Cleaning atomizer

[Ruby]

Katy that's amazing. Well done.

[KatyS]

Thanks you guys, it helps to have a forum like this with great fellow members!!! :-)

[llfco]

Good tip, will try this mite save my stock a bit

thanks

[Kate]

My penguin arrived today but I haven't tried it out yet. It looks just right for cleaning atomisers, it has a good nozzle and is pretty compact. Thanks for all the tips Ruby, I can't see me doing much cleaning with it but it's good to know anyway

Just a note on boiling to clean: Worked with some e-cigs I use, so tonight I put the e-cigar, my second purchase, back in January, in a pot of boiling water. The atomizer is in the e-cigar's main tube, and I had removed the battery, cartridge and mouthpiece. When I took it out after a minute or two, I found that the battery compartment has a plastic lining that had melted and warped. It would no longer take the battery. My e-cigar is history.

I guess this is what would happen if I tried to steam clean my bling?


Lifco, are you thinking of cleaning NEW atomisers? Don't they have a factory prime? You would clean that out. I thought if they weren't working from new it wasn't because they needed cleaning, they can't be gunked up yet

[Ruby]

I don't know about risking a bling - don't know if I would be brave enough. I use my steamer on my upvc window frames with no melt down but maybe the bling plastic is weaker.
Let us know if it revives your cigs though.

[Kate]

I think you're right, it's too much of a risk for the bling. I'll stick with isopropyl alcohol with that until it doesn't work anymore and then maybe experiment with the steamer.

I'll let you know about the ecigs when I get around to cleaning them.

[SmokingInTexas]

(What I have found...)

For me, cleaning (boiling, I can't afford those fancy steam thingies if I want the latest e-cig stuff lol) is the next-to-the-last resort...so far.

If I notice a drop in vapor, I first drain the atomizer. Sometimes I over drip. And sometimes I put too much juice in it too I then replace the battery with a fresh one. As a last resort, I manually do an auto-clean using the Janty manual switch. These so far have ALMOST always corrected the vapor issue. If they haven't corrected the issue, then I boil it (and always expect the loss of an atomizer, but so far, so good).

The other front is the draw. When the draw gets too heavy, I first drain the atomizer by blowing on the battery end after plugging the center hole. In a great number of cases, that solves or improves the draw. If that fails, I then again resort to boiling.

I think cleaning has it's place, but I doubt it's the "miracle" cure or that it should be the first line of defense. And as always, (for me anyway) go into that level of cleaning with the expectation that it may be the last bath the atomizer may ever get. (On a side note, that does suck about the plastic stuff melting.)

So far (And I just KNOW I'm jinxing myself...) I have survived a month and a half on 5 atomizers, and they are all still performing really well.

[freddo]

As a last resort, I manually do an auto-clean using the Janty manual switch. These so far have ALMOST always corrected the vapor issue. If they haven't corrected the issue, then I boil it (and always expect the loss of an atomizer, but so far, so good).

How do you do this? I'm thinking of getting a steamer too, how do you use them to clean?

[Ruby]

Hi Freddo

You put the nozzle on the end of the atomiser and give a burst of steam or three until no gunk comes out. Then you do the same from the other end. Give it a few mins and they should be ready to go again.

If you use tongs to hold the atomiser be sure you have rubber ones or wrap it in a piece of paper towel first - I used metal tongs and it scratched off the paint on one of mine.

[SmokingInTexas]

The auto-clean is a function of the battery, and it occurs every ???? puffs. It essentially applies power to the atomizer for about 20 seconds (I think). I can manually do this using the Janty button and battery. The difference is, I can be sure there is sufficient juice in the atomizer when I do it and I can control how long it stays on. In a real auto-clean, if the atomizer happens to be at the end of a cart and dries out, it COULD burn up the coil in the atomizer. I think 20 seconds is a bit long too.

As far as boiling, I just drop it in boiling water for about 5 minutes. Let it dry, drip juice to prime, and then slowly puff away until it starts cranking the vapor again. I haven't used the steam method, but i hear very good things about that approach also.