PVA Cracking Liquids - Worried?

Didihno

So, recently I've been vaping some of the so called tank cracking liquids.
Stuff with aniseed and sharp fruit flavours.
I have Kayfun Liye Plus clones and Orchid V4 clones, which both use identical PVA sections for the 'window'.
When vaping my ADV 'Dragons Blood' in an Orchid I noticed a crack appeared one day. It didn't cause a leak so I let it be and ordered some replacements sections on FT. When I went to swap it out to my horror it wasn't just a acrak, the inner surface of the PVA had 'corroded' and that means I have been vaping PVA particles. What does this mean? I haven't seen or heard anything written about this being dangerous, surely there would have been a kerfuffle if it were so?

Anyway I remembered then something that happened a year earlier which I had totally forgotten (I only remembered because I had no spare PVA sections and was trying to think why). What had happened was I had bought some juice, can't remember what it was but it was awful, and it cracked a Kayfun L+ PVA badly, and I had to swap it out. When I unscrewed the Kayfun top section the whole thing literally crumbled, the O-Rings natural tension simply collapsed the PVA when I removed the top section. We're talking smithereens. The juice and PVA went in the bin, as I said, it was horrible anyway, some apple flavour I think. I promptly forgot all about it.

I'm keeping a very close eye now on how juices are reacting with the PVA sections for the Kayfun L+ and the Orchids. Nobody seems to make a threaded glass replacement for these attys either and I'd prefer not to use the steel sections as I like to see my juice.

Anyone got similar tales, solutions or more info on if this is a big deal?

TinCool

I've become very weary of tank cracking juices as well as all this stuff about popcorn lung and NET eliquids. I do have a lovely very obvious tank cracker called lime sparkle. It is real nice. I mistakenly filled up one of my kayfuns with a plastic tank with it one day and pretty much instantly the plastic went cloudy as did the liquid. I promptly emptied it and chucked out the eliquid from the tank. I now only use a metal middle section when vaping that stuff, although I haven't had it in a few months. Still have a bit left.

I'm sure you'll be grand if you inhaled some of the particles, although I wouldn't make a habit out of it.

These points are rather worrying so that's why for the past 6 months I've only been vaping standard eliquids with none of the fancy shmancy about them. A couple of liqua tobacco juices along with a couple of hangsen mint/menthol juices. These satisfy me as they hit the spot. My next order I'll be lowering from 6ml to 3ml.

RIchieNouveau

Why does NET concern you TinCool? And do you not include Hangsen in them as I think they use a very similar method to NET to acquire nicotine?

Interesting thread, I've never had a tank cracker liquid, does anyone know what it is that actually cracks the tank and what is the similarity between the different flavours that gives them the same cracking effect? I wouldn't have thought aniseed and citrus would have had that much in common ingredients wise.

Thecageyone

Jut use pyrex tanks.

TinCool

RIchieNouveau wrote: »

Why does NET concern you TinCool? And do you not include Hangsen in them as I think they use a very similar method to NET to acquire nicotine?

Because they're steeped in tobacco leaves to extract the flavour (and probably other stuff). Each to their own, I don't vape them - HOL for an example. I wasn't aware that Hangsen used NET processes to extract nicotine. Surely they synthesize the stuff ?

RIchieNouveau

I've read on a few different sites that the Hangsen they're selling is "naturally extracted from tobacco."I can't see anything on Hangsens site though so maybe it's not true.

Didihno

Thecageyone wrote: »

Jut use pyrex tanks.

Yes, thats the easy solution.
However, I love the layfun lite plus and the orchid v4 (both clones) and there is no glass option for the little window section.
Sure you can buy the glass kits, but they are held together by o-rings only and can and will fall apart with the slightest pull or knock.