Advice please - kinda urgent

[Hotwire]

Hi all. I'll try to keep it short.

Have been vaping for 3 days.

Was vaping Janty 'Oriental 16mg hi strngth nic juice.

WAs so gacky afterthe 1st day that I have posted several threads on this site complaining / crying / asking for advice - about my atty's that I thought had both burned out.

Well I bought a small 10ml bottle of 11mg menthol today, blew thru the attys with my mouth to clean a few drips of the old juice out and filled a tank cart with the menthol and lo and behold it wasn;t that my attys had burned out which was making the other juice tastelike burned paper and making me have a hacking coughing fit - it was the Oriental juice.

The menthol has been gorgeous! Love it! Tbh if someone closed my eyes and told me I was drawing on a marlb menthol light in a plastic filter - I would believe them!

Anyhow, so juice where I live (South Korea) is crazy expensive (the 10ml menthol cost me about $14 usd and the 20ml bottle of Oriental - wait for it - a whopping $37 usd!)

Now my mate is ordering me some nice fruit and menthol and baccy blends from greenhouseone on Friday who will ship to SK (I don't have a credit card - doh) but they wont arrive until maybe next weekend or later I'm guessing.

Well I'm going to the UK to see my folks on the 25th Dec - 2nd Jan and can;t buy juice there either as will be super busy and only there ofr a week.

Now my 10ml bottle wont get me thru from today until Jan 3rd...

SO.... I reckon I have about 9ml of Menthol and about 16ml of the - gacky, burned paper, white film on my toungue and burned taste lasting for hours after -Oriental juice left...

Should I ...... Mix them........?

Any ideas?

The Oriental really is THAT BAD (remember I thought my atty had burned out slightly to produce such a harsh hit and gacky taste...) Will the menthol help or will I just ruin and waste the Menthol....?

I CAN go to the store in my city here in Sk and buy a nice 20ml of menthol to get me thru, but it costs 37usd, so I'd rather not and wait with what I have until my greenhouseone order comes thru....

 

[sahara4evr]

Before you mix the whole bottles, just add a few drops of each and see if the menthol makes any difference. If the Oriental still comes through too much, you know you probably shouldn't mix them.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Why not make a small trial mix and find out? Try getting a small container and dripping 6 drops of Oriental and 3 drops of Menthol (thats a 2:1 ratio) and mixing them up. That should be enough to see how it vapes.

 

[Hotwire]

Papa Lazarou - great idea!

I will use an empty tank cart that I was gonna chuck out anyway as I have 6 spares and add the 2:1 ratio you suggested and see how she goes! Will report back in probably ten minutes!

 

[Hotwire]

It works!!!!

Still a tiny, tiny bit harsh on the throat, so will go 5 drops oriental to 3 drops menthol. At least that gives me about 20ml for the next week and a half...

Nice one!

 

[Papa Lazarou]

No problem

 

[dormouse]

And try leaving the cap and dropper tip off the oriental overnight (somewhere away from pets and kids or potential spills). It might need to steep?

Also, have you tried cleaning your atty? I do it once a week by soaking/swishing in vodka overnight (drinkable kind of grain alcohol would be better but I don't have any). Then next day you can use a blow dryer to dry the atty (I have two so I just set the cleaned one on paper towels to dry).

And if the menthol and/or steeping doesn't help the oriental, you could cut it with a bit of glycerin USP (edible kind from drugstore) to make it weaker (though it would also weaken the nicotine strength).

Good luck!

 

[Hotwire]

Yeah cleaned the atty and was still bad.

Definitely the iquid.

 

[markfm]

Good job. Another alternative is to see if regular menthol crystals are available where you are -- if so, they are likely really low cost. Add just a couple crystals to the gack juice, and shake it up or put the bottle in a cup of warm water to help the menthol crystals melt. Also, you can crush them up to make them dissolve faster.

This is the kind of thing I'm talking about:
Amazon.com: Menthol Crystals, 1/2 lb. - Bulk: Health & Personal Care

You might find them in some kind of organic food store; here I just pick them up with my other DIY flavorings, they're very low cost.

I just use tiny amounts of them making menthol DIY eliquid.

Good luck!

 

[Papa Lazarou]

I just use tiny amounts of them making menthol DIY eliquid.

Yep, and you can buy them in small containers in UK pharmacies. Really tiny amounts needed, the crystals are very potent indeed. They are soluble in alcohol.

 

[Raynen]

Like someone posted above, do a "trial" mix in an empty cart to see if you'd be okay. Regardless, I'd keep the flavors separate, but still mix them in the cart. I had a flavor like that but I eventually tossed it because the nicotine was too strong and gave me headaches (I also bought it at a mall kiosk- ugh- and so it was low-quality juice...).