Atomizer Resurrection, Pt 1

[Brodius Bacchus]

This quick fix just made my month. Come through Louisville and I'll buy you some beers Jaaxx.

[epluribus_vapor]

Jaaxx, that was one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.... I just tried this on the atomizer that came with my Protege (which... its original performance was exactly opposite of the protege itself... so completely unstellar). I boiled it first, let it dry, and then followed your directions. It is working like a champ now! Thank you!!!!

[sattec]

I want this to get written down in more than one place and collect the feedback

You might want to try this before you do any mesh cleaning. It take about 10 blows to COMPLETLY release the prime, don't believe me? blow into the batt end of an 801 atty and you can vape the prime about 10-12 times before you finally just see a glow and no more sizzle is heard. Everytime you blow into the batt end, you release a little more prime or mesh juice holdings, into the burn "pan". You can "blow" primer into the burn pan several times and vape it, try it. It really cleans up your atty. It's gonna surprise you how long you can vape the prime just by blowing into the batt end when the vape stops, the mesh is holding a ton of juice, blowing into it releases the juice over and over again before you finally run completely out of any juice in the mesh....this is advance atty tweaking, not everybody will understand what I just wrote, if you don't understand it, don't try it. Wait and read what the other atty masters say about what I just wrote above....

[thewomenfolk]

Jaxx said, "WARNING: This works for atomizers which are "clogged" not "cold."

But he didn't define clogged or cold....what does he mean?

[Jherek]

By "cold" he means that the atomizer in question does not produce any heat; it is electrically dead.

I tried this on an old 901 atomizer, sitting in my "to fix someday drawer", that has a bit of occasional burnt taste, and had become badly clogged and produced very little vapor. I could barely draw air through it at all. Now, though it still has the burnt overtone to the taste, the draw has eased up and the vapor has come back to normal.

Now... if only I can get the touch of burnt taste out of it, I've got another atty to rotate.

Jaaxx, that fix is genius!

[ImArchimedes]

: ( I'm clearly not getting something here. With every atty I have (I own a Janty Stick and 2 Npros), the workings of the mesh and airflow area are set tubes of various depths. The penstyle atty of my Janty Stick is the worse culprite. Anyway, how are you all managing to get a needle or paper clip through the atty? Are you somehow removing the tube around it? Am I supposed to be breaking the atty down into more pieces? Do I just take pliers to them? Thanks for the help in advance!

[WarrLordd]

Does this work for m401 attys? I mean has anyone tried... Am unsure what to do since it's a not different from the one mention.. Cause one of my attys does seems clogged i tried everything on that one soaked it in vodka and boil after nothing still clogged and the vapor taste awfull

[Bellasin]

I saved two 901 dead attys, and since I have killed 6 in less than a month, I ran out the other night and bought Crest. I did everything right, I am pretty sure, and after 24 hours of air drying, the 2 attys I soaked were still dead. I must be a ..... at vaping. Something. I didn't even get black chunks.

I'm just happy for everyone who revived theirs. I am doomed to being forced to quit vaping in 2 months if I can't figure out why I am killing attys off. I must be in the atty Mafia unknowingly. My eyes have gone blurry reading up on all these new things. I love this site and the people on here are so helpful. It is wonderful ditching analogs finally. But I am doing something very wrong I think. If anyone has any ideas please let me know, thank you.

[kaylow]

Bellasin, me too. I've killed at least a dozen 4081 attys and 8 801,s. Haven't found a clue to what I'm doing wrong and I've been reading here for months--tried cleaning, pinholing, and just about blowing my brains out. Guess it's what it takes to be free of analogs--haven't had one since July 3. This is not a cheap fix, but it's worth it. I'm still hopeful to get it down right.

[Bellasin]

Bellasin, me too. I've killed at least a dozen 4081 attys and 8 801,s. Haven't found a clue to what I'm doing wrong and I've been reading here for months--tried cleaning, pinholing, and just about blowing my brains out. Guess it's what it takes to be free of analogs--haven't had one since July 3. This is not a cheap fix, but it's worth it. I'm still hopeful to get it down right.

Well, I guess I am not the only one killing attys, thanks for sharing, I thought it was just me. I have one atty left that I am trying to use very gingerly til the 3 new ones get here. So far it has been going 5 days. I might not have been keeping the other attys wet enough. Ive been topping off the cart constantly and as soon as the atty is hot I lay it down to let it cool off. Until I read your post I thought maybe it was just 901 attys.

You are right though, it beats analogs. Everyone says attys are disposable anyway, but none have lasted me a week yet, and when I read about people having them last 2 weeks it makes me think ok, what are these people doing that I am not??? I had 2 attys die within 3 days! Hmmmm, maybe if I keep reading things I will find out there are such things as badly manufactured attys lol.