How do you clean your coils when rewicking?

[Magaro]

I mostly vape NETs these days, so my coils (Claptons more often than not) get pretty gunky at times. For the past couple of months, I've been heating my coils red hot on my mod and then, still powered up, dunk them in a small stream of water from the faucet. They come out nearly oxide free, don't seem to gunk up as quickly, and seem to be lasting a good long time.

I think I saw this in an old RipTrippers video, but not sure. Anyway, what do you do to clean your coils?

 

[AndriaD]

I mostly vape NETs these days, so my coils (Claptons more often than not) get pretty gunky at times. For the past couple of months, I've been heating my coils red hot on my mod and then, still powered up, dunk them in a small stream of water from the faucet. They come out nearly oxide free, don't seem to gunk up as quickly, and seem to be lasting a good long time.

I think I saw this in an old RipTrippers video, but not sure. Anyway, what do you do to clean your coils?

Mine get pretty gunky, using ejuice made with inawera shisha strawberry (organic!). I just do a regular dryburn; I don't keep it powered as I hold it in a rushing stream of water, but I let go of the button right before I put it in the water; it works very well. Sometimes there is hard black gunk on the legs, and when I do the dry burn, you can see the hot leg as the heat runs down to the gunk; I use one of those ever-ready blue screwdrivers to scrape the gunk off after that initial dry burn, rinse, and dry burn again, several times, with several rinses. The last burn is a very brief one, just to dry it before I wick it.

Andria

 

[Tmebs]

I use a shot glass full to the brim....dry burn....dip....dry burn...dip, then I have some small/fine little brushes and brush thru the coil and re- wick.

I am too paranoid to do it at or near a running tap

 

[SLIPPY_EEL]

i agree with the replys.

i cleaned a friends atty with coils in an ultrasonic cleaner, they were so bad that it didnt take off all the poo so had to do the heat and water trick coupled with a light brushing with a small wire brush, he had the same coils and rayon in for about 3-4 months lol he is soo lazy he even had bits of cement and wood lying in the bottom of the 26650 atty.

If you can i'd say just make some new coils for what its worth & you cant beat that taste from an all new setup

 

[ckquatt]

Basically the same except I have an old ejuice bottle full of water that I use instead of the faucet.

I run the atty under water then shake it out. Pull the KGD, dry burn, then drop a couple of drops of water on the still hot coil then dry burn it again to sizzle the water off.

Clean as a whistle!

 

[Monotremata]

I just yank the wick out, crank my Sigelei Mini up to the full 30w, pulse that thing a few times, most of the gunk from my coils falls right off. Im a little lazy about cleaning em, do it maybe once a month so theyre pretty blackened up by the time I do it.. I read that max wattage tip on here somewhere and it works every time for me, no water needed at all. I have an old toothbrush in my coil supply box too so anything left over comes off pretty easily with that too. Just wait for the coil to cool down a bit, the smell of burning bristles isnt too great if you start brushing it right after hehe.

Oh I should mention this is with my drippers.. Cant do 30w with my Kayfun 4s or it pops the coil right off. Ill do those around 18w, just takes a little more time with the toothbrush..

 

[Firestorm]

I rinse an atomizer under running water and gently pull out the wick so as not to deform the coil. I dry everything with paper towels and then dry burn for a few seconds at a time until all of the water on the coil has vaporized and I no longer hear a sizzle.

 

[AndriaD]

I just yank the wick out, crank my Sigelei Mini up to the full 30w, pulse that thing a few times, most of the gunk from my coils falls right off. Im a little lazy about cleaning em, do it maybe once a month so theyre pretty blackened up by the time I do it.. I read that max wattage tip on here somewhere and it works every time for me, no water needed at all. I have an old toothbrush in my coil supply box too so anything left over comes off pretty easily with that too. Just wait for the coil to cool down a bit, the smell of burning bristles isnt too great if you start brushing it right after hehe.

Oh I should mention this is with my drippers.. Cant do 30w with my Kayfun 4s or it pops the coil right off. Ill do those around 18w, just takes a little more time with the toothbrush..

ROFL... I turn mine DOWN, to about 9w, before dry-burning. Just so I don't melt them or pop them off.

Andria

 

[Das Auto]

I prefer to dunk my coils in Distilled Water vs using Tap water. Likely not much difference, but something about Distilled Water seems cleaner to me!

 

[Monotremata]

ROFL... I turn mine DOWN, to about 9w, before dry-burning. Just so I don't melt them or pop them off.

Andria

Yeah I can ONLY do that with my drippers.. Last time I cleaned one of my Kayfun 4s I did it and the coil didnt even last 2 seconds before it snapped. And stupid me, wrapped a new coil, put it on, and forgot to turn it back down when I did the whole 'pulse and squeeze' thing. Brand new coil got killed instantly. Then I remembered Svoemesto said dont go higher than 20w with those heh. Now I know why! Probably can if you have the subohm kit on it with the PEEK insulator but a 'stock' KF4 definitely cant take that much wattage.

 

[AndriaD]

Yeah I can ONLY do that with my drippers.. Last time I cleaned one of my Kayfun 4s I did it and the coil didnt even last 2 seconds before it snapped. And stupid me, wrapped a new coil, put it on, and forgot to turn it back down when I did the whole 'pulse and squeeze' thing. Brand new coil got killed instantly. Then I remembered Svoemesto said dont go higher than 20w with those heh. Now I know why! Probably can if you have the subohm kit on it with the PEEK insulator but a 'stock' KF4 definitely cant take that much wattage.

I just always operate on the economic principle of least needed to get the job done -- money, wattage, medicine, food, work, etc. You know that whole 'waste not, want not' thing, because it's a literal visceral pain to me to run out of anything necessary, knowing that if I had been just a bit more thrifty, I wouldn't have run out. Poverty has molded my character.

Andria

 

[93gc40]

Few pulses till it ashes over then blow off and pulse a few more times and STRUM the coil with a screw driver and pulse a bit more and blow off and wick.

 

[mauricem00]

I pulse my coils until it is glowing then as it cools dip it in water and repeat until it is clean. the steam from the water removes debris from the coil and the water dip rinses it away

 

[VictorViper]

I rinse an atomizer under running water and gently pull out the wick so as not to deform the coil. I dry everything with paper towels and then dry burn for a few seconds at a time until all of the water on the coil has vaporized and I no longer hear a sizzle.

This. Precisely this.

 

[Taowulf]

i just make a new one...I like to experiment anyway. BUT if I am going to keep a coil, I simply lightly pulse until the gunk comes off or I can tap it off with a blunt needle.

 

[Redbellie]

i just make a new one...I like to experiment anyway. BUT if I am going to keep a coil, I simply lightly pulse until the gunk comes off or I can tap it off with a blunt needle.

Hahaha..I was about to think I was the only one who does not clean...I always start with a fresh coil...way too much fun building to just clean!!

 

[edyle]

I dryburn then rinse out in water; I don't dunk red hot coil into water - recipe for coil snapping.

 

[fogging_katrider]

I pulse dry burn the coil and then dip in water, repeating same a few times as needed.
This blows off any and all the crust leaving an almost new looking coil.
This practice only anneals the wire a little and is NOT a recipe for coil snapping unless you're cooking the hell out of the coil with too much wattage or prolonged heating.

 

[sonicbomb]

Wire brush and bleach, then a half pint of kerosene bonfire.

 

[Alawot]

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