Close to giving up on my Reo.....

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Papa_Lazarou

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I so feel for you on the muted flavour front. I have a very dulled sense of taste and often experience the same absence your describe.

I find two things that help:

Fresh wicks every day (I suspect I'm cooking the juice a bit as a side effect of my vaping style).

Water - lots and lots of water to drink. Dehydration (and PG accelerates this) absolutely kills my sense of taste.

I have also found that dual coils (higher vaper yield per draw) at lower nic level produced better flavour (YMMV).

Hang in there - it's most likely not the reo.
 

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When first getting my REO I was amazed at the flavor but it would come and go. After a few weeks I kept reading post about diluting the juice with unflavored or just vaping unflavored. I started playing around and I found that I could dilute the juice more than 50% and I still had great flavor but I could vape it all day long without loosing anything. I believe that I was overpowering my taste buds and they would shut off. As long as I stay hydrated I can vape the same flavor day after day after day and it taste the same every time I hit it. I now fill each bottle either 6ml or 3ml 25% full of my juice and fill the rest with unflavored mic base....give it a quick shake and away I go. I am not sure if this works for everyone but it sure squared me away.

Juice is like cotton wicks.....less is more
 

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I vape two juices at the present time. When one goes dull I switch to the other.

Some days both are super good others not so.

I sometimes will vape one in the morning with my coffee and in the evening after work and use the other one during the day. it helps keep the taste buds fresh. like others have said lots of water helps as well.
 

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The RM2 is definitely capable of flavor overdose.

I DIY my liquid, and basically vape 5% flavoring, 95% unflavored nic base. Before the RM2, while using Gennies or other tanks, it was at the very least 25% flavoring I was mixing in. Started knocking the flavor percentage down batch by batch, and was pretty surprised how low I could comfortably get the percentage down to.

I also use an Origen on a Hammer, and vape much stronger flavored liquid in that setup (12%-ish), but I only rock that while watching TV in my living room. That setup lives/stays on my coffee table, and I'm never using it longer than 2 hours max maybe 2-3 times a week.

Otherwise, it's obviously not the Reo, it's what you put on top of it, the build, and the juice you vape. The Reo is just a mech with a rock solid juice delivery system.

On a related subject, maybe this is a good cue for you to hit the DIY forum and look into that. I ditched vendor juices last summer, and doing so has definitely benefited me. It's a fun enough vaping related hobby that easily replaces "shiny-itus" once you get a dependable and consistent setup/platform like a Reo. It's about as difficult as being able to add cream and sugar to your coffee.

DIY saves you mad cash. One of the aspects of vaping that helped me stick with it was the fact that it was saving me $13 a day in expenses compared to smoking. You get to that point, as a bonafide non-smoker, where you wonder why people spend that kind of money on cigarettes. Now I'm at a point where I wonder why people spend that kind of money on vendor juices. I go through maybe 3-4ml a day, and I reckon DIY costs me maybe 10¢ a day?

Also, and I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but who knows what the hell your favorite vendor is putting into their liquids. One thing's for sure, there is red food coloring in your "unicorn blood". And seriously, why the hell is that necessary? Seeing your pink soaked wick is alarming to me. Not only does it look like a used tampon, but that crap can't be good to inhale. The biggest unknown about our vaping habit's safety is the chemicals in it. Outside of PG, VG, and nicotine, ALL the unknowns and potential danger lay within the flavoring. The flavoring, and more importantly food coloring that isn't even needed, is made for ingestion, not inhalation. The closer you are to pure unflavored base, the safer it is. So if a tiny little RM2 allows you to knock the flavoring percentage down big time, I view that as a massive benefit of the device.




Cheers
 
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AmandaD

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The RM2 is definitely capable of flavor overdose.

I DIY my liquid, and basically vape 5% flavoring, 95% unflavored nic base. Before the RM2, while using Gennies or other tanks, it was at the very least 25% flavoring I was mixing in. Started knocking the flavor percentage down batch by batch, and was pretty surprised how low I could comfortably get the percentage down to.

I also use an Origen on a Hammer, and vape much stronger flavored liquid in that setup (12%-ish), but I only rock that while watching TV in my living room. That setup lives/stays on my coffee table, and I'm never using it longer than 2 hours max maybe 2-3 times a week.

Otherwise, it's obviously not the Reo, it's what you put on top of it, the build, and the juice you vape. The Reo is just a mech with a rock solid juice delivery system.

On a related subject, maybe this is a good cue for you to hit the DIY forum and look into that. I ditched vendor juices last summer, and doing so has definitely benefited me. It's a fun enough vaping related hobby that easily replaces "shiny-itus" once you get a dependable and consistent setup/platform like a Reo. It's about as difficult as being able to add cream and sugar to your coffee.

DIY saves you mad cash. One of the aspects of vaping that helped me stick with it was the fact that it was saving me $13 a day in expenses compared to smoking. You get to that point, as a bonafide non-smoker, where you wonder why people spend that kind of money on cigarettes. Now I'm at a point where I wonder why people spend that kind of money on vendor juices. I go through maybe 3-4ml a day, and I reckon DIY costs me maybe 10¢ a day?

Also, and I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but who knows what the hell your favorite vendor is putting into their liquids. One thing's for sure, there is red food coloring in your "unicorn blood". And seriously, why the hell is that necessary? Seeing your pink soaked wick is alarming to me. Not only does it look like a used tampon, but that crap can't be good to inhale. The biggest unknown about our vaping habit's safety is the chemicals in it. Outside of PG, VG, and nicotine, ALL the unknowns and potential danger lay within the flavoring. The flavoring, and more importantly food coloring that isn't even needed, is made for ingestion, not inhalation. The closer you are to pure unflavored base, the safer it is. So if a tiny little RM2 allows you to knock the flavoring percentage down big time, I view that as a massive benefit of the device.




Cheers

Totally agree on this one! My flavoring rarely goes over 6%, and I while I'm really not paranoid about vaping, seeing as I smoked for almost 40 years, it does make one pause for thought at the vast amounts of flavorings that go into some vendor juice. My DIY all tastes marvelous in my Reo. I can't taste a thing in my old Halo Triton tanks :p
 

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I'm wondering if there's a good reason for such strong flavorings. When people first quit smoking, it takes a while for their tastes buds to return to "normal". Hence, the overpowering flavorings in a lot of juices to compensate? Many people, after their taste buds reawaken, are at a point where they are interested in DIY anyway, so maybe it's all part of a larger plan LOL
 

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Thanks for the advice, everyone! and Dread, I'll still end up getting an LP, so I have a wider variety of attys to use. I do have a smoktech rda that I modified, and that seemed to be working good with some ry4 in it. It honestly may just be the juice and the way I'm vaping, and I'm burning out my taste buds. What are some good flavors that others have had that are good for chain vaping? I realize that taste and whatnot is subjective, but surely there is something universal that everyone agrees on lol.

When i get burnt out on all the flavors and they all start tasting like one big flavor.. I hit this

very easy to make yourself if you diy if not take this to your local B&M and have them mix it for you

8% TFA Whipped Cream
5% TFA Vanilla Swirl
5% TFA Koolada
i use a 50/50 base

I hate menthol but i really enjoy this flavor.. and it cleans the palette for me.
 
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