ce2 Leak Fix!!!

[Peezy]

Not sure if anyone discussed this before but I bought some 3ohm fluxo's a while ago and well they dont work @ 5 volts

so I put them away, and since getting my lavatube I found new life with these ce2's @ around 4-4.5 volts........


Anyways the purpose of this thread was to share something I figured out

so after you mod these things and take those two rubber pieces out I replaced the rubber ring with a cut carto tip

like this

The smaller hole does not effect the draw at all and it will not leak a single drop

not sure if you can see it but the cut tip is a good distance from the heating coil.. no burnt manikin taste!!!

Like I said I'm not sure if this has been brought up before.... just wanted to share

 

[Peezy]

35 views 0 replies... awesome

 

[rob5482]

Here's a ? for you. With the seal that far from the ceramic cup, when you lay it on the side do you get juice down the tube to the battery connector? I have had that happen with every mod I have tried to the ce2 where it involved a seal away from the cup.

 

[Peezy]

Hmmm I don't know... I haven't laid it on its side for a long period of time... I had it on my lap when I was driving and it didn't leak

but i always leave my PV's standing up right

 

[rob5482]

Lat time it took about 30min before I had juice all over the battery end. Just be careful.

 

[Peezy]

I been using it like that all day... so far so good

 

[rob5482]

As long as you keep it standing upright it will be ok. When you tip it and the juice is allowed to run over the ceramic cup, gravity will eventually pull it down the air tube and you will wind up with a mess.

 

[Peezy]

As long as you keep it standing upright it will be ok. When you tip it and the juice is allowed to run over the ceramic cup, gravity will eventually pull it down the air tube and you will wind up with a mess.

ya I hear you there... but this is still a better alternative than using the rubber ring

 

[leftfeild]

haha that's pretty crazy. I've used the doughnut seal, turned the cup seal upside down, cut the seal slots into /\ shapes so I can put it back on, used no seals at all... but I've not tried that yet.

Seems like it would wick insanely fast but you are kinda risking getting juice out of the battery end if you have it so far up. How thick is your juice exactly?

I use 2.6ohm CE2s at 5v on the lavatube with vg with just the cup seal's slots cut into /\ shapes so it'll wick and it does a pretty decent job. I'll maybe give the cut carto top a shot just to see how crazy fast that's going to wick

 

[ChrispyCritter]

I think what that is doing is preventing pooling of the juice on the O ring..when you vape with CE2's the vapor condenses and pools on the O ring and I think people consider it a leak..when you put the extra ring on it it probably gives the pooled liquid nowhere to go but back on the coil where it vaporizes and doesn't build up IMO.

I usually just wipe off liquid built up on the O ring after vaping awhile. Maybe a redesigned "ramped" O ring would fix the issue where it would funnel all the condensed juice back on the coil..but then you might lose some flavor because you would be re-vaporizing juice...

 

[Jim Bob]

Ok I have never used Ce2's before so please bear with me (I have seen Ut videos of them being used/filled) Why do you need to cut the carto tip? Are you simple changing the thickness as I am seeing it?
I have wondered if you really need the rubber gasket ring so close to the coil but it seems that you do, so this seems pretty impressive from what I can tell. I do have some coming in the mail any day so I am quite interested in exactly how this works/is being done

 

[Dieseler]

I like ce2s and use them all the time.
The airtube goes straight up into the porcelain cup , under the coil is a small hole coming from that airtube.
Once you lay on its side the juice goes into the cup and into the airhole and down thru the airtube out the connector onto top of your battery connector.
When you go to vape you get the gurgle and sometimes juice back into your mouth.

When this happens take tank off place napkin over the other end and blow thru the tip to clear it out.
Swab out mouthpiece and your go to go.

Thats what the silicone cups that cover the top of the coil help prevent.
The little slits in them should be lined up over the wicks on each side of the cup to allow wicking , some cut those slits a little deeper as sometimes the silicone cap can get to compressed over the cup and slow the wicking down to the point where you may get a burnt taste.
Hope this helps .

 

[Jim Bob]

Very helpful, many thanks to you!

 

[ChrispyCritter]

I like ce2s and use them all the time.
The airtube goes straight up into the porcelain cup , under the coil is a small hole coming from that airtube.
Once you lay on its side the juice goes into the cup and into the airhole and down thru the airtube out the connector onto top of your battery connector.
When you go to vape you get the gurgle and sometimes juice back into your mouth.

When this happens take tank off place napkin over the other end and blow thru the tip to clear it out.
Swab out mouthpiece and your go to go.

Thats what the silicone cups that cover the top of the coil help prevent.
The little slits in them should be lined up over the wicks on each side of the cup to allow wicking , some cut those slits a little deeper as sometimes the silicone cap can get to compressed over the cup and slow the wicking down to the point where you may get a burnt taste.
Hope this helps .

I think if you took a freshly filled new CE2 and laid it on it's side it probably wouldn't leak (haven't tested this and if I did I would test this with a few at once)..I think what happens a lot is after use like in my previous post liquid pools on the O ring after a lot of vaping then when you lay it on it's side there is enough that it goes to one side (also into a drip tip or the hole in the stock tip sometimes) then through the coil and down the tube.

I have seen this pooling around the O ring a lot it goes all the way around the ring and after so much builds up it goes into the coil even upright. It seems to be pooled the most after using up most of the liquid in the cart..I have noticed a lot of times when my CE2 starts to gurgle (only when I forget to clean the pooled liquid around the O ring) it is close to empty.

I'm sure some CE2's leak around the ceramic sometimes too since they are mass produced and sometimes the tubes leak or other seals..but after using them for months the pooling seems to be more of the issue to me. The pooling seems to be worse with some liquids but minor with others.

 

[Dieseler]

Hi Crispy yes .
I like to use them in tanks naked and can see whats going on and makes cleaning them simple .
I use 3.50 mini pipe cutter to cut them out much cheaper for me as im retired than buying them at 4-5 each as replacement parts.
Here in tank.

 

[ChrispyCritter]

Hi Crispy yes .
I like to use them in tanks naked and can see whats going on and makes cleaning them simple .
I use 3.50 mini pipe cutter to cut them out much cheaper for me as im retired than buying them at 4-5 each as replacement parts.
Here in tank.

I might build a tank mod sometime..although I'm vaping about 7 different flavors a day so I'm not filling the stock tanks that much I would build one more for the fun of it then use it for my 2nd fav flavor (1st fav is Carmel Tobacco and it is so thick it's drip only with my DoD)..but I just take the metal or plastic tube off as they come off fairly easily.

If I create a tank I will drill the bottom hole so it fits without the tube into the ridges and seal (some have the seal some don't) that the CE2 has..BTW I rebuild my CE2's (replace/wind my own coil as I have around 30' of NiChrome wire and solder lead free of course) because I enjoy tinkering and it saves me a little money.

But if you're careful you can clean and burn off the stock coil a ton of times and CE2's don't fail much unless you overheat the coil burning it off or let it get gunked up too much. I have a tube cutter that looks just like yours I got it from Autozone years ago it's even red

 

[Jim Bob]

I am really liking that, did you also make the drip tip/mouthpiece?

 

[Dieseler]

No that came with the unit.

 

[Jim Bob]

Cool, had never seen one LOL

 

[Dieseler]

Crispy yes that was fun for me as well. I did that with a scubagenv3 i used to have and season the ss wick then used the kendal wire to wrap my own coils.
I have since sold that setup.

I first was introduced many years ago to nichrome wire and wrapped coils when i was rebuilding the postwar pill type smoke units in
my Lionel model trains.
.
Very smart idea back then when one would drop what looked like an aspirin in the smoke stack and as the train ran aound the track the nichrome that was wrapped around a porcelain piece inside stack heated up , the piston underneath it had a lever that would drive off the wheels as they turned and puff out the stack the smoke.

After much use the nichchrome would give way so i would get out the ole soldering gun some nichrome and make a new one.

The first pill type came out in 1946 by Lionel but instead of nichrome used a large GE bulb with an indentation in it that held the pill and the bulb heated up and had similar concept of puffing out the smoke.

This Lionel engine made for 1 year only looks great running around the layout at night as the light is very bright and projects out the stack puffing smoke going around the track the light can be seen shinning off the cieling.
They went to the wrapped coil and nichrome the following year 1947. I still have 2 of these engines modeled after the Berkshire.

Tedious but fun and kept me out of trouble.