Bubbling like a bong and juice gets in mouth

[ottoerago]

Hi all - first post!

i have KangerTech Unitank with an X6 VV battery.

Does anyone know what causes it/them (same happened to an old clearomiser) to bubble like a bong?
Or why the juice seems to creep up the tube into my mouth and just generally get everywhere?
Or why I seem to lose a load of juice when I unscrew the battery and try to blow the offending "juice that's causing the bubbling" back out through the tube into the sink?

Would dragging on it without pressing the button draw juice into the system?

I'm careful when I fill it up and I don't think I use it horizontally.
I've been careful to not drag without the button pressed, but as soon as I refill it seems to bubble for a while.

Any ideas appreciated!

 

[Blackhack]

Time to change the wick/coil I think....Happens sometimes with my kanger Protank...Changing the coil sorts it..

 

[ottoerago]

Really? I only bought it yesterday!

It does settle itself down...

A coil's supposed to last at least a month I thought?

 

[Trajal]

Tighten the internal coil thing better, sounds like stuff is leaking from the sides of that to me.

 

[ottoerago]

Thanks - I'll strip it down once the tank's empty and have a look.

I started with VG juice actually - and maybe the problems started once I refilled with PG... I chucked a load of VG back into the PG and it seems better... might that be a factor?

Also this Unitank has got a kind of plunger in it, to compress the juice onto the coil at the bottom or so the shop guy told me, but there's no mention of that in the instructions... Is that how it's supposed to work do you know?

 

[Vapingmonkey]

Protanks usually only gurgle for 4 reasons
1. The atty is not screwed down properly
2. The wick inside the atty is not sufficent enough to plug the gap between the rubber stopper and the atty base
3. You got juice in the centre post when filling it up
4. your juice ran too low in the tank

you can expell excess juice into a tissue by covering the top of the protank with a tissue and flicking it downwards (like flicking paint off a paintbrush)

if that fixes then it was just excess juice when filling, if not then look at your atty

P.s if you are not re-building your attys already, you really should start soooooooooooo much cheaper and better performance

 

[ottoerago]

Thanks for the input!

I think #2 is/was the most likely cause - but it's all working pretty nicely now that I don't pump the spring after a fill up like the shop told me to do...

This is a Unitank and it seems like a neat design, letting the juice get too low doesn't seem to matter.

I've been watching youtube vids trying to work out how they actually work... all about pressure differentials etc. So all that extra info is helping a lot.

I've been dry burning the coil and flaming the flavour wicks clean, but have lost 1 down the sink and chucked 2 thinking they were burnt before I realized... oops.

So next step is to get some 1.5mm wick as recommended by a video reviewer and see if that helps as overall the pull is a little too loose.

Interestingly the Unitank is being sold at 50% off on one UK site... i think it's been deemed to be a failed design, and/or due to the tank not being glass.

 

[Vapingmonkey]

Rather than using silica wick, try using rolled up cotton ball. Its cheaper, wicks well and used in a protank or any othe bcc keeps wet so no worry about it burning. The first 4 hits taste a bit cottony but after that it vapes a treat.