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What id the best way to "Chain Test"?
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by bdeceasedabout 6 years ago

Seriously, just get a cheap RDA or even a few cheap RDA’s. Someone mentioned the Wasp Nano which is a great option. You’ll never get a true idea of what your juices taste like in a tank without rebuilding and wasting massive amounts of cotton. RDA’s are much more forgiving and flavors can be changed with minimal carry over of the old flavor. With a tank, the old flavor could still be present after a full tank of different juice if you don’t wash the tank out and rebuild every time you switch. I’d look at getting some RDA’s as essential tools needed for diy, right up there with bottles and a scale and droppers and such. Even if you only end up using them to sample your flavors and don’t use the RDA regularly as your main vaping method, it will pay for itself in the time and aggravation you will save yourself.

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by MindsEye_69about 6 years ago

Hijacking top comment to add another way:

Put a little (I use 10ml) Soda water in a cup, add the drops you would for a 10ml and just sip it. The taste will be surprisingly close to what you will get in pgvg base. This is how I do spot testing. I test flavors every day as it's my job.

This works best with fruits and bright flavors that don't need a steep.

Hope this helps some people!

Happy mixing!

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by bdeceasedabout 6 years ago

Brilliant! I could use tips like that right about now as I will be undertaking diy myself in the near future!

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by autosdafeabout 6 years ago

This is pretty brilliant. Now why soda water vs plain water?

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by MindsEye_69about 6 years ago

No reason really, personal preference because I usual do a lot of them through the day and it leaves my mouth faster kinda? It's just something I tried that worked pretty well, so I just do it this way, you can choose whatever works for you : )

Edit to add just a tip: Begin with a few drops and work up tasting as you go and taking notes! You will gain a lot of useful knowledge as you go from weak to strong. Those notes will be immensely valuable as you advance.

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by Binsky89about 6 years ago

Vape unflavored out of the RDA to clear the old flavor.

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by kuri_sanTouabout 6 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

Just spend $10 for a cheap RDA like the wasp nano

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by modivinabout 6 years agoMissing One Flavor

RDA, good quality cotton and Temperature Control. This way you can dry up your cotton of the flavor and drip a new one on top with very little to no taste overlap, depending on the cotton.

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by Silverpathicabout 6 years ago

Temp control, dont that require a certain wire or coil?

I stopped just before it became popular, thinking about getting black into it.

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by Binsky89about 6 years ago

Stainless steel is all that is required. 316L beats kanthal any day, and can be used in TC or power mode.

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by modivinabout 6 years agoMissing One Flavor

Yes, TC doesn't work with Kanthal. But that's not really a problem imo.

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by ID10-Tabout 6 years agoThe Kingmaker

As others have already noted, buy an RDA or two.

For jumping between minor alterations to the flavor, you don't even have to change the cotton. Just vape it dry and then vape some unflavored juice until you can't taste the juice anymore.

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by Vishousnessabout 6 years agoMissing One Flavor

Go for a vapefly pixie rda or a wasp nano rda both are single coil flavor bangers

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by Pyr0manc3rabout 6 years ago

Lol came here to recommend a few Wasp Nanos only to find multiple other ppl said the same already. Sounds like a consensus for a couple of Wasp Nanos.

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by Setagaya-Observerabout 6 years ago

a Rebuildable Desk?

Just change the Cotton.

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by autosdafeabout 6 years ago

Rebuilding desks is such PITA. I say once it's built leave it built. Maybe I'm just lazy, but I don't want to build my desk before I have to do my taxes.

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by _Ultimaaaateabout 6 years ago

exotic coils in a rda

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by bdeceasedabout 6 years ago

Definitely works too! But also uses up your unflavored pg/vg. Simply vaping the cotton to near dry should be good enough to get rid of most of the old flavor save for a couple puffs in the beginning. But the unflavored juice tip is a good tip if you have a lot of extra unflavored sitting around.

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by johnnycontrarianabout 6 years ago

I just dab a little on my finger and taste that, as long as you aren’t making anything with too high of nic that works just fine to see where the flavor is at in the mix

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by mattsiloabout 6 years ago

Just run cottonless and low wattage on a fat staple coil and your golden

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