atty material on bridge is it needed?

[mikecup]

I went to refill my cart and looked at the atty and the material on top of the bridge moved to one side exposing the metal bridge. I tried to move it back in place but it started to break off, so I just removed what I could with the tweezers. Now the bridge is totally exposed and it still works well, maybe better than before. Anyone know the purpose of this material?

 

[P4C0]

Hi,

The metal bridge is wrapped in a mesh, that mesh is the same around the coil, however the metalic bridge is solid so the liquid can't go through which confuses me.

Until I noticed that I believed that the bridge allowed the liquid to go on the threads below it and those theads wicked the liquid all the way to the coil.

From wath I can see this doesn't seems to be the case, looks like the bridge just pushes the polyfill (or whatever you are using) so it surrounds the bridge squeezing some juice that is trapped by the side of thw theads below it and into the coil.

If you removed the mesh on top of the bridge then there's less space between your cart filler and the threads below the bridge which may explain why it is working better. More liquid is delivered to the coil...

Just my 2 cents, I'm not an expert so don't take me seriously...

 

[P4C0]

oh sorry, I said the the mesh surrounds the coil, but there seems to be a ceramic piece in between, the forum's entry about rebuilding the atty has some cool pictures about it.

From what I undestand: theres a coil around a wick, that wick goes all the way up the bridge, liquid gets into it and it is delivered to the coil for evaporation.

If that wick gets burnt it should lose its ability to deliver liquid which makes the atty to perform badly...

But then, why does dry burn cleaning method seems to work ok for so many people? In a dry burn you should be burning the wick... Atomizer's mysteries...

If anyone knows please share...

 

[mikecup]

Yes the mesh is definitely gone, and all I see now is a very shiny bridge. hey it still works, works well actually. I just hope the life is not shortened now because of it, time will tell as they say.
Thanks for some info.