Leaking is an unavoidable fact of life for vapers. Preventing leaking altogether is almost impossible. But you can keep leakage to a minimum. The key is maintenance. The more you look after your atomizer and follow the best practices, the fewer leaks you will have…

Have you ever had a leaking clearomiser?

If so, you’re not alone…Leaking tanks are one of the banes of my existence. It’s not like it really does much harm. After all, you can just clean it up and get on with your day. But it’s still one of those annoyances that seems to amplify the longer it’s there, like the constant patter of a dripping tap. Thankfully, for most clearomisers, you can fix (or at least reduce) problems with leaking pretty easily, so here are 10 tips for staying leak-free! Don’t Overfill The Tank Leaving a small amount of air actually creates a

vacuum inside the tank which helps hold the e-liquid in the chamber.Have you been also bothered by the smell of burnt coil?

1 – Make Sure You Fill Your Tank Up Properly

Want to know what causes most leaks? It’s how you fill your clearomiser. All tank style atomizers have a central tube extending from the coil up to the mouthpiece. If you get e-liquid in there, you’ll almost certainly run into problems with leaking or gurgling. Ensure that when you fill up, you avoid getting any e-liquid in the central tube. Tilt your tank when you fill up, like you’re pouring a glass of beer. This ensures the liquid runs down the inside of the glass or plastic of your tank – and stays as far away from the centre tube as possible. As it fills up, gradually straighten the tank to avoid spills. If you do manage to get liquid down the central tube, make sure that you clear the excess before use by:

holding some tissue at the end, and blowing the excess out of the bottom. or by flicking the clearomiser into some tissue

2 – Tighten Everything Up – and Watch Out for Cross-Threading…

There’s another basic issue that can lead to leaking. And that’s when the various components aren’t securely screwed in.

Gaps:

• where your coil meets the base of your atomizer
• or where the base of your atomizer meets the tank

can be enough to create a leak.

This is easy to avoid. Take time and ensure that:

• when you re-attach your atomizer head to the base (or to the top of the central tube, for top-coil clearomizers)
• when you re-attach the base to your tank everything fits snugly.

You should also check your atomizer head even if you haven’t done anything with it specifically, because its connection can sometimes loosen when you unscrewing your tank.

The biggest problem you’ll encounter when screwing everything in is “cross threading”.

That’s where the threads on the two components you’re screwing together don’t line up properly, leading to an imperfect seal. As suggested before, the best solution to this is to:

• line everything up
• turn it anti-clockwise until you hear a click
• screw it in clockwise

3 – …But Don’t Over-Tighten

And that’s when you over-tighten. O-rings are tiny rubber rings. You’ll find them near the threading and where two parts of your tank meet. They are key to making a perfect seal – and reducing the chance of leaks. However, over-tightening can damage these little helpers. And a little split or break gives e-liquid an “escape route” – meaning you end up with juice leaking out into your pocket. (Which is embarrassingly close to somewhere you really don’t want e-liquid!) Of course, the line between tight enough and too tight is a little hard to define. The basic lesson is to screw everything in place firmly, but remember that you shouldn’t need to put much strength into it. There’s no need to Hulk out; screw it in so it fits snugly – but not as tight as you possibly can.

4 – Leave the Tank Standing Up

When you are not using your vapouriser, or even in between vapes, the unit should be left in a vertical position. This doesn’t matter as much when the tank is full. However, it definitely has an effect when the tank is under half-filled. This is due to the “juice holes” in the coil. When it is full, the holes are covered with juice and it is hard for the e-liquid to escape.

However, when it is under half full, and not stood up, some “juice holes” come out of the e-liquid. This makes it easier for juice to seep through the coil, and into either the central tube, or out of the air flow holes.

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