The “Cola” Method Taken to Another Level That Works

[surbitonPete]

You'll vape anything, won't you Pete.

Sound interesting though, at the worst it implies that juice
didn't rinse out completely (& got denatured in the oven).
Best would be the heated vinegar in the unrinsed-out juice did a
cleaning job of freshening/cleaning things.

Hope you didn't use too much fresh juice flushing the naff stuff out.

Actually maybe you've started a new trend - sweet & sour vaping.


Seems Kinabaloo hasn't posted since the above,
hope he's not gorn orf in an 'uff.

Hey exo......yes I should have thought to vape some plain vg to flush it out, it's easy to forget just how expensive this juice is......I expect it was all just some kind of fluke but fingers crossed.

Yes ..I am not sure what happened with Kinaba perhaps he was having an off day or something.

[Steampunk]

OK last week I bought the small bottle of NuCalgon acid and tried it on 2 901 atty's. I wanted to see if I could "sleeve" something over the battery end of the atty (including the hole) and fill the atomizer so I would use minimal acid. I did this with what is essentially a thin 1/4" rubber tubing tied off at one end and slid snuggly over the battery end and covering the hole. Picture a long, thin balloon...like a balloon a clown would use for balloon animals. Only a little thicker rubber.

I stood them in the square end of a couple 1/2" socket bits which held them quite nicely and for the most part pretty securely. I set the socket bits containing the atty's in a little tupperware container and then filled them with NuCalgon to a point where the wick was submerged and let it sit for about 16 hours. After that, I drained them and let them sit in the tupperware under running cold water for 5 minutes. No noticeable debris was found in the solution. I have read others make the same observation.

Then I took distilled water and let them soak in it for a few hours until finally I took a syringe and flushed distilled water thru them at the battery end. Then dried overnight.

They appear brand new and produce good vapor. But their vapor production wasn't bad to begin with. But they do seem better. I use PG liquid and cannot get a good look at the coil to see how it looks.

Now maybe this is me just me but I'm thinking that a little agitation while soaking would be a good thing. I think some shaking and stirring now and then would only help the cleaning process. But the way I did this didn't really allow for me agitate the acid inside the atomizers. Does that make any sense?

So in an effort as to not waste the NuCalgon acid, I thought of another way. I bought a small plastic 15ml bottle with scew on cap and the mouth is big enough to drop in a 801 atty. There is enough room in this bottle to fit 4 901 atty's. Or maybe 3 801's.

I have an 801 and 901 atty that's been soaking for 24hrs and what is nice is every hour or so (whenever I walk by) I just pick it up and shake around a bit. Turn end over end a dozen times or so...whatever you need to get fluid movement in and out of the atty's. After 24 hours, there was a slimey, snot like debris floating around in there. And when I dumped the contents into the tupplerware container for the 5 minute tap water rinse, there were dark particulate in the remains.

After tap water rinse, I will rinse and flush with distilled water with a syringe and let dry overnight. Next time I do this, I can take some pictures if anyone is interested.

Sorry for the long post!

[StoneE4]

OK last week I bought the small bottle of NuCalgon acid and tried it on 2 901 atty's...

Good news and thanks for sharing the info.

As to a suitable container that wouldn't waste a lot of the NuCalgon IMC, how about using a test tube?

[Steampunk]

Good news and thanks for sharing the info.

As to a suitable container that wouldn't waste a lot of the NuCalgon IMC, how about using a test tube?

I am getting some tubes they use for blood draws! They have rubber stoppers for caps. They would work great.

[StoneE4]

That should work well too, Steampunk... Keep us updated.

[DaDuke]

Back a few pages ago i suggested using a small jewelery ultrasonic cleaner using the nucalgon to get that agitation effect while soaking.

Someone else (cant find post now) said they had a tatooist ultrasonic bath they were gonna try (used for cleaning the needles) but haven't seen a results posts yet. also, don't know if they will try it with nu-calgon).

If that works then a test of the cheapo jewelry ultrasonic cleaners would be nice since they would be very affordable (about $50).

[ZambucaLu]

I don't know if this is big enough but there is also a list of other cleaners on the left hand side:

Sharpertek Sonic Jewelry and Denture Cleaner "Travel Size"

I didn't check any of them out though.

Lu

[DaDuke]

Ok, i read up a bit on ultrasonic cleaners and they do seem to work. They recommend the ones with built in heaters though. They also say the main diff between the larger more expensive models is just size and durability, so for atyys small with a heater should be perfect.

Even if this doesnt work on really corroded attys, maybe a couple times per week would prevent it from ever building up in the first place.

[Daedalus]

Did a search for this link in the thread, didn't show up. Can't really scan 50 pages so if this is a repeat I apologize.

8 oz. bottle of Nu-Calgon Liquid Ice Machine Cleaner for $7.50

www .gsistore.com/nu-calgon-420747-liquid-ice-machine-c. html

Remove the spaces, can't post URL's.

[ShMiGgY]

i'm probably going to get yelled at for this, but, this thread involves using concentrated acids to clean organic and possibly inorganic residues, so here goes.

I have access to a basically endless supply of aqua regia and conc. nitric acid from where i work (I work in the ICP-MS field). We use it to soak glassware to remove ALL contaminants, be it metal, or organic (so obviously i will work with a dilute solution).. We used to have to buy the glassware for our instruments (VERY special nebulizers and atomizers) at thousands of dollars per pop until we were able to perfect cleaning them ourselves with this formula. Granted, in it's current state, it will probably melt my atty into a blob, but with some tweaking, who knows??

I have a 3 week old atty with some buildup and that burnt plastic taste we all know and hate... It needs an experiment

This will be not something anyone would be able to use, except for a remote few, but, hell worth a shot. Believe me, it will be cleaned endlessly in DIUF water baths until all traces are removed... We also have an ultrasonic cleaner (lab grade), so i may through it in there with a working solution...

I love science,, heh ,heh..