Daily dry burn for cleaning atties.

[surbitonPete]

Ok, despite trying all the different suggestions for prolonging the life of my atties none of them worked 'for me' and I could never get an atty to last much more than two weeks and even if they were working after just a few days the performance of my atties was always hopeless.

I tried my own slightly altered version of the dry burn idea and have now had several atties working 'perfectly' for well over two weeks. my latest one has now lasted 29 days. I am happy as long as an atty at least last's me for two weeks I feel as if I have had my moneys worth out of it, especially with the price of the TW 5 pack 801 penstyle's

My version is to do a dry burn 'every' day from new. This is just a simple matter of applying power without a cart until I can see a red glow from the coil for no more than a second or two. I have found it's important to do it every day otherwise the gunk builds up on the coil and then it just holds the heat in and usually the atty dies before you can even get it to glow red. (I have only used this on penstyle attys but I would think it would be the same with any atty)

Well anyway this is working for me and I am finally getting a reasonable life out of my atties. If you are someone like me who 'never' has any luck with atties lasting for long despite trying everything everyone else recommends.....then try out the dry burn and hopefully this method will also work for you.

Actually it might have been better to have titled the thread 'prolonging' the life of atties..because sometimes I do still give it a qick rinse out with vodka if the atty 'tastes' horrible.

[Daedalus]

I've always wanted to try something like this but it always involved a volt mod of some sort. I've only ever had automatic's so I didn't think there was any other way.

Now that I've got a Joye 510 though, I'm gonna give this a try on one of my atty's. I'll report results.

Do you just fill up your cart and go after a dry burn or is washing advisable?

[cassavetes]

Thanks for the tip, Pete.

I've always wondered if dry burning was a safe/effective method of cleaning an atty.

It's easy enough to do with my manual batteries.

[Daedalus]

I always thought that running the atomizer dry, even for a moment, would kill it. Had some 901 atomizer deaths that I chalked up to smoking it dry by mistake, never seemed like they were the same after that.

Tried it on a 510 atomizer I started yesterday just now though and it did nothing to diminish the vapor production. I'm gonna try to model the OP and do this every day, see how long this one lasts.

[Synthnadz]

I feel like I keep trying to put out this fire in every thread that raises the topic, in hopes of saving some of you from potentially trashing your atomizers.

I've noticed this: with certain attys - depending on where they're from and how they're built, 'dry burning' can result in burning up the fiber glass wick underneath the mesh material. So be careful. I myself tried this on two different types of 801 atomizers (the BE112 and a Rocky Mountain Vapor 801), and both of them were rendered unusable after attempting a dry burn. No amount of cleaning after the fact would remedy this.

So, be careful. I myself am never doing it again, that's for sure. YMMV, of course. =]

[surbitonPete]

Originally Posted by Synthnadz

I feel like I keep trying to put out this fire in every thread that raises the topic, in hopes of saving some of you from potentially trashing your atomizers.

I've noticed this: with certain attys - depending on where they're from and how they're built, 'dry burning' can result in burning up the fiber glass wick underneath the mesh material. So be careful. I myself tried this on two different types of 801 atomizers (the BE112 and a Rocky Mountain Vapor 801), and both of them were rendered unusable after attempting a dry burn. No amount of cleaning after the fact would remedy this.

So, be careful. I myself am never doing it again, that's for sure. YMMV, of course. =]

I made a point of pointing out that if you have 'tried everything else' and still had no luck with atty life ....then try this. It's worked for ME when nothing else did and it has worked for enough atties now for me to know that it's going to keep on working for 'ME' . I am on day 33 with my latest atty...burning 3 to 4 ml of juice a day.
And when it comes to burning the wicks ....I have taken apart a lot of atties...I have put the wicks in the hottest part of a bunsen burner flame and all it does is clean off the black gunk and make them look like new again.....the wick material has never 'burnt' on any of mine.
So thanks for your efforts to tell everyone not to try it.

[jj2]

I seem to have more trouble with the batteries in my first three models. The fourth and my all time favorite is my mini. I got two complete mini ecigs but one battery died in a short time. The other is going on three months.
All my atty's have lasted at least a couple months. I've been at this for around six months and I've only lost one because part of the arch came off. All the others still work but since I cleaned them, they got a bad taste to them. I use them on my mods--if one has to die because I made a mistake, I'd rather it be them.

Anyway, since they get a bad taste to them after cleaning, I've pretty much given up on doing anything. I might use one of the old ones to try the burn method out though.

[surbitonPete]

Originally Posted by Daedalus

I've always wanted to try something like this but it always involved a volt mod of some sort. I've only ever had automatic's so I didn't think there was any other way.

Now that I've got a Joye 510 though, I'm gonna give this a try on one of my atty's. I'll report results.

Do you just fill up your cart and go after a dry burn or is washing advisable?

Hi daedalus...I only ever give a rinse with vodka if I have a bad taste from the atty, I haven't had to do it at all with this atty and I have been using ecopure rich and tw hilton. I think the juices can make a difference.

[surbitonPete]

Originally Posted by jj2

I seem to have more trouble with the batteries in my first three models. The fourth and my all time favorite is my mini. I got two complete mini ecigs but one battery died in a short time. The other is going on three months.
All my atty's have lasted at least a couple months. I've been at this for around six months and I've only lost one because part of the arch came off. All the others still work but since I cleaned them, they got a bad taste to them. I use them on my mods--if one has to die because I made a mistake, I'd rather it be them.

If your atties are lasting months anyway then there certainly isn't any point in doing the daily dry burn.
This thread is just for people like me who have tried everything else and still had no luck with atty life. the daily dry burn is without doubt the 'only' thing that has worked for me. All I know is that I am now a very happy vapourer now that I am no longer spending a fortune on atties.

The dry burn isn't even my idea but it was the very last method I tried because I thought it was far more likely to kill my atty's than make them last. I only tried it because I no longer had anything to loose ....nothing else had worked.

[Synthnadz]

Originally Posted by surbitonPete

I made a point of pointing out that if you have 'tried everything else' and still had no luck with atty life ....then try this. It's worked for ME when nothing else did and it has worked for enough atties now for me to know that it's going to keep on working for 'ME' . I am on day 33 with my latest atty...burning 3 to 4 ml of juice a day.
And when it comes to burning the wicks ....I have taken apart a lot of atties...I have put the wicks in the hottest part of a bunsen burner flame and all it does is clean off the black gunk and make them look like new again.....the wick material has never 'burnt' on any of mine.
So thanks for your efforts to tell everyone not to try it.

My only reason for providing the warning was that your suggested method comes across as a preventative measure of sorts. So, if you just slapped on a new atty and are interested in prolonging its life, you may read this thread and say 'let me give that a shot' - just like I did.

Perhaps my assumption about the wick burning is not the case, and it's in fact something else that's burning. Either way, I'm just doing my part to provide my own recent experience for anyone considering this.

If you read my post you'll see that I did not tell everyone to 'not try this'. I merely posted a warning about your method and shared my own failed experiences with the 'dry burn' method. It cost me 2 brand new 801 attys, so I think posting a warning for those thinking about trying this is certainly warranted.

Damn - I wish it worked for me, as my atomizers are not going the distance at all. Is anyone else doing the dry burn and getting good results?