Cleaning w/ Water, Instead of IPA

Sassyonemeis;2623931 said:

I am in love with my eGo-T!! I have not had any leaking problem, but can honestly say if I got a mouth full of e-juice, I'd not be a happy camper. The only problem I have had was after I cleaned it with IPA and let dry for 48 hrs (per cozzicon). This did not work well, for me. It seems to me that it completely dried out the wick and it wouldnt wick right after that, even after I dripped right down the needle, it was better, but still not the glory it was out of the box.

Today I tried Scottbee's cleaning style on this "less than prime" atty and it is back to it's out of the box glory.

Per Scottbee:
My method is pretty old, and is basically the same method that I have been using on all of my atties for over a year:

Blow out all of the liquid that you can from the tank end.

Warm/hot water rinse.. blowing out the water from the tank end... rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat. I continue to do that until the water comes out clear (and easily).

Blow out all of the water that I can.....

Dry burn: I personally do this on a "true" 3.7V device (Bartleby) since it will get you results faster... but you can do it on the eGo battery as well. Power-on for about 3-4 seconds. Power-off for another 3-4 seconds while blowing down into the cone (just to keep the overall temps down). Repeat this process over and over. At first you will get steam from the residual water. That will be followed by SMOKE as the gunk starts to burn. Continue with the cycling until you can see the red glow of the coil. The smoke should start to taper off at this point. Continue the cycling until you get a red glow within about 1 second of pushing the button. Stop... the dry burn is complete.

Do some additional warm water blowouts to remove the "ash".

Blow out all of the water that you can.

Re-prime and vape.

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