Can I pour my liquid back into the bottle?

[Danny55]

Hi fellow vapers. I'm new to this hobby as of yesterday and enjoying it, more so because it's successfully keeping me off the analogues.

Anyway, I bought 5 flavours from the same place in the UK as my starter kit and they're all Dekangs, very inexpensive. £2.49 per 10ml bottle. I since discovered that many people on the net say Dekang is nasty. Is that the general concensus on here? I've only tried one flavour so far, 'Beat Blend' which is tobacco flavoured and it seems ok, (although doesn't taste any different from a Nicolite e-cig-alike I was tooting before I got my EVOD), but no experience of other brands to draw comparisons yet. Anyone else tried Beat Blend?

My main question is, is it possible to remove the pouring nib from the bottle and pour back the remaining liquid in my tank, or are the nibs usually hard to remove? It's just that I want to try another flavour now, something interesting and fruity. I do have a second EVOD as it came in a kit of two, so I could use that. But do most vapers just throw remaining liquid down the sink and can a new flavour be poured in without rinsing the tank? If I don't throw it, is it ok to vape till nothing is left or would I end up with a nasty burning taste? You can see in my picture how much is currently left of my first ever fill in my 1.5ml tank which was full yesterday afternoon. So I guess I'm a slow vaper! The Beat Blend bottle in the picture still has loads of liquid, it's still at the same level as the top of the labels. At this rate, I could make my 5 small bottles last for ages.

I've been advised to be careful of using my banana liquid, as banana has been known to crack tank glass? Shall I try it anyway? That's the one I'm most keen to taste.




These are my other juices, any of those in particular that are horrible or really nice from anyone's experience?

 

[Jameason]

I pour back into the bottle all of the time.

 

[bones1274]

Ditto, I pour remaining juice back in the bottle all the time.

 

[Danny55]

Ah ok, I'll try and get the pouring tip off. Haven't tried yet, it may be dead easy.

So I've watched a few videos about cleaning and dry burning. I'm not clear if I should dry burn the coil and clean the wick when just changing juice flavours or just rinse the tank and fill?

 

[Ryuukon]

Eh, I don't pour back into the bottle, but only because I don't want my bottle to turn into a petri dish.

Let's be honest, in several of my clearos, it's very easy for condensation to drip back into the clearo when I do a refill. Obviously this is only the case with the top coils that fill from the top, but it does happen. Even when I'm careful and blow out the clearo before I remove the top for filling, some of that condensation can still drip back in.

Not only that, but if I haven't cleaned that clearo in a week or two, it's entirely possible that some bacteria or other contamination is in there.

I don't want that back in with my fresh juice.

But hey, that's just me.

[Edit]

As for clean burning... No, that's something else I don't recommend. It's not worth burning up your wicks just to get them dry a little faster. I know people will argue that silica wicks don't burn, and they're correct. But anything left on the coil or in the wick CAN burn, still leaving you with a burnt taste.

My advice, soak them in nice warm water, making sure to agitate them as much as possible by shaking them under water, blow them out and pat them dry as much as you can with a paper towel, and leave them to dry over night. If you want to be really sure they're dry, get a small tupperware bowel and fill it with rice (not minute rice, but uncooked rice), and drop your dismantled clearomizers in there overnight. In the morning, put them together, fill em up, and vape away.

 

[vapnstuff]

It kind of depends on the juices you've been vaping. If they're mild you may get away with just rinsing off real good; I've had to use a little vodka to get rid of some of the more powerful flavors that have leeched into the plastic followed by a water rinse. It's a learning experience for sure. I've got several EVODS, Protank II's and Protank II minis and they all use the same head/coil. The bad thing is that you really can't see the coil like say an iClear 30 so you really need to be careful that you don't burn it out. Start with the lowest voltage and take it slow and it may work. Good luck.

 

[Danny55]

As for clean burning... No, that's something else I don't recommend. It's not worth burning up your wicks just to get them dry a little faster. I know people will argue that silica wicks don't burn, and they're correct. But anything left on the coil or in the wick CAN burn, still leaving you with a burnt taste.

My advice, soak them in nice warm water, making sure to agitate them as much as possible by shaking them under water, blow them out and pat them dry as much as you can with a paper towel, and leave them to dry over night. If you want to be really sure they're dry, get a small tupperware bowel and fill it with rice (not minute rice, but uncooked rice), and drop your dismantled clearomizers in there overnight. In the morning, put them together, fill em up, and vape away.

When you say 'soak them' you mean both the flavour wick and the wick with the coil wire around it?

The tank itself, must that be bone dry before any new liquid goes in it, or is it enough to rinse the tank with warm water, shake it out, shove some kitchen paper inside it to soak up as much remaining moisture as I can and immediately fill? Sorry to be such a useless noob and ask dumb questions.

 

[Danny55]

It kind of depends on the juices you've been vaping. If they're mild you may get away with just rinsing off real good; I've had to use a little vodka to get rid of some of the more powerful flavors that have leeched into the plastic followed by a water rinse. It's a learning experience for sure. I've got several EVODS, Protank II's and Protank II minis and they all use the same head/coil. The bad thing is that you really can't see the coil like say an iClear 30 so you really need to be careful that you don't burn it out. Start with the lowest voltage and take it slow and it may work. Good luck.

Well, my kit came with 5 spare coils, and they're cheap enough to replace so not too worried if I pop one or two. At some point, I'll maybe get into DIY recoiling/wicking as it's probably cheaper and more satisfying to do.

 

[vap0r1ze]

Personally, I try not to pour back into the main eliquid bottle. But then again I'm OCD with germs and such so like @ryuukon said about the bottle becoming a petri dish, especially if you know that bottle will 'last for ages'.
If I LOVE a liquid I will pour it into a clean, empty bottle so I can fill a tank in the future.

 

[cloud.nine]

Ah ok, I'll try and get the pouring tip off. Haven't tried yet, it may be dead easy.

So I've watched a few videos about cleaning and dry burning. I'm not clear if I should dry burn the coil and clean the wick when just changing juice flavours or just rinse the tank and fill?

I only dry burn the coil if it has gunk on it that hot water won't rinse away (dry burning isn't for drying out the water on the wick, it's for cleaning the metal coil). After dry burning, rinse the coil again or brush it off well to remove the residual ash from the dry burn.

Generally I just rinse with hot water when I'm cleaning out my tank. I pat dry the wick to get the water out. If my wick is still kind of wet when I refill the tank with juice, no problem! The first hit might have a little more water in it and so produce less vapor, but that goes away quickly. I make sure the rest of the parts of the evod are dried off well, like I'll try to dry all the drops of water out of the inside of the tank.

If I vaped a juice that left a smell on the wick that won't go away, I soak it in grain alcohol (80 proof vodka didn't work as well. higher proof vodka may work better). Usually though, if there's any smell left on the wick from the last juice, it goes away as I vape the new juice.

Some juices might crack the plastic of your Evod. I don't know about the dekang banana. You might want to buy some pyrex glass mini protank IIs. They will fit nicely on your Evod batteries, and juices won't crack them.

The tank itself, must that be bone dry before any new liquid goes in it, or is it enough to rinse the tank with warm water, shake it out, shove some kitchen paper inside it to soak up as much remaining moisture as I can and immediately fill? Sorry to be such a useless noob and ask dumb questions.

Yeah, I just mop out the water best I can with a paper towel no worries if there's a teeny bit of water in there.

Not dumb questions!!! Your questions are exactly the same as mine when I first started with my Evod kit!

 

[Danny55]

Personally, I try not to pour back into the main eliquid bottle. But then again I'm OCD with germs and such so like @ryuukon said about the bottle becoming a petri dish, especially if you know that bottle will 'last for ages'.
If I LOVE a liquid I will pour it into a clean, empty bottle so I can fill a tank in the future.

So if you have say, strawberry liquid in your tank, you'd pour that back into a clean, empty bottle, keeping that separate from the fresh strawberry liquid in the main eliquid bottle, so that any germs in the poured back liquid don't contaminate the fresh stuff? Is that what you mean?

 

[vapnstuff]

If I LOVE a liquid I will pour it into a clean, empty bottle so I can fill a tank in the future.

So, what you're saying is that all those worthless 5 mm sample bottles are worth something? Nice idea. Thanks

 

[Danny55]

I only dry burn the coil if it has gunk on it that hot water won't rinse away (dry burning isn't for drying out the water on the wick, it's for cleaning the metal coil). After dry burning, rinse the coil again or brush it off well to remove the residual ash from the dry burn.

Generally I just rinse with hot water when I'm cleaning out my tank. I pat dry the wick to get the water out. If my wick is still kind of wet when I refill the tank with juice, no problem! The first hit might have a little more water in it and so produce less vapor, but that goes away quickly. I make sure the rest of the parts of the evod are dried off well, like I'll try to dry all the drops of water out of the inside of the tank.

If I vaped a juice that left a smell on the wick that won't go away, I soak it in grain alcohol (80 proof vodka didn't work as well. higher proof vodka may work better). Usually though, if there's any smell left on the wick from the last juice, it goes away as I vape the new juice.

Some juices might crack the plastic of your Evod. I don't know about the dekang banana. You might want to buy some pyrex glass mini protank IIs. They will fit nicely on your Evod batteries, and juices won't crack them.


Yeah, I just mop out the water best I can with a paper towel no worries if there's a teeny bit of water in there.

Not dumb questions!!! Your questions are exactly the same as mine when I first started with my Evod kit!

Awesome answers, thanks! Might have to invest in a pyrex glass tank then. I'll try the banana juice anyway, and I'll do it over the kitchen sink for a bit in case it cracks and leaks, lol. I've got two EVOD tanks with the kit, so no big deal if one breaks.

 

[Lombaowski]

Eh, I don't pour back into the bottle, but only because I don't want my bottle to turn into a petri dish.

/Thread over

 

[eda123]

i pour back, no issues. I rinse after every 2 tanks or so, with super hot water. For a strong flavor ill soak for 30min in grain alcohol and let the head dry overnight.

 

[Ryuukon]

When you say 'soak them' you mean both the flavour wick and the wick with the coil wire around it?

The tank itself, must that be bone dry before any new liquid goes in it, or is it enough to rinse the tank with warm water, shake it out, shove some kitchen paper inside it to soak up as much remaining moisture as I can and immediately fill? Sorry to be such a useless noob and ask dumb questions.

Sorry Danny, was out of town for a few days so couldn't check the forums. My in-laws have some kind of "world-wide-inter-web-thingy will steal my identity because Fox News says so!" phobia, and I don't have a smart phone.

But anyway...

When I say soak, I mean soak the whole thing. Tank, mouth piece, coil heads, all of it. If it's a part of your clearo, then drop it in the sink. The only thing you shouldn't soak is your battery, for obvious reasons. The rest of it, soak it. It's not gonna hurt it. Just make sure you aren't going to lose any pieces down the drain.

And as someone has already said, it doesn't have to be bone dry. Helps if it is on your first fill, but it's not necessary. You might experience some extra popping from the coil as the water left behind hits a boiling point, and you might even get some spatter hitting your lips/mouth. Not a pleasant experience, and could reduce the life of your coil, but over all it's not the worst thing that could happen.

In my mind though, it's just better to let it dry overnight, unless you live in fairly humid conditions, otherwise overnight drying should be plenty.

Also, don't be afraid of stocking up on extra tanks and heads.

When I first started vaping, I was very cost conscious and wanted to re-use every tank as much as possible before needing to replace them or the heads. Now I realize that tanks can last a VERY long time with proper care and cleaning. Thus I now have a minimum of a dozen tanks, most with different juices, that I vape on almost a daily basis.

I've got my ADV (in 3 different tanks depending on my mood since all 3 tanks vape differently), several other flavors that I love to sample every day, some that I only hit when the mood suits me, and other tanks that are for sampling new flavors as they steep. I'm still using tanks that I've had for months, and just replace the heads from time to time when cleaning them isn't quite enough.

Don't be afraid of what you might do to a clearo. They're usually pretty tough. Just don't smack them with a hammer and expect no leaks and perfect vaping.

[Edit]

Wanted to add a bit about how dry your clearos are.

Obviously you want the threads to be as dry as possible. Don't pull a clearo out of the sink, put it together, and throw it on your battery and expect everything to be fine. Your threads should be as dry as possible. Otherwise you could mess up your battery. Water + batteries = bad news.

 

[Ryuukon]

Double post, please delete.