Billet Box Bridges! My Exocet is missing... time to go find it!
Billet Box Mod (BB)
- Thread starter Rob Fisher
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Best of the bunch?
Ah man
It just sucks when you get leaking and don’t know why
So my Billet Box and I are not friends lately. Not only does she drain the battery when not in use (batt goes dead after a few days) tonight she decided to dump almost an entire boro full of precious Panama juice through the air holes. This happened after refilling and not being in use for about a week.
I immediately dismantled and took out the boro to see what was going on. Yup , juice oozing out the little air hole at the bottom of the Exocet.
What I discovered is that if I open the boro glass the juice oozed out faster. When closed it just dropped out slowly. Presumably the pressure keeping the juice from flowing freely.
But it puzzles me because I thought I did a good last wick. Exo method - I’ve done it quite a lot and never have I seen this kind of leaking.
Oh boy now the investigations begin
Notice the Skyline , Reo and disposable Mystique looking on and chuckling at the situation.
But I’m not chuckling. I just want it to work.
If anyone has any ideas what to look for let me know. @Rob Fisher , @Christos , my feeling is maybe I didn’t wick it thick enough. Hoping that’s all it is...
It just sucks when you get leaking and don’t know why
So my Billet Box and I are not friends lately. Not only does she drain the battery when not in use (batt goes dead after a few days) tonight she decided to dump almost an entire boro full of precious Panama juice through the air holes. This happened after refilling and not being in use for about a week.
I immediately dismantled and took out the boro to see what was going on. Yup , juice oozing out the little air hole at the bottom of the Exocet.
What I discovered is that if I open the boro glass the juice oozed out faster. When closed it just dropped out slowly. Presumably the pressure keeping the juice from flowing freely.
But it puzzles me because I thought I did a good last wick. Exo method - I’ve done it quite a lot and never have I seen this kind of leaking.
Oh boy now the investigations begin
Notice the Skyline , Reo and disposable Mystique looking on and chuckling at the situation.
But I’m not chuckling. I just want it to work.
If anyone has any ideas what to look for let me know. @Rob Fisher , @Christos , my feeling is maybe I didn’t wick it thick enough. Hoping that’s all it is...
My guess is too little cotton.
Made the wicks a bit thicker
Wick is tight but just before deforming the coil
Trimmed.
Royal wicks again. Maybe I should have changed to TFC but let me use the same to see if it’s the wick thickness issue
Wick is tight but just before deforming the coil
Trimmed.
Royal wicks again. Maybe I should have changed to TFC but let me use the same to see if it’s the wick thickness issue
Voila
Done
Thankfully nothing leaked out the air holes on the fill and first few vapes...
Let’s see how she goes but so far so good. I hope it holds out because this has been a very reliable device for me in the past.
Still upset about the battery drain issue which didn’t happen before and is only happening in the past few months. But that I will leave for another day ...
#rebuildableVaperChallenges
Done
Thankfully nothing leaked out the air holes on the fill and first few vapes...
Let’s see how she goes but so far so good. I hope it holds out because this has been a very reliable device for me in the past.
Still upset about the battery drain issue which didn’t happen before and is only happening in the past few months. But that I will leave for another day ...
#rebuildableVaperChallenges
@Rob Fisher @Silver have either of you come across the Grizzly by Bear Lair Mods for the Boro Tank?
Not me @Timwis - maybe Rob has
I only have used the Exocet - and it has performed superbly for a long time - barring this leak today
It's for use with Mesh as its wicking material, interesting but i haven't tackled it yet looks a bit fiddly!
@Rob Fisher has tried loads of bridges and internals for the Billet Box, i don’t recall him talking about this one though. Sounds interesting
only trouble for me is that I find the Billet Box a bit of a pain to pitstop. Taking out the bridge and putting it on another mod to dry fire and wick and then putting it all back with lube in the right places. It’s normally a messy process and I actually don’t look forward to it like the therapeutic ritual one does with other devices. So if this one you’re speaking about is more fiddly then it probably won’t be for me for the Billet Box.
@Timwis I have seen it but I passed on it because of the mesh. I must say I agree with Hi Ho @Silver about the BB being a hassle to rewick etc and only the Boxxer V2 has come close to the flavour I get from my Dvarw's... I do love the Billet Box but I find myself wicking one occasionally but they don't remain in service all that long. My Dvarw DL is just so perfect and I can recoil and rewick them in my sleep!
Out of interest is it because you don't need to use mesh wick for anything else so seems pointless to get one item needing mesh wicking or that it will be unnecessarily tricky to pitstop? Don't know how i will get on but if the Panda is anything to go by mesh wicking gives superior flavour than when using cotton. For me it was the fact that i hadn't used mesh for wicking previously that actually appealed!
My previous mesh attempts all ended in failure... and tricky builds are just a pain... so yes it's because of the Mesh...
Just check everything on the exocet is tight, i found my flow pin needed a tightening ever so often. Also, replacing orings on the boro may help as well.Voila
Done
Thankfully nothing leaked out the air holes on the fill and first few vapes...
Let’s see how she goes but so far so good. I hope it holds out because this has been a very reliable device for me in the past.
Still upset about the battery drain issue which didn’t happen before and is only happening in the past few months. But that I will leave for another day ...
#rebuildableVaperChallenges
Thanks @Christos - when you say your Flow pin needed tightening, where would I tighten that on the Exocet?
Will consider changing the Boro orings next pitstop, thanks for that headsup
Gosh, it’s been so long since I had an Exocet. I think the bottom piece that has the air holes in it, try turn it to make sure it’s tight. Some people would say use a screwdriver inserted as a lever but I would only recommend finger tightness.
Anyone willing to let go of a vapeshell or xeta
https://www.ecigssa.co.za/vapeshell-infected-limited-edition.t64616/#post-824691
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