Are YOU a Tootle Puffer??
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My kneck bolts need adjustinYou burned a wick in half and didn't notice
I wish you took a pic of the wick in place.
It was only half a wick piece and it fell out as I was opening it up. It was still wet. I was rotating with 3 other attys at the time. I kept hittin it briefly by mistake until I pushed it out of the way. I knew it was getting bad, but I think the last time the gunk ignited and burned the wick setting there.
That sounds like the mod was auto or pocket firing. With no airflow to draw liquid into the wick it will burn up like that.My kneck bolts need adjustin
Not a chance on that. A gunked coil will stay red hot even after removing power....hot enough to smoke and burn a wick up.
I've come for a moan so sorry about that but it has just been one of those weeks, first my brand new SMOK TFV4 got stolen, then the replacement, the o ring was melted onto the glass tank so when I removed the glass it ripped the o ring, so now yet again I'm waiting for a replacement. Then walking the dog over the fields I drop my black subtank into a big fresh wet steaming cow pat, plop, good jesus, hand in the muck to retrieve it.
Back home after an extensive clean, back out for my sons birthday, of course the utter idiot I am, I decided to go into the big kids play area and onto the slide, what I didn't know is that some brat had stuffed the end of the slide with a big plastic crocodile, where the tail ended up between my legs as I came down, only to look up and the wife has filmed it (no, Im not posting it !).
So all in all, a bit of bummer of a week but my bad week hopefully has put a smile on your face. Sighs
Back home after an extensive clean, back out for my sons birthday, of course the utter idiot I am, I decided to go into the big kids play area and onto the slide, what I didn't know is that some brat had stuffed the end of the slide with a big plastic crocodile, where the tail ended up between my legs as I came down, only to look up and the wife has filmed it (no, Im not posting it !).
So all in all, a bit of bummer of a week but my bad week hopefully has put a smile on your face. Sighs
I have had this happen to me in the KF4, kept getting this nasty burnt taste so I knew it was time to clean. Took the deck off and both sides of the wick was soaked with juice, the coil was black and when I pulled on the wick, I only pulled out half. There was this charred nub where the center of the wick should have been.
I have also had this happen on one of those "Super Amazing Dual Builds", the coil just slowly burnt the wick in the middle since it couldn't get juice fast enough.
A total waste of time.
Fair enough. My DIY eliquid doesn't gunk up coils unless the coil is too big in relation to the air port. That and I only use 1-2% flavor. Learned something new today. It's a good day when that happens
How long were you using the wick?
My Rüzgar RTA has a very narrow chamber. When the vapor goes up it hits where the top of the chimney get even narrower and, my theory is, only the lightest part of the vapor gets inhaled, the rest is pushed back into the chamber. As I said, it's a theory. I don't get noticeably bad hits off this thing, so often I forget to change the wick. I can get a slight, very slight, burnt taste and not remembering when I last changed the wick (rayon), open it up and find a blob that looks like charcoal. The wick hasn't actually burned, but it's so mixed in with carbon that it looked like it has. The inside of the chimney will also have dark goo on it if it's gone too long. The juice I vape is almost clear. I think it's the way the RTA is designed, allowing me to use a wick longer than I should have, because I didn't taste anything. When I dry burn to clean it, there is tons of smoke - no way I wouldn't have noticed if I'd been inhaling it. This was with rayon. I've had a similar thing happen with cotton, but it didn't take as long.
My wife is using the original coil head in a T3S for goin on 20 months now with her clear apple menthol... without even needing a cleanin. My Tiramisu and Coffee juices air pretty bad on wicks. 10 to 15% flavoring.Fair enough. My DIY eliquid doesn't gunk up coils unless the coil is too big in relation to the air port. That and I only use 1-2% flavor. Learned something new today. It's a good day when that happens
@The Ocelot . I couldn't tell you how long I used the wick. I'm drippin, squonkin, and tankin in mech, VW and TC daily. But charcoal glows when ignited like the crud on a coil...
Your theory could hold some weight.
Your theory could hold some weight.
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never had gunk catch fire and burn up the wick but I replace my wicks and dry burn my coils every 2 weeks. I use large diameter coils with a heat flux around 150mw/m>2 this may be a problem with micro coils which are longer (more turns) and use smaller wicks which increase the chance of a dry burn but could also be a product of auto firing. this is a problem with regulated mods.
.......sorry about the theft, though...at least your ST is black...
Thanks, but I've had more than my share of auto firing experience. I've also experimented with post firing crud wicks burnin up to 5 seconds and even shootin up a little flame. I try to keep my stuff clean with fresh wicks but sometimes I run too many at one time on my desk and will pick up a setup that I know is low on juice or needs work and hit it by mistake. In this case, the I/2 wick that fell out was saturated with juice and there was still juice in the tank. But it had been hittin hot and nasty.
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With some ejuice one can't tell if the wick is burning or not?My kneck bolts need adjustin
I stopped using coil gunking juices, seriously they kinda freak me out vaping them not to mention constant new coils/wicking all the time.
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