I'm shocked and amazed but here is my story:
I dabble in DIY juices. I ordered some "coffee extra" from TPA and the reviews recommended percentages anywhere from 10-15%. I mixed at 10%, dripped, and what I got was like concentrated burnt coffee + unwashed .... flavor. I can not express how horrible this taste was. First I blew out the atty and cleaned the PV in case a little bit might have gone through the atty. I dripped some unflavored VG, cigar puffed, and what I got was less concentrated burnt coffee + unwashed .... (the VG really brought out the unwashed .... flavor)........not an improvement IMO. I removed the atty, flooded with VG, blew it out, repeated, dripped a couple drops of VG and no improvement. Then I tried the same steps with PG, no improvement. I shrugged and soaked it in PGA overnight. The next morning, I blew it out until dry and already I could smell the coffee death radiating from the atty. Just to satisfy my curiosity, I dripped a little PG to make sure (I guess I am a masochist?) and got a slightly reduced version of coffee death + unwashed ..... I rinsed it out with alcohol one more time and tossed it on the bathroom counter and forgot about it.
One week later I run out of juice in the feed bottle of my REO and decide it was time I cleaned my atty while I am at it. I blew it out, filled up, washed my DT and reassembled. I primed up with some of the banana juice I was currently enjoying and took a fresh pull........of banana + a hint of coffee. I had grabbed the wrong atty
. I re cleaned the coffee death atty, recleaned the DT, kicked myself for ordering the same color "testing" atty as my regular use atty, reassembled using the correct atty, primed and left the house for a buddies house about 45 min away. About 5 min from the house I got a hint of coffee taste and I laughed it off thinking I was imagining it. 10 after that I was certain I was tasting burnt coffee with the banana. It kept getting stronger and stronger the more I vaped! It tasted horrible! The atty (4 or 5 times cleaned with alcohol ) had contaminated my mod from that one quick exposure!!!! When I got to my friends house I borrowed some rubbing alcohol and cleaned the mod and DT and installed my back up atty on my key chain. Thank god the coffee taste wasn't permanent on my REO......and I pocketed the coffee death atty, intending to shoot the thing next time I went to the shooting range for the sake of humanity.
Fast forward to a few days ago. Someone in the chat room mentioned that they were vaping PGA to clean their atty. Um........I wasn't so hot on the idea. First you are heating alcohol, which can be dangerous, second, even though the guy said he was cigar puffing it, no way am I inhaling alcohol vapors, even just in to my mouth, and I do not condone this activity, Third, even if you did drip a little PGA and vaped it, you wouldn't be removing anything. Any of the flavors/chems that can be dissolved by the alcohol would just condense back on to what ever surface the alcohol drys from . I got to thinking about it though and I was wondering why the PGA and rubbing alcohol didn't remove the coffee death flavor. It is an alcohol soluble flavoring....so why the linger? Then I thought to myself that maybe a little heat with the alcohol couldn't hurt the dissolving power of the PGA....might even help it...who knows? Instead of just dipping a little alcohol in the atty where it would run though, I made a seal around the coffee death atty where it connects to the battery and practically filled it up with PGA. I cooked it until it boiled, and then dumped it out. I did this three times, rinsed, dried.....and low and behold it actually worked. I can't smell coffee out of it, I can't taste coffee....it's like a new atty all together. I realize that someone probably already does this and I might have found it if I had read far enough in the forums.....heck, I doubt there is an original method of doing anything vapewise anymore, but I figured I'd reshare this info in case anyone else needed it.
I dabble in DIY juices. I ordered some "coffee extra" from TPA and the reviews recommended percentages anywhere from 10-15%. I mixed at 10%, dripped, and what I got was like concentrated burnt coffee + unwashed .... flavor. I can not express how horrible this taste was. First I blew out the atty and cleaned the PV in case a little bit might have gone through the atty. I dripped some unflavored VG, cigar puffed, and what I got was less concentrated burnt coffee + unwashed .... (the VG really brought out the unwashed .... flavor)........not an improvement IMO. I removed the atty, flooded with VG, blew it out, repeated, dripped a couple drops of VG and no improvement. Then I tried the same steps with PG, no improvement. I shrugged and soaked it in PGA overnight. The next morning, I blew it out until dry and already I could smell the coffee death radiating from the atty. Just to satisfy my curiosity, I dripped a little PG to make sure (I guess I am a masochist?) and got a slightly reduced version of coffee death + unwashed ..... I rinsed it out with alcohol one more time and tossed it on the bathroom counter and forgot about it.
One week later I run out of juice in the feed bottle of my REO and decide it was time I cleaned my atty while I am at it. I blew it out, filled up, washed my DT and reassembled. I primed up with some of the banana juice I was currently enjoying and took a fresh pull........of banana + a hint of coffee. I had grabbed the wrong atty
. I re cleaned the coffee death atty, recleaned the DT, kicked myself for ordering the same color "testing" atty as my regular use atty, reassembled using the correct atty, primed and left the house for a buddies house about 45 min away. About 5 min from the house I got a hint of coffee taste and I laughed it off thinking I was imagining it. 10 after that I was certain I was tasting burnt coffee with the banana. It kept getting stronger and stronger the more I vaped! It tasted horrible! The atty (4 or 5 times cleaned with alcohol ) had contaminated my mod from that one quick exposure!!!! When I got to my friends house I borrowed some rubbing alcohol and cleaned the mod and DT and installed my back up atty on my key chain. Thank god the coffee taste wasn't permanent on my REO......and I pocketed the coffee death atty, intending to shoot the thing next time I went to the shooting range for the sake of humanity. Fast forward to a few days ago. Someone in the chat room mentioned that they were vaping PGA to clean their atty. Um........I wasn't so hot on the idea. First you are heating alcohol, which can be dangerous, second, even though the guy said he was cigar puffing it, no way am I inhaling alcohol vapors, even just in to my mouth, and I do not condone this activity, Third, even if you did drip a little PGA and vaped it, you wouldn't be removing anything. Any of the flavors/chems that can be dissolved by the alcohol would just condense back on to what ever surface the alcohol drys from . I got to thinking about it though and I was wondering why the PGA and rubbing alcohol didn't remove the coffee death flavor. It is an alcohol soluble flavoring....so why the linger? Then I thought to myself that maybe a little heat with the alcohol couldn't hurt the dissolving power of the PGA....might even help it...who knows? Instead of just dipping a little alcohol in the atty where it would run though, I made a seal around the coffee death atty where it connects to the battery and practically filled it up with PGA. I cooked it until it boiled, and then dumped it out. I did this three times, rinsed, dried.....and low and behold it actually worked. I can't smell coffee out of it, I can't taste coffee....it's like a new atty all together. I realize that someone probably already does this and I might have found it if I had read far enough in the forums.....heck, I doubt there is an original method of doing anything vapewise anymore, but I figured I'd reshare this info in case anyone else needed it.
. Anyway, the way I made the seal was like this: 
