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Hello again, I've been using smok pyrex aro clearos - bought two originally, first one worked fine so I bought another three and some spare heads from a different vendor so i can take a variety of different juices with me to work, have some drying out properly etc after washing.

Since then it's been one disaster after another - I use a needle tip bottle to fill them and am now only putting a small amount (0.5ml) down the side, carefully avoiding the centre hole.
Each and every one leaks - battery flooded, liquid in mouth etc.

When I fill them I'm blowing through onto a bit of paper towel - nothing coming out.
Leave them for a few minutes so the wicks soak.
I then screw the clearo onto my battery - first few vapes are fine, then the gurgling, liquid in mouth starts.
I unscrew the battery, blot off all the liquid from the battery, blow through the drip tip and stuff some paper down to soak up the liquid, check that all the O rings are in place and that the head is screwed in (don't think I'm overtightening anything) and start again.

Each time exactly the same thing happens - the battery floods, I get a mouthful of liquid after a few vapes.

I'm careful to keep the battery/clearo upright, I've changed the heads for spare ones I bought, I've tried washing the claeros and leaving them to dry for two days.  Tried diferent juices. Every bl***y time - after a few vapes I've got a mouthful of juice and the batttery bit is soaking.

I've gone through 30ml of softmint in less than two days (and Joose Juice are sold out at present until new stock arrives from USA- but that's a different problem!) and folk at work are no longer so impressed with me stopping smoking as I seem to spend all my breaks unscrewing, cleaning and blotting up liquid, with a quick couple of vapes then back to the same routine.

I can't see what I'm doing wrong but neither can I accept that 5 seperate clearos, (and replacement heads) bought from two different vendors, are all faulty so it must be down to user error.
I've watched various youtube videos (both from here and elsewhere) on using these, changing heads etc and can't work out what the problem is.

Can anyone help - what am I missing out/doing wrongly?

I haven't bought cigs yet but came close yesterday as I'm becoming nore and more frustrated. I'm currently using a carto but prefer the extra capacity of the clearos and want to continue using them. I bought the galss ones so there wouldn't be any issues with vaping eg banana and other flavours.

Apologies for the loser length post but I'm slowly going demented here trying to resolve this icon_shoppingm.

Hi Sassy - you certainly are (all of you). One of the friendliest and most helpful bunch of folk I've encountered online. I began thinking about trying e-cigs a few years ago, various folk at work tried using the ones which look like cigarettes, none lasted more than a few weeks before they were back smoking real fags again. Had a look around various forums from time to time but got totally confused by kayfun lites and provaris etc. The explanations on here and the suggestions to go for a riva kit helped me take the first step. Once the kit arrived I'd a better idea what folk meant by cartomisers and clearos etc and hopefully I haven't made too many mistakes with what I've bought so far (currently waiting on three parcels from fasttech and several from a few uk suppliers). Really enjoying vaping these last two days, will have to watch I don't come across as TOO evangelical at work tomorrow. My bosses at work have said it's fine to vape at my desk as well, although not during meetings (which is fair enough).

I've a few cigarettes left, at present I'm not looking at stopping completely as I think that just tends to stress me out, so for now I'm vaping when I want a cig, and don't feel the urge to smoke one at present (makes sense to me but probably not to anyone else)
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Ideally eventually I'd like to reduce the nicotine concentration gradually to zero, but for now 24mg is "holding me" so I'll see how it goes. I haven't said to folk I'm stopping smoking, just that I'm trying to cut down using the electronics instead. I find folk urging/encouraging me to stop to be counter-productive, it tends to make me dig my heels in (my mum died from COPD and lung cancer so my siblings are always nagging me to stop). Sorry for rambling on here, just really happy that I haven't smoked tobacco for almost two days and don't have the urge to either.