Quick learning experience

[MyMagicMist]

Recently, began using a stainless steel tube for an AeroTank. This system is a closed one. That means a person does not see the juice in the chamber. A person quickly learns, despite an inability to view the juice, how to comprehend when a tank is nearing empty.

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My gosh! A person begins to suck juice in a real terrible way. The wick becomes as evil as Linda Blair. *cues the dramatic "Dun duh dun duh ..." music* Argh! Tank Puke! *makes unmistakable face that says his buddy's name is Raaaaalph*

From my limited understanding of it, the wick gets depressurized. This means it will draw up any juice and act as a sponge pump. The juice goes right on up the chimney then.

Was out with father-in-law when this happened. I had inadvertenly also put the base unit back on a little too tight. He saw my face.

"What's the matter, your box dying on you?"

"Something is wonky. Not sure what, battery has power to spare. Pass me a cowboy killer."

Back home, was able to sort it out. Learned a real good lesson from it. Start drinking your juice out of a solid tank? Refill the darn thing as it is going empty.

 

[GinnyTx]

"cowboy killer"

I had a stainless one, kept that sucker obsessively filled.."what it's only been two hours?..can't have enough yah know" *lol*

live and learn.
Welcome! Glad you're gonna live Cowboy

 

[MyMagicMist]

"cowboy killer"

live and learn.
Welcome! Glad you're gonna live Cowboy

*chuckles* Yes'm this old doggy living still. Got himself squared up on some fresh ARO tanks, batch of
heads, Hawk Sauce. May consider unflavored juice at 18% nicotine simply to avoid the menthol flavoring
speeding up entropy of the epoxy used to seal the Aro tank Pyrex. It does not crack a tank in the sense
of cracking a tank, rather it erodes the glue bonding the glass and metal.

"Hey SmokTech! Way to improve the near perfect ARO tank? Make it so ya can strip it down, replace o-ring gaskets inside, maybe even make them nitrate based gaskets. Thanks for hearing, yo. Out."

 

[drunkenbatman]

From my limited understanding of it, the wick gets depressurized. This means it will draw up any juice and act as a sponge pump. The juice goes right on up the chimney then.

It's vacuum pressure, an imbalance between the internal pressure of the tank and outer air that happens while you're sucking -- it's part of how these types of tanks work. The air in the tank has less pressure compared to your room after you've used it for a bit.

Once the eliquid starts going below 1/3 - 1/4th of the tank, it can stop working, causing the eliquid to get pushed into the coil and then the tube when you're doing a draw.

If you aren't at a place to refill and it starts to get a little gurgly, the easiest thing you can do is unscrew the bottom for a moment which breaks the seal and equalizes the pressure, and then how you finish off the tank will depend on the strength of your draw.