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+1 on the V1 bacon. I bought a bag last November. It's about half gone now. That stuff is awesome.
I go thru it fast (about a bag 6 weeks) cuz I build for my whole family...me on the drippers & the Billow for work, my dad on drippers & a Lemo 2 for work, Mom goes back & forth between the Subtank Mini & the Protank annoying-as-crap enclosed duals I rebuild and my aunt uses evods that she brings me handfuls of every month or so. I put the bacon in all of em lol although I do use the wrap-around trick vs flavor wick that I found here on the old school ones. It gets old sometimes but hey it keeps em all from smoking. Dad is learning so my work load will decrease by half soon methinks
Ok.. read about half of the info.... I am usually big with an explanation, but here goes....
Ejuice gunk can be caused from several factors. Neither PG or VG leave any residue to my knowlege. Nicotine doesn't leave much of a residue either. That leaves the flavoring as the major culprit for ejuice gunk.
I don't know how most flavors are made, but a lot of the tobacco flavors are made like a "tobacco tea". In essence, they take some tobacco leaves, put it in PG or VG VG, cook it for some time, then strain the leaf residue out of it leaving the tobacco flavoring in the PG or VG. As you can imagine, more than just the flavor can come out.. and when the PG, VG, and nicotine are vaporized, any extra residue will be left on your coils.
Sweeter flavors also may contain minute traces of sugar. Pure vanilla extract as an example has about .5 grams of sugar in 4 grams of extract. I am sure some goes up in vapor when you vape it, but the sugars that are left behind, is just heated up on the coils.. which caramelize. Of course there is Imitation vanilla extract, but that too can be made from other organic substances, but probably contain much less sugars than a true vanilla extract.
so, in short, the flavoring has a lot to do with what is left behind. If you vape certain flavors, you're probably going to get more of a build up than others. My main flavor is Guava. The juice is clear, and I go about 2 weeks before even looking at the coil. I use 28 gauge wire as my main, and clean my coils about once every 2 weeks.. and even then, they don't NEED to be cleaned, but I do it anyways. The cotton I pull out is mostly white, with it being a light tan color under the coils. When I vaped RY4, the wicks would be dark brown, the coils black, and this was after one week. Back then, I used Silica, so I would torch the silica and dry burn the coil. I would replace the coil every 2-3 weeks.
When choosing a flavor, I always buy a small test flavor. The darker juices usually have more particles in them than clear ones, and are probably more likely to gunk up your coils. There is no surefire way to tell. If you want to give it a try... For a day, try just vaping pure VG on a fresh coil. It will have a slightly sweet taste. If you have a second Ecig, use that to get your nicotine if you need it. See how long the coil lasts in just one day.
Ejuice gunk can be caused from several factors. Neither PG or VG leave any residue to my knowlege. Nicotine doesn't leave much of a residue either. That leaves the flavoring as the major culprit for ejuice gunk.
I don't know how most flavors are made, but a lot of the tobacco flavors are made like a "tobacco tea". In essence, they take some tobacco leaves, put it in PG or VG VG, cook it for some time, then strain the leaf residue out of it leaving the tobacco flavoring in the PG or VG. As you can imagine, more than just the flavor can come out.. and when the PG, VG, and nicotine are vaporized, any extra residue will be left on your coils.
Sweeter flavors also may contain minute traces of sugar. Pure vanilla extract as an example has about .5 grams of sugar in 4 grams of extract. I am sure some goes up in vapor when you vape it, but the sugars that are left behind, is just heated up on the coils.. which caramelize. Of course there is Imitation vanilla extract, but that too can be made from other organic substances, but probably contain much less sugars than a true vanilla extract.
so, in short, the flavoring has a lot to do with what is left behind. If you vape certain flavors, you're probably going to get more of a build up than others. My main flavor is Guava. The juice is clear, and I go about 2 weeks before even looking at the coil. I use 28 gauge wire as my main, and clean my coils about once every 2 weeks.. and even then, they don't NEED to be cleaned, but I do it anyways. The cotton I pull out is mostly white, with it being a light tan color under the coils. When I vaped RY4, the wicks would be dark brown, the coils black, and this was after one week. Back then, I used Silica, so I would torch the silica and dry burn the coil. I would replace the coil every 2-3 weeks.
When choosing a flavor, I always buy a small test flavor. The darker juices usually have more particles in them than clear ones, and are probably more likely to gunk up your coils. There is no surefire way to tell. If you want to give it a try... For a day, try just vaping pure VG on a fresh coil. It will have a slightly sweet taste. If you have a second Ecig, use that to get your nicotine if you need it. See how long the coil lasts in just one day.
Guava?
Yes. ..... I must try that.
Yes. Indeed. .....
lol.
Really, that sounds so good!
Yes, Guava... I buy it by the 236Ml bottles (honestly).
To change things up, I buy banana flavoring, strawberry flavoring and blueberry flavoring to add to the mix. But most of the time, I vape it straight. I ran out of banana flavoring a few months ago, so I've been vaping straight guava for the past month or two. Looks like I might need to order another. Here's two bottles I found. I have more floating around somewhere.
Could your wick be too dry? Maybe try saturating the coil and wick directly with juice much akin like a dripper before drawing?
Actually I believe it's the juice that causing my wick to gunk up. Damn those berries. Now I'm on rose syrup and my wick's holding up quite well. Been 2 days without rewicking.
Yeah. ...
Berries ruined my life.
I blame the berry farmers.
And reganomics.
And. ..... oprah. (Why not?)
Yea gotta be those berries. Looks like I've gotta chew on them berries while vaping honeydew the next time.
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