Wotofo Serpent Mini 25mm

Advice please all

I am not getting any dry hits on mine......but every time if fill i have a leak , i then turn the tank upside down , clean the airflow and the leak is then gone...... this happens every time i fill the tank.

I am closing the airflow before filling , any ideas ?

I have tried less and more wick ?

How does everyone else fill theirs ?
 
Mine spits a bit so I'm guessing the wick is really saturated after filling, no real leaking though... Use more cotton maybe. I find you can use a lot of you cut it short from the bottom as per kalashnikovs pic.
 
morras said:
Advice please all

I am not getting any dry hits on mine......but every time if fill i have a leak , i then turn the tank upside down , clean the airflow and the leak is then gone...... this happens every time i fill the tank.

I am closing the airflow before filling , any ideas ?

I have tried less and more wick ?

How does everyone else fill theirs ?
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@morras my guess is you are not using enough wicking... my tails go through that juice gap and stop on the bottom of the juice hole... but it's not tight in that juice hole and I make sure it's spread out to cover the entrance to the juice hole (but not packed in hard).
 
My Serpent Mini's just don't leak (apart from the one time I used too little wick to test)... if you follow @BigGuy's video's on Rob's Ramblings to the letter you should not have any issues of dry hits or leaking.
 
Rob Fisher said:
My Serpent Mini's just don't leak (apart from the one time I used too little wick to test)... if you follow @BigGuy's video's on Rob's Ramblings to the letter you should not have any issues of dry hits or leaking.
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BigGuy's method did not work in mine multiple times using peeled, pulled and rolled KGD. Leaked like a sieve. The CottonBacon when I got it worked first try, but I also changed how I installed it AND packed it in the juice slot. When the second SM25 gets here end of week maybe I'll try it again following BigGuy's way with the KGD, but will pack it this time to see if that makes any difference. Matters not really though since I have a large supply of CottonBacon V2 now to use instead in them.
 
morras said:
Advice please all

I am not getting any dry hits on mine......but every time if fill i have a leak , i then turn the tank upside down , clean the airflow and the leak is then gone...... this happens every time i fill the tank.

I am closing the airflow before filling , any ideas ?

I have tried less and more wick ?

How does everyone else fill theirs ?
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Iv wicked my sm25 about 10+ times to get it perfect, its a balancing act, with bigguys method it works (flawlessly but got dry hits above 3.8V on 80%VG) i now manage to chain vape 80%VG @ 4.3V with no leaks/dry hits/gurgling, let me know if i should take some pics next time i wick.
Peace
 
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morras said:
Advice please all

I am not getting any dry hits on mine......but every time if fill i have a leak , i then turn the tank upside down , clean the airflow and the leak is then gone...... this happens every time i fill the tank.

I am closing the airflow before filling , any ideas ?

I have tried less and more wick ?

How does everyone else fill theirs ?
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maybe share a pic of your wick. would be easier to see what the problem it
 
Thanks for the advice - just washed the tank , will wick later on and post some pics.....

Is there any way it can leak through the deck itself - so not through the air holes but the actual deck ?

How tight should the build deck be screwed in , maybe i am over tightening mine ?

It is funny that it only leaks when i fill - sure a juice control would have prevented this !
 
morras said:
Thanks for the advice - just washed the tank , will wick later on and post some pics.....

Is there any way it can leak through the deck itself - so not through the air holes but the actual deck ?

How tight should the build deck be screwed in , maybe i am over tightening mine ?

It is funny that it only leaks when i fill - sure a juice control would have prevented this !
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I don't over tighten any of it... also no leaking for me on any of my three 25's!
 
Wicking now - some pics....

Will wait for dome replies before i juice and close up.

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Just get a Gobmin V3. Best wicking no leaking fantabulous flavour mini there is !!
 
Got my second Serpent mini today. The black one. Just letting it dry after the alcohol wash. Then I will "Temper" the grub screws with my butane torch and olive oil, ala Big Guy method.

Guys, do yourselves a favor, Google, or You Tube the "Scottish roll method", if you have never before. It looked daunting in the beginning, but once you have got it right, no leaks, and brilliant vaping. You don't have to use the Japanese pads. You can "Scottish roll" with any cotton, just use the same principal. I won't post pics, watch the learned folk. It works great for me on the Serpent mini.


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Cant fint spare glass for my serpent mini 25 |-O Fasttech said they can mark my package as tools and send it via Turkey air mail. Is it worth it? Will i ever get it?
 
MoneymanVape said:
Cant fint spare glass for my serpent mini 25 |-O Fasttech said they can mark my package as tools and send it via Turkey air mail. Is it worth it? Will i ever get it?
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Just a suggestion, buy another SM25 , use spare glass on old tank = 2 great tanks.
Ps. I would like a short story of how you managed to break both glass tubes :beer-toast1:
 
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Having realy shit luck. Looks like my fasttech order is a bust. Local vender said they can get me a glass replacement. Waited over a week for them to get it. Last night drove to the other side of town to pick it up. Got there and shop was closed. Drove there again tonight git there and tadam...its a 22mm glass. Nice
 
@MoneymanVape . Sorry about your mishaps. I broke my glass on the second day after buying it. Today I bought the black one so that I have 2 incase a glass breaks again. It's funny how we rationalize a purchase in our minds. But seriously, I have no regrets.

Vaping some "Slice Blue" on my couch. Pumping some nice clouds and enjoying the flavor that the SM 25 delivers. The protective bands are a must for me. I don't want any more glass breaks.

I also like the stubbiness of the atty, I assume it will absorb a fall better than a longer atty.

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Waine said:
@MoneymanVape . Sorry about your mishaps. I broke my glass on the second day after buying it. Today I bought the black one so that I have 2 incase a glass breaks again. It's funny how we rationalize a purchase in our minds. But seriously, I have no regrets.

Vaping some "Slice Blue" on my couch. Pumping some nice clouds and enjoying the flavor that the SM 25 delivers. The protective bands are a must for me. I don't want any more glass breaks.

I also like the stubbiness of the atty, I assume it will absorb a fall better than a longer atty.

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I had a fat band on and it still broke
 
Waine said:
Got my second Serpent mini today. The black one. Just letting it dry after the alcohol wash. Then I will "Temper" the grub screws with my butane torch and olive oil, ala Big Guy method.

Guys, do yourselves a favor, Google, or You Tube the "Scottish roll method", if you have never before. It looked daunting in the beginning, but once you have got it right, no leaks, and brilliant vaping. You don't have to use the Japanese pads. You can "Scottish roll" with any cotton, just use the same principal. I won't post pics, watch the learned folk. It works great for me on the Serpent mini.


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Have been using peeled, pulled and rolled cotton wicks for a long time (aka Scottish roll) using the KGD pads, and they have always worked very well in everything. But the CottonBacon V2 I recently got works better with my method in the SM25 than the KGD did, turned what was a lemon tank into a win tank for me (I have a second SM25 due today/tomorrow, another black version).

I bought a lot of the CB, so with success with the first use of it I will try it in all my toppers that run cotton as they need a rewick. Still have a lifetime supply of KGD that might be collecting dust if the CB excels in my other cotton toppers.
 
Sometimes I wick My SM nearly perfect, other times I comes out different. Wicking is like cooking a curry, you use the same recipe and it turns out great, other times, not so great using the same recipe. That's all part of the challenge I enjoy with coil building and wicking. I will never stop learning. It wouldn't be so nice if everything was so easy. That's part of life.


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I totally agree with @Waine i do the same thing all the time this morning my wicking is the best it's been. Yesterday it was rubbish for some reason and i don't get down about it I clean up and try again I love figuring it out! Temperamental little tossers these tanks!!
 
Caw-Caw... I mean Craw-Craw @Rob Fisher.

Something about your hawking the SM25 as your all time favorite tank has stuck in my craw from the start, but I didn't know why. Then it finally dawned on me why it did.

In some ways you are not like many of us other flavor chasers. You're more of a one ADV joose vaper when some of us use many different ADV's in rotation all the time in different combinations. So you base your opinion on that one joose that you vape everyday and know very well more often than not - XXX, when I base mine on all the different ADV's I also know very well that I use in rotations almost every day. Finding an atty and build for it that works well with one ADV is far easier than finding an atty and build that works well with many different ADV's.

I learned XXX quite well from that 100ml bottle of it that I used from when fresh to naturally aged for around 3 months. And I found the builds it liked in many atty's with far different demands but not just one build that was acceptable in all of them or just one atty that was stand alone better than all the rest I tried it in. I don't have any XXX to try in the SM25, but do know that finding a build it excelled with in that atty would not be hard.

That said what I am getting flavor wise out of the SM25 is in fact quite good. But it still does not deliver that extra factor that I get in the Avocado's with all my ADV's that I don't get in any other atty with them. To me the Avo's are unique in that regard because they deliver bold flavor with any of my ADV's using similar builds. That kind of shoots my "build for the joose and the atty it will be ran in" normal method of operation in the foot some when the atty actually has more effect on the outcome than the build does. Maybe just the positive vibes I have about that atty playing games with my mind. But I do also like the Avo's basic design type tanks better than the chimney tanks, so maybe that's part of it.

Anyway, SM25 #2 was delivered to my mail place late yesterday afternoon (Thursday), but I can't go pick it up or even retrieve my vehicle that is parked far away until sometime Saturday morning. They started repairing and seal coating the roads where I live yesterday that even cut off foot traffic. So I am a prisoner on the small isolated island that my bungalow is built on until they reopen the roads Saturday morning. I'm going to try one of my Avo builds in it, see if it will do multiple ADV's well in it like on the Avo's.
 
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