After taking stock of my shelved vape gear after a lapse of will power, i have 9x RTA's.. Most were shoved in the back of a drawer as is with juice, so many were in an awful state, not quite as bad as the larger subtanks in which juice had ?evaporated? leaving black gunk stuck to glass and steel. So it could have been worse.
Anyway a huge cleaning session later i have 9 x rta's to relearn how to build, One benefit of getting stashed full was the existing build was available for study giving me a lot of hints and clues .
7x seem to have gone well passing a n initial leak test and they all vape well with varying results, the lemo? lemmo? 2s are both a bit warm with the hint of cotton in the taste, but im using 'raw' unbleached muji pads for cotton and the hint of cotton taste does not increase with longer rapid vapes.
I got away with using the existing coil builds in most just needing to re-wick, but in attempting to re-wick #8 a RDTA, which wants wicks to drape down into the lower tank through 3mm? holes in the deck i mangled the soft nickel coils fited in attempts to thread too much cotton through, and walked away before launching it out the window..
I can return with a calm head to this one..
#9 however is my headache, 2nd build now and its leaking again.. its a minimalistic small UD RTA, with what i recall as a Goblin style deck and 2 part funnel chimney.
Both times i have taken care to cut long enough wicks to fill the juice channels, first with about 50% of the initial wicks body cut off to form a tapered point, 2nd time without trimming the wick end at all cutting square to the deck aiming for upto 1mm length protruding once fitted. both times the tank seemed ok after about 30 mins or so and vaped well without any gurgles indicating the juice flow was ok??
The venting a simple opening directly below the coils in the deck was left open and overnight it drops half its contents
;(
(Leaky tank outside the box on the towel to absorb the spill)
the above pic was taken after build #1 dropped its load for other reasons and isnt very illustrative.. I will take pics as i go with build #3 (coming soon), for a clearer view of the predicament and to highlight any glaring errors im making.
This tank required coils fitting and i used a matched pair of circa 0.6 ohm Kanthal coils giving a target of circa 0.3 ohm final resistance (0.34 iirc)
But other than stuffing the juice channels with cotton and ensuring the chimney is threaded on correctly and fully, what more can i do??
Im using a 50/50 pg/vg 6% nic juice same juice as used in testing all tanks pictured above, and am vaping now...
Thanks for reading and any comments that can help..
Anyway a huge cleaning session later i have 9 x rta's to relearn how to build, One benefit of getting stashed full was the existing build was available for study giving me a lot of hints and clues .
7x seem to have gone well passing a n initial leak test and they all vape well with varying results, the lemo? lemmo? 2s are both a bit warm with the hint of cotton in the taste, but im using 'raw' unbleached muji pads for cotton and the hint of cotton taste does not increase with longer rapid vapes.
I got away with using the existing coil builds in most just needing to re-wick, but in attempting to re-wick #8 a RDTA, which wants wicks to drape down into the lower tank through 3mm? holes in the deck i mangled the soft nickel coils fited in attempts to thread too much cotton through, and walked away before launching it out the window..
I can return with a calm head to this one..
#9 however is my headache, 2nd build now and its leaking again.. its a minimalistic small UD RTA, with what i recall as a Goblin style deck and 2 part funnel chimney.
Both times i have taken care to cut long enough wicks to fill the juice channels, first with about 50% of the initial wicks body cut off to form a tapered point, 2nd time without trimming the wick end at all cutting square to the deck aiming for upto 1mm length protruding once fitted. both times the tank seemed ok after about 30 mins or so and vaped well without any gurgles indicating the juice flow was ok??
The venting a simple opening directly below the coils in the deck was left open and overnight it drops half its contents
;(
(Leaky tank outside the box on the towel to absorb the spill)
the above pic was taken after build #1 dropped its load for other reasons and isnt very illustrative.. I will take pics as i go with build #3 (coming soon), for a clearer view of the predicament and to highlight any glaring errors im making.
This tank required coils fitting and i used a matched pair of circa 0.6 ohm Kanthal coils giving a target of circa 0.3 ohm final resistance (0.34 iirc)
But other than stuffing the juice channels with cotton and ensuring the chimney is threaded on correctly and fully, what more can i do??
Im using a 50/50 pg/vg 6% nic juice same juice as used in testing all tanks pictured above, and am vaping now...
Thanks for reading and any comments that can help..
