510 Piston Cleaning method.

[heXy]

Wanted to share a cleaning method I used today for my 510 which seemed to work like a charm.

I was having a bad taste come out of it, not a mild burning taste, but a horrid burning taste. It was haunting any flavour I put in it. Granted it's two weeks old yesterday and the only maintenance done was blowing the atty out once in a while (and when I occasionally flooded it)

I did the dry burn 4 - 5 times, then dropped it in a glass with that vodka I bought (the 152 proof) and let it sit for an hour. Took it out, blew it out, and I could STILL smell the gross burnt smell. So I took one of my 10ml syringes and dropped the atty in. Then pulled it full of vodka and removed any air.

I then placed my finger over the open end and began to agitate back and forth (moving the atty inside the syringe like a piston), since there is nothing but fluid in the syringe, it forced the fluid through the atty due to it's weight when being shaken. Repeated a handful of times over a 15 minute span.

Then pushed the alcohol out, pulled more in, pushed it out again (4 times) and proceeded to blow through the atty and let stand to dry (not very long as the alcohol evaps quick)

Primed it with 3 drops of my flavourless PG/VG mix and put in a cart. Works like a champ (as it did before) but no disgusting bad taste! I was rather surprised.

I don't recommend this for any other attys, but it works well with the 510.

NOTE: I do not clean my atomizers unless it's absolutely needed. These devices work much better when seasoned. This method was used to clean the wicking mesh. I only recommend extreme cleaning methods when an atty is still producing resistance on a ohm meter, but fails to vape. And even then, there's no proven method of success. The best preventative maintenance I can offer is to occasionally blow the atomizer out (from the cartridge end).

 

[NoizMaker]

Very interesting cleaning method. I will have to give this a shot myself sometime, though I find wickless atties need very little cleaning and maintenance and don't get such a horrible flavor. When I get my next Cisco LR 510 I will give it a go instead of taking the whole bridge out to get all that extra wicking out of there.

 

[heXy]

Yes actually, I just removed the bridge on this one and have made it a dedicated drip atty. I have the second one in my starter kit lit up for when I go out with the PCC and cartridges.

I also ordered the drip-tip with my eGO parts, so that will make dripping so much nicer then it is currently. I tried a DIY mod to MANY of my spare round tips without much success. Although the flavours I blend aren't quite as thick as the ones I order from eVapers, so dripping down the air vents on the cartridge end (and cutting the protruding end of the filler tank off) did work rather well.

 

[Pipeous]

I cleaned an ego t atty in vodka and swished it around... the wicking material in the probe all fell down inside and covered the atty. I was about to toss it in the garbage and decided to pull it apart (I like to rip things apart). the wick part comes out very easy actually. I tried a few different things and eventually stuck an exacto blade in and it lifted out rather easy. that's when I saw all the strands had fallen down inside. after I picked those out I fired it up on a battery and it glowed a nice orange... so now I have another drip atty. and it works fine. I just rinsed it out with some plain vg, then dripped some balck cherry tobacco in. I was using this volcano 510 for dripping so had something to compare to and was pretty close.