Odd Odysseus problem

[womblebat]

Any help or suggestions appreciated guys, this one really has me scratching my head.

Ok i make up the odysseus with no problems, had the iAtty since launch so i'm experienced at coil building and avoiding all the basic mistakes.

Everything goes fine, i make a coil with an extra piece on top (as in scott's vid) to act as a juice buffer, but as soon as i take a draw it gurgles and leaks through the centre pole, everything is done up tight, juice control is fully closed and this is 100% vg juice as well.

Now here is the strange head scratching part, when it's leaking i blow down the mouthpiece to clear the excess juice from the centre pole, i can then stand it on it's base and not a single leak, but as soon as i reattach it to a device it gurgles and leaks from the centre pole again, this happens on both my ggts and lavatube.

Anybody had this happen to them or maybe can share a thought on why it's happening?

Thanks for reading

 

[Hvdp]

Maybe this can help. First of all, sorry for my poor english.
I had some leaking and gurgeling also, what helped me was not to screw the ceramic and metal part as tight as i could to the base. I did make it tight, but not as tight as i could. This helped me.
I hope this makes sense to you.

 

[womblebat]

Hi Hvdp, thanks for the suggestion and your english is very good by the way

I have tried both tight and not so tight, same results unfortunately, it's a shame as it's making it almost unusable

 

[eyebrook]

Hi womble is the centre pin tight to the ceramic cup holder, if it is has the O Ring been deformed because its the wrong size, that was the problem with mine
Also do you put the oddy base on your mod then tighten the insert down until the centre pin makes contact
hope this helps

 

[Hvdp]

What i also have learned is that the wire wich you have under the knurled ring to make contact is best to be a single wire.
What i am trying to say is that the piece where you twist the NR and R wire should be short, so that it is not double on the point where the knurled ring makes contact. Maybe this helps.

 

[womblebat]

Hiya Eye,

My o-ring was deformed when i received it but after i took it all to bits and reseated the o-ring then it was fine once tightened, i do have a few other sizes so maybe i'll try those.

As for connection i normally just tighten everything so the centre pole is just protruding from the connection then the ggts takes up the slack with it being telescopic.

Did you have exactly the same problems i'm having before you changed your o-ring size?

 

[womblebat]

What i also have learned is that the wire wich you have under the knurled ring to make contact is best to be a single wire.
What i am trying to say is that the piece where you twist the NR and R wire should be short, so that it is not double on the point where the knurled ring makes contact. Maybe this helps.

A good tip Hvdp, but like you i always make sure it's a single wire, i think having a single wire trapped is much more logical than a 3 ply wire

 

[eyebrook]

Not with the gurgling when connected, but it kept on gurgling, I would blow it out and 2 mins later it would gurgle again, leave it standing after blowing it out and no probs, took it apart and saw the O Ring was sticking out of one side so put the right size on so it was snug on the centre pin and when tight no more problems (touch wood)

 

[womblebat]

Cheers eye i'll try a different o-ring, only thing i can think of is if it's not centrally seated it's drawing in a small amount of e-liquid into that o-ring point if the seal isn't 100% causing the leaking from the centre pole

 

[Morfeus]

How are you filling the tank? You have to close the liquid controll fully, then screw on the cap of the tank without the o-ring and the securing nut, then the o-ring and the nut. If you do this in one piece, a relatively high pressure is built up inside the tank, which results in gurgling.

 

[womblebat]

Hi Morfeus,

Yes the liquid control is always fully closed and the cap is always fitted separately, cap then o-ring and lastly securing nut.

It definitely points to the o-ring at the base of the metal ceramic holder, i will fit a different sized one and give the results later on

 

[TheStalker]

I had a similar problem too. You might want to check the centre pin on the GG itself. When mine had leaked, juice had got onto the centre pin of the mod so when I re-attached the Ody, I was sucking up juice that was still in the GGTS from the first time it'd leaked. A quick dab with a tissue to soak it all up soon sorted it.

 

[womblebat]

cheers stalker, my OCD prevents me from ever having juice where it shouldn't be lol

tried a smaller o-ring tightened down firmly, same results, ok next up..i'll get there in the end

 

[Hvdp]

Can you try it with a stealth cap ? Maybe there is something wrong with the retreaders ?
Just guessing here... but you will get there, i am sure.

 

[womblebat]

I tried it with a lava tube that has a static connection like the stealth Hvdp, i actually think it's a pressure problem

quick update: i decided to go at this from another direction and changed the o-ring underneath the securing nut on the cap
using the one supplied when the securing nut was tightened down onto the cap i could still move the o-ring from underneath the cap, there was no pressure at all on the o-ring with the securing nut locked down tight.

I could also move the mouthpiece from side to side, it wasn't giving a seal
So i replaced the mouthpiece o-ring with a thicker one and now the gurgling and leaking has stopped, fingers crossed this is now providing a good seal.

Can anybody else move their mouthpiece from side to side when the juice control is opened up fractionally? mine is now nice and sealed without any movement even when the juice control is fully open.

I'm hoping it's now fault free and the problem was mismatched o-rings being supplied

 

[eyebrook]

never had a need to open the mouth piece, but just tried it and it and no movement side to side, glad its sorted for you

opened it some more and very slight movement side to side

 

[womblebat]

Cheers eye that confirms it for me that my o-ring wasn't doing its job, the slightest crack open and i used to have quite a bit of side to side movement, not so now with the thicker o-ring.

 

[eyebrook]

glad its all sorted now