Cola cleaned Atty is now too hot?

[happily]

Originally Posted by Sun Vaporer

Maya--the problem here with this atomizer is that the mesh is not absorbing the e-liquid. The coil is fine but absent the mesh holding e-liquid, it will not vape and only produce heat. Cleaning will usually clear this issue, but many times the mesh simply will not take the e-liquid. Try just using a tip without the white cartridge and drip smoke with it using 2 drops and see if it vapes. After a cleaning, many times you have to totally flood the atomizer with e-liquid to reprime the mesh and then drain it and blow it out. Only then will the mesh be primed enough to vape.

If that fails, then the atomizer is no longer viable due to the mesh's inability to absorb. This is one of the causes that leads to a total atomizer failure as the mesh no longer cools the coil and then burns the leads out.

Sun

Interesting that you should say that SUN

I had two atty's that we've run non stop 5 five weeks on the blow an go/ or quick rinse and prime method. For reasons beyond me I decided to cola soak them(cleaned well enough to count the red glowing coils) and they seem like they wont wick any juice.(have to drip)

I am now more convinced I will never clean another atty. Just run em til the wheels fall off
I am more convicn

[imsewsure]

I've never tried the coke method but I ran hot, hot water through them and let them sit cartridge side down overnight. When I grabbed one the next morning, I figured the water had definitely drained out so I put some liquid in, attached a cartridge and attached the battery...water started dripping out between the atty and battery so I quickly disconnected my e-cig and shook out the battery, dried it as good as I could, took the cartridge back out, and blew out the atty. Reconnected the whole thing and it worked fine.

The other problem I had with another atty was that the hot water must have cleaned every last bit of juice from the atty 'cause when I reattached it the next morning, it didn't do ANYTHING (I thought I killed my atty). I put several drops of liquid directly on the atty and puffed on it without the cartridge over and over just to keep it hot to melt clean liquid into the clean atty.

Everything's worked like a champ ever since. Almost 60 days on my original attys and batteries.

[Sun Vaporer]

Originally Posted by imsewsure

I've never tried the coke method but I ran hot, hot water through them and let them sit cartridge side down overnight. When I grabbed one the next morning, I figured the water had definitely drained out so I put some liquid in, attached a cartridge and attached the battery...water started dripping out between the atty and battery so I quickly disconnected my e-cig and shook out the battery, dried it as good as I could, took the cartridge back out, and blew out the atty. Reconnected the whole thing and it worked fine.

The other problem I had with another atty was that the hot water must have cleaned every last bit of juice from the atty 'cause when I reattached it the next morning, it didn't do ANYTHING (I thought I killed my atty). I put several drops of liquid directly on the atty and puffed on it without the cartridge over and over just to keep it hot to melt clean liquid into the clean atty.

Everything's worked like a champ ever since. Almost 60 days on my original attys and batteries.

IM--That is correct---the atomzer, after cleaning, needs to be re-primed with e-liquid sometimes to the point of flooding it and blowing it out before it will start to wick again.-------Sun

[yknotagain]

Thx Sun, I thought it was just a fluke, but I had one yesterday I had to do that with. I thought I lost the atty, but now it's working gr8 again.