Carto draw tightening

[Ryan1888]

Hi all,

Im currently using a Boge SR XL carto and after only 2 tanks of juice and not even 2 days the draw has nearly became un vapable. Has anyone else experienced this? as I am used to a carto lasting me around 2 weeks of anywhere from 2-5ml of juice per day going through it.

Thinking that It may just have been a slight faulty carto but have been thinking for the past 6 months that the quality of boge's have been slipping.

 

[Ryan1888]

Thought I should add that It has 2 holes punched and I am using a 70/30 pg/vg juice, so clogging cant be the issue.

 

[mommyofdoom]

Have you tried running a paper clip or syringe tip (blunt of course) through it? Can you see clear through the hole or is the filling closed in on it a bit?

 

[Baditude]

What's the flavor that you are vaping? Have you changed juices, or just carto's?

Darker juices and flavors such as Boba's Bounty have a higher content of particulate matter (possibly from the flavoring agents used) that will clog the polyfiller material, effectively reducing the liquid content of the juice being able to reach the heating coil. This causes a stiffer draw, reduced vapor and flavor.

It is also one of the reasons that juice tends to get darker in the tank after multiple refills. Since the particulate matter doesn't get vaped it begins to accumulate in the juice and the concentration of it causes the juice to appear darker.

The density of the filler material between brands of carto's is quite different. Boges have historically had a denser filler, causing them to take longer to fill with juice, less likely to flood, and sometimes more difficult to wick the juice effectively.

Smoktech's filler is less dense, easier to fill, easier to wick, but easier to flood.

You can try removing the tank and blowing out from the connector end.

 

[Ryan1888]

Thanks for the input guys.

Everything appears normal in regard to the hole in the middle not being clogged. Im currently vaping a gingerbread flavour which is a very light yellow colour, has been in my rotation for quite some time and have never experienced this before. Same goes for the boge cartos - all I use.

I can really relate to the darker juices gumming up a lot easier, cuts a couple of days off of the life of each carto in my experience.

Im debating just filling up a fresh boge to see if it was just bad luck or not.

 

[Unforeseen]

Moved to Assorted PV Topics - Cartomizers

 

[Gsr1379]

i get this with a lot of my cartos (new, I test the draw before i use it screw on to my device cover the two "juice holes" and puff) i do not know what the problem is or how to fix it. I just set them aside for now. Last batch of 15 I ordered 7 of them there is No or very little air flow.

 

[r77r7r]

I also have gotten this recently. Both times they were very new. Paperclip worked altho I didn't look thru the hole first, I don't see how they could've been clogged so soon.

Maybe that center tube is collapsing?

 

[mikebabs]

I have studied this phenomenon with different types of cartos and have found that the packing material not only varies in weight from carto to carto, also it varies in how densely it is packed. It is usually possible to predict which carto is "packed" correctly by placing it on your PV, without liquid, and do a "test draw"...With practice you will be able to teach yourself which carto will be a "good" performer and which one will be a "dud"...What I have found is there is very little consistency not only from Company to Company, but also carto to carto from same company...Hope this helps.....

 

[geoVoeg]

I agree completely with you, mikebabs. As they say: if you want something done right . . . .
I'm wondering if there's any forum posts on experiments tweeking the polyfil density or the center hole width.

There is this recent thread on a piece I'm not familiar with (a "spheroid").

 

[mikebabs]

I agree completely with you, mikebabs. As they say: if you want something done right . . . .
I'm wondering if there's any forum posts on experiments tweeking the polyfil density or the center hole width.

There is this recent thread on a piece I'm not familiar with (a "spheroid").

Its the main reason why I "dumped" cartos a while back...I now use a vivi nova tank until something better comes along...Tried the Kanger stuff but don't like it.....