A help me rant apologies in advance

[womble]

OK, I've hesitated writing this as I don't want to put the newbies off, but this is my experience and I hope it may help you, as you seem to be in the same boat I was.

I started with a ecigalike, worked greatish for a couple of weeks, then progressed to cartos and a riva, worked great for weeks, then I found I was always filling up the cartos and they always seemed to taste bad after a while.
Then cart tanks, brilliant........... fail, leaking, lost juice x 10.
Then vivis, brilliant for a short time, then bad taste. Change head, the same.

I went through loads of different stuff, almost gave up, then I found the pheonix and tried it with the fibre wick and don't you know it, brilliant for a while, then crap after that.

Then I tried the pheonix with the SS wick and it was great and it stayed great, but I have to change my coil every 3 or 4 days, otherwise the taste goes.

Looking at the mess on the coil after 2 or 3 days, I can believe how the fibre wick couldn't take it. No surprise to me that the taste went on the vivi's after a couple or few days, it's totally clogged up! It's a mess, how any taste can get through that is crazy. And the same with any fibre wicked stuff, cartos, the lot.

I've always said, (sometimes with displeasure, as everyone else seemed to be enjoying the things I hate) that I seem to have a heightened sense of taste.
But I do know what I know and nothing has come close to what I have now... Well it does, but only for a short time.

If you are as afflicted as me and have a hrightened sense of taste, I advise you to use SS wicks and change your coils often.
Cleaning the coils through burning didn't work much for me either, even on the SS mesh wicks, 75% of the time it left a terrible taste.
Changing the coil seems the only way.

You're probably not like me and I've just made myself out to be a flavour snob

[stitch]

Feb 12, 2013 21:49:43 GMT womble said:

OK, I've hesitated writing this as I don't want to put the newbies off, but this is my experience and I hope it may help you, as you seem to be in the same boat I was.

I started with a ecigalike, worked greatish for a couple of weeks, then progressed to cartos and a riva, worked great for weeks, then I found I was always filling up the cartos and they always seemed to taste bad after a while.
Then cart tanks, brilliant........... fail, leaking, lost juice x 10.
Then vivis, brilliant for a short time, then bad taste. Change head, the same.

I went through loads of different stuff, almost gave up, then I found the pheonix and tried it with the fibre wick and don't you know it, brilliant for a while, then crap after that.

Then I tried the pheonix with the SS wick and it was great and it stayed great, but I have to change my coil every 3 or 4 days, otherwise the taste goes.

Looking at the mess on the coil after 2 or 3 days, I can believe how the fibre wick couldn't take it. No surprise to me that the taste went on the vivi's after a couple or few days, it's totally clogged up! It's a mess, how any taste can get through that is crazy. And the same with any fibre wicked stuff, cartos, the lot.

I've always said, (sometimes with displeasure, as everyone else seemed to be enjoying the things I hate) that I seem to have a heightened sense of taste.
But I do know what I know and nothing has come close to what I have now... Well it does, but only for a short time.

If you are as afflicted as me and have a hrightened sense of taste, I advise you to use SS wicks and change your coils often.
Cleaning the coils through burning didn't work much for me either, even on the SS mesh wicks, 75% of the time it left a terrible taste.
Changing the coil seems the only way.

You're probably not like me and I've just made myself out to be a flavour snob

Thanks womble , makes a lot of sense and you could well be right , only thing that seems different unless I read it wrong is I seem to be getting this bad taste with the vivis right from the word go recently except with ry4 which my bet is just covering up this ... I don't even no what taste it is oil or plastic maybe (I have cleaned and rebuild still same)
As far as using ss wicks what devices do you find best with them? I'm pretty sure I've made a perfect wick and coil in my aga t that's working flaulessless today but I just don't get any throat hit from it with a 20mg liquid lemon melange pie , the flavours very clean so far but not quite strong enough for me well not compared to when I dripped it last night (that's what I feel I'm aimin for vapewise)
I've not really used the aga before now so im hopeing with use the flavour will pick up ?

[womble]

Feb 12, 2013 22:19:44 GMT stitch said:

Thanks womble , makes a lot of sense and you could well be right , only thing that seems different unless I read it wrong is I seem to be getting this bad taste with the vivis right from the word go recently except with ry4 which my bet is just covering up this ... I don't even no what taste it is oil or plastic maybe (I have cleaned and rebuild still same)
As far as using ss wicks what devices do you find best with them? I'm pretty sure I've made a perfect wick and coil in my aga t that's working flaulessless today but I just don't get any throat hit from it with a 20mg liquid lemon melange pie , the flavours very clean so far but not quite strong enough for me well not compared to when I dripped it last night (that's what I feel I'm aimin for vapewise)
I've not really used the aga before now so im hopeing with use the flavour will pick up ?

The vivis could have a bad build right from the start, I found this with many vivi heads. It's the way they build them often it's terrible.

You could have rebuilt them and done it slightly wrong, it's all it takes.


I've only had success with the pheonix, but if you say you've had flawless flavour with the aga T, then it's probably the juice and not the delivery that's at fault.
Although you say that dripping has got you the flavour and the TH you desire. Some people carry on dripping to get what you have, the pheonix I have only takes about 10 drops and that's it.

The RDA as someone else said, does about the same job apparently, I've not tried it, so don't know.

It's a matter of keeping trying and working out the best thing for you. It seems to be different with most people.