Would adding more flavor wick reduce flooding?

[jcco]

For whatever reason I've got Evods & Protanks that flood no matter what I do.
I've done everything including changing heads & still get flooding.

Would adding more flavor wick solve the problem?
Using 100% VG & still have problems.

Lucky me.

 

[Jim Diamond]

It might be worth a try. I sometimes remove flavor wicks in the beginning, only to add back later if they get too gurgly.

 

[fundoodman]

That's weird, and rather sucky. Check to make sure the little rubber seal thing is down all the way on the post thinger. Are you screwing them in tight? Maybe you got a batch with no o-ring gaskets on the bottom? Just brainstorming.....

 

[bigmaaark]

That could work. But careful on over wicking. I ran into that problem when I rebuilt my kfl and it wasnt absorbing juice fast enough so I was getting a lot of nasty dry burnt hits


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[sbc83]

Look at a picture of a head online to make sure you have all the gaskets in place. Adding a little wick won't hurt anything, if it stops the gurgling and the flavor is still there you should be good to go.

 

[crxess]

Give us some detail on how you prepare a new Evod or New wick for use.
Tell us a bit about how you actually vape. Do you take short drags?(2-3 seconds) Do you prefer to Draw hard like with a cigarette?
There is much more to what a device does than just it's design.

 

[rbeckys8]

I use a total of 4 wicks (3 with coil around it..1 flavor wick)..no problems..

 

[Snickerfritz]

Switching to cotton would eliminate flooding (and improve flavor).

 

[jcco]

I have used brand new in the wrapper coil heads & so far 4 have flooded. I generally take a light 3-4 second puff.
I'm not sure if I could have gotten that many bad kanger heads in a row. That's what it seems like.

Would I put in just some strands or go for full 1mm. That would be in addition to whatever they put in there out of the box.
I'm not used to having such flooding problems. It all started when a coil went bad.
Usually I remove a flavor wick so this is strange indeed. All have come with the proper gaskets & appear to be the same so I don't think the problem is that. I tighten it well but not overly crazy.

I'm frustrated with gurgling & no vapor production plus the lovely liquid in my mouth.

Should I just continue to put new heads on till I find one that works?
I'm using Boba's Bounty so you'd think it would be the opposite if anything.

Thanks for the input so far.
I'm saving the heads for a time so I can learn how to rebuild them. I don't know how to quite yet but plan on using various wicking materials. I have silica 1,2 & 3mm, some peaches & cream yarn & cotton balls. I'll have to experiment with those materials but do like the option of dry burning with the silica. I only have Kanthal 32.

JC

 

[Coastal Cowboy]

Yes, adding wicking material across the top of the coil will help to eliminate flooding problems. Removing them is inviting flooding. Those things are there for a reason.

Using cotton or silica helps, but you need less cotton to do the same job.

Just don't ever try to dry burn a coil with cotton as the primary or secondary (flavor) wick in place.

 

[crxess]

Had to work, back now.

Go ahead and pop the pipe off a couple of the Leaking heads. Inspect them to see how the wicks are laid out.

Kanger:
(1)x 2mm wick wrapped by coil
(2)x 1mm wicks - Parallel above coil
I always recommend fluffing wick ends before installing the first time.

Clone Coil Headssome)
(1)x 2mm wick/coil
(1)x 2mm flavor wick

I have and use Both of these configurations. While I have had slow wicking issues to tweak out, I haven't had any leaking issues, so far.

Any Exposed GAPS wick to channel is a highway to leaking. Fluffing or filling may be required.
Some heads have come(even Kanger) with 3 flavor wicks or even with only 1 small wick(missing wicks) Poor factory QC.