Brand New Atomizer Primer? (What is this stuff?) {56K Beware!}

[bizzyb0t]

Okay, so I got my e-cig from VaporGuys.com

I'm very happy with it and I love the look (except for one thing), weight, and feel of my new JOYE306A (Super-Mini)!!

Anyway, I always read about "new atomizer primer", or "the primer they put on new atomizers... but what is this stuff?

So, I took out my camera and took a few pictures of my brand new unused atomizer. I got two atomizers with my starter kit (!!) and both of them have the exact same stuff. Kurt from VG also confirmed that it was on a new Super-Mini he had at their location. He wasn't sure what it was either.

I describe it as feeling like silica gel. It soft and pliable. I had to move some aside with a toothpick(on my other one), to get it to vape.

Here's some macro shots... I tried to crop these as much as I could... bet viewed in fullsize, since they're cropped.

[RjG]

Good grief... that looks nasty.

I don't understand, why doesn't Kurt at VaporGuys * ask * them wtf they are sticking in there?

[Houdini]

Looks like vasoline or some kind of clear grease.
Nice macro shots BTW.

[franklyspeaking]

Looks like cosmoline to me. Yuck! I don't like the idea of inhaling that. Cosmoline is the crap the the army used as a rust preventative when shipping/storing firearms, jeeps, anything really. What sucks is that while you can clean that out from a Super Mini atomizer any other model with a closed atomizer you are forced to just burn off.

[bizzyb0t]

It's got the consistency of vermicelli... or rice noodles, the kind they serve at Vietnamese restaurants.

It's not like vasoline or cosmoline at all...

It doesn't "thin" out when it get's hot either. Also, upon further inspection... there are tiny fibers embedded into it.

Also, appears this substance holds liquid as I was able to touch it to the side of a tweezers and it left e-juice on it.

Very curious indeed. No one has noticed this before or is this something new?

Thanks for the compliment on the shot, btw

[skullsoup432]

It doesn't thin out? Can (or did) you put it on foil and heat it from underneath? I know, not much of it to test with.

[cekte]

It is part of the wicking construction of these specific atomizers..

It is how all 306, 306a, minifogger, 510, Dura, Titan, Yeti, etc. atomizers are all built. It is a strand like material. Fairly accurately described by Bizzy.

I am unsure as to what the material is, but it has been on every JOYE manufactured atomizer I have examined to date.

[bizzyb0t]

Originally Posted by cekte

It is part of the wicking construction of these specific atomizers..

It is how all 306, 306a, minifogger, 510, Dura, Titan, Yeti, etc. atomizers are all built. It is a strand like material. Fairly accurately described by Bizzy.

I am unsure as to what the material is, but it has been on every JOYE manufactured atomizer I have examined to date.

Aaah, okay!

I was wondering what it was! Man, you should hear this atomizer... it cooks!

Well, at least there's pictures and this thread now, for anyone else that ever wonders what that stuff is.

[bizzyb0t]

Originally Posted by skullsoup432

It doesn't thin out? Can (or did) you put it on foil and heat it from underneath? I know, not much of it to test with.

Oh man, I just realized what you asked me! I'm glad I didn't pull that stuff out!! Heh.

[skullsoup432]

Hey Cekte, after the atomizer dies, is this stuff still intact? Does it stay "flexible" and still clear looking?