Sub tank mini tastes terrible!!!

[Logan Littrell]

I bought my sub tank mini a couple of weeks ago and it vaped great until I tried use the rta section. I'm new to rebuildables so I watched multiple YouTube videos and followed exactly. Tasted freaking horrible. It wasn't a burnt taste. I'm not sure if it was machine oil or not. It was just nasty. So I tried again. And Again. And Again. All horrible. So I gave up on the rta and put in an occ and it was still awful. I have tried 3 different occ coils and vaped for about a week now and it still has the same taste. I tried different juices too. I have completely taken down the entire tank and rta and soaked it in soap and water, soaked it in rubbing alcohol, and I even got a tooth brush and scrubbed with soap and water and cleaned it out with a cotton swab. I don't know what else to do. I don't even care about the rta anymore I just want a clean vape that doesn't taste like ..... Please help.

 

[ckquatt]

What's ohms, wattage, voltage, device... you left out the important bits... what did you build?

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[Marc411]

Logan, give it a good hot bath in Dawn or some other dishwashing soap with a little scrub. A tooth brush works good. Then rinse it in hot water until the water runs clean, no soap smell.

I have several Subtank Mini's and use only the RTA section and it is a killer vape.

Which base do you have, juice holes on the bottom or through the sides?

 

[Logan Littrell]

What's ohms, wattage, voltage, device... you left out the important bits... what did you build?

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I didn't want to build coils right away so I bought some prebuilt 0.5 ohm coils and I vape around 23-25 watts with the iStick 50w.

 

[Logan Littrell]

Logan, give it a good hot bath in Dawn or some other dishwashing soap with a little scrub. A tooth brush works good. Then rinse it in hot water until the water runs clean, no soap smell.

I have several Subtank Mini's and use only the RTA section and it is a killer vape.

Which base do you have, juice holes on the bottom or through the sides?

Juice holes on the base or the rta? And dawn is what I used and I soaked it over night and scrubbed with a tooth brush.

 

[Darth Omerta]

You're not supposed to eat it!

Sorry, i had nothing useful to add but i thought the name of this thread was funny so i made a joke.

 

[Sir2fyablyNutz]

The OCC coils take a breaking in period of about 5 good pulls before you get to the real flavor of the juice.

 

[Logan Littrell]

The OCC coils take a breaking in period of about 5 good pulls before you get to the real flavor of the juice.

I vaped a whole week on the occ coils and they never got better.

 

[Logan Littrell]

You're not supposed to eat it!

Sorry, i had nothing useful to add but i thought the name of this thread was funny so i made a joke.

Yeah its bull crap! The Pyrex glass cut my tongue when I bit into it! I want my money back

 

[Darth Omerta]

Should have taken that glass eating course at the Y

 

[thailand]

Are you soaking the wick before you put the top back on? If not, you may be dry-hitting the cotton, burning it, and just getting that burnt taste all the way through. Once that cotton is burnt, that's it...no hit after that will be any good.

 

[Logan Littrell]

Are you soaking the wick before you put the top back on? If not, you may be dry-hitting the cotton, burning it, and just getting that burnt taste all the way through. Once that cotton is burnt, that's it...no hit after that will be any good.

Soaking the cotton completely. rta and occs

 

[thailand]

Hmm, i'm at a loss then. Mine hits well...have you dry-fired the coil without the wick while on the mod until its red-hot. Sometimes that burns off any machine oil.
Also, what nic are you at? If its too high, it'll be a harsh vape.

 

[erratum]

So it was tasting great & now it tastes like ..... Have you ever changed the OCC while it was tasting great, or go from the first OCC to the rebuildable .... taste & then on to OCC .... taste after OCC .... taste?

If so I would guess that the coils are not primed with juice, or the device is set to too high voltage\wattage.

But if you have changed the OCC cois before & are priming them well, then I would point elsewhere. Burned insulator on the RBA?

 

[Logan Littrell]

Hmm, i'm at a loss then. Mine hits well...have you dry-fired the coil without the wick while on the mod until its red-hot. Sometimes that burns off any machine oil.
Also, what nic are you at? If its too high, it'll be a harsh vape.

I heat up my coils before I wick them to make sure they glow right if that's what you mean. And I vape 0mg.

 

[Logan Littrell]

So it was tasting great & now it tastes like ..... Have you ever changed the OCC while it was tasting great, or go from the first OCC to the rebuildable .... taste & then on to OCC .... taste after OCC .... taste?

If so I would guess that the coils are not primed with juice, or the device is set to too high voltage\wattage.

But if you have changed the OCC cois before & are priming them well, then I would point elsewhere. Burned insulator on the RBA?

I've read up on the insulators and I have the new peek ones. And I vape for around 30 minutes before changing coils.

 

[erratum]

How about this scenario ... the OCCs the subtank came with were great ... every one you used from the 5 pack you bought taste like .....

Would this be true?

 

[ImThatGuy]

OCC coils = do not preheat without saturating wicks first
RTA (rebuildable coil) = preheat to check for hot spots

 

[thailand]

Good points from the above posters. You shouldn't have to suffer with nasty vape flavor. I wonder if the pre made coils are to blame. Or substandard cotton. When you think about it, its one or the other. Bad coils, or cotton with chemicals in it that is contaminating the juices you're using.

 

[thailand]

and as dumb as this is going to sound, are you giving the juice bottle a good shake before you put it in the tank and coils? Sometimes things tend to settle and separate.