Looking for advice on getting my Boge LR cartos to wick better in a tank please.

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So, I've been getting by with just cartomizers and some eGo / kGo batteries and recently got a nice Phiniac tank and a carto punch and have been impressed with the taste out of what I thought were familiar ejuices that I noticed subtleties in only after vaping out of a tank. I recently fired up a CE4+ clearomizer too, and while it's an improvement over a naked carto it's not nearly the same taste improvement as using pyrex in my opinion.

Only reason I bought a couple clearomizers to try was because I'm having wicking issues with my Boge 2.0s and it doesn't even seem to matter how many holes I punch into them. I've had as many as four large holes in a carto, spaced out vertically even, and still I find I have to add 2-4 drops every 20 minutes or so right to the top of the polyfill or it starts diminishing in taste and will dry out.. well, on top at least.

I know the Boge's polyfill is denser than resurrectors, but it's not like they'd fit in this same tank and frankly I prefer the taste of my juice through Boge vs the Smoktechs.

Does anyone who uses a carto-tank setup have any advice on how to get cartos to wick better? I've thinned my juice (60PG/40VG) with as much as probably 10% of distilled water in an attempt to get it to wick better and keep the polyfill damp on top and it just doesn't seem to work. I find myself having better flavor vs not using a tank, and the cartos last twice as long too, but it's still the same amount of hassle and fiddling. Any ideas would be great.
 

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Well, the Boge's I'm using are a single coil design, one wire, a loop really, covered on one side, essentially a single wire running the entire vertical length of the carto. I just ripped one open and unravelled it and yanked the wire out to check. So, ideally, I actually want the entire polyfill saturated all the time. The airflow comes from through the tube at the center of the carto and as long as I don't punch a hole in it when punching through the outside of the carto, it shouldn't flood. The best I've found so far is to punch like three holes, spread out pretty well, at various heights. I think having one hole high, just sort of below the level where the top of the polyfill is helping me to get better results than before. I'd consider dremeling it but I don't really have a convenient place to setup a vice, don't own a dremel at the moment, and would prefer not risk glacing a spinning blade off a cylindrical bit of steel.
 
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