Tampon

[sebastianbach]

I have a leaking atomizer - maybe it is just me, wrong wicking ... - and it was leaking like crazy a few moments ago.

I didn' t know what to do exactly in that moment and desperately pushed the tissue on the air flow and it started to leak much less.

Didn' t exactly understand if this is a scientific fact or just a myth i wanted to believe. What do you think about the issue? Do you think it is related with the inner pressure of atomizer and you should do in times like these or useless thing?

 

[Anise]

Maybe it's just me but I am sooo lost right now.
What does this have to do with tampons?

 

[Doffy]

some people use tampon innards as wick. It is high quality rayon in there, with no perfumes etc

is that what you mean?

 

[smacuser]

I must not drunk post,




but, they might work in a pinch.

 

[Anise]

The quicker picker upper. Oh wait, that's paper towels

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

Sounds like you don't have the right equipment to use these.

 

[uthinkofsomething]

Maybe it's just me but I am sooo lost right now.
What does this have to do with tampons?

You're on a sebastianbach thread, you're not lost...
I know what he's referring too though as far as tampon... Tampons were originally invented to stick in bullet wounds to stop bleeding. He's talking about whatever he's using to soak up excess liquid. Tissue.
This thread is so gonna get deleted eventually...

 

[bombastinator]

Ah. The thread where you get toxic shock from licking batteries

 

[smacuser]

 

[sdennislee]

Johann, other than the title you have submitted a normal post, right on!

You're improvised "Tampon" will eventually saturate and drip on you, fix the leak

Tanks leak when they lose vacuum or the coil floods.

Tips to help maintain vacuum in your tank:

1) All o-rings in place and in good condition. Missing or faulty o-ring will allow air in/vacuum out.
2) Cracked glass
3) Chipped glass where the glass tube seals to the o-ring
4) Dirty mating surfaces, o-rings to metal or o-rings to glass
5) Over filling the tank. One of two things can happen here; 1) if you top the tank off all the way there is no room for the vacuum to form, leave a bit at the top and 2) depending on coil/chimney style you can flood the coil.
6) Juice is too thin. Either to high in PG content for the density of the wicking material or the tank/juice has been exposed to heat which thinned the juice out. Both of these result in the coil flooding and dumping juice through the air flow holes.
7) Letting the tank sit unused for extended periods of time, results in the coil saturating and flooding. Try turning the tank upside down to pull the juice away from the wicking material. Remember to let the wicking material rewet when you go back to vape it.
8) Close the airflow control/holes before opening the tank to fill it. Once you fill the tank but before opening the the airflow take a couple unpowered draws to help with the vacuum.
9) Coil should be finger tight, if you crank on it to hard you could deform the o-ring at the bottom of the coil.
10) Tanks needs to be assembled tightly to avoid leaks around the o-rings. As tight as you can get it with your hands.
11) Vaping at too low a temp, this will result in juice in the coil not being completely vaporized, which saturates/floods the coil.
12) I'm sure I'm forgetting something but it's late. Hopefully others will chime in. I've included a couple videos. There are tons of "How to fix a leaking tank" videos on YouTube. I have not watched them all but feel safe in saying none of them will address the use of a tampon.

Good luck, only burnt hits suck more than a leaky tank.

 

[bombastinator]

Johann, other than the title you have submitted a normal post, right on!

You're improvised "Tampon" will eventually saturate and drip on you, fix the leak

Tanks leak when they lose vacuum or the coil floods.

Tips to help maintain vacuum in your tank:

1) All o-rings in place and in good condition. Missing or faulty o-ring will allow air in/vacuum out.
2) Cracked glass
3) Chipped glass where the glass tube seals to the o-ring
4) Dirty mating surfaces, o-rings to metal or o-rings to glass
5) Over filling the tank. One of two things can happen here; 1) if you top the tank off all the way there is no room for the vacuum to form, leave a bit at the top and 2) depending on coil/chimney style you can flood the coil.
6) Juice is too thin. Either to high in PG content for the density of the wicking material or the tank/juice has been exposed to heat which thinned the juice out. Both of these result in the coil flooding and dumping juice through the air flow holes.
7) Letting the tank sit unused for extended periods of time, results in the coil saturating and flooding. Try turning the tank upside down to pull the juice away from the wicking material. Remember to let the wicking material rewet when you go back to vape it.
8) Close the airflow control/holes before opening the tank to fill it. Once you fill the tank but before opening the the airflow take a couple unpowered draws to help with the vacuum.
9) Coil should be finger tight, if you crank on it to hard you could deform the o-ring at the bottom of the coil.
10) Tanks needs to be assembled tightly to avoid leaks around the o-rings. As tight as you can get it with your hands.
11) Vaping at too low a temp, this will result in juice in the coil not being completely vaporized, which saturates/floods the coil.
12) I'm sure I'm forgetting something but it's late. Hopefully others will chime in. I've included a couple videos. There are tons of "How to fix a leaking tank" videos on YouTube. I have not watched them all but feel safe in saying none of them will address the use of a tampon.

Good luck, only burnt hits suck more than a leaky tank.

 

[jimbodaddy74]

 

[Mayitbe]

Maybe you need have a right position to stop leaking ?

 

[United States]

No science, no myth.

Leaking o'ring or coil. Hire a mechanic.

 

[Eskie]

Oh, I love waking up on a Monday morning to an amusing thread.

No, sticking a towel in to stop the leak is not a good solution. Treat the problem, not the symptom. You have a ton of useful advice in this thread to help you resolve the issue.

And no, you can't really use a paper towel as a tampon. Well, technically yes you could if you were stranded on a deserted island. But then where did the roll of paper towels come from? Answers to questions like this is probably why I never tried out for Survivor.

 

[Coyote628]

 

[My Batt Hurts]

Oh goody! Entertainment.

 

[stols001]

Um assuming this is a language barrier, I think you are saying you used... .something.... to mop up a catastrophic leak as it is occurring. In my opinion tampons would work better than paper towels or tissues for the mess, they are highly absorbant.

As to what to do, with a catastrophic leak I flip the mod over immediately so it is leaking all over ME instead of into my expensive mod, I then unscrew it, take it to the sink, and also wash off whatever eliquid winds up on my person.

Then I take it apart and have a good, long hard look at my coil and wicking, usually resulting in me fixing whatever problem of leakage I have caused.

You can certainly "gather" rayon from rayon tampons (don't get a perfumed kind if they make that any more) and it's fine to "harvest" the rayon although I'm not entirely sure that is what you are asking.

"Then I take it apart and have a good long look...." That sentence is going to be your biggest headache, right there. If it's new equipment to you, well watch some youtube reviewers on the subject many are pretty good at showing you how to build and wick it.

Welcome to ECF, I think.

Anna

 

[untar]

Would be good to know which atomizer you're even talking about, how can anybody know what you're talking about?

As for the tampon thing, just DIY

 

[JCinFLA]

Maybe it's just my way of thinking, but the last thing I'd ever think of to soak up the mess from a leaking tank...would be a tampon. Paper towel, Kleenex tissue, or a few sheets of toilet paper off the roll...yep. Tampon...nope!