New 510...Horrible Chemical taste

[Jim Davis]

The attys have a primer on them for storage. You can burn it off while vaping, or wash it out first. You're tasting the atty primer.

[DC2]

It worked great at first, now it tastes like burnt plastic.

Dry atomizers, flooded atomizers, and wicking
Basically, you want to keep your atomizer happy with plenty of juice, but not too much as to flood it.

A good sign that it's flooded is that it gets a little harder to draw on and you get little or no vapor.
Flooding it, however, won't hurt it at all, and you can just blow out the extra juice.

Letting it get too dry, on the other hand, is not good for the atomizer supposedly.
But regardless of whether it is bad for the atomizer or not, you still don't want to do it.

You can tell it is too dry when it starts to taste like crap.
A nasty sort of metallic or plastic burning taste.

One reason it might get too dry is if you burn through the juice faster than it can wick up more.
That is why people experiment with different kinds of filler materials to use in their cartridges.

If you take only a drag or two every now and then, you should be fine.
But if you use these like a cigarette, the wicking process will have trouble keeping up.
There are ways to deal with this, and people have different methods that work better for them.

And of course, when the cartridge is running low on juice, it needs topping off for this reason.

[DC2]

my Johnson Creek juice arrived minutes later and I'm now vaping Summer Peach and WOW, I can really tell a difference. One thing I do want to point out, that I hadn't expected...do all the juice flavors have a "smokey" layer to them?

I have heard other people say that the JC juices tend to have a smokey layer to them.