How do you deal with spit backs???

[TeemoOpAf]

Hi everyone!
I was told that you can't consume ejuice even just as little as 1ml would harm you....But what about that spit back ejuices??? Some of ejuice would just spit to my mouth and I go rinse right after cuz I don't want to eat any of that. Like I am tired of those spit backs... It happens way too often to me. I use the joyetech ego.
Any ideas?

 

[Susaz]

You wouldn't go and drink your ejuice, but a little juice from condensation or spitback isn't harmful. It's not nice because it's so concentrated. But you'll be vaping it anyway...
As a rule of thumb, I don't touch any children (specially babies) if I've filled my mod recently.

 

[Nermal]

Right, and if I spill a bit, I quickly lick it up so it doesn't hurt anyone.

 

[Kickingthesticks]

They have drip tips with mesh in them. You can lower wattage if possible. If you notice spit back mostly during the first draw when you haven't Vaped in a while, you can fire the mod for a second or two then continue vaping. Some tanks and coils are more prone to spitback.

 

[Kickingthesticks]

Anyways teemo hasn't been nerfed yet? Been a few years since I was on league lol.

 

[uthinkofsomething]

A few years ago when I was using higher nic juice (24 12 or 9mg) I had the same issues, many do. I was told " You gotta fling it!". You can hold the device by the bottom and ( hard to describe) throw it without letting go, make an arc with your arm, swing it once or twice hard and fast with the drip tip pointing away from you. This will fling excess juice out.
Others things to look at would be emptying it as much as you can before refilling to minimize leakage, use thicker juice, try higher wattage to vaporize more juice, or use a little tissue twisted up and insert in mouthpiece to soak up excess.
A few drops of liquid won't hurt you, but the higher the nicotine level the worse it will taste. 24mg tastes terrible because of the nicotine, 3mg tastes pretty good...

 

[TeemoOpAf]

Anyways teemo hasn't been nerfed yet? Been a few years since I was on league lol.

lol I played Teemo all the way to Plat lol sooo op

 

[TeemoOpAf]

You wouldn't go and drink your ejuice, but a little juice from condensation or spitback isn't harmful. It's not nice because it's so concentrated. But you'll be vaping it anyway...
As a rule of thumb, I don't touch any children (specially babies) if I've filled my mod recently.

Thank you for your thoughts. I was being way too sensitive I guess..

 

[TeemoOpAf]

A few years ago when I was using higher nic juice (24 12 or 9mg) I had the same issues, many do. I was told " You gotta fling it!". You can hold the device by the bottom and ( hard to describe) throw it without letting go, make an arc with your arm, swing it once or twice hard and fast with the drip tip pointing away from you. This will fling excess juice out.
Others things to look at would be emptying it as much as you can before refilling to minimize leakage, use thicker juice, try higher wattage to vaporize more juice, or use a little tissue twisted up and insert in mouthpiece to soak up excess.
A few drops of liquid won't hurt you, but the higher the nicotine level the worse it will taste. 24mg tastes terrible because of the nicotine, 3mg tastes pretty good...

 

[uthinkofsomething]

A slight sidenote, when the Atlantis 2 first came out I was just settling in to sub ohm vaping, got a thinner juice and asked the forum for advice explaining about the spitback. I was using 3mg nic eliquid in it. One person replied simply this: "Welcome to flavor country!". That is my favorite response to any question related to spitback ever !!

 

[DaveP]

Spitback is too much juice in the wick under the coil. It boils and pops. A DIY wick that's not trimmed can over-saturate the coil. An over juiced commercial wick can do the same. Air flow needs to be balance to prevent a sudden shot of juice that soaks the wick.

High wattage can boil the juice, but only if the wick is over saturated.

It's pretty much the same principle as a lawn mower that floods the engine when the air filter is clogged.

 

[Zaryk]

A little bit of ejuice in the mouth isn't going to be detrimental to your health. Ejuice is made of food grade ingredients with a small percentage of nicotine mixed up in it. I taste flavors by putting a drop on my finger or hand and licking it off. I also lick off any juice that overflows out of my RDAs air holes so I don't get juicy hands. It tastes better when its warm.

 

[Punk In Drublic]

I poured unwanted e-juice down the drain once. Since then there have been sightings in Toronto of 4 crime fighting mutant turtles and a man sized talking rat.

As for spit back, as others have mentioned, this is due to over saturation of the coil. The Joytech Ego does not allow wattage change so you are kinda at the mercy of the coil and how well it is able to wick. When not in use, you can try storing the device upside down. This will obviously bring the juice away from the wicking ports and hopefully (not guaranteed) mitigate oversaturation.

Also take a look at the VG/PG level of your juice. PG has a lower viscosity than VG (it’s thinner) so higher level of PG will wick faster and be more prone to over saturation.

 

[stols001]

Spitback won't harm you but since it's slightly unpleasant, well I might try some of the suggested remedies. It can be for lots of reasons, so just keep trying stuff until it's figured out. Some tanks are worse for it than others I think, but you'll eventually hit on your "set of remedies" I am almost certain.

Anna

 

[Nikhforos]

I just spit it back. Gotta give that Dead Rabbit a taste of it's own medicine.

 

[SunshinePete]

The OP should be aware that vape liquid is only dangerous if you drown in it, unless one is mixing in hydrogen cyanide or other noxious substance. But I appreciate how annoying spitting is. Back in the dim mists of time a clearo much raved about on ECF and elsewhere was the Aspire Nautilus, and I bought a couple. Could I get those little blighters to stop spitting? I could not, every press of the fire button meant a sharp crack! and a gob of liquid on my tongue, and note that I didn't have the hardware to provoke them with more than 15W at that time. My solution was surrender, I threw them out. Vaping is surely not meant to be an obstacle course of torments and challenges, it just seems that way sometimes.

 

[Old Greybeard]

A few years ago when I was using higher nic juice (24 12 or 9mg) I had the same issues, many do. I was told " You gotta fling it!". You can hold the device by the bottom and ( hard to describe) throw it without letting go, make an arc with your arm, swing it once or twice hard and fast with the drip tip pointing away from you. This will fling excess juice out.
Others things to look at would be emptying it as much as you can before refilling to minimize leakage, use thicker juice, try higher wattage to vaporize more juice, or use a little tissue twisted up and insert in mouthpiece to soak up excess....

My first couple of pen vapes used to need this treatment, and it was was one of the major reasons I could never get on with these darned devices apart from the really tight draw. Like SunshinePete, thankfully my collection is now hidden in some dank cupboard gathering dust.

Not sure how much in the way of an airvent (if any) you have on your atomiser, if you open it up to max, blow into the mouthpiece very briefly while pressing fire, then inhale, this works well for me on my Cleito 120. I get the tiniest bit of spitback if I don't do this (once in a blue moon and almost negligible at 50-60W) but it is a Direct to Lung tank with "anti-spitback" spikes on the coiland very airey - you could breathe through it. I believe your kit is designed for Mouth to Lung vaping, which is generally more restricted airflow wise, and a different beast entirely. Yes, flicking and tissue will work on a MTL, but make sure the vape hasn't got any ejuice or moisture on the outside. A colleague tried this only for the wretched device to go flying out his hand, perform a couple of violent, yet graceful somersaults, and smash on the concrete pavement .

 

[My Batt Hurts]

Hi -
Your device possibly shipped with coils that are known to spit. Have you tried other coils in your eGo AIO? There are a few BF coils and i don't think they're all quite so feisty - just one or two.

If you're using the eGo AIO, see this link.

(…Or get a new device! )

 

[Alter]

Pulling too hard on a coil that isn't heated enough causing the excess juice to boil and not vaporize. That can be caused by unbalanced airflow.
The coil is getting worn, thus the carbon cocoon is using up the heat so again just boiling the juice.
The pulling too hard can pull excess juice onto the coil, not being vaporized and pooling so your sucking up juice like a straw. Some like to blow down to remove the excess juice but that just makes a mess that could get down into the electronics of a hitter. Depends on the atty, turn it upside down so the juice comes out the driptip then twist up a paper towel to get the remaining juice.
Back in my clearo, protank and kayfun days when I got some spitback I laid a piece of 1 or 2mm silica across the top of the coil...problem solved. Those were called flavor wicks that came stock in the old PT heads but haven't used flavor wicks in eons.
A older dying, discharging or crappy clone battery(s) don't have the umph it needs to properly fire a coil especially if your trying to fire a nasty subohm or multiwire build using a single battery hitter. I found anything over 30 watts using a single battery hitter the performance craps out. Worse if your first heating up the cocoon all the initial pulse is used up and nothing left for vaporizing...back to boiling the juice.
I've been tasting a couple drops of juice on the back of the hand for years, thats how I determine the atty taste, just smelling the juice is very deceptive cause the great smell can taste YUK in both the back of the hand or atty.

 

[RigBick]

I like a juicy vape. And a little spit back is okay as well. Lip smacking good.