Beware of Kringles Curse!!

[chapeltown]

Wow. So sorry for your minty battle!
I am thinking Bragg's is going to leave a ton of flavor on your wicks/coils.

I recommend white vinegar if you are going in that direction, and if you go in a salt water direction, use canning salt and distilled water, as it has none of the minerals that would be left behind to affect your coils/wicks, which is why it iis used in canning.

 

[MD_Boater]

That post was too funny... I hope you can de-funk your gear...

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[Susan W.]

I love Kringle's Curse. It's just not Kringle's Curse that does this. Menthols, peppermints and other minty flavors all tend to leave a minty taste even after cleaning. I dedicate a tank just for minty flavors and I usually have a tank filled with minty flavored juice all the time.

 

[Caridwen]

Moved to E-liquid discussion

 

[StormFinch]

Another possibility for cleaning when grain alcohol isn't an option is food grade hydrogen peroxide. HP is used to bleach cotton, is allowed in sterilizing containers for food, and small amounts (food grade) aren't thought to be dangerous. Thorough rinsing is suggested after using it as it does leave behind a slight residue, but it's a lot better than isopropyl.

 

[Rossum]

91% Isopropyl Alcohol does leave a residue when it evaporates, but 100% pure Isopropyl Alcohol may not - I'm not sure.

You can never have 100% pure isopropyl alcohol because it will pull moisture from the air the moment you open the bottle. But the percentage of water doesn't really matter. A mixture of isopropyl alcohol and water should leave nothing behind when it has evaporated. If it does, there are impurities of some other sort in there. Whether they were in there when it came from the bottle or whether they got picked up from the tank/coil itself is somewhat in question.

I don't have a problem with using it as a cleaning agent ...providing the something I'm cleaning isn't something I'm later going to vaporize liquid into microscopic particles with and ingest into my lungs.

Maybe I'm just being overly cautious.

Given that I've smoked several hundred thousand analogs over the last 3-1/2 decades and I have no clue what's in the flavorings in my e-liquids now, using isopropyl instead of ethyl alcohol to clean tanks and coils and the prospect that it might leave a few micrograms of some unknown residue behind just doesn't scare me much.

 

[Riverared]

I asked my friend who is a chemist with 35 years experience. He recommended acetone instead of isopropyl. Acetone is an ethyl alcohol (similar to PGA) but a recovering alcoholic would definitely NOT want to drink it. Isopropyl will leave a small amount of residue, but not anymore than what is already in the water you used to rinse. My only real concern is what acetone would do to a plastic tank. Otherwise, the chemist said it's a winner. Maybe soak the plastic parts in vinegar and the rest in acetone? Then a distilled water rinse if you're a bit paranoid.

 

[Colie]

Given that I've smoked several hundred thousand analogs over the last 3-1/2 decades and I have no clue what's in the flavorings in my e-liquids now, using isopropyl instead of ethyl alcohol to clean tanks and coils and the prospect that it might leave a few micrograms of some unknown residue behind just doesn't scare me much.

Second that thought.

 

[EL Pistoffo]

I do all my cleaning by rinsing in hot tap water, dunk everything in cheap Vodka (standard proof) for about 10-15 min, then re-rinse, let dry and do a quick coil dry burn. Never had a flavor crossover. One thing to note is that I do not reuse my wicks. They are cotton so I just use a new cotton wick after every cleaning.

Edit: For through cleaning, strip down the device first.

 

[BillyWJ]

I dropped by my local vape shop last week and they had some Halo Kringles Curse bottles out on the counter on sale real cheap. So I tasted it and thought it would be a nice minty change. So I filled a PT II mini tank with it and vaped it a little. Too minty, I thought so I drained the tank and washed it out, gave it a 91% alcohol bath and popped the coil into my bottle of 91% alcohol that I soak my coils in. So, I popped a new coil in the cleaned tank and added some different juice and I could still taste that minty flavor in the new juice. OK, I'm thinking I didn't get the tank good and clean. Repeated the cleaning procedure, put in a fresh coil and still with the mint flavor. ...!! So, I just let the tank sit and kinda forgot about it. Meanwhile, I get my old coils out of the alcohol soak, about 8 of them, dry burn and add a flavor wick and store them in the bag where I keep my refurbished coils. I go to get a coil out and notice that mint smell in the bag. Can't be, right?? Wrong!! I put one in a tank of juice and there's that danged mint again!!! Now yesterday, I get some vape mail with a sampler pack and I want to try out the new flavors, none of which are minty. So, I clean out 3 PT II minis, putting them all together in an alcohol bath (yes, I put the Kningle tank in there too) and after a soak and hot water rinse, I put brand new coils in and all 3 tanks are now minty. This stuff has some kind of nuclear half-life. It's infecting everything I have!! Luckily, it hasn't gotten into my PT II's yet, but it's only one absent-minded coil change away, I fear!! I have put all of my old coils into a fresh alcohol bath and hope this Kurse will somehow be gone. I'm afraid to dump the bottle of Kurse juice as it could possibly get into the water system and the whole areas drinking water could become minty!! Anyone have any ideas how to end this minty madness??

As a lover of Kringle's Curse, I don't see the downside here?

(I use it ONLY in my Protank Mini, for the record, it's too strong for my dripping atty and I couldn't vape it all day in a carto. I do love it though.)

There's a couple of spots juice can hide out, so you just have to clean really well, and maybe even use some dishwashing liquid and q-tips, and get ALL of the nooks and crannies before you rebuild - I found that the rubber gasket is a good place for it to hide, and inside the air chimney. With really strong flavors I take it all apart and wash with a little soap, inside and out, the 0-rings, everywhere, inside the air path, and the drip dip, and it usually gets all of it. I have a black licorice that's a stubborn one to get rid of.

Oh, and use hot water. I didn't when I started out, some of the oils need heat to get them to budge - Kringle's almost definitely has peppermint oil in it.

 

[imdeskman]

Sounds like a 1950's horror movie.

 

[short_guy]

Has anyone else tried soaking with denture cleaner tablets? 2 hours in that even managed to get Halo's Voodoo out of one of my Protanks.

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[BigCatDaddy]

I really apprciate all of you folks responses!! I'm still battling "The Curse" but I think I'm winning with the help of all of these replys. I've decided to keep the bottle of "Curse" as I'm hoping my wife will one day soon decide to give up smoking and pick up vaping. She's a menthol smoker and one drop of this stuff in any juice flavor she chooses will probaly be enough to mentholize it!!

 

[Susaz]

Not an option, I'm a recovering alcoholic. But if I could, what's the difference in using booze and regular alcohol??
Any other ideas?? I've got to get this Curse lifted!!

use 2 teaspoons of baking soda in a little water and drop everything overnight. Denture pills work too, everything with baking soda removes the most unpleaseant odors. Rinse thoroughly after.
The old skunk odor removal scheme also works. Baking soda and peroxide with enough water to sink your things in is also very effective. Use in plastic tanks once a month or so.

 

[Riverared]

Baking soda. Duh. Why didn't I think of that?