How to clean atomizer

[Epicwang]

I DON'T drip though. I only use carts. but I'll try blowing through it again. I let it sit upside down mesh side facing down all night long in a dummy cartridge.

[hxj]

I DON'T drip though. I only use carts. but I'll try blowing through it again. I let it sit upside down mesh side facing down all night long in a dummy cartridge.

Ah, wait, I think I see the misunderstanding-- even if you only use carts (I do, too), after you've cleaned and dried an atomizer, you should prime it with a couple of drops of liquid on the mesh, which helps get the wicking going again. I forgot that if you only have the pre-filled blu carts, you have nothing to drip on.

Best I can suggest would be to attach a fresh cart (you can use the old one once the atomizer is working again) and let it sit for a few minutes, either LED-down or on its side, just to give the liquid time to wick to the coil.

[Epicwang]

Ok I put a new cartridge on the atomizer and let it wick. It's vaping fine now. I just hope it keeps working when the cart gets lot on liquid. Thanks for the advice

[rghgoods]

i revers blow thru mine with no cart in.. it heats up the coil more than normal and burns the crud of.. apart from that a straight forward rinse under a running tap seems to work as well as anything..


as for any particulates i think they stay in the cart wool and the atomizer wool they dont pass into the lungs.. boiling water in a a kettle leaves the junk in the kettle.. condensed steam is pretty pure water.. the same thing must happen to condensed in the lung e liquid vapour.. any particulates get left in the device..

so i think people who worry about brown looking wool are on the wrong track.. the brown wool is the crud being left behind in the wool and the atomizers need cleaning because of the crud being left behind in the wire wool surrounding the heater coil..


trog

I use the same method to clean mine, warm tap water with a quick blow and let dry.

I have sat for a bit and exhaled my vapor in to white cloth to test what is going in me and I have yet to see any discoloration from exhaling. (remember the old denture cleaning commercial where the guy exhaled in to a cloth to show you analog cig stains on your teeth?) Some of what goes in would certainly come out and show up on the cloth. I've tried hard too. (Don't laugh, I had to know)

[alesie]

i use always a bicycle pump to clean

[RWCJR]

I don't think they're bad for us, no. I e-smoke. But I think quality of E-Liquid varies, and some contains more particulates than others. I do know that Ruyan publicly announced late last year that it would not use tobacco plant extract in its liquids; the extract dirtied core filters. Why? Particulates. Look at a core after smoking some E-Cig liquid. It gets filthy in a hurry. That filth is trapped particulates.

Now, I have no idea what crud forms on the atomizers, but it does. In other posts, Dr. Loi suggested scraping the atomizers with a needle to loosen the crud. Wow! I'm not surgically skilled and I fear I'd kill any atomizer I touched with a needle. But he noted the buildup and has been searching for a suitable cleaning solution.

I have a good idea. I am a automotive technician. I bought these small wire brushes to do fine little clean up jobs with on car parts, etc. They are like a toothbrush and you can get them in plastic or wire bristles. There are different type bristle brushes from coarse to fine. I bet that would work to clean the atomizer instead of having to pick away at the porous part of the atomizer to clean out the debris build up.

[Switched]

I have a good idea. I am a automotive technician. I bought these small wire brushes to do fine little clean up jobs with on car parts, etc. They are like a toothbrush and you can get them in plastic or wire bristles. There are different type bristle brushes from coarse to fine. I bet that would work to clean the atomizer instead of having to pick away at the porous part of the atomizer to clean out the debris build up.

I don't think so Tim!

[sandhills_cowgirl]

i just tried a cleaning method mentioned earlier in this thread. run water through your atty then hot tap water and blow dry i also let mine sit for atleast 4 hours. They both came out working awesome!! one wasnt vaping at all and the other was on its death bed waiting for the plug to be pulled.

[William Johnson]

I have a Joye 510 and I just blew mine out with a Can of Air Duster ( I read this on a different part of this e forum) and it made a big difference.
I used 3-4 full bursts into battery side while holding it over a papertowel to catch the muck that comes out.

[jungletim]

Likewise, I haven't noticed earth-shaking differences after cleaning. I've used both the alcohol and running water methods. Some atomizers seemed to work better after cleaning (but not much better). I drowned one in the water. Another tasted of rubbing alcohol for days. Bottom line: I rarely resort to cleaning them, but do stand them on end periodically to drain the crud out.

It seems to me that a death blow for atomizers is letting liquid evaporate overnight and leave solids of crud on the atomizer. That crud comes from particulates in the liquid. Remember that whatever you find on your atomizer is duplicated inside your lungs. I think the quality of E-Liquid is underestimated in its influence on both our atomizers and the long-term consequences of e-smoking. And what do we really know?

My own plan involves fine lab filtering of liquids before I use them for vapor. Course, I'm working with a lot of homebrew stuff, but I plan to filter E-Cig's liquids that I still have. The fewer particulates the better -- for me and the atomizers.

is ther any way you could tell me how to do what your doing either in this post or pm me...please?