many of us are probably familiar with it. getting new attys only to have them retain their metallic/burnt plastic/... taste and horrid throat and tongue burn regardless of any and all efforts to remove it. we look to the forums for help, only to find the myriad of methods for atty cleaning/de-primering (not to say that these are not entirely relevant and thoroughly useful in the appropriate situation, mind you), a bunch of threads with no replies authored by people with the same problem, and that no one has been able to make any real headway towards a solution (there are threads on this subject dating back more than a year, btw). we contact our suppliers for help and/or product replacement, and are told "oh gee, i have never heard of anything like this before, have you tried blowing out the primer and soaking in (insert whacky substance here) and blah blah blah etc etc etc?" and "no, sorry, we can't replace that, this is clearly user error." and we keep sending more money for more parts with more problems. i am not a fool, nor am i new. i know how to properly prepare an atomizer for use when it's fresh out of the package. i have, most recently, ordered a total of nine 510 atomizers, and one of them works properly (here's hoping it doesn't abruptly die). are there any suppliers out there who acknowledge this and are sympathetic to the plight of the broke trying to rid themselves of the cancer stick (or are they all in on a massive conspiracy to rape us of our cash $25 at a time)? has anyone learned what the cause of this is? has anyone figured out what exactly is burning/vaping to produce this god awful taste and likely harmful chemicals? has anyone learned to fix it? i am sure a ton of folks will scornfully instruct me to search through ridiculous .... tons of threads and posts as these questions have likely already been answered, and to this i say eat me. if that's true, someone should have compiled this research and stickied it by now.

