First off, hello, I've been lurking here for over a year, but I finally have a question that doesn't appear to have been answered already, so here goes:
I finally found a delicious diy chocolate flavor that I've been using for a couple months now, but the stuff is opaque black from all of the damned coloring they add. The e-fluid I make with it (along with some other blends I made with other dark flavorings from the same company) seems to gum up my coils after only 1-2 tanks. The coils I use are very common and have seen a big quality increase in the past few months, so I've been able to make a coil last a few weeks instead of a few days... but when I'm using the darker mixtures, they still gum up really quickly... so I strongly suspect the colorings.
Anyone know a good way to filter out the coloring without wasting much of the flavor? I was thinking about using some sort of gravity siphon, by taking some sort of filtering medium, rolling it up and sticking one end in the full bottle, and sticking the other end into an empty bottle positioned a few inches lower. I figure the filter will slowly wick up the liquid, gravity will direct it to the lower bottle, and the color particles will mostly remain stuck to the filter.
Anyone think this sounds practical? And if so what should I use as the filter? Maybe some spare silicone wick? What about chromatography paper? That stuff is designed to capture colorants, but there's so many different kinds... I don't want to order some only to find that it either can't trap the color particles, or just gets gummed up and stops wicking the fluid from one bottle to the other.
Any advice is greatly appreciated, TIA!
I finally found a delicious diy chocolate flavor that I've been using for a couple months now, but the stuff is opaque black from all of the damned coloring they add. The e-fluid I make with it (along with some other blends I made with other dark flavorings from the same company) seems to gum up my coils after only 1-2 tanks. The coils I use are very common and have seen a big quality increase in the past few months, so I've been able to make a coil last a few weeks instead of a few days... but when I'm using the darker mixtures, they still gum up really quickly... so I strongly suspect the colorings.
Anyone know a good way to filter out the coloring without wasting much of the flavor? I was thinking about using some sort of gravity siphon, by taking some sort of filtering medium, rolling it up and sticking one end in the full bottle, and sticking the other end into an empty bottle positioned a few inches lower. I figure the filter will slowly wick up the liquid, gravity will direct it to the lower bottle, and the color particles will mostly remain stuck to the filter.
Anyone think this sounds practical? And if so what should I use as the filter? Maybe some spare silicone wick? What about chromatography paper? That stuff is designed to capture colorants, but there's so many different kinds... I don't want to order some only to find that it either can't trap the color particles, or just gets gummed up and stops wicking the fluid from one bottle to the other.
Any advice is greatly appreciated, TIA!
