OldOyler
Fire it again. I can still find the ground.
I have been using an emow tank for the last week or so. Really like it. I run it wide open and do a slow direct draw into the lungs. My battery is almost always set to 3.8 but I am using an Aspire. Should be similar though. I have been getting pretty consistent results but have noticed that the emow seems to drain my battery a little faster than the Aspire tanks I have been using. But I haven't had any leaking and that is what I'm most concerned with.
I tried mixing some RSO and EJ a while back and it did mix up ok but couldn't really get past the taste. Between the taste of EJ and the taste of RSO I couldn't do it. I ended up giving it to my brother. Maybe next time I make some RSO I will try mixing it with Puff Majic. I think the Majic flavor might make it a bit better for me. It is ideal to be able to use one substance in several ways though. I'm all about the simplicity for sure.
@StheDubya when you say "wide open", are you referring to having all the air holes open for draw? Or I thought possibly even no drip pen or something. Sorry, you will see regular noob stuff like that from me... :-) And I *have* on my FC reading list to nail down my vape technique. I *did* try, but wow...couldn't get two answers to match sometimes. So I decided to hold off.
I laughed out loud when you mentioned the taste. For me, the sublingual application I do 3x daily is *such* a nasty taste, that the mild little version of that taste I get in the vape seems like a nice change. But, I know that I wouldn't be able to get a bunch of combustors around and share a cart. They'd never get past the taste. And someone who REALLY knows their vape, like you or someone from FC? They'd probably be ten times as turned off to the taste.
Leaking is what I was primarily concerned about too, and I have had close to zero. The one time I had the slightest amount was when I first got it, loaded the cart, and of course couldn't just leave the thing alone... Even then, it was a tiny hair-width line across where I screw the battery to the cart, and never have seen it again, even though I have changed out the cart (for testing the various EJ/RSO ratios).
However, I believe that a different method of processing RSO *might* be the key to fixing some taste problems. Over on one of the recent threads in "Concentrates", @Grow Goddess has developed a new method for a natural, air-evap over like 100 days (please read her stuff if interested, I will absolutely mangle even a summary of the process, and even if I quote directly!). She does her base process with ISO (I use Everclear191), and some steps different, so I am not trying to make a direct comparison. But the point is that what @Grow Goddess found was that allowing the decarb process to happen naturally over time with no heat improved both the taste AND the potency of the finished product. Apparently the potency was almost double!
Not that *my* word means anything one way or another, but I have followed her RSO case studies with patients for almost 6 months, and if anyone knows how to "tweak" RSO in a real, live caregiver setting, it's her. (That is SO not to be sappy, or overly-complementary, and I promise that is an extremely *objective* statement).
BIG NOTE AFTER THAT: And of course LOTS of other people on FC and other places are experts with RSO as well. I am just new, and so don't know too many people I could say "I followed their stuff, and it was always on the money". :-)
Over on that thread, I am following @Grow Goddess ' new "natural decarb" process, and will post back after I mix that with the EJMix and compare it side by side for taste, mixability, stability in storage, and potency compared to the RSO I made with EC191/heat decarb (original method, so to speak). The comparison SHOULD be fair, since the "original method" RSO was made from the same plant (and plant drying/curing process) that I will be using for the test. The only difference will be in the RSO creation.
Who knows what else might change in the vape with it?! I think that's exciting, too. Will post on that comparison in about 100 days after the "natural decarb" method RSO is done.