510 attomizer re-cleaning to fix taste?

[makasin]

Ok so I attempted to clean 3 atomizers of mine by blowing them out, flooding them, blowing out and then running hot water through them. Then I placed them in a bath for 18 hours or so. Took them out, let them dry for about a week and tried vaping through them and they suck now. The flavor seems forever altered and the vapor feels way more "steamy" even though i let them dry for an entire week. They had no visible moisture and i have been rinsing them with my juice (aka flooding then blowing) and they still dont taste or vape quite right. Is there a proper way to get them back to health? Every time i clean my attys they end up being crappier than before. What am I doing wrong? I live in San Diego and the water here sucks, theres definately a good amount of calcium in there most likely as my dishes dont clean very well either. What to do?
Oh and 2 of these atts have been de-bridged to increase vapor and fix their lack of performance (this was done much before the cleaning). They also suck balls now and I only have one atty thats useable in my eyes.

 

[Scottbee]

Have you tried a dry-burn with any of them? That will often eliminate or reduce the carbon-turd of liquid residue that is encapsulating the coil.

I do a hot water multiple-rinse blowout sequence.

A dry burn (sequence until I get a uniform red glow)

Another hot water multiple-rinse blowout sequence.

Force air dry.

Re-prime.

The whole process usually takes me about 5 minutes.

 

[Lab]

a 5 min soak in grain alcohol helps remove flavors.. do not do the overnight soaks since it will eat away at the glue that holds them together

the dry burn posted above works great.. after the rinse i usually just dip the atty in everclear and drain it out 2 or 3 times so it drys faster

 

[AlexTM]

I've had good results getting sticky flavours out with plain PG. There is a reason that stuff is in so many flavours - it's an excellent solvent for them. Just put a lot of it into the atty, let it rest for a while, hot water shower, blow out.

Of course, for my stickiest flavours, I just use their own atties.

 

[terrie1]

I've had good results getting sticky flavours out with plain PG. There is a reason that stuff is in so many flavours - it's an excellent solvent for them. Just put a lot of it into the atty, let it rest for a while, hot water shower, blow out.

Of course, for my stickiest flavours, I just use their own atties.

Im gonna give the PG a try... I am constantly dealing with clogged attys.

 

[jcb287]

I've had good results getting sticky flavours out with plain PG. There is a reason that stuff is in so many flavours - it's an excellent solvent for them. Just put a lot of it into the atty, let it rest for a while, hot water shower, blow out.

Of course, for my stickiest flavours, I just use their own atties.

Good idea letting the PG act as a solvent.

 

[makasin]

ok so i let them dry burn like crazy until the coil was yellow glowing and now they seem to be working properly and tasting okay. still a little residual but thatll prolly go away. I thouht one of those was still bad but then realize that its just the flavor. 555 from rocky mountain (or 555 in general, as they are much the same everywhere usually) is nasty. I regret buying it completely. People who review that and camel said the camel tasted like old socks or something and 555 was nutty-tobacco-ey but i find the opposite somewhat true. Camel was okay, but 555 is fakking AWFUL. The worst flavor ive tried hands down. I thought it was the atty but after cleaning one of the debridged ones i have and scraping the coil completely clean (had black stuff on it, dunno if thats what it comes like or an accumulation of crap, i think its the latter) and putting in some of the 555 to try, it still tasted like humid disgusting socks dipped in peanuts. YUCK!

 

[optsmk]

The more you vape on a cleaned atty, the better it will get.