Switching flavors - use same cart and atty?

[holly]

Hey all! I'm about to order my first e cig kit and have been stalking this forum about a week learning as much as I can (you guys rock by the way). I want to buy as many extras as I'll need, but still not sure. I think I read once (here or elsewhere) that you should dedicate a single atty and cart to one liquid flavor. I'm not worried about buying tons of empty carts because they're cheap (and will prob use the straw-plug mod for extended life), but should I really plan on using one atty for each different flavor I vape? If not, then do I just clean it out between flavors (using techniques described here on the forum). Suggestions and wisdom please? Thanks a ton!

Holly

 

[Houdini]

You don't need a different atty for each flavor. I just blow out the previous juice before switching flavors and add a couple drops of the new flavor directly on the bridge of the atty. You might still get a hint of the previous flavor but it will burn away in no time.

 

[Brachinus]

It helps to keep flavors from mixing, but it's not necessary. Some flavors (like mint or menthol) are really tenacious, and come through even after you clean everything, but others aren't a big deal.

Attys don't last forever, so it's not a huge extra expense to have dedicated attys for different flavors (unless you abandon a flavor, you'll be using up those attys eventually). But it does add to the initial outlay, so you might want to try re-using attys on different flavors to see if it bothers you before going whole-hog on separating out the attys.

 

[lunaras]

I think it mostly a matter of personal preference. In my experience most of the flavors don't contaminate the next flavor much with some exceptions, namely menthol and an overpoweringly strong homemade batch or raspberry I made. I personally use one atty until it dies usually don't clean it at all and I rarely even change carts, I just top them off and drip on the atty so I have no problem mixing flavors. Plus some flavors mix with others quite well such as cream and RY4 or vanilla with just about anything.

Some vapers go the exact opposite and have a single atty per flavor with dedicated carts and NEVER mix liquids other than when making a custom DIY liquid.

My starter kit was ok, but I am upgrading as soon as the post office delivers my PV today or tomorrow, so from experience, I would recommend to not go overboard on buying too many attys at first (is there such a thing as too many attys?). Make sure you get a few backups, but you may find that you don't like the device you're purchasing and want to switch to one with a different atty. Then you'll end up having a bunch of extra attys that you don't use sitting around.

If you want to experiment a bit with keeping the flavors pure vs. mixing if you only have a couple juices, your backup attys are sufficient to play around with to see which you like better. The worst case scenario would be that you may have to clean a few attys if you don't like mixing. After a good cleaning, I've never tasted a mixing of flavors.

 

[Deschain]

I use the same atty for 555, RY4 & Virginia, none of them are particularly potent flavours, so they don't stick around long (I do use different carts for them though).

I use a seperate atty for my Eco Pure stuff because it is VG based and I tend to mix it with toffee and caramel.

I also use a seperate atty for menthol - As Brachinus said, it will take over an atty and dominate any other flavours. That stuff really does need it's own atty


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[Hellen A. Handbasket]

I basically use 3 flavors (menthol, cappuccino and a French pipe). Since they don't mix well, I've found tiny star stickers in 6 or 8 different colors and use a green one on my menthol atty, yellow on the cap and red on the French pipe. They stay on a long time, and keeps me from having to clean out flavors by making refilling mistakes.

The stickers were Stickopotamus (Walmart), .99 if I remember right.

and guys can use the tiny round ones for color coding office files. Don't remember what they are called.

 

[holly]

Thanks all, great advice! I was planning on buying extra attys as backups but I didn't want to go overboard in case I didn't like this model. Great tip on the menthol too. I'm currently a menthol analog smoker and was definitely planning on buying that flavor to make the transition easier. Glad to know I should use one atty strictly for that flavor. Thanks again!

 

[Keef]

Another flavour to watch out for is fennel it hangs on in there for grim death and taints anything else you try to vape.

Rinsing with water did not get it out of the atomiser either, had to soak it in coke overnight before it was gone.

I would imagine aniseed is the same but after experiencing the fennel I have not been brave enough to try it.

 

[Silence]

yeah.... i agree with a seperate atty for strong flavors... funny story. I decided to mix my own juice one day 0 nic. so i go get some glycerin (pg) and I got a few LorAnn's flavorings. I tried the butter rum first as it just smells soooo good. but i guess i didnt use enough as i couldnt really taste it... so next i went with a stronger flavor, raspberry! used a good bit more. but still wasnt quite strong enough. so i decided to move on to a stronger flavor yet still. PEPPERMINT OIL!!!!!! i went 50/50 with this one.... on the first hit I thought i was gonna cough up my shoes! and i could taste it for the next 3 days... it has been 2 weeks and i still cant get that out that particular atty! next is a vodka bath for the atty to see if i can get it to go away.... but the atty isnt dead yet. coincidentally i found a good number of things that peppermint mixes well with

 

[kase]

Why can't guys use the stars?

 

[Hellen A. Handbasket]

Another flavour to watch out for is fennel it hangs on in there for grim death and taints anything else you try to vape.

Rinsing with water did not get it out of the atomizer either, had to soak it in coke overnight before it was gone.

I would imagine aniseed is the same but after experiencing the fennel I have not been brave enough to try it.

Gah, that sounds awful Keef, ha.

I have a small Absinthe sample sitting here, and I'm skeeered to put it in an atomizer to try it!

 

[Deschain]

Why can't guys use the stars?

The stars seem to have more colours available...I think Helen just wants them all for herself!


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[Hellen A. Handbasket]

You can have stars, if you are really Sirius!!

LOL... sorry, couldn't resist!

 

[Keef]

Gah, that sounds awful Keef, ha.

I have a small Absinthe sample sitting here, and I'm skeeered to put it in an atomizer to try it!

I like Fennel in food but vaping it made me feel sick.......
Blaaa gives me the shivers just thinking about it 8-o

Even worse I bought 30ml of the blerdy stuff

Gave it away to someone as I did not have the heart to charge for it and he thought it was great , no accounting for taste

 

[Hellen A. Handbasket]

Sounds like the gawd awful Cream I got that came from Dekang. Rotten Cream Cheese flavor that would not come out of the atomizer (soaking in Grain Alcohol for 2 days finally did it).

The taste was so horrible it made me nauseated and now when I think of it I get the willies.... gahg!!!

 

[Kent C]

Gah, that sounds awful Keef, ha.

I have a small Absinthe sample sitting here, and I'm skeeered to put it in an atomizer to try it!

Hellen, the absinthe isn't as strong as the fennel I had from Janty. Keef's right on that one. The absinthe has well absinthe and according to DV blurb on TW site:

"ABSINTHE: Our absinthe e-juice is made with over 20 herbs and spices, carefully blended to recreate the luxurious aniseed and wormwood flavour beloved of poets and artists, madmen and lovers. Go on, unleash your inner Bohemian!

"Nick O'Teen" as he's know here also doesn't use any tobacco flavors on his 'Habana Reserve' but uses 'herbs and spices' to 'recreate' etc. etc.

 

[holly]

Thanks again for all the great advice. As a related question, if I do dedicate one atty to each flavor (say 1 for menthol, 1 for a coffee flavor and 1 for a fruity flavor), does that mean the atty will last longer since I'm not using the same one continuously throughout the day?

It seems the general consensus is that an atty will last 4-6 weeks at best. So if I am rotating 3 different attys throughout the day, does that mean each will last about 3 months? Or does an atty only last about one month regardless of how much (or how little) I use it?

 

[Valhalla1]

I vaped some new flavors in my 510 yesterday, I just direct drip. Don't even know why I ordered it but I tried 'cotton candy', didn't like the flavor and I tasted it hours later on that atty after dripping various other flavors to try to get rid of it =/ and cotton candy flavor mixed with tobacco is gross

had to just blow that atty out and set it to dry for a while and break out a new one. but next time I'm at wal mart I'm going to look for some straight VG, another post somewhere suggests dripping straight VG and vaping it a few times until its tasteless then switching flavors. saves having to clean it out, dry it out and repriming

 

[hoduken]

I put some peach into mine the other week and four carts later im still tasting it.....gross.

 

[Keef]

Thanks again for all the great advice. As a related question, if I do dedicate one atty to each flavor (say 1 for menthol, 1 for a coffee flavor and 1 for a fruity flavor), does that mean the atty will last longer since I'm not using the same one continuously throughout the day?

It seems the general consensus is that an atty will last 4-6 weeks at best. So if I am rotating 3 different attys throughout the day, does that mean each will last about 3 months? Or does an atty only last about one month regardless of how much (or how little) I use it?

Yes if you rotate 3 they will last 3 times as long but in reality they wont live any longer.

Try to get people to tell you how much liquid they vape per atty and not how long it lasts.

Someone vaping 5ml a week will get a much longer life than someone vaping 20 ml - 30 ml