New to RDAs, need some help.

[MechanicalsAndRDAs]

So I recently purchased an IGO-L and have been experiencing some very bad taste and smell. Getting the ohms just right hasn't been an issue for me and it seems like the coils I make are pretty good from what I have to compare them to online. At first I thought maybe it was how I wicked the coil (using cotton) but I tried so many different ways from making the cotton tight against the coil to making it very lose and everything in between. One thing I've noticed is that when I heat the coil on my mod to pinch the coils together there is smoke coming off the coil and it smells terrible.

I'm currently running a 1.6ohm micro coil using 28AWG on my MVP and even at 3.3V I still get that bad taste/smell. I must be missing something. The Kanthal is from Lightning Vapes if that makes any difference.

When I was still new to RDA's drippers I always used to get the metallic taste until I learned a lot more about it.

Every Atomizer you get your supposed to clean it before using it because of the machine oil they use to make the product.

What I do is I use toothbrush and some dish wash soap to clean my attys from machine oil since dish wash soap is a degreaser it really helps to get all that machine oil out. Remember to remove the o rings as they can swell up

 

[TomGeorge]

Just to make sure, because no one has asked yet, your not squeezing your coils while still firing your mvp are you? I have done it and its not pleasant

Also once I get my coils shaped well, I will still pulse them red, again, to try and burn anything else off before I wick them.