So I have been vaping for 3 days now, and my CE2 has been slowly getting more and more of a burnt taste. I didn't remember what it looked like as new, and just figured the center was supposed to be black. I read many posts about a burnt taste, and what to do about it. I tried many things, but nothing helped. I finally just assumed my CE2 was done, and couldn't be saved. So I decided to take it apart. I started taking the wick out of the coil, and some of the blackness there started to come off. "I knew it", I thought. I just knew I trashed the wick. That it was burnt through. So I finally get my wick out of the coils when it ripped in two. I rinsed the coils and then I saw some white showing through the burnt wick. I rinsed it off, and presto! It was as new! but cut in half... I didn't think it would work, but I unwound the coil and stuck the half wick back in (now being quite unraveled and fuzzy) and wrapped the wire as best I could around it. I dipped it in some juice and threw it on my battery. Sure enough it fired up and I got some nice vapor! Actually, it was working better than new!
So with the half wick in my loosely wrapped crap job of a coil, my CE2 no longer has a burnt taste, and is wicking great! The juice I had before, which I though tasted really bad, now tastes good! Although in the future, I don't think I will try and run 100% VG juice through a CE2 (which I found out is a bad idea after I had already bought it), and I will always make sure there is plenty of juice in the coil area. Screw dry burning, it just doesn't work when the wick soaks up those ashes. Keep it wet. I wonder if the looser coil on the wick helps keep more juice available for it to vaporize??
Time to order some backup CE2's, and look into trying out DC cartos!
So with the half wick in my loosely wrapped crap job of a coil, my CE2 no longer has a burnt taste, and is wicking great! The juice I had before, which I though tasted really bad, now tastes good! Although in the future, I don't think I will try and run 100% VG juice through a CE2 (which I found out is a bad idea after I had already bought it), and I will always make sure there is plenty of juice in the coil area. Screw dry burning, it just doesn't work when the wick soaks up those ashes. Keep it wet. I wonder if the looser coil on the wick helps keep more juice available for it to vaporize??
Time to order some backup CE2's, and look into trying out DC cartos!
