Random DIY mixing and More
- By gloopdegurp
- DIY E-Liquid
- 195873 Replies
Good to hear all is well, we are doing alright, thank youThanks, all is well here. Hope you and fam are well too!
By "dams", do you mean the juice wells where you tuck the wick tails into?
The length, and thickness, of the wick tails play a role with whatever juice viscosity is being used.
Thicker juices (80VG/20PG, 70VG/30PG) and higher wattages generally require tails that don't touch the bottoms of the juice wells and they need to be thinned out more. I've seen some builds with tails that were very short and seriously thinned out, but they work!
60VG/40PG, 50VG/50PG or 40VG/60PG being thinner. generally, require thicker tails and tails that "just" touch the bottoms of the juice wells.
Too much wick placed in the juice wells will cause problems with more juice being absorbed into the tails. In general, the tails should never be longer than the depth of the wells.
One more thought, have you tried single wire coil builds in Cloudy? Claptons and other exotic coils suck-up more juice (that pools on the coil). A single wire build won't suck-up as much juice, nearly no pooling, versus Clapton's (or other exotic coils) and just "might" make Cloudy less likely to leak (might???). IDK, just thinking out loud!
I use single wire coil builds in most of my RTAs and RDAs. There are a few that I use Clapton's in. Sometimes I use Aliens (and others, just depends!).
Good luck and I hope you are able to get Cloudy squared away!
Dam might not be the right term - the back of the juice wells project up above the deck like a little wall that seperates the deck airflow from the wells,
I have tried single wire builds and still experienced either dry hits or leaking at various times.
Sometimes things would work fine for a few tanks and then get some seeping.
I use 70vg mostly.
Have had tails stuffed, filled but loose, up slightly off the bottom, just into the wells.
I haven't found any of those to work 100% though.
I just might be horrible at wicking though I have had fewer issues with some other RTAs.
When I clean it next I'll check all the o-rings and try out hitt's and your suggestions.
Regarding o-rings, I remember reading (somewhere) that some of the Fat Rabbits had a issue with the chimney o-ring being twisted new out of the box but don't recall if that was specific to the dual coil version or the Solo.
If that was an actual issue, I think I only changed out one (of 3 tanks) but don't recall any o-rings actually looking messed up on any of them.
Thanks again to you and hitt for trying to help figure it out!
