Coil gunker butterscotch

[MMarie]

Hi all! I've been lurking in this forum for a while and gathering tons of helpful information. I've come to a little stumbling block and was wondering if one of you fine people could help.

I've been testing out some recipes and I've developed one that I really love in flavor, but it is a coil destroyer. I'm wondering if anyone has some suggestions for flavor substitutions that will give me the rich, smooth "dilly bar butterscotch" flavor that I'm getting from the following recipe but will keep me from having to rebuild my coil after each tank. The recipe I'm using is:

10% TFA Buterscotch
3% LA Butter Rum
3% TFA Brown Sugar
2.5% CAP Vanilla Custard
1.5% TFA Caramel

I'm mixing it 50/50 PG/VG if that makes any difference. If not, I like the mixture enough to rebuild every 3ml (honestly, I could use the practice anyway), but I'd really rather not if possible.

Thanks for the help!

 

[Slots]

The VG will gunk up your wicks.
I swear that the PG (being thinner) gets sucked up first !
I think that, .. and evaporation make the last of your juice in the clearo pretty thick.
I always add a couple drops of just unflavored (no nic) PG/VG base to it and then I can enjoy the last of the juice ... it thins it, and improves the flavor a lot.
Having a bottle of that stuff around really comes in handy.

If I were you, I'd try using 70/30 of the PG/VG, unless your are allergic to PG.
It sure works a lot better than 50/50 for me.
How people that use pure VG can get anything to vape is beyond me, but some don't have a choice.

Also, you could try pouring the juice back in it's bottle when the wick starts getting gunky, and just rinse out the wick, slap it back in, put the juice back in and it will help a lot.
Just towel squeeze the wick to get most of the water out first.
I'm assuming your flavoring are a PG base and are not responsible for the clogging ???

Just a few suggestions that I have tried that worked
But if you can handle it, go to a 70/30 base mix first.
That may just solve your problem.

Recipe sounds great ... gunna have to try it !
Thanks

 

[MMarie]

It's not the wick, it's the coil. I'm not using a clearo, I'm using an AGA RBA. I believe the culprit is the Brown Sugar. My 70% VG Raspberry cheesecake doesn't foul my coil like this recipe.

 

[TroyHoot]

cant you just run it under hot water and dry burn it clean ?

 

[MMarie]

I do a dry burn after every tank, but this one gunks pretty bad even halfway through. The RBA is run with 32 gauge kanthal, which is pretty thin and doesn't hold as well as a thicker wire, so I have to go through draining the tank with a syringe and resolving hotspots process about halfway through a tank because of all the gunk on the wire.

Tastes really great, but *dang* it cakes the gunk. I've ordered some 30 gauge wire that will stay in place better for this juice, but I was hoping someone on this forum would be able to recommend a similar flavor that wasn't as likely to create a thick layer of sludge on my coils so I didn't have to wrap as much to get the same resistance.

 

[TroyHoot]

Dont know if this would work for you. I use twisted 32guage on my drippers. This way when I pull out the cheese cloth wick and swap it, the coil is alot stronger then single strand. I have no experience with twisted on a regular RBA with a tank. I would think it would be worth a try. You will need more wraps to keep the same resistance though.

The twisted lets me tug and pull on it while taking wick out. THen I dry burn the stew out of it. Put a new wick in and im ready to go. I use this method on both my dripping rba. Same coils for close to a month on both of them and i change wicks about every 5-7 days.