Good taste to TERRIBLE taste?

[ej20rich]

**Update** Okay, upon playing around with the vodka soak, i get the same result of....cleanliness...out of soaking them in 10 minutes or 3 days. No damage to the paint or anything (smirnoff 80 proof). I did however, damage one of my atomizers by using the end of a paperclip to get leftover crud off of an atomizer that has not been cleaned EVER (i had it for a month) and part of the metal wick came off. It still produced vapor but half as much, so don't attempt this guys. Just vodka soak, blow it dry and let it sit overnight or use a hairdryer to speed up the process. BTW, Lipton PYRAMID tea bags did the trick, no terrible taste anymore, no stale/rotting gross fumes or nothing!

 

[NightShadow]

I do the vodka soak all the time and I have a few tips.

1st - there is always (I have heard) the possibility that you could destroy the atty. Make sure you have a spare atty before you try this. Also honestly, it will take your atty out of commission for a few days. (dry time)

I have done the vodka soak alot and never killed an atty. I think some people THINK they killed their atty but they really didnt, they arent patient enough.

2nd - Soak it in a non flavored vodka. I use Smirnoff.

Soak it for 3 hours tops. Soak it in a cup, swirl it around in the cup. Blow thru it, both ways, swirl again, etc. Rinse with water.

Stand it on end, let it dry for a few hours, flip it to the other end, let it dry more.

Forget about it till the next day (this is why you need a spare atty).

The next day, do some dry burns, and try some drags (a usb passthru is best to save ur battery). If you dont feel heat, set it on end again. Wait another day. These things really take time to dry.

On the next day, you should get heat, and even see the atty glow, but you wont get any vapor if you put a cart in. This means the wick is still wet. Give it some good dry burns, and drags, and set it on end again for another day.

By the third day, burn, drag, burn, drag, until you can put a cart on and get a hit. It takes some time. If you dont after 10 mins or so, set it on end again for another day.

By the fourth day you WILL get a drag. Again, dry burn, drag, (the drags are to get airflow past things to let the heat dry the wick), burn drag.

Periodically put a cart on and try to get a hit.

I have had this process go 2 days, and as much as 4.

I know this sounds like a pain, but if it saves you an atty, its worth it, especially since they may be in high demand and low supply someday.

Hope this helps.

CB

I had one atty (my first ever used ffor 2 weeks) I had washed in vodka and had thought I killed it for sure.

After reading this I went back and tried it again for the 4th time and BINGO it is putting out the vapor again! Clean taste aslo now ( it had the burnt taste before washing)

I just had not immagined it could take it THAT long to dry out but luckilly I stumbled across your post and gave it one more try!

Thank You CB!

 

[ej20rich]

ok time to bring this post back. I havent done the atty soak in a long time because i've been sticking to one flavor only. once i switched, i felt like i got no vapor at all, so i did the soak again. OH GOD, that terrible rotten metal flavor is back! I put it in vodka for about an hour, rinsed it with water and blew it out, let it dry overnight, and once i put a couple drops on the atomizer bridge, bam, that taste is back. It cant be my cartridge because i use ptb mod and even if i put on a fresh one, same thing! Startin to get extremely irritated, i've been at this for an hour and im dumbfounded! Tried dry burning, resoaking, just soaking in water, HELP!!

 

[jj2]

I had one about a week ago that took on a rotten taste. That was my first time using the Crest Pro mouthwash with a little bit of an Efferdent tablet thrown in.
Put the atty in the solution and stirred off and on---kept this up for about four hours. Then I put them in water and let soak for about 8 hours, and then let dry for about 12.
This got rid of the taste.

 

[ej20rich]

i did it for 15 minutes, and that exact indescribable rotton/metalic flavor was there, no matter what juice i use. i think im gona do it for 4 hours and hope for the best.

 

[Valhalla1]

i did it for 15 minutes, and that exact indescribable rotton/metalic flavor was there, no matter what juice i use. i think im gona do it for 4 hours and hope for the best.

hey I'm new to all this, but I had 3 901 attys less than a week old that I rinsed with just hot water and let dry overnight. next day they had a terrible burnt type taste. I had to keep dripping 2 drops, taking 2 puffs, drip again, puff again etc until finally the juice flavor kicked in. how many puffs of the terrible taste have you tried? it might just need a few more...

yeah i know it tastes terrible but you can just mouth puff it and blow it out without inhaling

 

[ej20rich]

So, after a lot of trial and error, i think i figured this out, and with much help from Vaporer, GrimmGreen, Jim Davis and others, i will share this information with you guys.

1. If this atty is new and is tasting like ****, its just primer, keep at it for about half a day to a day with a strong flavor like menthol, and it will get better, and always keep the thing wet/moist (i will explain later why this is crucial)

2. If this atty was working and now starts to taste bad, chances are it was dry at one point, and the wick was totally dry and burning up, causing this terrible burnt/metallic/plastic taste for all your juices. Fill up a fresh cart with a strong flavor (i use coffee and menthol) and pop it on the atty and leave it overnight. This saved two of my attys (1 working, 1 new one) that had the taste that i pretty much gave up on!

3. If this atty was working and you put it in vodka or a mouthwash bath, chances are things wont get better. I was a big fan of washing attys, but now i am never going to do it again. For some reason, the more i did it, the worse the flavor got. If you did this, fill a fresh cart and plug it on there with some strong juice, and hope for the best. I saved one of my attys, the other two just got WORSE. I think the two that were toast was because the wick was totally burnt, still dished out vapor but otherwise useless. I dont recommend dry burning any more either! Dry<Wet!!!

Give this a try guys, let me know how it goes!

 

[ej20rich]

hey I'm new to all this, but I had 3 901 attys less than a week old that I rinsed with just hot water and let dry overnight. next day they had a terrible burnt type taste. I had to keep dripping 2 drops, taking 2 puffs, drip again, puff again etc until finally the juice flavor kicked in. how many puffs of the terrible taste have you tried? it might just need a few more...

yeah i know it tastes terrible but you can just mouth puff it and blow it out without inhaling

i tried direct dripping too, still a bad taste, meaning it wasnt the cart. i did a hot water rinsing too as well, that seems to be a little better than vodka/mouthwash. i think you got that bad taste because the wick didnt suck in enough juice after you let it dry overnight, been there, done that. since you got it going after some puffs, i'd say it wasnt in too bad of condition and you saved it, good job!

As for the taste, ive been through DAYS of the terrible taste, puff after puff, even getting the wick totally moist. at that point, the taste was so bad that i gave up on them, because i saw no improvement. Keep your atty moist and you should be good to go from this point forward.

 

[ej20rich]

I had one about a week ago that took on a rotten taste. That was my first time using the Crest Pro mouthwash with a little bit of an Efferdent tablet thrown in.
Put the atty in the solution and stirred off and on---kept this up for about four hours. Then I put them in water and let soak for about 8 hours, and then let dry for about 12.
This got rid of the taste.

did this for 12 hours and let it dry for 12 hours, nope, only got worse, wick is too burnt! cant save the atty at this point...

 

[Anad the Juice hog]

I just got 5 new atty. I also had that weird burnt taste. I used my trusty old Tangaray gin. I put them in a urine cup "clean: I get these from the hospital. Soaked it for 2 hours. did the flip drip method. WOW I got a slight buzz. Just kidding they taseted wonderful. I tried to make a coffee flavored juice last night. Used left over coffee from pot and some 24 mg unflavored. It vaped for 2 minutes and then drowned the atty. To much water in the coffe even though I used a minuit amount. Oh well back to the drawing board. I was given this free flavor from a friend french pipe YUCK. I throught out that cart even after I rinsed still had that flavor. diffrent strokes for diffrent folks. sorry if I offended anybody if that is there fav juice. have a great t day and as always happy Vapeing.