Solution to my ego c wick problem

[Kuarlos]

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.

 

[sailorman]

I don't think it's bs. It's no secret the darker and heavier juices are rougher on a wick and an atty coil than lighter juices.
If you go to Pbusardo review on the eGo C, you'll see he had some of the same complaints. He didn't do anything about them, but in the comment section, some eGo C owners chimed in with similar tips to what you seem to have discovered on your own. Congrats for your ingenuity.

I don't have an eGo C, so I'm not all that intimate with them, but can't you take the wick out and do your dry burn so you don't bake the juice into the wick? Or, shouldn't the wick be clean enough after soaking that it's not an issue?

One other thing. It think you'l have much better luck with stronger alcohol. Not sure what you're using, but 80 proof rum won't cut it for getting the crud off your coils. You really need something like 158 proof vodka, Bacardi 181 proof or, better yet, Everclear which is like 190 proof.

 

[Kuarlos]

We seem to be reading off the same hymn sheet mate, I m kinda obsessive so the tech involved is fun for me too.

Taking a wick completley out is a bad idea, everyone who mentions doing this seems not to have got it back in. They are fragile, mine had a few bits coming off and I was crapping myself that the burning taste was vaporized wick, its not, afik its sugar on the wick touching the coil burning because its dry.

You are bob on with the dry burning, it will just leave nasty deposits on the wick and end of day this is about not smoking! I will never do that again, manual on the joye c even tells you to do it!

Separating atomiser head and body was key to sussing this, one you pop your first one you realise how easy it is, 40% clear booze worked perfectly, and I usually have a tad kicking about of you know what I mean

I trawled a fair few forums and the common pattern is ego c vapes great but goes off soon, those who report it goes off dont do the above, and selection of your juice provider is also importantly two major uk ones have proven absolutlry inferior to a smaller guy called paradise vaping. His liquids have been unbelievable but it most definitely takes a clean well positioned wick, and prodding stuff with a toothpick or paperclip, as seems the standard answer is just going to compress an already gunked up wick and either create a channel and cause flooding or plain compress and block it. To be clear, nothing has got onto the coils, given my experience, it wouldn't be too much of a leap to think there are a bomb load of ego c users hating it for a dirty wick, and reporting a ton of varied problems that all boil down to that.

To give an idea I was vaping 36mg cappochino and switched to 3mg blackcurrant, in between these posts, first pull was a mix, next was pure blackcurrant with enough vapour to make me wheeze as I was searching for a throat hit that wasn't there due to the low nic.