Taste -- can't desribe

[vernhall]

Here's the situation... Rebuilt a coil using a known good SS wick... Coil appears good - no hotspots and all glowing nicely... Taste is for cr#p though... Not really tasting burned, but more metallic... Any ideas would be appreciated...

Wick is at 2.5ohms & 32ga nichrome, FWIW...

 

[donnah]

If you're tasting metal, chances are there is a part of the coil, somewhere on your wick that isn't touching it. Look closely. EVERY time I get that metallic taste, I know exactly what it is and when I look, there it is. It may just be a tiny part but it's always there.

 

[grainey1968]

Metallic taste is a result of a short (most of the time). Make sure that are not touching the bottom of your tank. Make sure you have oxidized well at the wick hole (you may have rubbed some oxidization off when you re-installed your good wick) and the obvious of make sure your coils are all touching your wick. Sometime you still need to re-oxidize a wick that you thought was good.

Also - make sure your wick is not touching your +ive post!!

 

[Turbo]

There are a variety of reasons you can get a metallic taste. You seem to have ruled out hotspots. As 'donnah' said, loose contact on wick can do it. Sometimes new wire can taste bad but that doesn't usually last long.

Is the 'known good ss wick' really old? Do you dry burn the coils to clean? Over time the coil can cut into the mesh if you're a dry burner. I just made a new wick/coil on a old setup recently that had this issue. It was a 'magical coil' and I hated to do it but the time had come. It lasted so long I lost my touch and had to rebuild a few times to get right