New to vaping... just got a Kanger t3 -- LEAKS!!

[SamQuitsCigz]

hello everybody!

I just got an ego twist and a kanger t3 and i loved them at first... but a couple of hours after vaping and refilling i made sure the mouth piece and the airway were clear of ejuice but the kanger started gurgling and that brought ejuice up the mouth piece and in my mouth.

So I took the juice out of the tank and cleaned it and i let it dry... after an hour i filled it up with eliquid and it still gurgles and bubbles and brings ejuice to my mouth!!! why is that?! ( BTW The juice im using is 50/50 6mg from MBV.)

and how serious is getting juice in your mouth?

Thanks guys!!


EDIT: and sometimes the draw is very heavy!! is it because i twist it tightly to my egotwist?

 

[Road_House]

I can think of a few things that may contribute to your issue.

First do not tighten the T3 to your battery, just make it gently snug. Too tight can cause problems with both the battery and the T3.

Did you check to see if the atomizer head was tight in the base before your first fill? I've heard that they are not always tight out of the box and can back off even further when you remove the bottom for a refill. This may have happened to you and may explain why the gurgling started after a refill.

With the heat wave we've been having, going from 75 AC to 100 outside will cause the air inside the tank to expand, increasing the pressure which pushes too much juice into the coil. Opening the tank once it warms up will equalize the pressure.

Not sure what may be causing a tight draw for you. Drawing too hard can also pull too much juice into the coil. Try long slow draws.

Could be one or a combination of the above. Hope I was able to point you in the right direction. Let us know how it goes for you.

 

[Kellycat]

Also as far as a question of getting juice in your mouth, besides the potentially unpleasant taste, I highly doubt you're going to have any serious ill effects from a bit here and there, especially at 6mg. It depends on you though, if you start feeling ill in any way, stop using that clearo, as well as the PV itself (no reason to put more nic in your body at this point) and see if the symptoms subside. If they don't fade within a short period of time, again, everyone is different so I can't say 15 minutes, an hour, etc, for me it would be a matter of thirty seconds at those strengths, but for you it could be far longer..but if they don't fade, see a doctor or just go down to the hospital and explain the situation. Nothing illegal about vaping nicotine, and they'll treat it just like any other potential nicotine poisoning case most likely, diagnose for severity, start you on fluids, and (unlikely but possible) move to activated charcoal to get what they can out of your stomach, but I believe that would only happen if you drank a tank or two of the stuff at that strength. Again, everyone's different, I can vape on 36mg all day and not notice it, but I know people who get knocked to the curb from 18mg.

Once the more immediate concerns are taken care of, check over the clearo, see if there's anything obvious like Roadhouse said above, and if unable to diagnose, grab another clearo or a carto and use that in the meantime.

 

[SamQuitsCigz]

Also as far as a question of getting juice in your mouth, besides the potentially unpleasant taste, I highly doubt you're going to have any serious ill effects from a bit here and there, especially at 6mg. It depends on you though, if you start feeling ill in any way, stop using that clearo, as well as the PV itself (no reason to put more nic in your body at this point) and see if the symptoms subside. If they don't fade within a short period of time, again, everyone is different so I can't say 15 minutes, an hour, etc, for me it would be a matter of thirty seconds at those strengths, but for you it could be far longer..but if they don't fade, see a doctor or just go down to the hospital and explain the situation. Nothing illegal about vaping nicotine, and they'll treat it just like any other potential nicotine poisoning case most likely, diagnose for severity, start you on fluids, and (unlikely but possible) move to activated charcoal to get what they can out of your stomach, but I believe that would only happen if you drank a tank or two of the stuff at that strength. Again, everyone's different, I can vape on 36mg all day and not notice it, but I know people who get knocked to the curb from 18mg.

Once the more immediate concerns are taken care of, check over the clearo, see if there's anything obvious like Roadhouse said above, and if unable to diagnose, grab another clearo or a carto and use that in the meantime.

Yeah of course if i get symptoms or start getting ill i will deff. go see a doctor but the juice leaks i got were veryy extremely tiny drops lol so its not that serious plus i spit it out and rinse my mouth right away so its not a big deal i guess.

 

[Kellycat]

Yeah of course if i get symptoms or start getting ill i will deff. go see a doctor but the juice leaks i got were veryy extremely tiny drops lol so its not that serious plus i spit it out and rinse my mouth right away so its not a big deal i guess.

Yeah it won't kill you if it's just drops, I was under the impression you were getting a steady stream somehow, like the tube was acting as a straw. Heck I was getting more than 'drops' out of one of my own clearos that has been retired, and that was on 36mg, just spat it on the curb and wiped the taste off my lips and I was fine.

 

[Coastal Cowboy]

Road_House has you on the right track.

One other thing: Is this the T3 or the T3S? The difference is that the atomizer can be removed from the base on a T3S, but not the T3. As nice as they are, the T3's were plagued with leaking/gurgling problems out of the box due to a design flaw in the base/coil assembly.

You can alleviate most (if not all) of the problem by removing the grommet and stem above the wicks. There should be two strands of silica--called flavor wicks--laying across the top of the coil. You can add to, or remove and replace those with your own flavor wicks. I used a piece of rolled up cotton cheesecloth, but braided candle wick or a piece of a cotton ball will work, too. Whatever you use, make sure it's thicker than the existing flavor wicks. That's where the problem is--the hole for the wicks is too large and temperature changes wrought havoc.

Put your new flavor wick where the old ones were, replace the stem and grommet, and go.

Kanger addressed the design flaw with the release of the T3S. You can "upgrade" your T3 to the T3S with a replacement base and not fool with the wick replacement method.

Kanger T3/MT3 Coil Upgrade - Mt Baker Vapor - Electronic Cigarettes

 

[evan le'garde]

hello everybody!

I just got an ego twist and a kanger t3 and i loved them at first... but a couple of hours after vaping and refilling i made sure the mouth piece and the airway were clear of ejuice but the kanger started gurgling and that brought ejuice up the mouth piece and in my mouth.

So I took the juice out of the tank and cleaned it and i let it dry... after an hour i filled it up with eliquid and it still gurgles and bubbles and brings ejuice to my mouth!!! why is that?! ( BTW The juice im using is 50/50 6mg from MBV.)

and how serious is getting juice in your mouth?

Thanks guys!!


EDIT: and sometimes the draw is very heavy!! is it because i twist it tightly to my egotwist?

Several solutions to this problem.

First of all you could add a couple of silica wicks to stem the flow of juice. Before doing that try shaking out the access juice from the tube. If you're between puffs lay it down rather than leaving it standing up. If it sits around too long in the upright position it floods the coil and it will gurgle. Oh and lastly, don't worry about the draw, if it's tight it's tight, maybe the rubber grommit surrounding the contact pin isn't seated correctly.

Oh and make sure you keep the T3, or any other vapourizer, tight on the battery. If you don't tighten it then it will wobble slightly everytime you use it. Eventually the contact pin on the battery detatches from the wire inside the battery. And don't try to pull out the contact pin a little to ensure it touches the pin on the vapourizer, this will destroy the connection between the pin and the wire inside the battery. The pin sits in a rubber grommit so it can't get pushed in because it will just spring out again to the right position. Don't mess with the contact pin on the battery.


You will be reading the complete opposite a lot online. Why people do this is a complete mystery to me. Maybe they want you to make the same mistakes as them, i don't know !.

 

[Coastal Cowboy]

Oh and make sure you keep the T3, or any other vapourizer, tight on the battery. If you don't tighten it then it will wobble slightly everytime you use it. Eventually the contact pin on the battery detatches from the wire inside the battery. And don't try to pull out the contact pin a little to ensure it touches the pin on the vapourizer, this will destroy the connection between the pin and the wire inside the battery. The pin sits in a rubber grommit so it can't get pushed in because it will just spring out again to the right position. Don't mess with the contact pin on the battery.

If you rack the clearomizer down extra tight on the battery, and the clearo is leaking through the base, then the positive terminal (the "contact pin") can gunk up and get stuck, and may not make a connection at all with another clearo that has a different coil/base assembly. You can clean the battery terminal area using a Q-tip or rolled up paper towel corner, then gently pull up on the pin with tweezers or small nose pliers. Once clean, it usually snaps into the proper position with the gentlest of tugs.

The only way to damage the connection between the pin and the battery is to twist the pin. That will break the soldered connection between the pin and the circuit board and render the entire eGo battery useless.

Road_House is right. There is no need to rack a clearo or any other delivery device down supertight on your battery. Get it snug and you'll get the proper connection, as long as the terminal and coil connector are clean and free of debris.

 

[Maylar]

I have a love/hate relationship with T3's. They work until they don't.. and yes, they can leak juice all over the place. Besides what's been said so far -

If you get juice down the tube while filling you'll get gurgling and spitting. What you get on your tounge won't hurt you. Usually this can be cured by placing a napkin over the mouthpiece and "whipping" the PV like you're flicking the water from a freshly washed paintbrush. Liquid will come out the tip into the napkin. If that doesn't work, the atomizer head has problems.

The T3 is sensitive to the condition of the wick in the head. Too much wick and it's hard to draw through. When the wick is at end of life it lets juice into the cavity at the bottom and the clearo leaks.

Bottom line is that you need to either stock up on heads and replace them when they get used up, or become one of the many here who rewick theirs. But eventually the nylon seals wear out and the damm thing will leak anyway...

... which is why I use carto's most of the time now.

 

[Coastal Cowboy]

I have a love/hate relationship with T3's. They work until they don't.. and yes, they can leak juice all over the place.

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Besides what's been said so far -The T3 is sensitive to the condition of the wick in the head. Too much wick and it's hard to draw through. When the wick is at end of life it lets juice into the cavity at the bottom and the clearo leaks.

I think the whole ECF universe has a love/hate relationship with Kanger clears. There doesn't seem to be any in-between. People either love them over all others, or have sworn them off forever.

The T3 did have some issues. That wick hole design flaw was a big deal and I almost switched completely back to top coil clearos. But then the Evod and MT3S came out and I was back to BCC heaven. I still have some throwaway CE4's that I use for strong flavors that seem to polute every other tank I use (see Liqua Vanilla, MEL's Jamocha Haze and RV's Love Potion). If I'm gonna commit a clearo to a specific flavor, I might as well do it with a clearo with wicks that are 542,329 mm long, right?

 

[bleveretis]

I had a similar problem then my friend came over and he showed me how the whole Pro tank setup was. I refilled and have never had the problem again. TO be honest i love the Kanger Pro now!!

Kanger Protank Unboxing - YouTube