10 – Switch to Higher-VG Juices

This is a bit of a simplistic solution, but thinner, PG-based juices will generally leak more than VG-based ones. So switching to VG juices will often at least slow down the leaking. You can add in extra wicking material or boost your power setting to prevent your coil head from flooding and leaking – as in the previous two tips. But switching to VG-based juices has pretty much the same effect, because the liquid can’t be drawn into the coil head as quickly. If you combine approaches, you might have problems with dry hits, but choosing any one of the approaches should minimize flooding and leaking without taking things too far.

11 – Inhale Slowly and Softly, Not Firmly and Sharply

If you’re still having problems with leaky tanks, particularly if you’re relatively new to vaping, your inhalation style could be the cause. There’s a core difference between inhaling from a cigarette and from an e-cigarette… Drawing harder on a cigarette gives you more smoke, but inhaling more sharply on an e-cigarette accomplishes little.

In fact, when you puff sharply on your e-cigarette, you may be pulling liquid into the coil housing faster than it can vaporise it. That leaves you to sucking some excess liquid up through the centre tube like a straw – and potentially causing leaking. The solution takes some getting used to, but it’s easy:

Make your puffs much longer, and don’t worry about inhaling sharply.  Vapour will come even with gentle inhalation, and you won’t flood your atomizer.

12 – Minimise Condensation with Long Draws

There’s one source of leaking you can do little about. It’s hard to inhale all the vapour you produce when you press the fire button and take a puff, and any remaining vapour will eventually condense into your centre tube or mouthpiece. This is not a lot of e-liquid, but it will build up over time. That’s why, even when there are no clear signs of leaking from the connections on your atomizer and no gurgling to indicate you’re flooding your coil, you may still notice e-liquid has leaked through onto your device’s connection.

Types of Leaking and Ways to Solve It

To minimise this happening:

• inhale as soon as you fire up your e-cig

• take your finger off the fire button when you have finished inhaling

• You can also clear any accumulated e-liquid out of the tube by removing your clearomizer, putting a paper towel below the point that connects to the battery and blowing firmly through the mouthpiece.

13: Choose a Leak Resistant Tank

Since we first wrote this post advances in technology are making some tanks leak resistant. he one leading the field is the Aspire Nautilus X. The Nautilus designs aims to eliminate leaking by positioning air-flow at the top of the tank, replacing bottom-filling with top-filling and completely sealing the bottom of the tank with a rubber gasket.

The Nautilus X is not really suitable for sub-ohmers, but other e-cig manufacturers are likely to follow in their footsteps in the very near future!

14 -Bonus Tip – Taking a flight? Empty your tank!

Remember that story at the start of this post? ell, here’s how to avoid it ever happening to you! ou see, your e-liquid and tank really don’t get on with airplane pressure changes. ’ve noticed that after takeoff, and as the plane starts to level out a bit for the slow climb, my tank starts to leak.

Your e-liquid just wants out! t’s pretty embarrassing when this happens and the smell of your eliquid creates an sweet smelling atmosphere around you… articularly if the people sitting next to you notice that you have an electronic cigarette, and think that you’ve been using it. How to stop inhaling droplets . What I have done is insert a small piece of screen from a ‘420’ pipe into the base of the mouthpiece – this is where the flexible plastic mouthpieces come in handy.

Yes, the screen will plug up a bit and a couple of times a day I pull out the mouthpiece and blow it into a tissue or into the air to clear it but now I don’t get droplets in my mouth. Taking light, small draws also help. See the previous chapter before

If all fails… Time for a New Coil

If you’re like me, you try to squeeze every last puff out of your coil… Unfortunately, this increases your chance of having leaking issues. When your wick is dying or your coil isn’t functioning optimally, flooding becomes a much more common issue, and leaking quickly follows.

And – sadly for the misers among us – the only solution is to take out the old coil and replace it with a fresh, shiny new one. If you really want to save money, you can try to remove and replace the wick. You may get a little bit more leak-free vaping out of the coil, but it’s only a temporary solution.