What's your ritual for changing flavors?

[Tony Spectacular]

Obviously with like to like (Boba's to El Kamino, fruit to fruit) it's just as simple as changing the bottle. But for dramatic changes how do you go about cleaning everything out? Is there a quick way? I squonk two or three bottles of distilled water, then one of vodka, dry, and go for it with a new coil, but it takes too damn long sometimes. Is there a quicker way?

Inb4 JUST buy REOS FOR EACH STYLE OF FLAVOR, DUMMY!

 

[CoolWhip2Go]

I love to try different flavors as well which is why i have multiple protanks. I just wash one out and swap out the coil with a cleaned or new one. As for the Genesis RBA's, I just take the SS wick out, burn off the old juice and wash out the tank with hot water and a syringe. I rinse it out about 10 times with the syringe.

As for the Russian/Kayfun clones, I just pull the cotton wick out, wash everything out (with coil on), and rewick with new cotton.

 

[Tony Spectacular]

I'm mostly interested in cleaning residual flavor from the feed tube. I can clean the RM 2.0 lickety split, and changing the bottle obviously switches that flavor component out entirely. The RM 2.0 is the only -mizer I use.

 

[Della Cirque]

My flavors go together...I mainly use a nutty, creamy, coffee and the other is a gingerbread spice cake.
When I venture into a new flavor I just give the RM2 a good rinse with hot water, build a new coil and fresh wick. Metal Reo gets a full bath and Woodie gets a hot water tube flush with a blunt needle and syringe.
Try new juice, say yuck, yuck and go back to original juice.

 

[cioranes]

I blow through the drip tip (blocking the hole), a lot, until nothing comes out of the tube. Then wipe the tube, interior and exterior of rm2. Then dry burn and insert new wick.
That's all. And sufficient for everything short of Pluid or the like.
If it's not, I rinse in hot water. But that is exceptional.

 

[Raynman]

^ That sounds like what I do. Except I blow out the bottle with an air hose.

 

[Tony Spectacular]

Ahhhh blow through it! Of course! See, that's the kind of tip I was looking for. Thanks! Any other obvious things I can do to speed up this process that my addled mind just isn't coming up with on its own?

 

[dustinmj]

If I want clean flavor and not feeling lazy I pull and rinse the bottle, blow through the feed tube with a pt in the catch cup, wipe everything down, clean and recoil/rewick the rba etc. Usually I just let them blend or if they're not compatible flavors I pull the rba and wipe the juice out of the cup real good so it doesn't contaminate the new bottle then grin and bear it while the juice in the rba gets worked through. It's also amazing how much a paper towel can absorb from a wick.

 

[txgtr]

I do what everybody above has explained. Sometime I'll swab the deck of the RM2 with a q-tip if the new flavor is going to be drastically different. I've recently gotten a backup RM2, so I'll swap those out sometimes. I rarely change my coil, just dry burn and rewick with cotton.

 

[player one]

I thought buying a new reo is required to vape a new flavor

 

[Dturp]

I thought buying a new reo is required to vape a new flavor

I have to say switching between non cooperative flavors is a pain. That's where multiple REO s comes in. I have 2 that always have their same flavors in them and one for experimenting. And unless I'm darn sure i like the flavor i drip on a fresh wick so if i don't like it no massive cleaning is needed.

 

[Tony Spectacular]

Ah, ah, folks. I very clearly inb4ed that kind of talk.

 

[JonnyB88]

Other than everything mentioned above, I also rinse out tube's bottle cap and give it a good Q-Tip wipedown.
I was surprised how much juice/flavor can linger in/around that little o-ring.

 

[Vapolith]

Other than everything mentioned above, I also rinse out tube's bottle cap and give it a good Q-Tip wipedown.
I was surprised how much juice/flavor can linger in/around that little o-ring.

Indeed. I just thoroughly rinsed out a Smoktech Pyrex DC Tank last night, and I can still smell the 555 that was in it, like it was still full. I think I'll need to soak it.

 

[super_X_drifter]

I thought buying a new reo is required to vape a new flavor

That's the easiest way. I switch flavors just by picking up another REO.

Starting from the left:

Unflavored nic base
Nic base without flavor
Unflavored nic base sin sabor
Unflavored nic base sans flavor
Unflavored nic base that doesn't contain any flavor

In truth, I just started to add a few drops of very light flavors to my nic base but I run it in all my active 3 REOs

2 REOs are stashed or not in rotation.

 

[thinkingaboutit]

Inb4 JUST BUY REOS FOR EACH STYLE OF FLAVOR, DUMMY!

So much for my funny reply

But, if I switch drastically, I rinse the reo and put a new wick in. Get some water in the tube and blow it out.

I'm often less picky than this.