Here's a pic of it leaking beyond the catch up.
Squonked 3 seconds then released, juice barely filled the floor of the reomizer. Vape 3 puffs, placed it down on the table, 1 hour later juice on the catch cup, 2 hours later, juice beyond the catch cup. (Pic below)
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Just cleaned everything and dry it. Let's see what happens when I wake up tomorrow.
First off thats way too much juice to be overflowing the cup. I see very little juice in my cup during use and it has never overflowed the cup. You may indeed have a gasket issue. But first lemme explain about squonking a little. When your juice bottle is near full, the squonk is less than than when the bottle is not as full. Why? Because the fluid level in the bottle and tube will equalize. Squonking exerts pressure inside the bottle and forces your juice up the tube into the rba, atty, what have you. I think it is not really accurate to say that a squonk should be so many seconds or any time period for that matter. Depending upon the amount of liquid in the bottle and amount of pressure that you exert upon the bottle will determine the length of time for your optimum squonk for the juice to saturate the wick. You might want to try this, take off the reo door so you can see the bottle which for demo purposes is half full. You will notice that the tube portion exiting the bottle is empty or very near empty. The tube should be the same in the bottle as well until it dips into the juice. This is where it equalizes. Now gently squeeze the bottle and watch the juice go up the tube, hold your squeeze without further pressure and your juice should retain the same level. Let go and juice falls back into the bottle to the same level with the juice in it. From doing this you can see that if the bottle were to be near full not much continuous increasing pressure is needed to move the juice all the way up to the top. Not much time or pressure will give you the necessary amount. When your bottle is near empty, the opposite holds true. Continuous increasing pressure for a longer time would be necessary. The harder you squonk the less time it'll take. For myself with a near full bottle its like maybe 1.5 seconds, when its near empty, maybe about 3 seconds. But remember the pressure I use will not be the same as yours so our times will differ. Also the dryness of the wick will also come to play, dryer wicks will require more juice.
The squonk should be only to wet the wick, this is easier said then done. We cannot see the wick so thats why usually we over/under squonk and we get a dry vape or spillage unto the floor of the atty. Some wicks are long enough to suck up any excess off of the floor but the original wick of the reomizer is not built that way. All of this will become second nature to you so don't worry about it. I just wanted to explain what happens during a squonk.
I still think you have a gasket problem so don't get me wrong, unless for that 3 second squonk of yours you really used a hard one and put a lot of fluid up in there. Don't get discouraged, you'll probably be an ace in no time flat.
