Initial baaaaad taste! Help please!!!!

[ghost_inhale]

So I when I first bought my 510 I used an atomizer that worked GREAT! Full flavor from all my liquids and everything! So it finally crapped out and now I'm using a new atomizer...IT TASTES TERRIBLE! Tastes like I'm inhaling battery fumes or something! So I tried another atomizer...SAME THING! Then another...SAME TASTE! Switched batteries, started a new cart...same taste. IS this just the initial "break-in" of the atomizer and will it eventually get better?! How long does it take for that taste to go away!? It seriously makes me sick to my stomach. Is there anyway to AVOID that taste all together? I really need some help here guys! THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!

 

[mudmanc4]

New Atomizers have primer on it.
It will need breaking in so give it a day or 2.

I will concur !

 

[ghost_inhale]

Is it smart to clean that primer off first? Like before I even use a new atomizer soak it first? Will that help?! How does everyone else deal with this initial break-in period? Also, can someone link me to a thread about cleaning atomizers?! THANK YOU!

 

[BobbiBilbo]

Some people blow out the primer. Others clean first with Everclear. And some drip plain VG onto the atty.

I recently added the VG method to my book of tactics and it actually seems to help. I purchased a 6oz bottle (lifetime supply) of USP Pure Glycerin @ CVS for about $5.00. I had trouble finding it, but the pharmacist took me right to it.

 

[Gottabefree]

I'm sure that's caused a lot of people to wonder about the horrible taste..

 

[ghost_inhale]

By blowing out the primer do you mean to simply just put the battery side to your lips and blow through it? I thought that was only to clean the nic juice out after you have used it for a while. Are you saying the primer is a liquid then?! THANKS FOR YOU RESPONSES GUYS!

 

[queevil]

I put my mouth over the battery (threaded) end of the atty and blow the primer fluid out. You'll never get all of it out by using this method but will get quite a bit of it out which decreases the amount of time that it takes for the taste that you describe to go away and the flavor of your liquid to start coming through.

 

[D133]

Are you saying the primer is a liquid then?

From what I've read on here the primer is reckoned to be plain PG liquid which helps prevent the atomiser corroding during storage. Over time a metallic taste will tend to leach into it through contact.

I was confused about the word 'primer' initially, I thought it referred to a primer paint or coating on the atomiser that had to be burned off - but its just a liquid.

 

[jj2]

At times it can taste pretty nasty. Blow on the connector end of the atty (use a paper towel because this will get messy).
Use the empty cart that came on the atty and then drop a few drops on the atty and then puff several times. Don't inhale.
Once you have done this several times, inhale to see if things have improved. If not, and once vapor decreases, repeat.
Once the taste gets livable, put a loaded cart on and vape away.

If you didn't buy liquid, get some PG or VG and use it.