...the Arctic Dolphin Crea BF Squonk Kit...
The Super Low Down
Probably completely unnecessary for this bit but....as you can quite clearly see, the Crea is a single 18650 powered mechanical squonk box with an 8ml silicon bottle, an adjustable (not spring loaded) 510, silver plated contacts, removable side panels and a 22ml BF RDA......no wheels being reinvented here...
DISCLAIMER :- You absolutely MUST know your Ohm's law, as is always the case...but never more true than when dabbling with a mech mod....no safeties in place here, so be smart and know your stuff before you attempt to use one, mechs are for experienced vapers ONLY......anyway....
Onwards....
No...it's nothing new, but....there are quite a few pointers that put the Crea in the top end of the mech squonk list, especially when it comes to fit and finish.
The first thing you will probably notice, is just how cleanly built this thing is, the norm with a single battery squonker is to see all the gubbins, wires, contacts etc running around the inside of the box, but Arctic Dolphin have tidied the interior up......a lot....
On top of that you get a really nice silicone bottle with a SS collar, a fire button lock (we'll come to that in a minute) and the aforementioned silver plated contacts offering little..if any...voltage drop....they have certainly put the wrench work in when it comes to designing the Crea...I'll give em that.
Now..the fire button, nice and large and very in charge, gold collar is an odd choice but it does have a decent throw and if you take a closer look just above, you will see the instructions for the locking mechanism.
Yes...it works, but....first con, there's no knurling on the firebutton like on the Stentorian RAM box which has a similar system, so instead Arctic Dolphin have made the fire button spin quite loosely, it locks and unlocks really easily.....so where's the con then?....Well...the con comes when it locks itself constantly, I mean it's so easy to unlock it's barely a con but...it gets annoying after the 100th time you come to take a hit and nothing happens, causing you to offer the offending fire button a little slight encouragement.... to help it on it's way....
The body of the Crea is actually really...really nice, it's covered in a rubberised finish which not only feels nice in the hand but also offers quite substantial grip..
And although some vapers don't really care for over branding, in this case I kinda like it....you're certainly never going to forget its name...
The side panels are held in place with large dual magnets, which are also really nicely done, no magnet on the battery here.
Now...I have slight suspicion that Arctic Dolphin may well have fucked up a little bit during the design stage of the chassis, you'll notice the cut-out behind the battery?....Well that's used to push your battery out from the back (there's one behind the bottle too) ....yet....there's no way of getting the back panel off without first taking out the battery and pushing it off through said hole....you could argue that those holes are just to push the back panel off so that you can change them for different optional panels (which aren't available anywhere)...and indeed...this is is what they state, however...I call bullshit due to the size, placement and proportion of the cut-outs....they were totally meant to push the battery and bottle out, but they realised it didn't work at the end of the design phase so as a last minute addition one of the Dolphin crew panicked and had a brain fart.....