I have the Russian 91% (the real one not a clone) and have been experiencing leaking that is driving me mad, I can't figure out the cause. I'm experienced with RBAs and have totally taken apart my Russian trying to figure out why its leaking but I'm coming up short with a solution.
The leaking is coming out of the air hole. Usually it will vape fine while the tank is completely full but as soon as it drops down to about 3/4-2/3 full the leaking starts. It begins as a gurgle when I take a hit but soon progresses into a steady amount of leaking. The airflow canal will be full of juice with the excess running out. It doesn't pour out like a faucet but it is a steady flooded gurgle that runs out the hole.
I use micro coils with cotton usually around 10-14 wraps of 28g around yarn needles (which are pretty thick for a needle 1.0-1.6ohm). I position the coil at a slight angle in between the posts just a few degrees off from the juice canals. My cotton wick runs through the coil and sits on the deck in front of the juice canals.
I have tried raising and lowering the coil from the airhole. Up to 6-10mm above it down to 1-2mm above it and everything in between. I have experimented with using a lot of cotton to where you can't really pull the wick through the coil and using very little cotton that can be easily pulled through the cotton (and amounts in between) . Still nothing works.
I have used the clear tank and the metal tank sections seeing no solution to the problem. I have meticulously inspected all o-rings with a jewelers loupe (magnifying glass) and watched for leaking at all the joints. I have also added extra tiny o-rings to the adjustable center pin to guarantee an air tight seal in that location. Still no solution.
I am not sucking too hard or blowing into the drip tip. My voltage is correct and I'm using a Provari with a pro-ring. I have also tried many different airflow corrections tightening and loosening the airflow control screw, I even switched out the airflow screw to a new one.
One thing I noticed after taking apart my Russian was that excess juice from wick seemed to have "migrated" from the edge of one lead and ended up running over the airhole under coil. But I would think as soon as I took a hit air would shoot the excess juice out/away from airhole.
I also thought that maybe somehow my wicks were sitting too close to canals and were constantly wicking juice causing excess to drip off of the coil into the airhole. So I moved them all the way back from the canals but still the problem persists.
It gets so bad that every hit has a intense gurgle. I will hold a paper towel over the air hole on the outside of the Russian and blow to clear the excess juice but the juice keeps coming out and never seems to clear. What could cause this steady leaking/supply of juice?
Please help me at least diagnose this problem so I can go about fixing it. It's got to be an air leak of some kind right? I'm losing my mind, I'm usually very good at figuring these things out but I am stumped. Hopefully a vape god will come along and teach me something.
P. S. Obviously I have carefully inspected all parts of the Russian and see no bad threads, dents or damage of any kind.
Matt
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The leaking is coming out of the air hole. Usually it will vape fine while the tank is completely full but as soon as it drops down to about 3/4-2/3 full the leaking starts. It begins as a gurgle when I take a hit but soon progresses into a steady amount of leaking. The airflow canal will be full of juice with the excess running out. It doesn't pour out like a faucet but it is a steady flooded gurgle that runs out the hole.
I use micro coils with cotton usually around 10-14 wraps of 28g around yarn needles (which are pretty thick for a needle 1.0-1.6ohm). I position the coil at a slight angle in between the posts just a few degrees off from the juice canals. My cotton wick runs through the coil and sits on the deck in front of the juice canals.
I have tried raising and lowering the coil from the airhole. Up to 6-10mm above it down to 1-2mm above it and everything in between. I have experimented with using a lot of cotton to where you can't really pull the wick through the coil and using very little cotton that can be easily pulled through the cotton (and amounts in between) . Still nothing works.
I have used the clear tank and the metal tank sections seeing no solution to the problem. I have meticulously inspected all o-rings with a jewelers loupe (magnifying glass) and watched for leaking at all the joints. I have also added extra tiny o-rings to the adjustable center pin to guarantee an air tight seal in that location. Still no solution.
I am not sucking too hard or blowing into the drip tip. My voltage is correct and I'm using a Provari with a pro-ring. I have also tried many different airflow corrections tightening and loosening the airflow control screw, I even switched out the airflow screw to a new one.
One thing I noticed after taking apart my Russian was that excess juice from wick seemed to have "migrated" from the edge of one lead and ended up running over the airhole under coil. But I would think as soon as I took a hit air would shoot the excess juice out/away from airhole.
I also thought that maybe somehow my wicks were sitting too close to canals and were constantly wicking juice causing excess to drip off of the coil into the airhole. So I moved them all the way back from the canals but still the problem persists.
It gets so bad that every hit has a intense gurgle. I will hold a paper towel over the air hole on the outside of the Russian and blow to clear the excess juice but the juice keeps coming out and never seems to clear. What could cause this steady leaking/supply of juice?
Please help me at least diagnose this problem so I can go about fixing it. It's got to be an air leak of some kind right? I'm losing my mind, I'm usually very good at figuring these things out but I am stumped. Hopefully a vape god will come along and teach me something.
P. S. Obviously I have carefully inspected all parts of the Russian and see no bad threads, dents or damage of any kind.
Matt
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
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