New SB owner with carto problem

[vaporator2000]

Hey all,

This site is amazing and helped me to find my first PV, a Silver Bullet. I just received it today and ordered along with it a 510 dual coil tank and a regular 510 atomizer. The dual coil did not work well until I realized that the bottom screw (which goes into the atomizer threading on top of the unit) was not touching the contact point inside the atty recess on top of the SB.

I unscrewed it half a turn and it smoked great! 30 minutes later, there was a pool of juice coming from the bottom of the tank. I screwed it back and it doesn't work again. The regular 510 atty is sort of weak. I was wondering was carto/tank combo would you guys suggest for someone who used to smoke a pack a day? Any help is appreciated!

 

[boochips]

I'd ask Chad over in the Altsmoke forum if I was you. I LOVE LOVE LOVE my Silver Bullets but I am a dripper.....

 

[vaporator2000]

They shipped so fast that I don't even want to bother them. Now that I fudged with it myself and all, I took it on as my responsibility. I absolutely love my Silver Bullet, and for now I am totally getting used to the regular 510 atomizer. I just purchased a pack of boge 2.0 attys. I have reversed my philosophy and the dual coil system is no longer a priority.

 

[440BB]

The center contact on cartos can be a little too deep in the threaded part on any of them. If you just use a fingernail or a pin and go around it and lift it up gently until it sticks out a hair it will fire fine. The slot looks like it's meant to be turned like a screw but it isn't, and if you turn too far it will break off the wire connection inside and kill the carto. Many of us did that in the beginning. This can happen to Boge's too, and sometimes you might have a mod with a high center post that pushed it up in the carto so that it won't fire if you move it to another device. Good luck and keep on vapin'!

 

[newq]

To answer your concern about the pool of liquid, This pool of liquid is usually called "flooding your carto"

This can happen for a number of reasons:

- Sucking on a tank carto while it isn't firing
- Pulling too hard of a drag on the carto and the carto cannot vaporize the juice as fast as you are drawing it in
- A carto that is damaged from dry firing (fired with no juice in it) or has overheated from chain vaping.
- A carto that is worn out from thick juices or extended use

Flooding from drawing while the carto is not firing can be fixed easily. Unscrew the tank. Use a paper towel and clean the liquid from the 510 connector on your silver bullet. Take the carto and put the drip tip in your mouth and blow the carto into the paper towel. Next, point the carto up at the ceiling and blow through it into a paper towel. (this is done so the juice rests below the level of the holes or slotting and air pushes the remaining juice out of the carto.

If you still experience flooding with that carto it is probably trash. I used to by smoktech DCT's but recently have had a lot of the smoktech DC's flooding incessantly on me for no apparent reason and switched over to boge LR XL cartos and slot my own. The boges work better for me, I dont mind slotting them with a dremel HOWEVER I have not been impressed with the Longevity of a boge. I go through 30-40 mils of juice a week and this usually entails atleast one carto per bottle. My juice ratios happen to be either 50/50 pg/vg content or 100%vg.

I am still searching for a better alternative but have yet to find the sweet spot.

 

[vaporator2000]

It looks like I am going to give up for now on the DC, and stick to single coil until I feel more comfortable that I know what I am doing lol.

 

[boochips]

Also....if you like cartos than try the fusion cartos from IKENVAPE. You'll need a 510 to 801 adapter to use them though and a 510 drip tip.

 

[newq]

Also....if you like cartos than try the fusion cartos from IKENVAPE. You'll need a 510 to 801 adapter to use them though and a 510 drip tip.

I have been wanting to do this although I am a hit snobbish and hate the
Look and length an adapter adds