Kangar Subtank Mini - ready to chuck it

[jamesfarrell]

I have 2 of these with the Kbox kit.

I have one built with the DIY coil thing, which I have organic Japanese cotton. The juice I use is Whirling Dervish 18mg. The thing gurgles and snaps and stuff and I get juice on the roof of my mouth. I've tried different wattages and no luck. Any ideas before I throw the Kbox and the Subtank in the rubbish? Tired of messing with it. Coil is .5 ohm

Thanks

 

[UncleMike]

Sounds like a wicking issue to me. Make sure when you rewick that it's fairly tight inside the coil, not enough to choke the flow of juice, but tight enough to give a fair amount of resistance when pulling the cotton through the coil. It may take a few tries to get the wicking right, but once you do you'll see the subtanks are really great tanks.
PS. If you decide to throw the subtanks please thow em my way

 

[jamesfarrell]

I thought I would try another device as I was kind of bored with the Reo Mini and I can only use 1 flavor at a time. Seems the tech on the tanks has not improved hardly at all in the past 2 years. Seriously ready to smash the thing. The prebuilt coils seem to work better.

 

[dDubs]

I never had good luck with the sub tank mini, always hated it. Coil heads have to be run at fairly low wattages and flavor was never that great. Rebuildable section would crackle and pop for me as well. Much prefer the herakles. I sold my stm to the kid at the vape shop and bought another herakles.

 

[jamesfarrell]

Thing works great for Mallow nation e-liquid. Can vape it at 25W no problem. Problem is I use Vape Orenda Whirling Dervish as my ADV and the piece of crap subtank mini hates the juice. I have no idea why. I'm ready to chuck the thing and just buy another Reo Mini. ZERO aggravation with that thing. Problem is you have to clean it all out if you want different flavors.

If there's a tank out there that has minimal aggravation (and I highly doubt there is, as that is going to take another 200 years) I'm all ears. I had the Kfun and clones and such, hated those. Those are in a landfill somewhere. PIeces of crap. Tired of wasting money on Junk. I have 2 of these tanks and they suck.

 

[Salt&PePPer]

And to think I was wanting a Subox Mini... I'm stuck between that and the eVic VTC Mini. My only issue is is I want to rebuild my own coils to save money.

Now when you build your coils and such you are obviously using the rebuidable head that comes with the box? Have you ever tried rebuilding the replaceable heads?

There are just so many options these days. And a few stores are selling via clearance mech mods and even Kayfun clone's for $10!

 

[tedigram]

Well to be fair even the OP is mostly blaming the tank because it acts up with a single brand and flavor of juice. I don't think that's much of an indictment of the tank itself. For my own part, STM spitting issues have always been solved by making my wick a bit thicker.

 

[RocketRonnieRadox]

Had a sub box mini kit - totally harsh and horrible. the tank is now redundant and I use the mod with a kayfun V4 clone - totally better experience.

 

[Neon28]

Building the RBA for the kanger can be a bit tricky but everybody gets it eventually after awhile. The wicking is what puts people off because if not done properly the juice can leak out. This what i experienced when playing with my friends kanger rba