Disappointment. Boro.

[Jagster]

Or has anyone got a fix to this yet

 

[Jagster]

Was never great with rebuildables so about a year ago I settled on a horizontech sakerz tank and have been sub ohming with stock sakerz coils.

No mess, no faff, just reliable wicking and vaping.

After being out of the loop for 2+ years I had a look at the Boro trend.

Opted for a delrin cthulhu aio and an Ether rba.

Considering the cost, the build quality of the Cthulhu out the box is awful. Scratched and bubbled door panels, glue holding the switch ribbon down half hanging off, awful, tiny drip tip.

Then onto the Ether, using pre wrapped 0.28 Boro coils by scott, hot spots all over the place that took hours to shift, then no matter what combination of wick I use, short, long, thin, fat, it just doesn't seem to wick fast enough. The flavour and clouds seem to be almost non existent when it is wicking then it's continuous threat of dry hits. Not to mention, the resistance never seems to read to the same when screwed into the Cthulhu as it does on other mods.

It would seem, when vaping with the fill port open (impossible day to day but interested as an experiment) it wicks fine but the flavour is still missing, as soon as the fill port goes back in, dry hits, less flavour, back to the hassle.

Is this just how Boro tanks seem to be? Ie, underwhelming, disappointing, hassle boxes or am I getting things massively wrong? (Hopefully, the later).

After 2 days of endless rebuilding and frustration, I'm begining to get the stark reminder why I switched to no nonsense, stock coils that just work to begin with 2 years ago haha.

Please help.

Have a great day everyone.

You get a fix

 

[SnapAsh]

Sorry guys. Last summer, after weeks of frustration I just threw my mod and Boro to the side and gave up on it. No matter how I coiled and wicked it, it never worked right, leaving this forum behind in process

Fast forward to yesterday, I found my interest reignited. My current mod is on its way out so decided to give the Cthulhu and Boro another go. Instead of using the ether, I decided to try the standard CT tank that came with the mod.

Would you believe it.....same old story. Dry hits to gurgle to condensation to red hot to barely working, then when I thought I had it down, things seemed to be moving well through the first tank, refilled the tank and back to old nonsense. Dry hits galore until I take out the fill plug and it wicks like a champion, fill plug back in, dry hits.

Whether I'm just awful at this, or these devices just inherently don't wick well and people who own them convince themselves it's fine I don't know but I'm at a loss.

Looks like I'm going with the gaur 21 and hellvape dead rabbit V3 for my next turn. Hope everyone who previously helped me are doing well (if they are even still following this) and apologies I can't be more help jagster.

 

[MHL]

Before you ditch it entirely.... might be worth trying with some BP mods cotton lace.

I'm the world's worst wicker, and most wicking problems I've had have been down to too much / too little cotton. Since I started using the lace cotton I've hardly had any issues, and those I do have, I think are down to jamming too much cotton into the wicking ports.

 

[SnapAsh]

I have tried cotton laces, BP mods cotton, short, long, too little, too much, thinned out, tapered, it doesn't seem to matter. It just seems to me with these Boro devices it's a matter of unbalanced air pressure. It can't be a coincidence that 2 separate bridges both work sort of okay ISH until it comes to refilling them, then the only way they wick correctly is leaving the fill port open. Had dozens of rebuildables over the years and always made my way with them, but not even my oldest nemesis, the old school gennie mesh wick setups gave me as much grief as these (and those were a pita )

 

[MHL]

Hmmm don't know what to suggest then. I have never noticed any particular issues with boros.

Sounds like maybe there is some kind of airlock thing going on that makes your technique (whatever it is) particularly unhappy. But if you're au fait with rtas in general, it seems unlikely. And it sounds like you've tried pretty much everything... I just can't think of anything else.

 

[SnapAsh]

I just don't get it. Watching YouTubers with 0.15 coils at 30-40 watts taking 5 seconds drags, whilst I'm sat at home with a 0.3 that I dare not take over 18 watts for more than a second or 2 without fear of a burnt chest.

 

[John R]

Sometimes, despite your valiant efforts and six pages of folk trying to help, you have to conclude... this shit just doesn't suit your vaping/wicking style and hit it with a f'n hammer. It's not the first time I've unloaded some POS that others swear by.

 

[SnapAsh]

Laughed it off. Old setup was giving up and the boro's were doing me in so got some new tech through the post today.

After rocking 0.16 stock coils and dual coil rbas for 2+ years I opted to go back to a simple single coil set up.

0.38 single alien in a blaze solo on a Gaur 21 at 35 watts. Making a relaxing change. Half the wattage I'm used to at double the resistance on a dual 21700 instead of dual 18650, hopefully a whopping bit of battery life.

 

[MTB Vaper]

I Run RDTA's in my two boro setups, one mesh and one single coil.not had a wicking issue to date with RDTA'S, you do need airflow higher up on the aio or panels though.