Melting caps is really weird
Dont caps normally do the opposite as they age? They get brittle, flaky and crackly. At least in my experience. I have bags of clear vegan and regular capsules of different sizes. The vegans one have darkened a couple shades over the years (im talking empty caps, but any that were filled still seem fine) and the regular ones maybe a shade darker but practically look the same.
Has to be moisture for them to melt no? Maybe moisture got into the bottle via handling, poor seal or maybe shipping conditions? How were the cottronballs in the containers? Or the capsule ingredients had some moisture in them? Feel like that would be less likely though as they would have had issues with the whole stock and this is the first Ive heard of this mentioned.
And yeah, provide pics so we can all better analyze together!
After a few uses I began noticing stoppers coring out with ease. Floating rubber bits began showing up in my oils and it wasn't just one. I have bottles with multiple visible rubber chunks now floating around in the oil. Which explains the absolutely debilitating pip and mild infection I got in my glute last month. I very rarely get pip, even with Test C. After that injection I had a swollen glute and the entire area of injection was rock hard for a week. It was a miserable experience. I can only assume a piece of micro rubber invisible to the naked eye made it into the syringe before the larger chunks started appearing in the bottle. As a result I have to toss like 5 bottle of oil. All of which are roughly 70 to 80% full.
Hey brother! Just wanted to mention that If you ever come across poor quality stoppers (ex notice a vial from a batch starts coring) that you can prob assume all the stoppers are from the same batch and questionable. Before diving into multiple vials, especially only using 20% before coring/pip issues, one should transfer the contents out of the vial on the first piece into a vial with quality stopper.
I've seen people on the forum mention swapping tons of vials due to the same coring issues in order to save the rest of their orders or to prepare for long term storage safely.
If your stoppers are sitting submerged in the oil though, then you likely have stopper leaching already and should take the L.
P.S THIS GOES FOR ANY AND ALL VENDORS. Sometimes they order quality stoppers, but theres some type of production issue from factory and bam, you got some coring and problems. So best practice is from a buyers perspective, check every vial before every use. Maybe reach out the vendor thread if you notice an issue for support on how to address the situation and see if its a mass issue or a one off so they can address the whole lot if needed.
I mention this because Ive been in the same situation and know the pain of tossing tons of $ worth of gear.. and its not even the cost really, but the hassle of having your timeline pushed back and having to deal with any discomfort/pip that is possibly caused.
Since we are in Primal's thread and youve used him since he opened up, youve likely seen the progression of hardware used in the vials to address these issues in the past. I still have some green stoppers and most have been fine, but I did have one with coring. Im transfering all the oils im not currently cycling to new vials/stoppers for long term storage since the stoppers arent submerged in the oil.
Of course, these issues were addressed so this is for old stashed gear before they switched to the community recommended Nova Stoppers.