Best Protank Performance Yet

[Bpiatt]

Hey everyone,

Im fairly new to vaping but have been experimenting a lot with my protanks. I have never been fully satisfied with them until now. Like many of you, ive had a constant battle with either gurgling, dry hits, or muted flavor. Ive been rebuilding my own coils for about 2 weeks now and ive tried cotton and silica so far. I didnt like the cotton and using 2mm silica with varying amounts of flavor wick has caused issues for me. I am now taking one piece of 2mm silica wick and folding it over on itself, then doing a 4/5 wrap of 32g a1 kanthal over the wick folded on itself. This gives me two pieces of 2mm silica stacked on one another. This fills the slots in the head perfectly and works amazing as long as you remove the gasket that goes over the post. This is the best flavor and most vapor ive ever got from my protanks. I just thought i would share this incase it might help anyone else. I can take pictures if i didnt explain it well enough to understand.

 

[3rdear11]

^I need to try that^ (sorry cant quote from my tablet, yet). In the last 24 hours I've discovered my Protank and ego aren't too forgiving of each other. If the coil is screwed to +/- of its base it wont contact the terminals of the battery. I was initially just screwing everything back together (about) a loose finger tight. But have discovered the coil needs to screw in slightly less than finger tight. If its final resting place is too tight to the battery, it leaks. If its too loose, no fire.

 

[Train2]

Why remove the gasket - does it block the wicks off?
Haven't started building my own yet - but I probably will, and that sounds like what I was going to try!
No leaking caused by removal of that little cap, huh?
Thanks!

 

[Bpiatt]

Why remove the gasket - does it block the wicks off?
Haven't started building my own yet - but I probably will, and that sounds like what I was going to try!
No leaking caused by removal of that little cap, huh?
Thanks!

Nope, no leaking. The gasket does cover the wicks somewhat and ive noticed i dont need to prime (inhale without firing) at all since removing the gasket. Its not gurgling at all and its also not drying up even after doing 7 second draws at 4 volts using a 2 ohm coil. Im thinking this is as close to perfect im going to get with the protank. Im using 65vg/35pg juice

 

[State O' Flux]

Question. Just a process of elimination, silly scientific thing... ya' know? ;-)

Have you tried it on a standard wick with just the seal removed?
I ask because I remove the stock flavor wicks automatically on all new heads and replace them with 3mm bamboo. Once, I accidentally left off the air tube seal, tossed it all together and got the biggest, tastiest vape I've ever had on a clearo/glasso of any kind... ever. Granted, it gurgled a bit after about 20 minutes, but it was vapin' nirvana for that 20 minutes.

(I can see it now, everybody is rippin' the air tube seals off their clearo/glasso whatevers )

 

[Bpiatt]

Question. Just a process of elimination, silly scientific thing... ya' know? ;-)

Have you tried it on a standard wick with just the seal removed?
I ask because I remove the stock flavor wicks automatically on all new heads and replace them with 3mm bamboo. Once, I accidentally left off the air tube seal, tossed it all together and got the biggest, tastiest vape I've ever had on a clearo/glasso of any kind... ever. Granted, it gurgled a bit after about 20 minutes, but it was vapin' nirvana for that 20 minutes.

(I can see it now, everybody is rippin' the air tube seals off their clearo/glasso whatevers )

Yes, i did try removing the gasket with just a standard wick/flavor wick combo. It did work well for a few drags but then started gurgling and leaking into the top of my battery. I have not yet experienced this issue using two stands of 2mm silica with the coil wrapped around them both.

 

[rawr]

I tried to use the ss mesh instead of silica and its great. I did 5 wraps with 32awg kanthal and i put 2mm silica on top of the coil. It performs really well at 1.7 ohms. Will try also completely without silica, but it could leak i guess.

 

[ngc604]

Going the mesh route myself. Rebuilt 8 this way. 400 mesh with a 6/5 wrap and some scraps of ekowool for a flavor stick. The wool doesn't burn as fast as silica. I'm going to order up some 1mm ekowool so I don't have to use scraps. Everyone that has tried my rebuilds have liked them.

A friend and I are starting a eliquid business and for testing new flavors I use two mesh wicks. One wrapped and one for a flavor stick. As long as I keep it upright it vapes beautifully. But if it goes sideways or sits longer then ten minutes it floods. But its nice to be able to pop the top pour water over the top, pat dry, dry burn, recap, and start vaping new flavor. Quickest option I've found to be able to really test a new flavor.

I also trim the gasket so it allows for better flow on thicker liquids. Thinner liquids I use a standard gasket.

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[omeletduefromage]

i personally replace the two flavor wicks with a piece of 2mm ekowool and flip the chimney grommet upside down.

 

[Alter]

I think there is too much wicking. 4mm of wick is a lot to pack into that slot and ya the cap would crush down.
I rebuild my protank's and T3's with 2mm hollow ekowool along with a regular 1mm silica flavor wick and haven't had any of my protanks leak, gurgle or dry hit right down to the last few drops in the tank. Kanger is mighty cheap of the wicking of their protank heads. I just ordered 2.5 mm hollow ekowool and with that I might be able to do away with the flavor wick all together, but have to see after I get it.

 

[-SMT-]

I'm gonna try that, as my stock coils suck bad, dry burnt hits if I chain vape....I always resort to my T2's.
Anyways, maybe this will resurrect my mini PT....

 

[SonHouse]

Amazingly timely post, I was going to build a wick that way just now!

 

[Hoofhearted62]

i use 2.5 mm silica wrapped on itself as well 32ga kanthol 4-5 wraps. No problems works like a champ

 

[txgtr]

I rebuild mine with 3mm wicks. Most of my juices work fine, but for the life of me I can't get the full flavor of Boba's Bounty(which I love and have been vaping exclusively, I know, I know I need to expand my pallete, but...). I've tried everything, but am thinking I may need to get some smaller wick and try some of these suggestions.

I love the design of the protanks, especially the new PT2, and I want them to work with my BB....

 

[JeremyR]

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Bpiate that is exactly the way i set mine up. (Except I use 4 1mm wicks) this has been the best setup for me. And for those questioning the air tube doesn't seal to the coil top at all. You must at least try for a minute and see. Fill tank tighten, take a few vapes, loosen till you see air bubbles, continue till you find a spot that bubbles every 2-4 vapes. This gives me Best flavor because the wick is saturated, the pressure in the tank is stabilized, and it handles heavy vaping with no muting... As long as its not traveling it works awesome, screw back down for pocketing or tossing around.

Unscrew your tank some.. See those air bubbles? That's showing juice is feeding to your coil. If your not seeing bubbles rise about every 4 vapes your probablygetting a muted taste and dry hits if you chain.

Here's an example of how loose I can run my tank with no leaks and no gurgling. (Think I have the cup seal on in this pic)

** See that air bubble, that means flavor in the protank **

 

[shad0w13]

can you explain what exactly you did to build your own (never done it before but seems better)

 

[sawtoothscream]

I use cottton puff balls, tried cheese cloth, the regular set up and ss mesh. cheese cloth was bad, weird taste and spits all over, ss mesh was ok but died faster then I thought it would, probably did something wrong, cotton puff has works great all around for me and soaks up my 100% vg juice great. going to build another ss mesh coil now for the heck of it

 

[sawtoothscream]

well that was horrible lol. must have did something wrong, tasted like I just inhaled smoke from a bonfire, back to cotton

 

[txgtr]

I'm using 500 ss mesh and it's working really well. I did have a couple dud builds before I got it working well. Definately more flavor than silica, but still slightly muted. I may try removing the rubber cap.

 

[metalhed73]

The best setup for me (30/70 pg/vg) is a 3-4 or 4-5 wrap of 32awg Kanthal around a 5/64" drill bit and a cotton ball wick. The key I have found to the cotton ball wick is to pull what looks like not nearly enough cotton off of the ball and roll it into a wick, think thin wispy tuft. Also wrapping the coil on a 5/64" drill bit allows you to leave the coil on the drill bit and drop it into the slots on the head, doing it this way lets your coil be perfectly aligned after you get the rubber stopper and the pin in. I then pull the drill bit out gently and thread the cotton in, I pull the cotton through until I see the coil start to move instead of the cotton being pulled through, then trim, assemble and vape.

I find the flavor with cotton to be better than silica and I also find cotton to be easier to work with than silica.

Oh I forgot to mention (ninja edit) with this setup no need for "flavor wicks", YMMV with thinner juice.