10 Best Terpenes For Cartridges (2022 Updated)

This will be the 3rd cartridge replacement (Moen 1222) for the 2nd bathroom and 2nd cartridge for the bathroom in the master bedroom. The house is only 14 years old. There maybe a design flaw on this cartridges as it is only lasts an average of 5 – 7 years.

And there are no hard water issues on our water supply. The first removal was quite a chalenge as the cartridge was kind of stuck inside since the rubber part on the cartridge has disentigrated and acts as a wedge making removal tough.

And also, it seems the plumber who originally instaled the plumbing did not apply a sufficient amount of plumbers grease on the cartridge. Keeping my fingers crossed on the newly installed cartridges and see how long it would last.

Luckily, I am a DIY thus saves me some big bucks. Calling a professional plumber will not be cheap.

My experience with the Moen cartridge for single-handle showers is that it breaks apart inside the plumbing. Extraction is difficult. For me this meant drilling it out piecemeal using titanium drill bits.

This is after I tried to extract it using the special tool. I had to be careful not to damage the pipes. If you need to drill, be sure you are in a positive frame of mind, that is, not angry or impatient.

The other recommendation is to replace this cartridge as soon as you suspect a problem, such as any drip that won’t shut off. I may have let the problem develop by ignoring the drip for some time (months?).

Also, I twisted the valve hard and may have damaged it further when it froze up in the surrounding pipe. So I would recommend not using any force turning the shower faucet when you first hear complaints from your daughter or whomever happens to use the shower regularly.

High-quality OEM replacement part from a top manufacturer. Follow directions for the install and the result is a like-new shower/tub handle that works effortlessly. Please note that removing the existing 1222 cartridge can be challenging because the large black rubber seals on either side of the cartridge tend to harden over time, making it difficult to extract the cartridge.

Even pulling on the stem with vise-grips or adjustable pliers may not budge the old cartridge. I had to purchase a cartridge puller and even then removal was slow and difficult – I could not have gotten the old cartridge out safely without the puller.

Fortunately, the puller is available in the aftermarket (e. g. , Danco 86712 Puller for Moen, at Home Depot for about $13). Again, the new 1222 cartridge itself is excellent. All of the shower/tub handles now work with fingertip pressure rather than needing hard twisting to go on and off.

These canisters work great. Although a bit pricey, they are convenient and straight forward to use. My only complain is that are really hard to recycle. It breaks my heart to understand they end up in a landfill.

Gas worked down to -35c with some help. Started with match. Canister and stove were encircled with a wind block to trap some heat to warm the canister a little. My jetboil gas wouldn’t light in that temperature.

I’ve been using the Primus 450 and 230 canisters for about 10 years now, and I go backcountry camping all-year round here in Canada. Out of all the fuel brands that I use, the Primus power gas is the most reliable one to bring on winter camping trips.

I’ve used it all the way down to -37°C in northern Manitoba, with a small reduction in boiling efficiency but I still went home with fuel left to spare. The worst one I’ve seen was a small green one that my companion brought (I can’t remember the brand name) that crapped out at -5°C.

This Primus fuel will work – no problem.

I’d bought my xyron 500 many years ago when I started scrapbooking. After a long break I’ve started working on albums as well as 12 x 12 collages that I frame. I LOVE using the x500 for full photos, knowing there won’t be gaps and my photos are safe with the acid free adhesive.

I especially like the repositional adhesive when I’m working with collages. I’m so glad the refills were available!.

This is perfect for me! I have used these for a couple years. I wouldn’t have bought one, but a friend gave me one. Now I’m hooked! These are the perfect gift for teachers and scrapbookers and anyone creative! We made our own Disney stickers for a potty training calendar.

We make our own holiday stickers and decorations! Not sure why other people say they jam. I turn the handle and everything comes through just fine. Never had a problem! LOVE LOVE LOVE! The cartridges are getting harder to find locally, but they last quite a while for us and I try to pick them up when I can use a coupon.

I was daft enough some time ago to give my old Goldring E3 away with a turntable I sold previously. Even though I have upgraded pretty much everything in my system including the cartridge, I was still curious to hear what the E3 would be like.

You would not believe how good this £90 cartridge can sound. After a few days of running in the whole thing came alive. It sounds even better than I remember. Then again, I am using a better turntable, phono pre-amp and speakers but even so it shows you that the E3 is certainly not out of it’s depth.

It has a warmth about it that I prefer to the slightly analytical Ortofon 2M Blue, which is considerably more expensive and the 2M Red would not even come near. The E3 has a slightly lower output at 3.

5mV so you may find yourself increasing the volume slightly. It’s square shape makes alignment fairly straightforward and it tracks perfectly at 2. 0g. You just can’t go wrong. enjoy!!.

Ordered this Cartridge on Thursday, as i had to replace a Reg Bias2, which when trying to track and weight, I managed to bend the cantilever right out of shape, which i had been given as a Christmas present from my Wife (on my recommendation).

It was supposed to arrive on Monday, but it has arrived today about an hour ago. So firstly that to Richer Sounds for a super fast service. The Goldring is a doddle to fit, track and set the VFT. I did this inside 40 mins.

Given its not bedded in yet, my 180gram re-issue of Young Americans sounds fabulous. Bass is handled with aplomb and is well extended and super tight. Mids are wonderfully open and clear, with Mr Bowie sat right in the middle of the soundstage.

Treble is sweet and crisp but never harsh. My Rega Planar 1 is now sounding wonderful. Would I recommend this cartridge? wholeheartedly!! massive improvement over the P1 stock Carbon. If like me you are new to the fitting of a new cartridge, I would avoid the Rega Cartridges at all costs, absolute nightmare to fit.

What Hifi award winning cartridge for the last 2 years, I can see and hear why! Enough said. Thank you again Richer for a a fabulous service as always.

Starting with the wonderful packaging with the cartridge ensconced actually like a diamond set God Ring, to the sheer feel of it in my hands, the product oozes quality. It looks distinctly different from the slim and sexy Ortofons or the in-between AT models.

Mounting is painless with the usual processes involved. What finally matters though, is the music that comes out of the speakers, right? Goldrings cannot be faulted for lack of detail ( compared to other cartridges in this price range).

They dig out, well, it seemed to me at least, whatever could possible be there on the grooves. And “cleanly”. To give them fair treatment, i unpacked the first LP from my Eagles’ Legacy 16Disc Bix Set and let the E3 free on it.

The vinyl is a freshly minted remastered one, so crackling or other noises were basent by default. But the remastering also meant that my ears had trouble accepting the remastered material as my brain kept comparing the tracks with what i’ve heard all these years.

Eagle’s recordings are intrinsically biased towards higher frequencies as neither do they have any baritone in their 5 piece harmony, nor do they rely heavily on basslines (mostly) or kick-drums. Their largely acoustic-style setting favours a mid-hgh range, which, i guess, has been tweaked with, in this remaster.

The basslines are more prominent, the drums thud deeper, but, somewhere there seems to be a thinness between the boosted lows and the natural vocal bandwidth. Goldrings did not do much to mellow that down.

The strings, keyboards & brass came out gloriously but the slope towards lower freqs was somewhat uneven. Switching over to a naturally “warmer” recording of John Mayer and then back to some Tedeschi Trucks Band brought out the best in these cartridges.

I did hear pieces i hadn’t earlier and with definitely more clarity. The first thought i had after trial? Wish i had a good graphic equaliser between my ATLP5 and the Denon.

I guess I got lucky. I really needed white chocolate flavor so when I found this, I got it right away. I was surprised to read the other reviews afterward. However, I have to say I had a very different experience.

The White Chocolate extract I got was wonderful. It had a subtle smell of creamy sweet white chocolate and made my white chocolate macadamia nut cookies really yummy! Overall a really nice flavor that I will definitely buy again.

I have tried all the generic brands, not worth it. Clearly filters for Jura are the best. Not happy with the price. You can buy cheaper but you get less quality. I test my water for chlorine. These filters get it out.

The cheapos either don’t or very little and don’t last as long. I used to test my water daily, that’s how I know. Now I can relax, these Clearyl filters for Jura work! They work the entire recommended time and sometimes well beyond.

I have peace of mind knowing I have excellent quality water to make my espresso. You’ve heard it said “you get what you pay for” So it is with these filters. Enjoy.

Perfect OEM Jura filter for my Jura C60 machine. Good price and discount for getting 5 at a time. I wish it was cheaper overall but this is the best price available anywhere for genuine filters for my machine.

I would not trust a knock-off filter for a high end machine. There were some on Amazon but I would not want to take a chance and then risk an expensive repair.

I bought this cartridge and stylus, the first one that I’ve had in many a year. It replaced an old Radio Shack/Shure cartridge that did fine. However, I set up the Onkyo direct drive turntable and put the new VMN20EB cartridge on the tone arm.

The hardest thing was putting on the miniature screws and nuts! The sound was excellent, and I am more than satisfied to say the least. The next purchase on down the road is a turnable.

I like the sound of this- a lot! You might not, its all down to taste. I thought that the very good Ortofon 2m red would suit my ear after upgrading from an Ortofon OM5e. It did for a while in terms of stereo separation and detail but I always preferred the tonal balance of the AT95e.

I made my decision to try out the VM520eb after Google translating a German review by LowBeats, not many English reviews yet so here’s one. Fans of the AT95e who wish it had lower bass extension without it becoming boomy; higher more detailed treble extension without adding harshness; broader stereo image and deeper behind the speakers imagery; better midrange detail that isn’t cloudy, you’re wish may have come true.

I’ve never gone into high-end turntables and cartridges so I can’t comment on how this would compare to cartridges costing 300 plus. I can say though that I am fussy about my sound and have found a cartridge that to my ears gives me the sound I want.

Compared to the 2m red, in my opinion, the VM520eb has higher treble and deeper bass. I am using a Pro ject Carbon DC turntable. On your equipment it may sound different and there is nothing wrong with the 2m red.

Hope this helps someone.

This is a budget cartridge, but don’t let the word budget fool you. It sounds excellent. Give it 2 grams of weight when setting up your tonearm and it tracks and sounds excellent. (Tip After removing the stylii guard Ensure your stylii is fitting the cartridge properly and has not snapped out of place) Excellent left and right seperation.

Detailed reproduction. Will save many a record deck as an inexpensive repair also. Comes supplied with nuts and bolts to attach to a standard headshell.

IšverstiShow in original languageThese Boveda packs for instruments are amazing! Although they can be a bit pricey, they really are the best way to protect your expensive wood instruments. I used to use Oasis humidifiers, which were great, but need refilled constantly and ran out of water fast.

They also needed to be removed if humidity was high in the surrounding area because they could cause humidity to go too high. These Boveda packs remove the guess work and humidify when humidity is low, and are dehumidifying when humidity is high.

They last longer than the tradition humidifiers that use distilled water, lifetime does depend on how dry/wet the surrounding area is though. Mine usually last 3-6 months in the spring and summer and 1-3 months in the dry fall and winter.

I put 3 of these in my Taylor case at a time, 2 go into the sound hole using the Boveda guitar holder and 2 goes up under the neck. Using a Bluetooth humidity sensor, I can track the humidity in the guitar and since I added these, the humidity has been at a stable 48%-50% for 11 months in a row!!!! Definitely recommend if you have a hard guitar case that will maintain humidity levels.

If youre using a soft case, these may not last long at all, so something else may be a better option so you dont waste these packs since they arentsuper cheap. If you have a wood instrument and a good case, these are the best way of protecting it from over/under humidifying and I will ALWAYS use them on my Taylor guitars to avoid irreversible damage!!.

IšverstiShow in original languageI have been using these boveda packets for a very long time now, at least 6 or 7 years, I had been using a cigar oasis electronic humidification system in my humidor and one day I noticed my humidor started developing mold so I pulled my cigars and wiped them down carefully to make sure there was no mold on them, luckily it was just on the sides of the humidor and I caught it early enough, but now I had almost 100 very expensive cigars with no place to store them so in a last ditch effort to save them I stuck them all in big zip lock bags and put them in the vegetable crisper in the fridge, after several months the wife was tired of them being in the way so I moved them to the freezer (Eeek ouch yeah I know freezer very bad) and there they say for over two years.

After sitting in the freezer for two years I started wanting to smoke my cigars again and started looking for a way to safely revive them (if such a way existed?) so I started researching new products for humidification or a way to revive old cigars and I found boveda, so I figured what the hell it was worth a try so I ordered a couple packets, after they arrived I took 3 or 4 of my favorite cigars and stuck them in a zip lock bag with a boveda packet and a hygrometer and started watching and waiting over a few days.

After about a week of daily checking the cigars and feeling them through the baggie I thought they were getting close to ready so I waited two more days and then I pulled a hopefully revived AVO #2 out to try, I rolled it between my fingers and gave it a slight squeeze to see if the leaves would crack or tear and they didn’t, I placed the end in my mouth to taste it and there was a bit of a bitter taste and I thought it was remnants of the mold? So I was a bit worried but snipped the end off and toasted the foot with a strip of cedar and then lit her up, the first few puffs were a bit off tasting but after a minute or two it started tasting a lot better, almost like I remembered so I thought there might be hope and the boveda packets might actually be working as advertised? After a bit I noticed the cigar was starting to taste really good, really creamy, better then I remembered them tasting, so I kept puffing away and damn thing just got better and better and I smoked it down to a nub where it was burning my fingers and had to put it out.

Two days after the first AVO #2 I decided to try a Graycliff 1666 espresso and this time I decided to have a bit of 25 year old single malt with it, and again the bitter taste on the wrapper but once I snipped the tip and toasted the foot andlit it up the flavors started really coming through and then I was convinced that these boveda packets were a really good humidification solution and I immediately ordered a full box of the 69% packets and a new humidor to put all my revived cigars in, and as soon as it got here I started the seasoning process, while at the same time I started reviving the rest of my cigars several at a time in zip lock bags with the packets, it took a couple weeks to get the humidor seasoned and all the cigars revived before I could put them all in the humidor because I didn’t want to season the humidor and then just stick the cigars inside only to have the cigars suck all the moisture out of the wool and have to start all over again.

After I had all cigars revived and back in the humidor I had my best friend try a couple and even he noticed they tasted better then they ever did before and was astonished to find out the cigars had spent such a long time in a freezer in big zip lock bags, as a matter of fact he says they were the best damn cigars he’d ever smoked, granted they were top brands like Graycliff, AVO, Macanudo, Cohiba, and Gurkha to name a few, which are all great smokes but they tasted so much better then they did before I had to abandon my humidor and stick them in the fridge then in the freezer for over two years, now I won’t use anything else besides boveda humidification packets, they keep my cigars perfectly humidified and tasting great, my hygrometers stay pretty consistent between 68% and 70% but typically right at 69% which is where I like to keep them, I’ll usually let the cigar sit and breathe for a little bit before lighting it up but my cigars have never tasted better and have never been easier to maintain, I no longer have to worry about my expensive cigars, and the packets are worth the price to protect them, so if you have a hard time maintaining your cigars you gotta try these things, they brought back almost 100 very fine and very expensive cigars from the grave because if the boveda packets hadn’t worked I might have had to toss all my very expensive cigars in the trash after being stuck in the freezer for more then two years and boveda brought them back, at first I thought it was another all hype product that made promises it couldn’t keep but they did everything they claimed they would do BC.

IšverstiShow in original languageNice, but not individually packed for freshness. Packed in one individual pack that folded over with a piece of tape, not a ziplock.