Bishop RTA help!

[jimmy_sparks]

Morning all!

I recently picked up the Bishop RTA. It’s decent, but I do find that the wick / deck seems to get gunked up pretty quickly compared with other tanks.

I’ve tried different air pins, fiddling around with coil height, different thicknesses of wick etc but can’t seem to nail it.

Anyone else experience this with this tank or have any good build suggestions?

Cheers!

 

[zouzounaki]

i’ve never noticed this, but i don’t ever use highly flavoured or gunky liquid. does it seem to flooding as well as the gunk?

i always use a 2mm coil in it, spaced out widely all the way to the deck screws, and put as much cotton through it is i can without destroying the coil. then snip it pretty close just leaving enough for the holes to touching and covered by the cotton.

 

[jimmy_sparks]

i’ve never noticed this, but i don’t ever use highly flavoured or gunky liquid. does it seem to flooding as well as the gunk?

i always use a 2mm coil in it, spaced out widely all the way to the deck screws, and put as much cotton through it is i can without destroying the coil. then snip it pretty close just leaving enough for the holes to touching and covered by the cotton.

thanks @zouzounaki! I’m using a 2.5 kanthal coil (not spaced) with the 1.0 air pins. Maybe cutting the wicks even shorter may help?

I’ll experiment further!

 

[zouzounaki]

i think you will get on better if you space the coil a lot. you do t want a load of cotton flopping about in it.

 

[jimmy_sparks]

i think you will get on better if you space the coil a lot. you do t want a load of cotton flopping about in it.

good tip, yeah I’ll give a spaced coil a go. Thanks! Out of interest which air pins do you use?

 

[zouzounaki]

good tip, yeah I’ll give a spaced coil a go. Thanks! Out of interest which air pins do you use?

i have the two smallest ones at the minute. have tried singles with the blank pin on one side, the smallest and second smallest but for some reason it doesn’t work as well. it seems to need air from both sides.

i think to get the best out of it it’s important to space the coil as much as you can so’s the cotton stays level across the deck and onto the cotton holders, if you get what i mean. this is the aspect that this really beats the sure for me, the offset screws i reckon are done that way so you can build it like this.

 

[zouzounaki]

i also find it needs at least 1w more power than the other atties i use.

 

[jimmy_sparks]

Thanks again for the advice there @zouzounaki, I’ll try some different builds and see how I go.

 

[Netvaper]

I vape NETs in the Bishop which are known for gunking coils but I get a good 4-5 days before I need to re-wick. I use the 1mm pins in both sides, a 2.5mm spaced Kanthal coil laid flat and just enough cotton so it goes through without moving the coil and then trim at the end of the juice channels and prime it. I've not had any issues with it.

 

[jimmy_sparks]

I vape NETs in the Bishop which are known for gunking coils but I get a good 4-5 days before I need to re-wick. I use the 1mm pins in both sides, a 2.5mm spaced Kanthal coil laid flat and just enough cotton so it goes through without moving the coil and then trim at the end of the juice channels and prime it. I've not had any issues with it.

Thanks for the tips
I think I’ve sussed it now. I was over fluffing my cotton but have found that just pulling the cotton through not too tight and with zero fluffing is now working much better.