detrimental info for atomizer cleaning!!!

[unseenhero66]

ok ive looked through all of these annnnnnnnnnnnndddd taken apart and rebuilt quite a few 901 and 801 attys would do more but kinda in a fund lacking situation here so anyways.....

first off

should i heat my atty to an extreme? you can heat up the coil for about 30 seconds after you blow it out to remove the gunk but anything after that isnt really needed plus our atomizers use nichrome wire as the heating element after it gets heated enough it forms this black gunk on the wire called chromium oxide don't worry its supposed to be there and its real darned hard to get it off of it just make sure the "build up" is actually buildup before you go heating it to the death

second

our atomizers almost always have plastic in them they put this little plastic spacer in the atomizer below all the micro mesh and between the battery connector for two reasons one is to space them apart at just the right amount for the bridge of the micro mesh to reach into the cartridge filler and the second reason is to allow air through the bottom of the atomizer for the switch on the battery to activate sometimes liquid can get through this but it usually doesn't if it does you might be doing something wrong...


third

our atomizers have a coil this coil is connected to wires the wires also connect the coil to the battery connector this is where our atomizer almost always breaks........

the reasons for this are...... this coil reheats so many times even though at a lower temperature than required to melt solder it slowly over time weakens the solder and the coil snaps off of solder eventually ive actually broken two of my atomizers by tapping it against the counter to get the excess water out of it after washing it out

and also with some of the abrasive chemicals or acids people are using to clean their attys i must stress to wash them out with rubbing alcohol then to rinse them with water VERY VERY VERY WELL the rubbing alcohol usually breaks up these chemicals though so......


this is about all i know basically


if you overheat your atty you can kill it, if you use an acid to clean it you can kill it and the solder is almost always what breaks on me


the coil itself usually dosent break though ive taken a dead coil and stretched the wire into a straight line before and cleaned it by running it thru my fingers and the wire was still black afterwords but i ran 5v though just the wire for 30 minutes straight and it survived


also the wires that connect the coil to the battery connector runs through the micro mesh if the atty gets to hot the plastic on the wire can melt so dont have the thought i did like hey im gonna dry this water out of my atomizer but heating it for a minute with a lighter

don't worry though almost any atty is fixable...... unless the solder breaks off where the coil connects to the wire in the ceramic cup.... too frustrating to fix with hand soldering


basically people rinse your attys out really well with medium hot distilled water why distilled no impurities or use filtered i guess i mean our e liquid is water soluble



and i knew people im not good with punctuation if you wanna fix it by all means go ahead and post it below

[solonguniverse]

Will the mesh falling off of your atomizer bridge have any effect on the atty's performance?

[Sun Vaporer]

Originally Posted by solonguniverse

Will the mesh falling off of your atomizer bridge have any effect on the atty's performance?

Solong--it sure will if you use cartridges as it can not wick the mesh that is around that coil. If you drip smoke---it is not as much a problem. But a question for you--------Why or how did your mesh come off the bridge in the first place?-------Thanks--Sun

[solonguniverse]

I've only been using my 510 for about 10 days. I've only cleaned one of my atomizers once, before realizing that cleaning could be worse than just letting them be. I started blowing them out and leaving them to dry overnight. I just happened to look into one of my atomizers yesterday and noticed the mesh seemed to be falling off the bridge. It hasn't come off completely its just not in quite the right place.

[Sun Vaporer]

Originally Posted by solonguniverse

I've only been using my 510 for about 10 days. I've only cleaned one of my atomizers once, before realizing that cleaning could be worse than just letting them be. I started blowing them out and leaving them to dry overnight. I just happened to look into one of my atomizers yesterday and noticed the mesh seemed to be falling off the bridge. It hasn't come off completely its just not in quite the right place.

Solo--what did you use as a cleaner and how did you use it? Thanks--Sun

[solonguniverse]

I actually started a thread about it because my atomizer wasn't wanting to start back up again.
I'm afraid I may have killed my atomizer.

[Sun Vaporer]

Originally Posted by solonguniverse

I actually started a thread about it because my atomizer wasn't wanting to start back up again.
I'm afraid I may have killed my atomizer.

Solo--Well I can tell you after reading what you used---alchohol is not going to shed that mesh. I have soaked dozens of atomizers in
70 % Phosphoric Acid and the mesh does not budge. Must have been the atomizer itself.------Sun

[solonguniverse]

Hm. He does have a 15 day return policy at thesmokesafe. Should I consider sending it in for an exchange? Only one of them seems to be doing it.

Edit: I just checked again and the mesh has come almost completely off the bridge. I do use carts so this could be a problem.

[Sun Vaporer]

Originally Posted by solonguniverse

Hm. He does have a 15 day return policy at thesmokesafe. Should I consider sending it in for an exchange? Only one of them seems to be doing it.

Edit: I just checked again and the mesh has come almost completely off the bridge. I do use carts so this could be a problem.

Solo--if you ever take one apart, you would see how durable that mesh is--it is not suppose to come off and the one you got is defective IMO. The mesh was not propery attached to the medal bridge prong ---------Sun

[solonguniverse]

Thank you for all your help Sun. I will now officially un-hijack this thread. My apologies!