After reading so much about VR, and noticing a Black Friday coupon code, I had to give them a shot. I ordered a tobacco sampler, a bottle of Perique, and a bottle of Earl Gray.
Why is this stuff killing my carto's? It's killed three Boge LR carto's in one day each. Some within the first hour. I tried a HC DC LR carto, killed it within the first couple of drags.
For example, I just loaded a fresh HC DC LR carto with some VR4. Smells great! Nice and buttery, with a tobacco note hidden underneath. First hit, nice sweet flavor, real tobacco taste on the exhale. Second hit, draw is getting kind of tough, but, still good. Third hit, bam, that "burnt atty" taste I remember from 510 atomizers that'd been used a month or two too long. Took the filling out, squeezed it into an eGo-T type A tank, and tried a fresh eGo-T LR atomizer. Same story. First hit, nice and sweet [the flavor almost disappeared in the tank, btw]. Second hit, draw is a little tough. Third hit, BURNT ATTY TASTE. Gave the whole eGo a nice whirl, for a good 10 seconds. One hit, sweet. Two hits, burnt atty. I'm OK with juice killing a carto, but not a $7 atomizer. Blew out of the battery end to clean it as I do if changing flavors in a tank atomizer, and nothing came out! So it's not wicking either. Alright. Tried a different, "go-to" Chinese liquid. Got one hit of the actual VR4 taste [which is delicious, I might add] and then the familiar Chinese flavor came in.
Onto Perique blend. Let's try it on a fresh Boge instead. This atomizer actually lasted about an hour. Then the draw got tough, and bang, burnt atty test. Cleaned the atomizer out, let it dry overnight, tried again. A couple of good hits. Bang, burnt taste.
APV Tobacco: wow, this is an interesting flavor, to say the least. Another fresh Boge. I can taste raisins on the exhale. It's got that same nice tobacco flavor as the other liquids. Maybe a dozen drags before that atomizer was dead. Being that I was in my lab [I work in a chemistry lab] - I yanked the innards out and went to town. Forget the atomizer wrapper being burnt, the cotton filling itself had burned a weird orange. And I know how to fill these. Tried some acetone and methanol to see if the gunk would come out, but nope. Tried some dichloromethane. Nope.
What gives? What kind of set up am I supposed to be using? Everybody here seems to love the stuff! I've got eGo batteries, a PureSmoker PassThrough [old-school] and now I'm down to zero Boges and a couple of HealthCabin Dual Coils. Please don't suggest any "leakomizers" or "battery-killo-mizers" - microcig/Royalsmokers isn't getting anymore of my money.
I should add that using the PureSmoker PT killed a Boge loaded with Perique in one hit. One hit. How do I get this juice to wick?
Why is this stuff killing my carto's? It's killed three Boge LR carto's in one day each. Some within the first hour. I tried a HC DC LR carto, killed it within the first couple of drags.
For example, I just loaded a fresh HC DC LR carto with some VR4. Smells great! Nice and buttery, with a tobacco note hidden underneath. First hit, nice sweet flavor, real tobacco taste on the exhale. Second hit, draw is getting kind of tough, but, still good. Third hit, bam, that "burnt atty" taste I remember from 510 atomizers that'd been used a month or two too long. Took the filling out, squeezed it into an eGo-T type A tank, and tried a fresh eGo-T LR atomizer. Same story. First hit, nice and sweet [the flavor almost disappeared in the tank, btw]. Second hit, draw is a little tough. Third hit, BURNT ATTY TASTE. Gave the whole eGo a nice whirl, for a good 10 seconds. One hit, sweet. Two hits, burnt atty. I'm OK with juice killing a carto, but not a $7 atomizer. Blew out of the battery end to clean it as I do if changing flavors in a tank atomizer, and nothing came out! So it's not wicking either. Alright. Tried a different, "go-to" Chinese liquid. Got one hit of the actual VR4 taste [which is delicious, I might add] and then the familiar Chinese flavor came in.
Onto Perique blend. Let's try it on a fresh Boge instead. This atomizer actually lasted about an hour. Then the draw got tough, and bang, burnt atty test. Cleaned the atomizer out, let it dry overnight, tried again. A couple of good hits. Bang, burnt taste.
APV Tobacco: wow, this is an interesting flavor, to say the least. Another fresh Boge. I can taste raisins on the exhale. It's got that same nice tobacco flavor as the other liquids. Maybe a dozen drags before that atomizer was dead. Being that I was in my lab [I work in a chemistry lab] - I yanked the innards out and went to town. Forget the atomizer wrapper being burnt, the cotton filling itself had burned a weird orange. And I know how to fill these. Tried some acetone and methanol to see if the gunk would come out, but nope. Tried some dichloromethane. Nope.
What gives? What kind of set up am I supposed to be using? Everybody here seems to love the stuff! I've got eGo batteries, a PureSmoker PassThrough [old-school] and now I'm down to zero Boges and a couple of HealthCabin Dual Coils. Please don't suggest any "leakomizers" or "battery-killo-mizers" - microcig/Royalsmokers isn't getting anymore of my money.
I should add that using the PureSmoker PT killed a Boge loaded with Perique in one hit. One hit. How do I get this juice to wick?
