Just went to watch the Avengers at the odeon in manchester uk, got gallery seats, I ended up vaping a mil of jamaica rum, watching the film, and no one noticed, just held it a tad longer and breathed down!
I m a noob to vaping though and after a pap ecig ended going to an ego c I found I had an issue. Just ended my first week, dropped analouges dead, and the mrs is smoking next to me right now! On friday, I was on my fourth Atty. Juices in the tank had discoloured, they had started either instantly flooding, burning taste, whistling on the slightest pull or not pulling at all. These symptoms happened after 4ml going through each atty.
I did some lurking and it seems this is a common issue. People seem to be trying to solve it in a variety of ways. I solved all my problems after some research
Problem causes are a. Wick position. b. Juice used. c. Atomiser maintainance.
The wick position is number one, I had no clue how to lever off the atmoniser head until I saw the cloud 9 vaping wick replacement vid, once I realised this was easy I decided to have a look inside an atty. Took the head off one I deemed broken, the coil was clean, and I do mean clean. Heated fine. But the wick was black, few hours of both halves of the atomiser in some white rum, wick was white and coil had the minor amount of crud on it gone.
Atty still wasn't working right but I felt more confident, so pulled apart one that was working right, and saw the wicks on the two were different, working atty had wick splayed over the coil, one vaping poorly had wick just pushing out of the head, on another 'duff' atty wick was pushed to one side of the coil. I have all my attys now with their wicks positioned so they splay out just onto the coil. All now work perfectly.
Onto the final cause, my wicks were turning black, they still do. This seems to be a residue of juice and the make of juice seems to matter. Dry burning as per the manual for me is an absolute no no. It just solidifies nastiest on the wick. Cloud 9 coffee and totally wicked watermelon and red bull all speeded up the blackening. But its my opinion nothing stops it completely.
Oh, tank issues on the type a, as in leaking, could well be explained by this wick issue; I was sure my tanks were leaking before I sussed wicks which had crap on them didn't wick so much as flow and were flooding the cone.
Confident the following got this sorted for me, I am now on 4 perfect attys and one in the pack from being in despair on friday.
Use one atty a day, when I switch flavours I can ususally tell the new flavour second pull, fourth or fifth even lemon and lime dissapear on a clean wick. End of day, separate the wick holder from the atomiser body, make sure the wick it is far enough down for it to spay just accross the coil, let it soak in a clear 40% alcohol for a few hours, then just wrinse and go.
I am a noob so if anyone believes the above is bs, no offence will be taken, but this has really worked for me and I was getting a variety of symptoms all solved by treating the wick this way.
I m a noob to vaping though and after a pap ecig ended going to an ego c I found I had an issue. Just ended my first week, dropped analouges dead, and the mrs is smoking next to me right now! On friday, I was on my fourth Atty. Juices in the tank had discoloured, they had started either instantly flooding, burning taste, whistling on the slightest pull or not pulling at all. These symptoms happened after 4ml going through each atty.
I did some lurking and it seems this is a common issue. People seem to be trying to solve it in a variety of ways. I solved all my problems after some research
Problem causes are a. Wick position. b. Juice used. c. Atomiser maintainance.
The wick position is number one, I had no clue how to lever off the atmoniser head until I saw the cloud 9 vaping wick replacement vid, once I realised this was easy I decided to have a look inside an atty. Took the head off one I deemed broken, the coil was clean, and I do mean clean. Heated fine. But the wick was black, few hours of both halves of the atomiser in some white rum, wick was white and coil had the minor amount of crud on it gone.
Atty still wasn't working right but I felt more confident, so pulled apart one that was working right, and saw the wicks on the two were different, working atty had wick splayed over the coil, one vaping poorly had wick just pushing out of the head, on another 'duff' atty wick was pushed to one side of the coil. I have all my attys now with their wicks positioned so they splay out just onto the coil. All now work perfectly.
Onto the final cause, my wicks were turning black, they still do. This seems to be a residue of juice and the make of juice seems to matter. Dry burning as per the manual for me is an absolute no no. It just solidifies nastiest on the wick. Cloud 9 coffee and totally wicked watermelon and red bull all speeded up the blackening. But its my opinion nothing stops it completely.
Oh, tank issues on the type a, as in leaking, could well be explained by this wick issue; I was sure my tanks were leaking before I sussed wicks which had crap on them didn't wick so much as flow and were flooding the cone.
Confident the following got this sorted for me, I am now on 4 perfect attys and one in the pack from being in despair on friday.
Use one atty a day, when I switch flavours I can ususally tell the new flavour second pull, fourth or fifth even lemon and lime dissapear on a clean wick. End of day, separate the wick holder from the atomiser body, make sure the wick it is far enough down for it to spay just accross the coil, let it soak in a clear 40% alcohol for a few hours, then just wrinse and go.
I am a noob so if anyone believes the above is bs, no offence will be taken, but this has really worked for me and I was getting a variety of symptoms all solved by treating the wick this way.
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