I'm reading you and I'm curious about the 'tilt' thing....
I'm Spaniard, and my knowledge of the word seemed to be a problem. I didn't get the proper meaning of it, and I was thinking of some restricted meaning to vapers (English speaking vapers...). But it turned out to be the direct meaning....tilting the atomizer so the SS mesh gets wet enough.....
I have an UD AGA-TD and usually I do not tilt it, neither it leaks when I leave it over the table, not vertically, of course. My main concern with it is to avoid the torching of the mesh, so I learned to just torch the wire with pulses from the mod and then put the mesh (crude SS without any burning involved) and finishing the insulating burnt also with pulses....
Sometimes I got a good set-up. Sometimes it's less than desirable but it works. As plan B, I put a bit of cotton on the parts which need to be insulated, minimal amounts of cotton will insulate wire and mesh and also reduce the coal dust or burnt metal dust there, giving some cotton-flavoured draws, but in two or three (with the minimal right amount of cotton) they perform and taste like usual genisis....
Suffice to say, it's my favourite atomizer, even if it has special requirements. It won't leak easily, unless you open an extra hole in the deck for better wick, but the risk is there... so to be out and about I prefer a dripper or a good claromizer....
But with the right set-up, wick (capillarity of the mesh) and power..... it's nirvana, man!...
If just it was not so that lot of job in each setting......
