RDA do you drip by the drip tip or remove the cap

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Kind of a nonessential question since I don't think it matter much. People with rda do you drip by the drip tip hence the name drip tip ;), or remove the top cap and drip.

I tend to remove the cap so I can look at the state of my wick then saturate the whole thing. But sometime I just drip by the drip tip less stuff to remove. Then again it's not hard to remove the cap and be sure everything is fine and dandy.

What your preference? It's just a conversation starter since I'm a bit bored and slightly curious. :vapor:
 

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In the midst of a dripping session, I usually pull the drip tip and drop through the hole, saving me the trouble of aligning the air holes with the coils again. Once a day or so, I take the cap off and check my wicks and so forth. But then, I don't drip a lot-- I am tonite, for a change-- so I'm probably doing it wrong.
 
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Depends on the RDA for me. Doge with a regular drip tip = pull the top cap off (leave the middle section on, duh) and drip like that. I like being able to see how my coils/wicks are doing, and whether they're already saturated (if I put my vape down for a while).

With a wide bore drip tip = just drip straight down that mutha-jawn. You can usually see straight through to the cotton/coils so it's pretty much on par with pulling the whole thing off.
 

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Kind of a nonessential question since I don't think it matter much. People with RDA do you drip by the drip tip hence the name drip tip ;), or remove the top cap and drip.

I tend to remove the cap so I can look at the state of my wick then saturate the whole thing. But sometime I just drip by the drip tip less stuff to remove. Then again it's not hard to remove the cap and be sure everything is fine and dandy.

What your preference? It's just a conversation starter since I'm a bit bored and slightly curious. :vapor:

It mostly depends on the type of RDA you are using. If the RDA has bottom airflow with air-vents under the coils, more caution needs to be used when dripping. Additionally, if the juice well is somewhat shallow, caution will be needed with these types of RDAs as well. I use a Freakshow Mini and a Mutation X V4, both of which are known to be leak machines but flavor chasers. It's a trade off. The big cloud RDAs are usually the more leak resistant while the flavor-chasing RDAs with the airflow underneath the coils tend to leak if you are careless or impatient while dripping. After a couple of builds on each I experience minimal leaking and great flavor. To get to your question though, I generally take off the cap and paint the wicks. I'm slowly learning my limits for each RDA though and I'm finding if I angle the tip of the juice bottle in at a slight angle through the drip tip, I can fill up the juice well without any leaking through the airflow or sides of the top cap.

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