Remainder of juice left in tank?

[jenkwondo]

Hi friends,

Once the juice gets low in my Kanger PT2 (my guess is about 1mL?) it starts to gurgle, spit and leak everywhere and basically stops functioning properly. I know this is a known issue with the protanks, so my question is...
What do you do with the residual juice left in the tank? The obvious answer is to FILL THE TANK WITH MORE juice duh, but what if I'm in the middle of sampling Alice in Vapeland's A Little Bit of Everything, and there is no more juice of the same flavor?
Am I supposed to (gasp) put a different flavor in with the quarter filled tank? The OCD in me hates that idea.
Am I supposed to dump out the flavor down the drain (maybe I'm frugal but it seems a lot like pouring straight cash money down the drain)?
As you can tell, I'm still trying to figure out my protank and I'm still dealing with the "learning curve."
Thanks in advanced for any insight you may have!


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[MudOnTheTires]

I hate the gurgle!! Mine gurgled a lot the first week. Finally had it vaping great and could even vape it dry, but now the gurgles are back again.

Take the remaining juice and pour it back in its original bottle. The little dripper tips on the bottles come off to make that easier. Then you can use the juice in another tank. If that happens to me, I put the rest in an iClear 16 which I find to be a great little clearomizer.

 

[Juice Layer]

What I do is pour the remainder into the drain, disassemble the PT and the post on the atty, rinse everything out completely including the atty. Dry everything with a paper towel, re-assemble and pour in new juice. For me this is the best way to sample juice without contamination from the previous juice in the tank. Someone may have a better suggestion.

 

[jenkwondo]

I hate the gurgle!! Mine gurgled a lot the first week. Finally had it vaping great and could even vape it dry, but now the gurgles are back again.

Take the remaining juice and pour it back in its original bottle. The little dripper tips on the bottles come off to make that easier. Then you can use the juice in another tank. If that happens to me, I put the rest in an iClear 16 which I find to be a great little clearomizer.

Ohhh! Right, I was headed in the right direction. Do you ever feel like the juice is contaminated? Like once it's out of the bottle and in the ProTank? Or should it be just fine? Maybe it's the OCD talking again.


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[AthensGa]

Create a mystery juice bottle with all your left overs. I doubt if it's contaminated, and if it is, you've been vaping it to this point so what's the difference.

 

[patkin]

I have a few bottles to pour remnants into... one for each type... tobacco, fruit, dessert and one all mixed up... but I don't use a whole lot of flavors. The combos are actually pretty good. I wish I could duplicate some and they help break vaper's tongue.

 

[Dakota Jim]

Unfortunately there seems like there is going to be some waste involved when you get low on flavors remember all the times you would light a cigarette, take 2 puffs and then toss it? No issues with that now, although I have gotten some double looks when it appears I just put a lit cigarette in my pocket as I am walking into a store.

possible solutions

return remainder back to bottle until you get more of the same

return remainder back to bottle until you have small amounts of several similar flavors and then mix them together for an all new flavor combo (sometimes I think this would work best on a heavy drinking night)

get a dripping atty to use up the remainder - my personal favorite

or throw it away and move on (does not seem cost effective on 5ml sample bottles does it?)

I do DIY myself and end up tossing quite a bit of failed flavors - unless someone else may be interested in flavors which I have named accordingly such as "2 weeks in the dumpster behind the suschi restaurant in August" (this was a complex blend of failed flavors) or the simpler ones like "honey dew wagon" or "porta potty perfection"

welcome to vaping

 

[rhean]

If you want virgin flavor, pour what's in the PT into a new, tiny bottle, clean out the PT, install a fresh head, and add the new juice. If the old head is in good shape, I'd keep it and clean/dryburn it later.

 

[Sthur]

I dump my left over juice like above into one bottle as a emergency bottle or need a change of pace. I have found some great flavor combos with mixing a little left over into even a fresh bottle that was strong pronounce flavor to me. Way to stretch your budget.

 

[stevegmu]

I vape until the tank is empty. A long as the wick is saturated, it is drawing juice to the coil.

 

[Jazzi Mike]

Yeah I used to dump out the last little bit in my Protank and wash it out with water. It helps extend the life of your coils. The last bit of liquid is usually super dark and yucky anyways.

I even do the same thing with the bottles of my Reo. They get a bit dark after they get down to the last little bit. I wash them out and dump the last of them.

 

[burtonsnowww]

i have a needle and a syringe to empty out my tanks, dont want to waste any great ejuice!

 

[patkin]

^ I do that too when there's a really tiny bit left in there and I don't mix those. I have 5 syringes, each labeled for the juice in them. Just don't leave them sitting in the light like in front of a window or the nic will weaken. BTW, I get my syringes at a feed store where they only cost 39 cents... only draw-back is have to be careful using as they're pointed to stick the critters. Well, there's one more and that is "the look" received from various feed store clerks if it becomes obvious for some reason (like innocence LOL) that you're not a horse or live-stock owner.

 

[BillyWJ]

Hi friends,

Once the juice gets low in my Kanger PT2 (my guess is about 1mL?) it starts to gurgle, spit and leak everywhere and basically stops functioning properly. I know this is a known issue with the protanks, so my question is...
What do you do with the residual juice left in the tank? The obvious answer is to FILL THE TANK WITH MORE JUICE duh, but what if I'm in the middle of sampling Alice in Vapeland's A Little Bit of Everything, and there is no more juice of the same flavor?
Am I supposed to (gasp) put a different flavor in with the quarter filled tank? The OCD in me hates that idea.
Am I supposed to dump out the flavor down the drain (maybe I'm frugal but it seems a lot like pouring straight cash money down the drain)?
As you can tell, I'm still trying to figure out my protank and I'm still dealing with the "learning curve."
Thanks in advanced for any insight you may have!


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Get yourself a syringe, and suck it out, and put it in a small bottle (keep those old sample bottles!).

 

[Wow1420]

Create a mystery juice bottle with all your left overs. I doubt if it's contaminated, and if it is, you've been vaping it to this point so what's the difference.

I have a few bottles to pour remnants into... one for each type... tobacco, fruit, dessert and one all mixed up... but I don't use a whole lot of flavors. The combos are actually pretty good. I wish I could duplicate some and they help break vaper's tongue.

What they said. My current Mystery-bottle liquid right now is so good, I wish I knew how to make more of it.

Usually I just mix flavors right in the tank. Sometimes on purpose and sometimes because I don't remember what's in the tank. But I can see why you wouldn't want to do that when tasting samples.

Or avoid the whole problem and use a dripping atomizer for sampling flavors.

 

[jenkwondo]

Create a mystery juice bottle with all your left overs. I doubt if it's contaminated, and if it is, you've been vaping it to this point so what's the difference.

Love it! I'm gonna do that for sure.

 

[jenkwondo]

What they said. My current Mystery-bottle liquid right now is so good, I wish I knew how to make more of it.

Usually I just mix flavors right in the tank. Sometimes on purpose and sometimes because I don't remember what's in the tank. But I can see why you wouldn't want to do that when tasting samples.

Or avoid the whole problem and use a dripping atomizer for sampling flavors.

Any advice on what the first steps are to this? I have a Kanger ProTank 2 and k101 mod, can I use a dripping atomizer on my k101 or will I have to look into other types of power?

 

[eVic Maestro]

... only draw-back is have to be careful using as they're pointed to stick the critters...

You can remove the sharp pointy bit with a pair of wire cutters to make it nice and flat.

 

[cloud.nine]

Hi friends,

Once the juice gets low in my Kanger PT2 (my guess is about 1mL?) it starts to gurgle, spit and leak everywhere and basically stops functioning properly. I know this is a known issue with the protanks

My protanks gurgle when they get low, too. Instead of pouring out the rest of the juice, I can vape it down to the last drop by blowing out the atomizer and mopping up any juice that got inside the 'air tube' of the protank.
Just tip the tank upside down for a minute and let the juice drain away from the atty. Unscrew the atty, blow through the bottom into a paper towel several times to get the juice out. Then twist up a paper towel to a point, poke it through the air tube of the tank to get any juice out of there. Put it all back together and keep vaping! Repeat as needed.

 

[boborone]

I keep all my old bottles. With the "leftovers" I'll make new flavors. But remember that without washing the wick you will have a little residual flavor left from the old still in it. So don't mix a coffee with a fruit kind of thing.

Lots of flavors and lots of tanks. I pair juices like I pair beer, wine and cocktails.

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