My Atty Resurrection Method

[Daedalus]

Finally popped my first atty using this method after about 6 months of no failures. In my defense, it was an LR atty on a freshly charged eGo battery. I don't really know what I was thinking...

Used it right after to bring back to life an old atty from the bin I'd never been able to get the burnt taste out of. I pushed aside the mesh bridge and pulled out the metal bridge, then I pulled all the remaining top mesh off. There was a black spot in the center of the coil that wasn't heating up as fast, something was stuck on it. After several dry burns, alcohol rinses, and gentle tugging with tweezers I freed an extremely burnt piece of wicking material from the heating coil.

Been using this atty for the last week and it's incredible. Maybe it's just because it's the first one I've taken the bridge off, but this is some incredible vapor production for a stock 510 atomizer. And that bad taste is finally gone.

I've been using regular 80 proof vodka instead of boiling water when I got lazy and it works just as well, if not better, than the original method.

[Koman]

This worked for me. I don't think it will work for all though :/

[mhikl]

I was finding that a working atti didn't work as well after getting wet. Don't know what I was doing wrong.
Then I just tried pushing serviette ends down and blowing got a lot of .... out. I do this over and over until I get a clean response. The 3 atti seems to work better after this so I think I will go this route for now.

[BiffRocko]

I'm having my first problems with this method. It's worked for me in the past, but now I've got an atty that has a burnt taste after doing the cleaning. It is still heating, but the vapor production is way down and my juices have no flavor, just a dull burnt taste. I've run the atty through the process twice using 3.7V and still no difference.

What am I doing wrong here?

[robertpri]

I have read this thread with interest, and figure that I'll try "the method" sooner or later. But all I have done in the past is let the atty's soak in ordinary rubbing alcohol, and then boil in water for two minutes.

Gently tap, blow through, let dry, and they work great. [so far]

[portguy]

I'm having my first problems with this method. It's worked for me in the past, but now I've got an atty that has a burnt taste after doing the cleaning. It is still heating, but the vapor production is way down and my juices have no flavor, just a dull burnt taste. I've run the atty through the process twice using 3.7V and still no difference.

What am I doing wrong here?

Burn at 5 volts if you can. Also try vodka instead of water on that atty. Seems like you are not able to burn all the gunk.

[portguy]

I'm having my first problems with this method. It's worked for me in the past, but now I've got an atty that has a burnt taste after doing the cleaning. It is still heating, but the vapor production is way down and my juices have no flavor, just a dull burnt taste. I've run the atty through the process twice using 3.7V and still no difference.

What am I doing wrong here?

Double-post .

[pm2006]

I had forgotten about this thread. Until about 20 minutes ago, I had no problem with my atys. I've been rotating them for months and all was good . . .then I pulled a freebie 510 atty out to use it for the first time and NOTHING. Voila, I sat down at the puter and this thread popped up! WORKING. Thanks everyone for posting and bringing this thread to my attention and thanks Highping.

[nowhereman]

Nice thread.
I use pure grain to clean the attys but I suppose that's a matter of choice.
If it works, it works.

Do you happen to have any special tips for not popping LR attys ?
I could use them, so far I have killed 2 ! LOL

[kj4lxw]

Well I tried it. Was hesitant at first after reading but my atty was going downhill.
It took awhile but it started glowing, had to go through the cycle about 3 times.
I seem to be getting better taste out of it now and little bit better vapor.
Definately glad I tried it and will be doing it again very shortly to se if I get better results.
Thanks for the instructions.