I use 901s and find them to be pretty reliable. If you buy cheap ones, you need a drip shield. IKV or ciscos are harder to flood. I use either a top feeder or a bottom feeder with an atty almost exclusively.
I strongly would disagree with you on changing the oil in your car every 3 thousand miles.
I hate atomizers for the exception of one...dual coil atomizers...not cartomizers...atomizers. They don't have the "metal" taste that I always get from using plain atty's. Other than that, cartomizers all the way for this cat. As for cleaning the gunk out, invest in an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner.
Yeah the new DC attys are bad .... I have been rotating 2 of them and both still vape like brand new...best taste best vapor best TH hands down. Can't wait till some higher ohm DC attys hit the shelves!
My problem is not with cleaning. I'm a chemist and I have every solvent available and a lab grade sonicator. I can get them clean. My process is more sophisticated than most, I run them through a solvent polarity ladder....I've found this works best. I use deionized water (18 Mohm), acetone, methanol, isopropanol, toluene, then I reverse the process and gently blow out the atty with our air line. I have found our lab sonicator to be far too powerful for atomizers in that it can dislodge the coil.
My main complaint in this thread is the DESIGN of atomizers. They are akin to an incandesent light bulb with their wire coil. There has GOT to be a better why to vaporize the liquid. I was even thinking of designing a mini-sonicator that could aerosolize the liquid into a vapor.
Just my 2 cents about this. Attys are the best and cartos suck big time. Why? With cartos I always feel like suckig on a cig filter and I always and I mean always have this slight plastic filling taste. Worst thing is if you burn a carto you
Won't get the taste out
Of your mouth for days.
Attys> cartos
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This is not about cost. It is about your carbon footprint. While you may think that you are doing the right thing by driving your used oil down to a recycling center, you are still creating an energy loss and a bigger carbon footprint. It takes energy to recycle oil into a product of lesser value from the unnecessary transport to the conversion energy, especially when it is a proven waste.
Your observations are based on what you see with your neighbor; mine are based on hard scientific fact and thousands of man years of accumulated observations from providing test equipment to the very people who build and test engines for a living.
Both GM and Ford as well as every other powertrain manufacturer, for example, are going over to OLM (oil life monitoring) which ignore the decades old standard of 3000 miles and actually measure parameters in the oil to control its effectiveness. Even if you do a lot of driving in dusty environments or stop and go in a big city, the 3000 mile oil change interval completely ignores what is happening in the real world and the advances in engine manufacturing and lubricants.
When I was still working in Europe one of my colleagues in the US had the exact same model and year Audi, yet his oil change interval was half of mine. When I asked the head of engine of engine development at Audi about it, he showed me a report that had the accumulated world wide data from dealerships and their own testing. It could find NO measurable difference in engine life and performance between the 5000 km and 10000 km oil change intervals. That was in the days before the advances in electronics and sensor technology now enable one to measure oil performance in real time. The only critical oil change was the very first.
>snip<...Your observations are based on what you see with your neighbor; mine are based on hard scientific fact and thousands of man years of accumulated observations from providing test equipment to the very people who build and test engines for a living...>snip<