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I boil my tank atomizers when they start tasting bad a lot. The one I'm using currently went to a permanent burnt taste. I removed the spike plate and boiled it disassembled. That cleaned it really well which got it tasting good again. It's pretty easy to remove the spike plate by prying with a smaller screwdriver at the slots. Not terribly difficult to refit.
One of the guys on the TW forum actually replaced the wick using material from an old CE2 cartomizer. Said it totally resolved the burnt taste issue. Joye should be using the same material for the wick when they manufacture these things. CE2 wicks don't burn.
I went a slightly different route to clean the atomizer from my 510 days. I soaked it in Polident 3 minute denture cleaner for a few hours, blew out then let dry for 2-3 days. I got very little vapor so I put some nicquid in a syringe and put it directly in the spike in the atomizer and had heavy vapor until the nicquid fed ran out. I repeated the prime and it seems to be working fine now. I may have pushed that material down some inadvertently. I do know the atomizer still is good though.
Hey Folks -
Seems people either have no trouble at all with their Ego Type B tanks, and love and swear by them, OR people have bad taste/leak problems and give up on them. Has anyone had bad plasticky/noxious taste that went away?
I just got mine - Ego-T from Vaperite, Type B - today. First thing I did was fill up a tank full of vaperite Kona Cream, jammed it on the atty, and started vaping. Bad bad taste. Then I did some research here, yanked the tank off, blew out the atomizer from mouthpiece end to get any primer out, put the tank back. Still bad taste. I tried filling a different tank with BWB RY4 - still burnt taste but seemed a little better - not anything I'd continue to vape for fear of poisoning myself with primer/plastic fumes.
Finally I yanked the tank again, rinsed the atty both sides in cool and warm water, blew out both ends for about 30-45 seconds total, dried it, dripped a couple drops of Ry4 right onto the wick and plate so it would slide down the holes on each side of the plate. Even pulled off the chads from the tank caps! Stuck the tank back on. Still bad taste.
When I take a draw on the atty directly, the taste isn't nearly so bad - which leads me to think I'm burning plastic tank!
This would really suck if I can't get a clean vape from the tanks. I absolutely love Kona Cream dripped on an LR 306 atty. But this setup makes me dislike it totally!
Can someone help? Or should I start looking at bottom feeders?
Thanks,
CC
The one guy kept telling me that hedidnt understand what the problem was, "he loved his".
The other owner tried to say that it should work perfectly the way that she showed me. Then sold me two type b attys and tanks. Then I noticed that she was using a cheap tube mod with a 306 atty.
I was really optumistic about this thing in the beginning. It sounds like the perfect setup. And it is. It just needs to work right.
Its a good battery, just a crappy tank/atty system.
Either way, I think that both owners were just trying to save face.
Paulie P.
Hi Tom -
Have you tried dripping? If so, do you taste a difference between dripping and tank?
Thanks,
PJ
Hi Tom - Good to know. Do you taste a diff between the EMDCCs and the Type B?
I'm just learning that apparently every single atomizer/tank/cart/carto actually gives a different flavor. And then add on variable voltage! It seems like I may need a couple different setups to get the best out of each class of juices. My BWB juices work like a dream in EMDCCs, but I just don't get the flavor when dripping those on the LR306. Ah well - I suppose we should count ourselves lucky to have so many options!
After reading this thread in its entirety, most people seem to say that 100% VG juices do not work well in the eGo-T.
I REALLY want to try Boba's Bounty but its 100% VG. Has anyone successfully diluted it with something so that you still get the flavor, but its not quite so thick? I feel like I'm missing out on a really good juice.
I vape VG... just not 100% pure VG which would be too thick. I'm guessing that Boba'a Bounty still cuts his VG with 15-20% H2O. I DIY with Decadent Vapour's Aqueous Glycerine, VG nic base-platinum ice and flavoring. Some of the flavoring has VG in it but it's mainly a PG base so there's nothing that's "100% VG". The end result with using the above isn't any thicker than regular PG and I vape it in 8 different eGo-t's without any problem. In fact, I was one of the lucky 'no leaks' one for quite a while - that's partly due to the fact that I have about 4 going at both my tv chair and computer chair, so I'm not power vaping any ecig - so less heat and less leaks.
Interesting, didn't know that. Thanks for the info. So you have used Boba's Bounty on an eGo-T? I supposed I could water it down a bit if I need too. I'm just worried about clogging up my atomizer or screwing my wick up or something.
I haven't used Boba's Bounty but my DIY with Decadent Vapours is about as much VG as one can get. And I'm just guessing that the make of BB is also diluting VG with H20, so if I were you I wouldn't add any more water. Unless you notice a distinct difference in viscosity with the Boba Bounty ejuice vs. others, I'd think it would vape well. I have seen all the posts about not vaping tanks with VG, but my own experience is quite different - I had virtually no leaks for about 9 months then recently some started to leak and they were fixed with the new soft caps. VG on coils cleans up well with 151 proof vodka bath.