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I usually buy small tanks so I can have 2 or 3 tanks with different flavors in them going in rotation.
To change flavors in the same tank I'll usually pour any unused liquid back into the bottle, take apart the tank (I don't usually take it all the way apart, just the main pieces), rinse it by soaking in vodka for 15 minutes, let it dry, then pop a fresh coil in (save the old coil if it's still good). Prime the coil and fill the tank with the new flavor.
An RDA is good if you're wanting to sample a lot of flavors as was said before, the procedure to change in a tank is a little painful to do often.
To change flavors in the same tank I'll usually pour any unused liquid back into the bottle, take apart the tank (I don't usually take it all the way apart, just the main pieces), rinse it by soaking in vodka for 15 minutes, let it dry, then pop a fresh coil in (save the old coil if it's still good). Prime the coil and fill the tank with the new flavor.
An RDA is good if you're wanting to sample a lot of flavors as was said before, the procedure to change in a tank is a little painful to do often.
If you have an RDA you simply change out your cotton (or other wick material)
If a tank with factory replacement atomizer heads then you just dump out the old, wipe down the tank as best you can and then add the new if it's similar flavors (to save you from buying a bunch of coils....similar flavors is like going from cinnamon roll to apple pie)
If the flavors are dissimilar (like going from a tobacco to a dessert) then you have to replace the replacement atomizer heads as well as clean the tank in between flavors.
If a tank with factory replacement atomizer heads then you just dump out the old, wipe down the tank as best you can and then add the new if it's similar flavors (to save you from buying a bunch of coils....similar flavors is like going from cinnamon roll to apple pie)
If the flavors are dissimilar (like going from a tobacco to a dessert) then you have to replace the replacement atomizer heads as well as clean the tank in between flavors.
It depends a lot on how fussy about it you are. The gamut goes from cleaned out tank with fresh coil and new cotton to “well its mostly empty..”
I expect to get an RTA, someday... but I've got quite a bit to learn first.
Do I need to do anything to 'save' an atomizer head' I've replaced to reuse when I get to a similar flavor?
I asked this same question when I first started out and mostly got the same replies- get an RDA. For this new vaper trying to just stop smoking and find flavors I liked it wasnt helpful to me. I needed it to be kept simple as I got my feet wet.
Even now when using drop in coil tanks I only fill each tank halfway then when the juice gets too low I add the new flavor. As long as it’s not extremely different like fruit then menthol or tobacco it’ll be fine.
Keep it simple starting out. There’s plenty of time to learn RDAs if you want to eventually.
Even now when using drop in coil tanks I only fill each tank halfway then when the juice gets too low I add the new flavor. As long as it’s not extremely different like fruit then menthol or tobacco it’ll be fine.
Keep it simple starting out. There’s plenty of time to learn RDAs if you want to eventually.
Not really. Keep it somewhere it won't get contaminated by other things, and find some way to label it or its container so you can remember which juice you were using with it.
I haven't seen my favourite juice changing strategy mentioned yet. When I'm getting tired of one juice I finish the tank (or empty it). Sometimes I clean out the tank but I often don't bother. Then I add 1/4 - 1/2 tank of unflavoured juice and rinse it around. Vape that (unflavoured isn't half bad. It has a light, sweetish taste from the VG) at least until the coil is saturated, then switch to the new juice.
If it's a similar flavor you don't have to do anything ..
You'll just vape through the coil until the old flavor is gone from that wick and the new is what your vaping..
It's not bad.. I've done it with many flavors. Ive even gone so far as to go from cinnamon roll to Apple pie to Apple butter rum cake and more without even rinsing between flavors til at one point I hadn't a clue what I was vaping but it was all good.. lol..
Lots of flavors you can do that with so long as you stay in the same flavor group... but as your trying new flavors I would clean the tank between flavors but theres no need to do anything to the coil head except wipe down the outside of it some..you'll just vape through the last drop of the old flavor before you get to the new..
I've got some old snus cans lying around so I rinsed one of those out and keep my saved coils in it. A Ziploc bag would probably work fine too. I haven't done anything to separate the saved coils by flavor but I probably should, I'm just going by smell to guess what was in it before. As others have said it's not necessarily a bad thing to use a coil with a similar flavor until the new one comes through. So if I happen to grab a coil that had honey in it before and vape cinnamon with it I'm not too worried about it. But if you want to separate and label them that's fine too.
Shadgrind
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I would go for and RDA, as it will soon change, how about a squonker with a Dead Rabbit RDA and a squonk pin? I was Instantly, building coils , making my own juice and dripping RDAs as soon as I started vaping. more due to cost. I Have a good few coilheads, TFV12T12. My first mod was a four battery SMOK GX350, with a Cloud Beast King after a week of vaping. I have cleaned coilheads in ultrasonic bath and re-used them, using bioethanol mixed with water. Never as good as new though.
Did you know you can take apart coilheads and re-wick, or put in new coils? Neither did till last week!
Did you know you can take apart coilheads and re-wick, or put in new coils? Neither did till last week!
There are as many methods as there are vapers. Some folks will remove the coil and put it in a baggie with a flavor change and attach the coil to the juice. Etc. You can use unflavored to "wash out" a tank if you want. IF it's a similar flavor profile (I doubt I would want to go from say, cinnamon to mango and champagne I see that flavor change going a bit badly) but often I will just load up the new flavor and sometimes get a really NICE vape, and it gives me food for thought for my next DIY experiments. Although, I have enough setups now that I don't have to change flavors in most of my tanks, but eh, lots of methods.
Anna
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I use pretty much all RTA's. If I am changing juice I vape it down til the tank is pretty much empty, fill it up with the new juice and then squirt a couple of drops of the new down the chimney onto the coil/wick. It helps get the new flavor happening quicker.
When i used normal tanks with drop in coils i'd simply fill the tank
Same is said from me about rtas unless the cotton is due to be changed
On a rda i do the same but these times i dry my cotton a bit (basically until my vape starts tasting muted) then i drip on top of it lol.
Same is said from me about rtas unless the cotton is due to be changed
On a rda i do the same but these times i dry my cotton a bit (basically until my vape starts tasting muted) then i drip on top of it lol.
With a tank - if similar flavor I just wait till it goes low and dump in the new flavor. I usually use complimentary flavors. If I really want to taste each flavor separately or if I just know that the flavors will not work together I've done these 2 things --
--use a separate tank.
-- If using just one tank, I'd wait till it liquid level goes low, remove the coil and rinse it, let it dry and store it (I use empty pill bottles). Then I rinse the tank with distilled water and wipe it out with a lint free paper towel, put in a new coil and then the new flavor.
Most of the time my flavors are totally complimentary -- coffee, vanilla, cream, tobacco so I just dump it in.
--use a separate tank.
-- If using just one tank, I'd wait till it liquid level goes low, remove the coil and rinse it, let it dry and store it (I use empty pill bottles). Then I rinse the tank with distilled water and wipe it out with a lint free paper towel, put in a new coil and then the new flavor.
Most of the time my flavors are totally complimentary -- coffee, vanilla, cream, tobacco so I just dump it in.
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