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It's the menthol that's crystallising, maybe because they put too much in!
You can try thinning it with some distilled water or vodka, or even some more PG (or is it VG? - menthol dissolves in one of them, not the other).

After you've washed or boiled it, do you leave it to dry out completely, or start using it while it's damp or wet? If it's not totally dry, it just be the residual moisture that's helping it to wick better from the off. As I said, Tim was assured by the manufacturer that it was just pure fibreglass, with nothing added.

My theory is that the funny taste isn't the wick as such, but it's the juice being taken up too slowly or unevenly, and then burning or getting too hot. I get the same problem with XL CE2s if I don't tip them regularly - poor wicking making the vape taste a bit "off".

Of course, it could be that there is something in or on the wick, maybe something that's used to lubricate the threads as they pass through the machinery? A side effect of the manufacturing process, rather than something that was added on purpose.

It'd be great if you guys could come to a firm conclusion, as it's something that's been bugging me, but I've never had the time to investigate it properly - too busy building stuff to play with it.

It is strange, isn't it. I've noticed the same thing - wind 2 identical coils, stick them in 2 different devices, and get a totally different vape.
Same thing with CE2s. The short ones work really well for me. Do the same tweaks on an XL, and it just doesn't taste the same, despite all the internals except the tubes being the same.

I can only put it down to the way the juice wicks with different physical layouts.

Discount code doesn't work for me?

Edit: discount code allaboute worked.

Are they the same size as the o-rings on the RTA and RDA? I've got a few of those!

o-rings are sized by their inside diameter and the cross section diameter, in millimetres. Pull one off and measure it. If it's 12.5 x 1.5, I can help. If not, there's a company called Polymax that stocks every conceiveable size.

Unfortunately this has been my experience with CE2s. The "plastic taste" is caused by poor wicking, it's just the juice burning because the coil is too dry.

I never managed to get CE2 XLs working properly, but the standard ones can be made to work very nicely. There are several different ideas on how to mod CE2s. I remove the top seal and the cup seal, and enlarge the semi-circular wick cutouts in the cup seal. Refit the seals, making sure that the wick isn't crushed.