Chemical taste. Help!

[hedgehog]

I've been building on my little boy clone for about 2 months now with great success.
I've found some great wicking techniques and am really happy with the flavour.

I've been building on my subtank mini for two weeks. No problems.

I've been vaping a 50/50 base mix through the subtank. Last night I put a 90%vg mix in without changing the coil or the wick. After 10mins I got a dry hit. Obviously because it couldn't keep up with the think juice. The burnt taste hung about so I changed the wick and emptied the tank and refilled with the old 50/50 juice. But I started getting a real chemical taste. The flavour was really muted. Not a burnt taste, not a dry hit, just chemicals.

So I put the OCC 1.2ohm coil in the subtank, dripped on to the coils and wick, then let it sit and soak in the tank for ten mins...
The taste was still there.

So I washed out the tank with hot water, gave all the parts a good wash and a scrub, dried it, built a new coil
And the taste is still there!!!!

I even poured some of the juice from the tank on to a dripper and its fine.

WTF?!?!

Help!

 

[hedgehog]

No one?

 

[schlinky]

Seems a bit random, you've obviously missed something along the way.

You didn't pour the 'burnt' juice back in the bottle?

If it still tastes the same after a proper wash (preferably ultrasonic) and it's a new wick/coil with clean juice then you've got me stumped.

 

[hedgehog]

Seems a bit random, you've obviously missed something along the way.

You didn't pour the 'burnt' juice back in the bottle?

If it still tastes the same after a proper wash (preferably ultrasonic) and it's a new wick/coil with clean juice then you've got me stumped.

No. There was only 1ml and it was home made juice so it went in down the drain.

I can't taste it quite as much now.

Is it possible I was burning the coils too long?

When you build a coil, you fire it before you wick it. Is there an ideal amount of time?

 

[schlinky]

No. There was only 1ml and it was home made juice so it went in down the drain.

I can't taste it quite as much now.

Is it possible I was burning the coils too long?

When you build a coil, you fire it before you wick it. Is there an ideal amount of time?

I'd suggest maybe having a look at some rip tripper coil videos, you build the coil, heat it up a few times to make sure it's firing correctly, squeeze with tweezers as necessary then you put the wick in and don't fire it again until it is soaked with liquid.