Bad Taste After Cleaning Volcano Vape

Discussion in 'Vaporizers' started by chinabudmaster, Jul 24, 2014.

  1. I disassembled all the parts to my volcano vape and cleaned them with 50% rubbing alcohol (I checked many local stores and this was the best they had). The ingredients include aqua, ethyl alcohol, denatonium benzoate, camphor and diethylphtalate.

    I soaked everything in rubbing alcohol for an hour, rinsed each part in hot water individually, soaked everything in hot water again for another hour then let the parts dry for a bit before I finished drying them with a towel and a hair dryer.

    I put a new bag on as well and ran the vape a couple of times before using it but I'm still getting a nasty minty chemical taste. Apparently chemicals such as camphor can produce a nasty taste after cleaning, and in the past I would just use the vape after cleaning it until the bad taste went a way (probably a stupid idea).

    So how do I get rid of the taste/smell? Rerinse with water? Heat the parts in the oven? Let the parts dry for a couple of days? Is this taste/smell even harmful?
     
  2. #2 TheWhiteLighter, Jul 24, 2014
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    Shoulda used isopropyl 99% and allowed full evaporation then rinsed afterwards.
     
    Is there a way to run the Volcano without the bag for a while?
     
    Make sure you change the bag before you try your vapor, maybe the residual taste is stuck in the bag?
     
  3. You got some 99 cent store alcohol. All the 50 should be is water and alcohol, id think. Use 99% iso like suggested


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  4. Cause you got rubbing alcohol woth all those random chemicals in there. Use iso. Only ingredients are iso and water. Only recommendation I have is maybe do an iso wash to clean it again then rinse thoroughly

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  5. Why would u take it apart? Most u have to do is wipe around where chamber goes and itl never ever get dirty, had mine for years and it's clean as brand new never oncef cleaned it


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  6. Get ISO 99% off of Ebay or you could have used 190 proof alcohol or 150 proof vodka.   Throw out the rubbing alcohol before you use it for making hash.  I haven't ever cleaned my Volcano, why?  The ceramic chamber I use Simple Green and a toothbrush, rinse and wipe down with Ebay ISO [should be able to get it from Home Depot, paint section also].  Run it empty until all alcohol smell is gone.
     
  7. I used 91% on my volcano and never had any bad tastes and it worked great to get all that sticky res out
     

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