Pro tank acting clogged and leaking

[Stenwood]

Well hello, first post here,

I've Been vaping for about three months now, currently I am using a protank v1 with a k100 mechanical mod. Before the mod I was using a vision spinner. never Had any issue until today. I left my Vape in my Truck over night. It was a semi cold night for here in Washington (about 50 degrees), on my way to work i noticed a lot of fluid in my tip. So I pulled my tank apart dried it up and everything was fine. worked for most of the day. Now I went to refill my tank and as i was threading my tank on my batt I noticed it was giving me a little more resistance when it was getting close to tight. Didn't think anything of it. So I took a drag and it felt like it was clogged, then got hit with a lot of juice in my mouth as well as all over my hands.I tried dry cleaning it and replacing the coil. Has this happened to anyone? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you!

 

[cdf294]

My wife's ProTank had a very similar problem recently. It was working fine and then for no particular reason, and without warning, started to lose vapor, the draw tightened up considerably, and it started flooding. Thought the head may be a goner but that wasn't it.
Turned out that the air holes were clogged in the base. An everclear bath took care of the problem.

 

[cdf294]

Also, inspect the big seal on the base that seals the tank... I've heard this can cause some pretty odd problems if damaged from overtightening.

 

[kuvanos]

I had the same problem, first thing I did was ditch the orings that it came with. I put in the black ones that you can buy anywhere. Completely solved the problem.

 

[Stenwood]

Also, inspect the big seal on the base that seals the tank... I've heard this can cause some pretty odd problems if damaged from overtightening.

I checked that seal, and it looked ok as far as I could see. I let my tank dry and tried lightly tightening everything, so far so good.But we will see what happens.

I had the same problem, first thing I did was ditch the orings that it came with. I put in the black ones that you can buy anywhere. Completely solved the problem.

Pardon my ignorance but, would I pick those up at a hardware store, or more of a vape site? I'm still new to this all.

 

[Choc_Addic]

It's time. Just clean it up and it should be fine.

Also take a close look at the coil. If it's gunked up, do a dry burn and wash, dry. Mine's been going for a month now. Closing in on a head replacement or recoil.

Cheers

 

[CraftyZA]

It's time. Just clean it up and it should be fine.

Also take a close look at the coil. If it's gunked up, do a dry burn and wash, dry. Mine's been going for a month now. Closing in on a head replacement or recoil.

Cheers

I'm really impressed with guys/gals getting a month on a coil. My best, and I reLly mean best was 3 weeks. Mostly i get about 10 days. Coil just starts to loose flavor. I firmly believe a t3 tank on an ego performs better than my pt2 on svd. Got 3 boxes of coils left of the 10 i bought. I think after that, i'm done with pt...

 

[Choc_Addic]

My routine is, spare head in a small bottle of Cheap Vodka (I use it till it's cloudy, with tight cap) and switch them out after 2 refills.

Also check this out for extending the head life. http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ictorial-evod-rewicking-cotton-recoiling.html
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/clearomizers/469445-wick-preferences-3.html#post10726739

I get 5 heads for about 5 bucks off of fasttech and only found one out of 20 head that was not right. (used a multimeter to check it).

Very inexpensive and easy to maintain.

Good luck with your search on perfect tank.

Cheers

 

[kuvanos]

Im sorry yes...any hardware will have them.

 

[CraftyZA]

Thanks. I've now got ithaka clone, rsst getting delivered today, and scar in the post. there also might be a kayfun clone in my near future.

 

[dice57]

k, if you over tighten the PT on your mod, you can shut off the air flow, then when you try to vape, nothing happens, so you what up? take a bigger draw, and congratulations, you have just sucked an ton of juice into you coil head and flavor wicks, hope you like drinking e-juice. PT's a slightly temperamental in this respect. Leave a PT slightly loose, you can tighten it up if the draw is to airy, or loosen it if to tight. Also, always allow 15 minutes of flavor wick juice saturation to occur, on a fresh coil head, before the first vape, and then all will be well with the world. At least that was my experience with both the PT & PT 2, when I used them.

 

[dice57]

Thanks. I've now got ithaka clone, rsst getting delivered today, and scar in the post. there also might be a kayfun clone in my near future.

The Russian, (Kayfun copy/clone) is exactly why the Protanks don't do a thing for me anymore. There is no comparison between the two. Still say the PT is a great beginners tank, got to love the easy coil head replacement, but once you Kayfun style, say bye bye miss Protank. Hello the Universe.

Actually the thing I like about the Kayfun style systems is that it's like someone looked at a PT and said, oh I can do that and make it bigger faster stonger, able to vape a whole building in a single draw. This thing is rocket science, engineering taken to a new level. [MODERATED]

 

[CraftyZA]

Yeah, I'm in for the Rocket as well, but for south africans. still need to get to 10 orders though.

 

[DaveP]

The Protank can seal against the battery in some cases. When that happens, the draw gets tight and juice is sucked into the wick and coil at a higher rate. My Provari is like that. The Protank bottoms out on the battery top and seals if you tighten it too tight. There are air slots on the bottom of the Protank that are supposed to allow enough air, but they aren't cut deep enough.

Back off the tank an eighth turn to ease the air flow and you won't get the coil overjuicing. It's the vacuum created when you draw that causes the problem. Clogged air holes create the same problem. A fine wire will open the tiny holes on the sides of the threads.

Gurgling is a problem sometimes with the Protank and thin juice. It's less of a problem in my experience if your juice has some VG in the mix to thicken it up. I've tried removing or inverting the tube seal that slips down over the wicks when I've had dry hits. Doing that seems to cause more gurgling as the wicks get over-saturated.

 

[Jonathan Tittle]

DaveP is correct. Even a "snug" tightening with the Protank can be too tight. This happened to me a lot on eGO-T's, the iTaste v3 and the iTaste SVD. It kills the airflow and you end up sucking juice in instead of wicking it properly. Seems to be a design flaw with the system by itself, not with your mod or setup.

If you're using a thinner juice, cotton works much better than silica. You can easy slide the silica out and twist cotton in, but I'd only do this if you're comfortable working with the coils as you can bend them and have to re-position them slightly so that they're not touching. I've done this on about 20-30 of them as of now and cotton works wonders (and I use a 60/40 and 70/30 blend on most of mine as of now).

 

[Stenwood]

Thanks for all the help. Looks like I got it working, it is very temperamental though. I replaced the head with a little deeper thread from my local vape shop, seamed to help considerably. I looks like I was over tightening everything. I also picked up a new pt when I was getting an evod starter kit for my mom. Now I have a backup. The guy at my vape shop was very informative, Got a lot of knowledge, although he was pretty stumped on my tank situation. almost talked me into going back to a non mod, or picking up a rebuild-able dripper. But i need to do a lot of research to see what i wanna do before blindly handing over my money.

 

[Stenwood]

Its sounding like my set up isn't really the greatest combo. I mean it works and does its job. I think their is a lot of options I do not know about.

 

[Scarey]

k, if you over tighten the PT on your mod, you can shut off the air flow, then when you try to vape, nothing happens, so you what up? take a bigger draw, and congratulations, you have just sucked an ton of juice into you coil head and flavor wicks, hope you like drinking e-juice. PT's a slightly temperamental in this respect. Leave a PT slightly loose, you can tighten it up if the draw is to airy, or loosen it if to tight. Also, always allow 15 minutes of flavor wick juice saturation to occur, on a fresh coil head, before the first vape, and then all will be well with the world. At least that was my experience with both the PT & PT 2, when I used them.

If you don't want to wait for the juice to wick, you can dab a drop onto your coil. It only takes a few seconds for it to wick up. I do this after every dry-burn. Obviously, make sure your coil is cool before you put any juice on it.

 

[Coastal Cowboy]

Adding to or replacing the flavor wicks with about a 1mm strand of cotton (from a sterile 100% cotton ball or cheesecloth) will greatly improve the performance of the coil. Gurgling and leaking means that the existing wicking system is putting too much liquid in the airshaft, and the coil can't vaporize it fast enough. Or, it sits for a while, undergoes temperature and pressure changes, and the liquid escapes the wick altogether.

The K100 doesn't have the capability of upping the voltage. The Protank (1 and 2) really shine on variable voltage/variable wattage devices. They're Ok with unregulated systems too, but as the battery voltage drops, so does the power delivered to the coil. With lower power, you're getting into the situation where again, your coil can't vaporize the liquid fast enough. Adding cotton helps here because the natural fibers do a better job of holding the liquid until it's ready to be vaporized.

 

[DaveP]

There are all sorts of theories on why tanks gurgle. Lately, lots of people talk about breaking the tank vacuum. I don't buy that because you can't create a vacuum when an air bubble rises in the juice each time you vape. The coil and wick allow makeup air into the tank through the bottom hole to equalize pressure as needed.

The other night my Evod started gurgling and I did the normal things to stop it. I blew it out into a napkin, took the head out and blew through the tube, changed the head, and checked all the normal things. Each time, it would start to gurgle again.

What fixed it was cleaning the condensation from the mouthpiece and down the center tube into the tank. My Evod has a built-in clear mouthpiece and it was covered in little drops of condensation that blowing out didn't fully clear. I twisted the end of a paper towel into a two inch length and rodded out the center tube. Gurgling was gone and hasn't been back in days. Apparently, condensation was building up until it dripped into the tube on the head, into the coil, and gurgling would return. Blowing it out just fixed the problem until more condensation dripped from the air tube. The fix was to get the condensation out of the air tube.

Whenever I start to hear gurgling, I just clean it out with the twisted paper towel trick and it's gone until condensation builds up again. Once a day air tube cleaning and it's not a problem anymore. The reason the vapor drops off with gurgling is the water introduced to the head thinning the juice when it drips.