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.
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