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Make sure my hardware is proper. I had picked up a zenith clone when i started to DIY in october and was making progress on my dripping juices. Anything i make for my wife to use in her tanks at 50pg 50vg she loves so i know i can do this.

Anything i made in a high vg for use on my mech had a chemical perfume taste.I lowered my percentages as per what i read from this great forum. So one day i grab some cotton from the closet and i smell the bag and i am smelling soap. I am guessing having the cotton next to some fancy soap can work a perfume smell into the cotton. So then i am on to Japanese cotton stored by its self.

Working on my mixes again now with out any perfume taste but still getting a chemical taste. Till again i take my Zenith apart and find that the center insulator has melted. So i wire up a TOBH that i had put away because i thought i was not getting enough flavor from it when using a store bought juice. Bam my diy juice actually is tasting pretty darn good. Now it looks like i need to do some more tweaking on my recipes. Lesson learned
 
For someone just starting out (with any new endeavor), it is easy to assume you did something wrong, when there may be a completely different problem (e.g. bad ingredients, contaminated bottles, PV equipment issues, etc.). That is why I always recommend starting slow and taking small steps forward until a new mixer builds up some confidence in their techniques and become familiar with their ingredients. It's not that a beginner can't make complex recipes successfully, rather there are too many unknowns to diagnose a problem should one occur. Once one has a routine down and an idea how things should taste, it is much easier to find and fix whatever issues may arise.

Thanks for sharing you lessons, I always find these posts to be among the most useful.
 

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For someone just starting out (with any new endeavor), it is easy to assume you did something wrong, when there may be a completely different problem (e.g. bad ingredients, contaminated bottles, PV equipment issues, etc.). That is why I always recommend starting slow and taking small steps forward until a new mixer builds up some confidence in their techniques and become familiar with their ingredients. It's not that a beginner can't make complex recipes successfully, rather there are too many unknowns to diagnose a problem should one occur. Once one has a routine down and an idea how things should taste, it is much easier to find and fix whatever issues may arise.

Thanks for sharing you lessons, I always find these posts to be among the most useful.[/QUOTE

Very well said. Now i am going back to do some testing
 
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