Thoughts on my new Trifecta and cartz

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Frick

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Frick, the problem was with the origional pre-filled carto. I thought it was just a bad flavor so washed it out and refilled it with my own juice. It still had a nasty taste so I tried using another. The second carto, I vaped on straight out of the packet and it tasted fine the first 4 - 5 puffs, then tasted nasty like the first. The juice I use is approximately 70/30 PG/VG, but it tasted weird or burnt straight out of the box without refilling with my own juice.

Hmm. I've opened 12 cartos out of 25, sampling every box I have, and have yet to have a single pre-filled carto taste like anything but the juice that's in it. Only on refilling with 50/50 juice do I get the burnt taste. I ordered a bunch of 70/30 from two different vendors, and have tested all of it. Every single carto works great with the 70/30.


I've read the other threads in the Bloog sub-forum about burning cartos. This leads me to believe it has nothing to do with the ratio of VG in the juices used, but simply faulty cartomizers. Perhaps just a bad batch, maybe the manufacturer changed something Leaford isn't aware of. I read in one of the posts about someone discovering a melted silicon ring in the cartomizer upon disassembly.

I can say that the 'burnt taste' most definitely can be reproduced with nothing more than 50/50 juice. As I said, all of my pre-filled cartos tasted fine.

I can take an empty, cleaned carto, fill it with 70/30 and vape successfully with no burnt taste, concluding that it's a good carto.

I can clean it again, fill it with 50/50, put it on the same battery, and get instant burnt taste.

Clean it again, fill it with 70/30, and it's a 'good' carto again.

It's the ratio of the juice, at least in my case. I figured this out very early on, when I started refilling all my cartos with 50/50. 70/30 is fantastic, and I have one carto that's been refilled 7 times now, still vaping like it was new.

I'm not discounting that you may have received some bad cartos, just that I have yet to have a new carto taste anything but good, and that the burnt taste I'm getting is only with heavy-VG juices.
 

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Nice test work Frick! Sure glad I don't use thick juice!

Thanks, although I should add that it's not necessarily the VG content alone that causes the problem, but possibly the viscosity of the juice blend.

Now that I've got BWB 555 and Halo Torque 65, I think my search for my Holy Grail of vaping is done. BMF + Halo for all-day vaping, BMF + 555 for when I'm drinking adult beverages or want a bit stronger taste. Lovely all around. :)
 
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Yes, me too, notice I am unloading juice in the classifieds section. I am throwing in a whole lot more than listed, I just listed the never opened stuff. Halo Torque56 with JL Menthol drops, is perfect. And I have enough BMF Prefilled Menthols to keep me going for a long time as well. I also am liking the TV German Chocolate Cake for that special vape now and then when I just want something different. I just placed another order of BMF Cartomizers yesterday to last me a few months at minimum, and will be ordering some more mini BMF batteries once they are in stock again. So I think I am pretty set until Bloog comes out with a super mini... ;)

I updated my smoke free ticker to show when I really started vaping and stopped smoking, and I can say I am pretty confident that I will stay smoke free and wont be buying everything on the market anymore thanks to Bloog!
 
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