These iClear 16s keep juicing up my mouth

[smacuser]

I recently received 5 of them, and the first 2 keep leaking juice into my mouth.

I figured it was due to condensation and would blow out the drip tip, but this is starting to become ridiculous.

 

[smacuser]

Darn it, these things suck.

 

[TheJakeBailey]

Hello, just wanted to tell you to repost your question in clearomizers. Will probably get more input there! Good luck

 

[grayscale]

The iClears are clearomizers, not cartomizers.

 

[smacuser]

same diff...

 

[retired1]

same diff...

Not really. Moved to Clearomizers

 

[smacuser]

Okay. So, the iClear 16 and 30s suck.

The 30s are too drawy, and the 16s are too burny (and they suck juice into you mouth, just like the Vivi Novas without the tube thing in the drip tip).

 

[TheJakeBailey]

With this glowing review, the real question is who wouldn't want to trade?!

 

[MsComptrtchr]

When you add the juice, perhaps you are getting it into the head and that's why it's leaking juice. That has happened to me with IClear16s. You have to be careful to pour the juice down the side like you would pour a beer and not get it into the tip in the middle. It can be hard to do.

I recently received 5 of them, and the first 2 keep leaking juice into my mouth.

I figured it was due to condensation and would blow out the drip tip, but this is starting to become ridiculous.

 

[catlady60]

One of my Iclear 16's leak and I found out why. It turned out that the head couldn't go in straight because the bottom part where the clear tank meets the lower ring is lopsided by about 1mm, and that's the source of the juice leak. I guess I'll have to toss it; I have 3 more.

UPDATE: I straightened out the tank by gently banging the bottom ring with a pair of pliers. Problem solved.

 

[Mike.S]

I get condensation, which collects at the bottom, where the seal is. There's a little nipple on the silicone seal which is intended to help, but the condensation eventually builds up and ugh. I just unscrew the mouthpiece occasionally and let what's collected drain into the tank. If you tilt it while doing this so the liquid in the tank touches the little bit collected on top of the seal, it will help pull it off and you won't need to do it so often.

 

[OldSeer]

As in the case of the IClear 16... it is a simple process to unscrew the drip tip
and blow thru it into a tissue... and wipe off the drip tip especially towards the bottom
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This will help stop any gurgling...
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Further more... when you place the drip tip back on... make sure it is screwed on snug!
Then once you have your clearomizer (any clearo) put back together...
place a tissue at the bottom of it... and blow thru the drip tip so the air flows gently
down thru the channel (small tubing) all the way out thru the bottom.. this help to
prevent gurgling... at anytime... You may hear a little at first but it will go away if
you've followed instruction... and as the coils warm..
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PRIMING>>Before you ever... press that firing pin... make sure (if possible)
to hold your fingers over the Tanks air holes and attempt to take a couple of DRAWS
this will create a vacuum that pulls your COILS down WHERE they belong and
stops (prevents) FUTURE leaking...
Do this anytime you've left your CLEAROMIZER alone for awhile.
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Never START a CLEAROMIZER out on anything but the lowest wattages and voltages
for the first couple of minutes... then you can up the power as you see fit...

If you up the power of you COILS to soon... aka before hand you can cook your coils
and get burnt tastes...

 

[smacuser]

I just unscrew the mouthpiece occasionally and let what's collected drain into the tank

This works, but the backwash factor is kind of awkward.

And a thank you Oldseer for the thoughtful response, as well to MsComptrtchr, catlady60 and everyone else.