Second Try At e-Cigs and Still Bad Taste!

[NestoChe]

Wondering if anyone can help. This is my second try at vaping and I'm still not satisfied. It is still leaving a bad taste in my mouth. It's kind of like a turpentine tinny lime kind of taste if you know what I mean.

After 20 + years of smoking Marlboro Lights, I first got my first e-cig starter kit from Vapor for Life back in April/May of 2010. I ordered Two shorty manual battery with pre-filled mixed of different flavor customizers. The taste of them was very bad like I said above and it turned me off to e-cigs. I gave up and began smoking reg smokes again.

This is my second attempt now but this time I ordered brand new empty customizers for my specific batteries and a couple of Backwoods Brew e-liquids: Backo- 12 mg and Adirondack 12-mg, looking for that tobacco Marlboro lights taste.
I'm still getting that awful taste! Could it be the e-cig kit I have? The customizers from V4L? Is this taste normal? Will someone that has tried all types of e-cigs give me some recommendations of what is the right e-cigs is for me? Maybe I need to get the e-cigs that are not customizers but with the cartridge/atomizers?

Thanks in advance

 

[PaulE]

I guess you could be intolerant to PG (Propylene Glycol - the base liquid used in juices). Perhaps try one based on VG (Vegetable Glycerine) to see if that helps?

Paul

 

[mynameisrob]

Do you mean cartomizers? (the ones that have a atomizer and cartridge in one piece)

 

[NestoChe]

Hi PaulE,

Really?..So the PG taste something like that terpintine taste?. Where do I fine a liq that only has VG?

Thanks

 

[NestoChe]

Yes, sorry I confused everyone

 

[mynameisrob]

how are you filling them? If they are underfilled they can start to burn the polyfil and wick and will give a nasty burnt taste

 

[NestoChe]

how are you filling them? If they are underfilled they can start to burn the polyfil and wick and will give a nasty burnt taste

I'm filling them at the top, I remove the white cap and pour about 20 drops. I even use a drip tip

 

[PaulE]

PG has no taste at all usually (or a small amount if the juice is made by certain companies) - but if you're intolerant to it then who knows what it might do to your taste buds!

Lots of US juice sellers offer VG liquids - try Liberty Flights (E-Liquid and Electronic Cigarette Shop - Category Listings) for starters.

Paul

 

[trentthecaptain]

I might be crazy buuuuuut. I found the best tasting cigarette tasting cartos came from greensmoke...I'm sure lecigs has a d1 to d2 adapter that would work with their carts

 

[VegasVaporz]

Make sure you almost drown your cartomizer. When you fill it, wait until the cotton looking stuff gets really slushy. Then wait a couple of seconds nd vape. When you get cartomizers, they are sent with a liquid called primer on them to keep them from drying up and or rusting. You just have to vape through the nasty taste of the primer for maybe half an hour anf after that you should be good to go.

 

[NestoChe]

PG has no taste at all usually (or a small amount if the juice is made by certain companies) - but if you're intolerant to it then who knows what it might do to your taste buds!

Lots of US juice sellers offer VG liquids - try Liberty Flights (E-Liquid and Electronic Cigarette Shop - Category Listings) for starters.

Paul

Thanks PaulE, very much appreciate it. I'll check them out.

 

[mynameisrob]

What do you mean you use a drip tip? A drip tip is either used on an atomizer and you drip directly onto the atomizer, or a lot of people put them on cartomizers as a mouth piece.

 

[PaulE]

I'm filling them at the top, I remove the white cap and pour about 20 drops. I even use a drip tip

Could need more juice in there. I personally jam a wad of tissue paper into the battery end, then keep filling until the liquid sits just above the top of the wadding. Leave it upright like that for 30 minutes or so, then wipe the battery connector and vape.

 

[fray]

When I first started I tried tobacco flavors. I especially wanted one that tasted like a cigarette. I was dissapointed over and over. The limey-turpintine taste may be the "greener" side of tobacco flavoring. Have you considered changing to other types of flavors? I am partial to peach.

 

[NestoChe]

Make sure you almost drown your cartomizer. When you fill it, wait until the cotton looking stuff gets really slushy. Then wait a couple of seconds nd vape. When you get cartomizers, they are sent with a liquid called primer on them to keep them from drying up and or rusting. You just have to vape through the nasty taste of the primer for maybe half an hour anf after that you should be good to go.

Hi V3gas,

Thanks for the recomemdation. I'll try that. Maybe it needs to settle down a bit I guess. I'll try it again!

peace

 

[perform23]

If you've not already done so, try many different variations. I bought a ton of diff juices at first and out of about 24 diff kinds, I only like 2. The tobacco tasting ones were actually the worse for some reason or another. I've settles on a cafe moccha and spiced apple rum for instance. My wife only likes mint. If you can get through a few weeks, you will learn to deal with it. I am willing to sacrifice taste in an effort to gain the health positives of not smoking.

Good luck!

 

[mynameisrob]

And also where are you putting the juice. You need to make sure your not putting it down the tube in the center. You want to take the rubber cap off, slightly tilt it and drop it around the outsides on the polyfil. Make sure you distribute it evenly.
Also you have to give it alittle time to settle to the bottom or you can get that burnt taste.
I use a syringe to fill my cartos bc then it ensures they are filled correctly and you dont have to wait for the juice to "settle"

 

[K*Rose]

Try filling your cartomizer with a syringe. It sounds like you not getting your carto wet enough. Fill a syringe and place the needle between the filler and the wall of the carto and fill all around until it's slushy. Be sure not to get any liquid down the center tube. If you do blow it out into a tissue from the battery end.

 

[NestoChe]

When I first started I tried tobacco flavors. I especially wanted one that tasted like a cigarette. I was dissapointed over and over. The limey-turpintine taste may be the "greener" side of tobacco flavoring. Have you considered changing to other types of flavors? I am partial to peach.

Hi fray,

No, I haven't consider the fruity flavors thinking it would be worst, but as you had the same experience that I'm going through now I'm thinking that might be it!..maybe I'm looking for that perfect tobacco flavor and it's not happening. I'll order some fruit flavor..maybe apple since I love apples!!..lol

 

[PaulE]

spiced apple rum

Ooh. That sounds right up my street! Where are you getting that one from?