I had a carto in my M1A1 was that was feeding too fast and flooding. Gurgling like a straw.
So I drilled a new carto. Had a couple of ideas.
To get the carto clean of the black adhesive wrapper, (it's a resurrector), I scraped off strips of the wrapper with a sharp pen-knife, took less than a minute. Then a little acetone on a paper towel took off the adhesive that was left in about 30 seconds. Old news I know, but I think easier and faster than the drill and sandpaper method. Fingernail polish remover used to be the same thing as acetone, not sure if it still is.
But here's my idea. The hole in the carto inside a tank needs to be a certain size to feed the carto correctly right? But that depends on the viscosity of the juice. And different juice has different viscosity, also depends on the temperature.
I happened to get lucky and get a perfect feeding carto this time. I made the hole a little higher than before. Before I made the hold as recommended just above the bottom of the tank, but still inside. I think that if it's too close to the bottom, it will feed directly to the coil, at least on a single coil. So the juice hardly has to wick through the filler at all, and that can lead to gurgling and flooding. So this time I made the hole (small hole with a dremel diamond tip bit) almost half an inch up. And I got a perfect tank carto.
But here's the best idea I had. How about using the tank fill screw to adjust the feed? I didn't put the hole in the right place this time to try it, but next time I'm going to put the hole right under the screw. That way I can adjust how fast the juice flows through the carto hole buy screwing the filler screw down looser or tighter over the hole.
BuzzKill have you played around with an adjustment screw like that? Feel free to take that idea and run with it.
So I drilled a new carto. Had a couple of ideas.
To get the carto clean of the black adhesive wrapper, (it's a resurrector), I scraped off strips of the wrapper with a sharp pen-knife, took less than a minute. Then a little acetone on a paper towel took off the adhesive that was left in about 30 seconds. Old news I know, but I think easier and faster than the drill and sandpaper method. Fingernail polish remover used to be the same thing as acetone, not sure if it still is.
But here's my idea. The hole in the carto inside a tank needs to be a certain size to feed the carto correctly right? But that depends on the viscosity of the juice. And different juice has different viscosity, also depends on the temperature.
I happened to get lucky and get a perfect feeding carto this time. I made the hole a little higher than before. Before I made the hold as recommended just above the bottom of the tank, but still inside. I think that if it's too close to the bottom, it will feed directly to the coil, at least on a single coil. So the juice hardly has to wick through the filler at all, and that can lead to gurgling and flooding. So this time I made the hole (small hole with a dremel diamond tip bit) almost half an inch up. And I got a perfect tank carto.
But here's the best idea I had. How about using the tank fill screw to adjust the feed? I didn't put the hole in the right place this time to try it, but next time I'm going to put the hole right under the screw. That way I can adjust how fast the juice flows through the carto hole buy screwing the filler screw down looser or tighter over the hole.
BuzzKill have you played around with an adjustment screw like that? Feel free to take that idea and run with it.