Good choices for thick juice?

[UncHellMatt]

Cheers folks.

Lately I've been leaning toward 50/50 juices, and even making my own at that ratio, and while it's required me to use extra flavoring, I just love the vapor production. Down side? It eats up wicks. I find myself cleaning out or re-wicking my ProTank and Evod coils after only a few tanks, ditto cleaning off the wicks in my RBAs. Granted, I understand that's the trade off; Extra flavor and thicker juice means more caked wicks.

I attempted to go back to carto-tanks, but that was just about as bad, and I really just am not a fan of them any more, even though it's what I started out with.

Anyone have a preferred type for thick juice? I've been pondering the iClear 30 just to try, as I've been hearing good things about it, and I'm prepared to have to get extra heads so while one is drying after cleaning it off, I can have another all loaded up and ready for while I'm at work (learned my lesson not to carry around my RBAs to and from work, better to stick with cheap options while I'm out and about).

 

[Susan W.]

Thick juice is a problem for all. I rebuild my coil/wicks for my Protanks with cotton balls and kanthal wire. I do a bunch at one time so it's easy to take one out and pop a new one in.

 

[UncHellMatt]

I've had great luck using cheese cloth as well, since I've got bags of it for use in home brewing.

I'd seen people posting about running into the same thing before I made the switch from 80/20 PG/VG to 50/50. Man, does it cake up on my SS wicks! Particularly chocolate flavors. Yowza.

Thick juice is a problem for all. I rebuild my coil/wicks for my Protanks with cotton balls and kanthal wire. I do a bunch at one time so it's easy to take one out and pop a new one in.

 

[DavidOck]

IME, top coils tend to take a bit longer to gunk with dark thick juices, so the Iclears might work for you.

Might also try just firing at a higher voltage, with no draw, a couple times to try to burn it off in the device.

 

[Texmac1011]

I use 50/50 with the iclear16's and have had great success so far.

 

[Cheechako]

100% VG here and recoil and rewick with cheesecloth in an Evod.
The only consistant top coil I found that would function with 100% VG without
dry hits was the Iclear 16, don't use them though as I cannot recoil and rewick...

 

[LeoRex]

The thing I've noticed with both the T3 and my evods was that dark juices caramelized fast. The coil is immersed the entire time, so the juice will draw a lot of heat off that thing. The darkened juice probably doesn't burn off as well as the cleaner stuff coming in from above, leaving residue.

On the T3, I had to top it off, otherwise it leaked, so I could see darkened juice swirling in the new juice.. with the eVod, which I can run dry if I don't pay attention, I'll flush the tank every couple of fills.

But the juices I've been vaping lately are a bit lighter than the 100% VG I used to vape... that stuff looked like motor oil in the bottle and pummeled my coils. They would get crusted up something fierce.

 

[cincy1020]

Hi:
I am relatively new to the world of vaping. I quit analogs 3 months ago, and bought a Blu. Shortly thereafter, I figured out there were much better options, so I bought a Vapor For life 808 setup with cartomizers. Still wasn't happy, and bought a Johnson Creek Vea. It's great, but I am sick of the cartomizers running out so quickly, and after much reading online, I decided on a whole new setup.

I have just now purchased my first clearomizers. They will arrive Monday along with my new Joye ego twists.
After reading this thread I am now worried. I use VG Johnson Creek smoke juice. I really want to stay away from PG, since it irritates my throat.

The clearomizers I purchased are Vision vivi nova, Kanger MT3 and a Vision 2.0 clearo.
Am I going to have problems?
Would they work better if I thin them down with distilled water?
Thanks so much!

 

[DavidOck]

The top coils - Nova and Vision 2.0 - may not caramelize as quickly as the bottom coil MT, but all should work. Try the juice first, but yes, a couple drops of distilled water may help.

With the VV - Twists - start out with the voltage low and work up slowly unti you get the vape you like.

 

[Glen Snyder]

Only 1/3 of the equation is known. What ohm coil are you using in your delivery devices and what device are you using to fire the coil )how many volts/watts)?