Out of 12 coils, 4 have dumped juice. Not just a slight leak. Dumps. Like everything in the tank. It never happens immediately, but days after installation. I use it just fine up to that point, then set the rig down. I come back later (or wake up) and there's an empty tank and a puddle of juice on my desk or nightstand. Or once, in the cupholder in my car. Thankfully it was a rental.
;)Each time, there's a divot that is visible through the wick openings. Is it just coincidence? Or is the wick pulling away or something?
Whatever it is, It's frustrating that I can't trust this thing to not just dump juice through the air ports. A leaky TFV4 destroyed one of my mods and I'm afraid that something similar will happen here as well. Not just loss of expensive juice and wasted coil, but damage to my mod as well.
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First, did you check the scratch off to make sure that it is an authentic Aspire product and not a "Fake/Clone"?
The knock offs that are being sold are notorius for leaking through the coils.
1. Tank isn't assembled tightly enough. With these kinds of seals, I had figured snug would be best. But a friend suggested really cranking down on the coil and the top. Eliminated 90% of the issue.
2. Dry hit burned a hole in the wick. Yep. If you taste burnt cotton, replace the coil at once. Otherwise, you run the risk of juice just pouring through where the cotton wicking USED to be.
I haven't had a juice dump in a while now since I started following those two rules. Unfortunately, I'm chewing through drip tips by cross threading them, and by really cranking down on the assembly, I have to use pliers to get it apart. I picked up a set of nylon jaw non-marring pliers for this. Takes some practice to disassemble with these though. Slip off the metal and you crack the glass. DAMHIKT.
Close the airholes
Open top cap and fill it up
Start closing the top cap and as soon as you feel some resistance, turn the whole thing upside down while continuing to close it (has something to do with pressure ... do not ask for details please ...).
Open the airflow (I then clean it up a bit).
Turn it back to normal after a few seconds.
This will avoid most of the leaking.
Cleito coils have huge wicking holes in order to allow big clouds.
That being said, I still have to find out why these atos sometimes do leak, sometimes they don't ... changes in atmospheric pressure perhaps ?
It remains a mystery to me ... but when the leaking becomes too much, it is time to change the coil.
First,you can screw the whole top cap out ,then fill the e-juice into the tank.
Second,you can just screw off the drip tip ,then fill e-juice into the tank from the filling hole on the top cap.
Both ways can be done my way, but I prefer the second one Tina mentions.
Your suggestion always welcome. :)