First, thank you for your quick response!
It appears to melt quite quickly until it boils off. It leaves a black residue at the bottom.
You're welcome, let's see if we can get this guy going.....
That sound pretty good, depending on how heavy the residue is. This (residue) will eventually kill the cart by clogging the works up, but that should take a few grams as long as the goods fully melt and flow freely.
Let's focus on loading then, that's the most likely problem anyway.
Please start with a fresh 2.4 Ohm cart, don't 'dry fire it' at all, let's just load it. We're going to want to load about half a gram (more invites leaks, less makes getting it primed and running hard. Start with the loading tool on top (set it so the holes aren't blocked), with half a gram in it. Holding the cart by the bottom 1/3 rotate it back and forth with your fingers as you flame the cart just above the mid line. All around, we need the heat uniform. Keep in moving and feel for the metal getting hot under your fingers as the heat moves down. Stainless steel is a lousy conductor of heat (a plus here) so it'll take half a minute or so before it starts to feel hot down below where you're heating. The seals we must keep cool are at about the 1/4 point a bit above the top of the threaded connector. Don't let that part get past 'uncomfortable'.
When the heat moves down to your fingers it's also moved up nearly to the tool. Keep rotating back and forth while you quickly move up to the tool and start heating it. Don't dally, the lower part is cooling all the while. Heat the loading tool on the sloping part moving up to the cylindrical part as the oil starts to melt down. If you've done it right the 'just barely melted oil' will slide down and hit even warmer metal and slip down past it to the bottom, you can usually even feel the hot oil drop down under your fingers.
Don't let it cool off too much, screw it on the battery and give it a few priming pulses say 3 seconds long each. Expect vapor to happen on the second of third pulse, keep a slow draw.
Once it's loaded right, it should feed well down to the .2 grams or so left level. Then add the other half gram. Once it's going, the outer heater keeps is liquid around the wicks so it can feed well. However, if you get an air bubble trapped (usually because the load stalls out when it hits cold metal) once it gets set up you can't get it to clear using the internal heaters, you just can't melt enough of it at one time to do it.
Once you load one or two you'll have no further troubles. The key is preheating the center section and having it hot when the goods melt down first.
Good luck, please advise?
OF
<-- upon arrival into the pool after a massive breath of omivapor
