I'm so anxious to receive mine, it should arrive tomorrow. I hope my experience goes well because my 510 isn't cutting it.
New EGO TANK system.
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I have the tornado tank for a week and everything´s perfect , I always remove the cap to fill it , I never use a seringe to do it and by now ZERO PROBLEMS , works fine , great flavour , very smooth , no leaking and I fill it with 100% VG on the first tanks , great every time by now , the only problem is that I started to vape more often 
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ahhhhhh crap! I guess I have to take my 1 tank atty apart ! waa!
to start w/this is my 7th day w/this tank atty, It started acting funny yesterday...little leaks...juice in airway. so I soaked it in iso for an hour or so & blew it out & dried overnight ...& it just sucked this am ...worked ok for a few mins then....it just started dumping the juice..........so
I have been reading this thread for like 4 hours, during which time I have gone thru 4 tanks full of juice & had to wash out the tank each time ...damn thing .... it just keeps dumping the juice in the atty,then next hit brings juice into air way & I have tried 2 different tanks, I have tried thicker juice & at least it doesn't go straight thru the atty,can vape w/out tank
whole atty gets hot tho...
I have tried to find the wick...I think I can see a tiny minuscule fluff way down there. I have tried to fluff w/pin. don't have any tiny needle nose pliers... So I am guessing that I just have to pull the plate out to see where wick is ....I can't see any glow ? maybe it got sucked/pushed down ........ back to waaaa!!
I think I will nap 1st , worn out all this reading & cleaning .......anyone have a better idea or fix for me please post , I'll check back b-4 I start to take this once wonderful device apart .....waaaa waaa waaaa as opposed to the weee weee weee I was doing in reference to this wonderful thing last week
so sad
to start w/this is my 7th day w/this tank atty, It started acting funny yesterday...little leaks...juice in airway. so I soaked it in iso for an hour or so & blew it out & dried overnight ...& it just sucked this am ...worked ok for a few mins then....it just started dumping the juice..........so
I have been reading this thread for like 4 hours, during which time I have gone thru 4 tanks full of juice & had to wash out the tank each time ...damn thing .... it just keeps dumping the juice in the atty,then next hit brings juice into air way & I have tried 2 different tanks, I have tried thicker juice & at least it doesn't go straight thru the atty,can vape w/out tank
whole atty gets hot tho... I have tried to find the wick...I think I can see a tiny minuscule fluff way down there. I have tried to fluff w/pin. don't have any tiny needle nose pliers... So I am guessing that I just have to pull the plate out to see where wick is ....I can't see any glow ? maybe it got sucked/pushed down ........ back to waaaa!!
I think I will nap 1st , worn out all this reading & cleaning .......anyone have a better idea or fix for me please post , I'll check back b-4 I start to take this once wonderful device apart .....waaaa waaa waaaa as opposed to the weee weee weee I was doing in reference to this wonderful thing last week
so sadkellymcm,
You'll need something like needlenose plyers to pull the plate out anyway. If you can grab the slots on the side it would be better than mangling the needle itself, but either way works. Nothing physical is holding it in there except a tight fit.
Before you do that take tweezers and try to pull up on the wick to get it even with the top of the needle. The wick is in the center of the piercing needle. If you can't see the atomizer and ceramic bowl/battery hole, it is in there. In this photo you can see mine is full of juice and too low. A few stands are sticking up. This was a leaker.
See the rest of the photos in my profile album.
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Grab as much as you can from both edges and pull up a tiny bit. The wick strands are loose so you don't want to pull out just a few out. Worse case you can fix it if you have to pull the plate. Don't pull the wick completely out like I did if you take the plate out because it is difficult to get it back in without it falling apart.
I think these wicks are not consistent and get clogged, moved, etc. My current theory is blowing out the atty can cause the wick to move up or down a bit.
I have one leaker at 1/4 tank and below and one that is still working okay. I have tried new tanks, different juices, etc. so I am pretty sure it's the wick. My other theory is the plate has been pushed down by pushing the tank in. It's horrible when the juice pours out and goes into the mouth piece, isn't it?
I haven't put my dissected one back together yet because I am waiting for some sillca rope to make a new wick.
A nap is a great idea!
You'll need something like needlenose plyers to pull the plate out anyway. If you can grab the slots on the side it would be better than mangling the needle itself, but either way works. Nothing physical is holding it in there except a tight fit.
Before you do that take tweezers and try to pull up on the wick to get it even with the top of the needle. The wick is in the center of the piercing needle. If you can't see the atomizer and ceramic bowl/battery hole, it is in there. In this photo you can see mine is full of juice and too low. A few stands are sticking up. This was a leaker.
See the rest of the photos in my profile album.
View attachment 29385
Grab as much as you can from both edges and pull up a tiny bit. The wick strands are loose so you don't want to pull out just a few out. Worse case you can fix it if you have to pull the plate. Don't pull the wick completely out like I did if you take the plate out because it is difficult to get it back in without it falling apart.
I think these wicks are not consistent and get clogged, moved, etc. My current theory is blowing out the atty can cause the wick to move up or down a bit.
I have one leaker at 1/4 tank and below and one that is still working okay. I have tried new tanks, different juices, etc. so I am pretty sure it's the wick. My other theory is the plate has been pushed down by pushing the tank in. It's horrible when the juice pours out and goes into the mouth piece, isn't it?
I haven't put my dissected one back together yet because I am waiting for some sillca rope to make a new wick.
A nap is a great idea!
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Good, I haven't read EVERY page but wow, does this thing not work at all without all these wick mods and taking it apart?? Getting one soon and hope to not have to do all this messing around and disassembly junk....My wife recently starting using the tanks and really enjoys it. She did have one problem with the atty flooding. Upon closer inspection she discovered that the tank was not inserted all the way. Once she corrected the problem and blew out the atty, it was back to the same consistent performance that she was previously enjoying.
If you are having issues, don't overlook the obvious solutions.
I don't disagree. Another thing that I KNOW can push a wick down the needle is installing a tank that is completely filled to the brim with liquid. Without any air trapped in there at all, you end up with an incompressible medium (the liquid).. and the hydraulic force can actually push the wick down the tube. I have experimentally verified this with a needle plate that I removed from an atty......
FYI.
Wow hadn't thought of that. That makes sense seing how it works great one tank and just converts into flood mode with the next.
In my case the only reason I did the wick mod was because the first atty I got was terrible and in trying to make it work, I killed it completely. It seems like the attys shipping now are better, at least that's what I told myself when I placed my order with Ovale last week. Here's hoping.
We have done nothing to my wife's unit at all and it is working fine. No modifications needed.
When we fill the tanks, we don't fill them absolutely full based upon cozzicon's video. So far using the same atty after 5 days there have been no issues. If one develops, I will keep this in mnd though.
I now have a total of 7 attys in rotation with no problems. I got them from Cignot.
Mine was out for delivery today but not there...met the substitute mailman who did find a different package for me but not that one...argghhhh.....better be there tomorrow! Hope I get a good one!
Maybe I was lucky, but I've been using two atties and two tanks for 3 weeks (or more) now without ANY problems whatsoever. I did nothing to them--no modifications at all. Both work great out of the box. Good luck.
I am in love with my eGo-T!! I have not had any leaking problem, but can honestly say if I got a mouth full of e-juice, I'd not be a happy camper. The only problem I have had was after I cleaned it with IPA and let dry for 48 hrs (per cozzicon). This did not work well, for me. It seems to me that it completely dried out the wick and it wouldnt wick right after that, even after I dripped right down the needle, it was better, but still not the glory it was out of the box.
Today I tried Scottbee's cleaning style on this "less than prime" atty and it is back to it's out of the box glory.
Per Scottbee:
My method is pretty old, and is basically the same method that I have been using on all of my atties for over a year:
Blow out all of the liquid that you can from the tank end.
Warm/hot water rinse.. blowing out the water from the tank end... rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat. I continue to do that until the water comes out clear (and easily).
Blow out all of the water that I can.....
Dry burn: I personally do this on a "true" 3.7V device (Bartleby) since it will get you results faster... but you can do it on the eGo battery as well. Power-on for about 3-4 seconds. Power-off for another 3-4 seconds while blowing down into the cone (just to keep the overall temps down). Repeat this process over and over. At first you will get steam from the residual water. That will be followed by SMOKE as the gunk starts to burn. Continue with the cycling until you can see the red glow of the coil. The smoke should start to taper off at this point. Continue the cycling until you get a red glow within about 1 second of pushing the button. Stop... the dry burn is complete.
Do some additional warm water blowouts to remove the "ash".
Blow out all of the water that you can.
Re-prime and vape.
Today I tried Scottbee's cleaning style on this "less than prime" atty and it is back to it's out of the box glory.
Per Scottbee:
My method is pretty old, and is basically the same method that I have been using on all of my atties for over a year:
Blow out all of the liquid that you can from the tank end.
Warm/hot water rinse.. blowing out the water from the tank end... rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat. I continue to do that until the water comes out clear (and easily).
Blow out all of the water that I can.....
Dry burn: I personally do this on a "true" 3.7V device (Bartleby) since it will get you results faster... but you can do it on the eGo battery as well. Power-on for about 3-4 seconds. Power-off for another 3-4 seconds while blowing down into the cone (just to keep the overall temps down). Repeat this process over and over. At first you will get steam from the residual water. That will be followed by SMOKE as the gunk starts to burn. Continue with the cycling until you can see the red glow of the coil. The smoke should start to taper off at this point. Continue the cycling until you get a red glow within about 1 second of pushing the button. Stop... the dry burn is complete.
Do some additional warm water blowouts to remove the "ash".
Blow out all of the water that you can.
Re-prime and vape.
No mods here either and working well so far. Haven't filled the tank full either.
I'd add that I puncture all new tanks first without any ejuice in them - then remove and fill them. I did that from the start (late December) and so far no problems with several going.
Agreed. We haven't removed the any of the caps from any of our tanks ever. Puncture with atty and fill with syringe.
Are you on the same set of tanks Kent?
Scott and I got some pre-production models early on and I took off the cap on those tanks but both are fully functional without leaks, however, I could see where constantly taking them off and putting them back on would take it's toll - there are a flat and round sides and if you don't get that aligned you will likely have problems. Also if you're prefilling tanks - the rubber cap has to have the 'bumps' aligned with the channels along the side of the tank.
So yes, I'm using even the earliest tanks I got and all the other ones are the original ones I started using as I got a few more attys (mainly from heaven gifts) and tanks (TW and other kits). Vicky's 30ml ecopure bottles have a very fine tip that is an easy fill - still have to have some area for the air to escape of course but that works well for me. I also have reamed out the hole with scissors - not make it bigger than it is, but enough to where the 'chad' doesn't get in the way. I've opened some up just to remove the chad but only for that. I'll get some 'sweating' like we used to see on our janty stick carts, but no leaks.
Good to know. I'm a relative newb to these units, but thus far they seem pretty hassle free to me. I think so many folks are used to having to "fiddle" with their equipment to get it to work right, that it is hard to believe that you don't have to on some units.........
I just took a piece of the wicking material from a CE2 made a little loop and put it inside the tank with about 3/8 of an inch sticking out, I used about an 1-1/2 total length piece, looped it twisted the end threaded it through the cap while off, stuck the loop inside the full tank and put the lid back on with that 3/8 of a piece sticking out, wet it with juice and the loop inside the tank is soaked up well, the piece sticking out of the tank is wet as well, now I put the tank on and push it on like this. This seems to be working and working well, it is insuring that liquid is soaking the wick and the metal pin coming up inside the tank is always drench with liquid. Kind of doesn't make sense since the pin is supposed to sit in the liquid but its working and working well. I would suggest it as a mod for these Ego tanks 
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