Refurbishing A Working But Real Old Nasty 510 Cartomizer pt 3 of 5

Mark Linehan;2100743 said:

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Now you see the revealed innards of the cartomizer. That woven tube is for air flow, keep it at the top, the thing that looks like a dark lump is actually your coil. You can spread that apart with your fingernail a TINY bit. Enough so it will get cleaned.
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Now take all the parts of your cartomizer, filler, cloth, innards, tube and...
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Drop them in a small bowl of very hot (not boiling) water for 10 minutes. Swish them around a bit, clean all the jkunk off of them. You may want to gently rub the coil with something like a Q-Tip or very soft toothbrush maybe, but nothing too hard and DON't make it all misshapen unless you are sure you can rewind it like around a nail or something and get it back to roughly the same size. Although at this point, you could technically unsolder the wire, if you feel you can do it, maybe trim it a bit to decrease the resistance a tiny bit, and then resolder it, or replace the nichrome altogether if you know how. I have some nichrome on order and when I get it, I will be replacing all of my coils, and filler material too if I can get it to wrap properly. So far I can't rewrap the innards with polyfil properly.
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Once cleaned, use a large wad of tissue to completely wrap up the filler strip and cloth rectangle and squeeze the bajeezuss out of it until it is dry.
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It doesn't take long with this toilet paper/tissue squeeze method to dry this stuff. Then use the tissue to gently pat dry the innards and the carto tube as well in and out.

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