Kanthal goes bad ??? (Horrible burnt taste)

[Annon011]

Up until yesterday I used a 100 ft Kanthal that I bought like 4 or 5 years ago. In the past few months the taste I was getting a lot of times was outright HORRIBLE and I mean making you feel sick horrible. It tasted like inhaling the smoke from a chimney.

I opened my rba multiple times just to find out the cotton was perfectly saturated and everything was perfectly clean. The coil prior to adding cotton was always evenly lighting up and all so I just couldn't figure out what the deal was.

A few days ago I bought new kanthal and yesterday I built a new coil. As of right now, that ridicously awful taste is completely gone which leads me to the only conclusion that after a few years pass kanthal goes bad.

Can anyone confirm this ?


*** Actually the kanthal I was using was probably even older. I bought about 5 years and who knows how long it had stayed at the store and how long since it was first put together, so we may be looking at about 6 years

 

[the wind]

My guess is a oil film on it.try cleaning it with alcohol before wrapping and dry burn.

 

[bombastinator]

Kanthal is basically iron wire. It can rust perhaps, and that might create such a flavor, but “go bad”? Not given anything outside geologic time scales. Maybe not even then. What CAN go bad are hydrocarbons like oils coating that wire.

 

[vapdivrr]

My spools dont sit for that long, so never tried 5 year old kanthal, but I just dont see it going bad just sitting in a normal environment. I really dont know for sure, but perhaps something got on the spool? Or that part of the spool was defective from the start...haven't heard of this before

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[zoiDman]

Up until yesterday I used a 100 ft Kanthal that I bought like 4 or 5 years ago. In the past few months the taste I was getting a lot of times was outright HORRIBLE and I mean making you feel sick horrible. It tasted like inhaling the smoke from a chimney.

I opened my rba multiple times just to find out the cotton was perfectly saturated and everything was perfectly clean. The coil prior to adding cotton was always evenly lighting up and all so I just couldn't figure out what the deal was.

A few days ago I bought new kanthal and yesterday I built a new coil. As of right now, that ridicously awful taste is completely gone which leads me to the only conclusion that after a few years pass kanthal goes bad.

Can anyone confirm this ?


*** Actually the kanthal I was using was probably even older. I bought about 5 years and who knows how long it had stayed at the store and how long since it was first put together, so we may be looking at about 6 years

Maybe you have Dust Mites in your Cotton.

 

[bombastinator]

Maybe you have Dust Mites in your Cotton.

I dunno. Lobsters are Arthropods. That might just make it tastier.

 

[zoiDman]

I dunno. Lobsters are Arthropods. That might just make it tastier.

Dunno either?

MTL-ing them at Low Wattage might be OK. But vaping Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus in DL Hits at High Wattage is just plain Nasty.

 

[bombastinator]

Dunno either?

MTL-ing them at Low Wattage might be OK. But vaping Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus in DL Hits at High Wattage is just plain Nasty.

It’s probably all the burnt chitin.

 

[bombastinator]

It’s probably all the burnt chitin.

Nonononononononono! My last post was not informative in any way whatsoever! It was complete and utter garbage! I am horrified that I may have damaged someone’s understanding of the world

 

[sonicbomb]

Kanthal is a iron-chromium-aluminium (FeCrAl) alloy, it cannot go 'bad'. It could potentially oxidize (rust), but you would probably see that. If in doubt, just buy another spool, it's not expensive.
Most vaping (or any technical) problem can be eliminated using a process of elimination and application of some basic science.

 

[Rossum]

Kanthal is a iron-chromium-aluminium (FeCrAl) alloy, it cannot go 'bad'. It could potentially oxidize (rust), but you would probably see that.

The 20%+ chromium content alone should make it pretty dang resistant to rust, and the aluminum should help as well. Heck, 430 SS has a few percent less chromium.

 

[Zazie]

Nonononononononono! My last post was not informative in any way whatsoever! It was complete and utter garbage! I am horrified that I may have damaged someone’s understanding of the world

Don't worry. It was a tongue-in-cheek "informative." My understanding of the world is no more damaged than usual.

 

[BillW50]

Kanthal exposed to plain water doesn't show any rust. Although Kanthal exposed to salt water will. I've seen Kanthal rust with some juices too.

After a month of testing. Kanthal does not rust in plain tap water. More info in comments. : electronic_cigarette