Rather than adjust the pH, you might try the Magic Mask from Flavourart.it
It reduces the acid receptors on the tongue and softens the acid flavor without changing the pH. I love it.
Hmmm...that's a thought, however, I feel no need. I have been "smoke free" for almost a month now. I'm just trying to "vape" without the "poly-burnt" taste. The Brass Screen mod seems to have done it, yet I am worried about the "green" that I have yet to see.
Although I don't fully understand the properties of how brass reacts to "heat and water", I know full well that the "heat" generated in an e-cig is NO where near the heat generated in the asss end of a tobacco pipe. I will say, the "taste" of my e-juice is SO much better than is was with poly alone. I'd fill a brand new poly cart, and 10 drags later I was furious at the taste. I'd place 7 more drops of e-juice to "re-wet" the poly, and 10 drags later I was tasting "burnt chemical plant fire". So far, I have been using 3 brass screens as a "cap" (top plug) over the Pyramid Tea Bag insert. There is a tad of "leakage", but nothing to write home about. When I add juice to the top of the brass in the cart, it is as slow to soak as if it were poly. When I turn it upside down, the juice remains. The taste is "consistent", and NO nic juice in my mouth. Keep in mind, I'm using a PTB (tea bag) with the brass screens (3) as a top "plug". I will try 5 brass screens (as a replacement for the wool) and the three brass screens as the "cap" next. At the end of the day, it's all about drawing fluid from the cart to the atty. There are ppl who "drip" directly on their atty, then they complain about having to replace their atty every month. I'll be the 1st to say I'm a "new-bee" when it comes to vaping, but consider this...what happens to a carburetor when you "flood" it? I'm an ASE certified mechanic, and have rebuilt hundreds of carburetors. Not ONE needed to be "flooded"! In fact, that's why most needed to be rebuilt! The electronic cigarette uses an "atomizer". The automobile uses a carburetor. They both do the same thing. Atomize!! So when you pour fuel down the carburetor (drip directly on your atty), you are _______ing it up. I could ramble on about this, but if I did, you will conclude that the 100 mile per gallon carburetor could have happened if you were to totally "vaporize" gasoline before it entered the combustion chamber. (450 degrees F) That was Smokey Yunick's idea. Google him. As well as "adiabatic". Now, if we could bring diesel fuel to it's "flash point", we could break the 100 mile per gallon thought by an extra 100 miles per gallon! But, NO! If you did, you would be murdered so fast by all who would lose money....there was a guy in the state of Mississippi, who powered his house and 5 neighbors for almost a decade for FREE by an invention that was no more than "rotating magnets". He brought his idea (invention) to Congress to get a "patent". He PROVED his idea before Congress, yet was DENIED a patent. The politicians said, "There is no such thing as perpetual motion". (which is what his invention was based upon) Even though he had been powering his neighbors for free. Sorry....he was either well paid or made quite dead. I had a 1982 VW diesel rabbit that got 56 MPG. Do they now? NO! Why?? Because......and I'll let you answer.
I have run TOO much at the fingers. There has to be at least ONE person on Earth to either agree, or challenge.
At the end of the day, do NOT pour Nic-E-Juice on your atomizer. Unless, you like buying them, when you can, after the soon to be FDA ban!
As for the thought of "green" problems with the brass screens, well...OK. That might become a problem. If I were vaping "salt water".
If I had enough money, I would "test" brass screens, to see if they would indeed become harmful. Although, in the "boat" world, brass seems to win out over stainless steel. Perhaps "Brass" is nicer looking than SS. Who knows. 80% of all drinking water is piped via copper. Lead is out of the question, except for paint on toys from China, and of course Sulfur Dioxid in Chinese drywall (sheetrock). Then again, we all have to eat....and yet almost ignore the ingredients. So, if I found a spot of "green" on my brass screen, I have 2 choices. Replace it, or sterilize it. The 2nd is probably better. I should have sterilized the first one! Geezzz... worry not...until you light up an "analog cigarette". For if you do, you may as well go to a high end restaurant and order, Lead Paint over rotten cow, and broken mercury thermometers with your shrimp appraiser. GLHM! (Good Lord Have Mercy) I'm Laffin, but I should not!
My father died from prostate cancer in 94. He smoked since he was 14 (born in 1929). He STOPPED smoking cigs 10 years (1984) and chewed the nic gum till the day he died. 1/1/94. My mother was lucky. She smoked since she was 12 years of age. Her 10 pound ovarian cancer was "removable". She looked 9 months pregnant for 2 years. She too chewed the nic gum to the end. I would be considered the "luckiest". I was born in 1960 and given no hope to live. I had asthma like no other. Thanks Mom, for smoking 3 packs a day during your pregnancy with me. I was in the ER 3 times a month. When I was 12, I was almost 6' tall, but weighed 110 pounds. Yet my parents smoked until the walls were yellow. When I was 21, I met a HOT woman that was a smoker. Sure enough, I became a smoker, where as I had never been! 20 years later, I found what I had hoped for my parents. The E-Cig.
I grew up in a time line where 3 out of 4 Doctors recommended 2 or 3 brands of cigarettes. Where Sunday's "Meet The Press" was so smoke filled, you weren't able to count the olives in their Martini drinks in full view of the TV camera that weighed 300 pounds.
I've often thought "I'll never be old and wise". ...I have some news for you all. I am now both. Unfortunately, I have never been a "people person". I'll try, but no, I will fail at being a ppl person.
Whilst you laugh at my VERY long post, I do hope you have taken in at least some of it, and give some for thought.
BTW....the brass screen still rocks! WoW!
