Yes and yes. The gunmetal doesn't taste like machine oil to me, honestly, either. It just tastes....Ickky in a way I haven't encountered before. I have one ready for rebuilding and I may as well soak it AGAIN it can't hurt but the other one I found a new driptip and it pretty much fixed the problem other than needing a rewick and refill and whatnot because it has sat a while.
It's weird too, it's not ONLY the taste, I swear the tanks you could turn the wattage way up and still get a rotten taste and less vapor production, like you could vape it and the vape didn't "flow."
Don't ask me, but like, there is something odd going on with the drip tip. The only think I can think of is that the drip tip does something weird to the vape, maybe it's a temperature thing.
I would be working on scientific "solutions and data to my problem, but Al Gore's methodology didn't seem all that "scientific" to me. So I'm still waiting for my letter. LOL.
Anna