Let me start by saying i kind of had an aha! moment last night and kind of wanted to share with a little more testing in the hopes that this will help someone that was in my position.
Ive been vaping on my ego-t rotating out two attys for a couple/few weeks now, cleaning every few days with hot water and a good blow out. Seemed like everything was going fine but I had noticed the draw getting a little tighter. Also over the last week or so I was starting to get a bit of leaks here and there and a "bubbly" draw is the only way I know to describe it. I noticed liquid coming up through the sides of the tip as well. Then two days ago I had the dreaded leaky mess, and I mean it got EVERYWHERE. I searched around for a solution but couldn't dig through 250 pages in the ego-t thread. A lot of people were basically saying I needed to "fluff" the wick. I was getting so frustrated with the thing I had a couple of analogs for convenience and really had a make-or-break moment I feel. (yes, they were yucky haha)
Long story semi-short, my first step was attempting a dry burn to see what my wick looked like. I dry burned a couple of times and saw nothing but the thing was cooking for sure. I could hear the liquid going and feel the heat on the sides but no glow whatsoever. I took a paper towel and blew the crap out of it. A HUGE amount of liquid came out of the thing even though the battery was dry and the bottom of the atty also appeared dry. I attempted a few more dry burns, and blew it out again. It was about this time I gave it a nice long dry burn and let it rest a couple of minutes. When I picked it up again, I dry burned it and BAM! I could see the start of a glow. One more dry burn and I could see my wick was fine the whole time but the problem was my atty was holding onto a ton of juice.
I was never a big fan of the dry burn but I feel its necessary with these things to make sure youre not holding on to a bunch of extra liquid. Hopefully this will help someone out that cant read 250+ pages of the other thread and cant find a solution. No wick-fluffing needed here. These things have a learning curve for sure but I feel if everyone helps out this is the best vaping solution by far, I absolutely love it.
Ive been vaping on my ego-t rotating out two attys for a couple/few weeks now, cleaning every few days with hot water and a good blow out. Seemed like everything was going fine but I had noticed the draw getting a little tighter. Also over the last week or so I was starting to get a bit of leaks here and there and a "bubbly" draw is the only way I know to describe it. I noticed liquid coming up through the sides of the tip as well. Then two days ago I had the dreaded leaky mess, and I mean it got EVERYWHERE. I searched around for a solution but couldn't dig through 250 pages in the ego-t thread. A lot of people were basically saying I needed to "fluff" the wick. I was getting so frustrated with the thing I had a couple of analogs for convenience and really had a make-or-break moment I feel. (yes, they were yucky haha)
Long story semi-short, my first step was attempting a dry burn to see what my wick looked like. I dry burned a couple of times and saw nothing but the thing was cooking for sure. I could hear the liquid going and feel the heat on the sides but no glow whatsoever. I took a paper towel and blew the crap out of it. A HUGE amount of liquid came out of the thing even though the battery was dry and the bottom of the atty also appeared dry. I attempted a few more dry burns, and blew it out again. It was about this time I gave it a nice long dry burn and let it rest a couple of minutes. When I picked it up again, I dry burned it and BAM! I could see the start of a glow. One more dry burn and I could see my wick was fine the whole time but the problem was my atty was holding onto a ton of juice.
I was never a big fan of the dry burn but I feel its necessary with these things to make sure youre not holding on to a bunch of extra liquid. Hopefully this will help someone out that cant read 250+ pages of the other thread and cant find a solution. No wick-fluffing needed here. These things have a learning curve for sure but I feel if everyone helps out this is the best vaping solution by far, I absolutely love it.