Bloody wicks?!

[Altair49]

Hi all

I was rather enjoying my kensei rta for the first week, when I got this horrible dry burnt hit today. I took a look at the side of the tank and could almost see a little red seeping into the juice. Disassembled the tank and jeeeeeez!

What is that red? Rust?

 

[Topwater Elvis]

Looks like standard caramelized goo leaching to me, or could be colorants in your liquid.

 

[dom qp]

If it was rust it would be closer to the coils.

It looks like it's the opposite, further away.

My guess would be it's flavouring in the e-liquid that is getting hot but not hot enough to vaporize all of the ingredients inside of the liquid, leaving behind this stuff.

I get it occasionally. No big deal. Dryburn & Rewick.

 

[Letitia]

Looks like the chamber is getting hot enough to caramelize the wick. Very common.

 

[CagedSpam]

It might be a trick of the light but it appears your wicking has collapsed or is insufficient.

Might be part or all of your issue.

GL

 

[Eskie]

Actually that wick doesn't even look that bad. I've seen worse. And yes, the darker stuff you can sometimes see coming back into the tank from the juice hole is just caramelized juice and not anything bad or dangerous. If your find the flavor of your vape falling off it's time to rewick. I wouldn't base it only on the appearance of the wick.

 

[Altair49]

I rewiked and the flavor was still horrible, figuered it must be the coils so I rebuilt with twisted Claptons as a spaced build, flavor is now back to normal but I am getting violent loud crackling and popping. Is that anything to worry about?

 

[untar]

Not really but it reinforces my perception that you tend to not put enough cotton into your coils.

 

[vapdivrr]

Not really but it reinforces my perception that you tend to not put enough cotton into your coils.

I agree on this......from the pics of your wicks and also to much popping sounds like you need to use a bit more wick in your coil

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[Gramdogg]

I get more pops on new coils, they just work much better. I can never wash/burn/wipe off enough junk to get them as good as new. A toothbrush is good but I need one of those brushes that get the inside and back of the coil too for my bad gunking juices. As other said I have wicks that look much worse after 2-3 days... I really gotta cut back on sweetener.

 

[Gramdogg]

In da cart... they sell the exact same product with only 1 set of brushes for like 20c more under ecig cleaning brushes lol. They do the same thing with the metal brush ones under a different category for much cheaper.
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[Letitia]

In da cart... they sell the exact same product with only 1 set of brushes for like 20c more under ecig cleaning brushes lol. They do the same thing with the metal brush ones under a different category for much cheaper.
$1.23 Cleaning Brushes Set for Tattoo Equipment (10 Pieces) 2-pack at FastTech - Worldwide Free Shipping

Thanks, added to cart.

 

[stols001]

Cool method of cleaning. I sincerely doubt that is rust. I think you need more wick, too. I know i solved all my wicking problems by switching to rayon, but I think you are underwicking your coil too much, and that is a very common cause of popping, spitback and etc. If you feel like it's too much wick, keep it pretty tight in the coil, and then thin out the tails some. But yes, you really need more wick.

Anna

 

[suprtrkr]

Hi and welcome. Try switching to rayon. This solves many wicking ills. And yes, the discoloration is probably caramelized sweeteners in the juice.