Clearo giving soggy hits

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Any advice on how to stop my ego vision short wick to stop over wicking (if that's the right term). It is sometimes not wicking quickly enough but the majority it'll have that horrible bubbly feeling and leaks (I hate the waste of juice too!).

Any advice? I've checked the seal on the silicon bit and the mouth piece is tightly screwed on and well applied to the silicon.
 

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Hi and Welcome! I know of this trouble and youtube had videos on this too..but people with more experience will come and help you trust me. This place is FULL Of fantastic helpful people ...I know they will come. I have them too and they give me the same trouble. I have to keep moving mine around and do not fill it too far up. Still it happens. But I am 'new' so hang in there...and good luck to you..take good care....*
 

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Old post of mine. Many will disagree, but if you have a gurgler, then this is useful. There is a fine line with just about any clearo between flooding, and dry its. Tough to get em always perfect, but this does work for ones that have begun to flood.

Posted some of this in another section, but figured this thread needed a little action.

With the CE4+ cartos, I've found flooding rather than dry hits is overwhelmingly the reason some of these have weak, or cool vape with these cartos.

Quick way to see if the seal is good between the mouthpeice and the cup is take a puff, then blow it back through the carto. If there is no fog in the tank, the seal is good.

Almost always, it is because juice is getting past the wick.

Way to fix this is to think of these as dripping atty's in a tank. The objective is to wet the wick, but not submerge it in juice. The short wick with no bend freely transports juice to the coil. The way to accomplish this is to first off fill no more than halfway to the wick. 4th line from the top is a good benchmark. (Yes there is a reason for the fill lines after all)

Now look at how the wicks are situated when your PV is in your vaping position. What you want is the wicks to be out of the juice when vaped. For example if the button is top or bottom when vaped like most, then the carto should be screwed down so the wicks are horizontal to the button. Keep the wick wet by tilting from time to time. Not upside down, but rather just kind of touch the wick with juice. Like I said, much like one would do if dripping, just a hell of a lot more convenient.

Fill level:View attachment 91606
Flooding position:View attachment 91607
Controlled position:View attachment 91608

They use a thick wick, but I do wish they would wise up and go even thicker. I've rebuilt some using 2mm silica sold for rebuildable atty's, and 34ga nichrome that are fog machines, and are far less prone to flooding.

Oh, and they fit, and look quite nice on a 14650 woody with a 510 extension.:2cool:
 

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Any advice on how to stop my ego vision short wick to stop over wicking (if that's the right term). It is sometimes not wicking quickly enough but the majority it'll have that horrible bubbly feeling and leaks (I hate the waste of juice too!).

Any advice? I've checked the seal on the silicon bit and the mouth piece is tightly screwed on and well applied to the silicon.

Only two things I can think of are, make sure to be careful not to drip liquid down that center tube at the top. You might want to use a syringe to fill if you haven't tried that. The second is to make sure that drip tip is firmly screwed on so that the post on the bottom of the tip is making good contact with the rubber on top of the heating element in there. If not, liquid can get into that hole and cause flooding like you're seeing.
 
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