Aspire BDC heads not lasting

[cubey]

I used to use Isopropyl alcohol to clean my heads and then I was left a bottle of Svedka vodka after an event at my house and started using it to clean my heads with and worked a lot better. I would soak it for 24 hours and then rinse the heads under hot water and let them air dry for 24 hours and have had really good luck with that method.

Has anyone used the boiling method? I have a neighbor that tried it and I don't remember the specifics but he said it worked on the Aspire heads and not so well on the Kanger heads.

 

[PaulBHC]

I was at Walgreens for something else and bought the cheapest vodka that they had in a small bottle.

Nothing seems to clean the chocolate or other dark flavors off of a coil after it cooks on there.

 

[Bill220]

I vape mostly light colored juices and the longest I've gotten out of a head is 3 days.

I've been using Polident then Isopropyl alcohol, then water and let dry for 24 hours with mixed results.

 

[DaveP]

I've been playing around with my Aspire Nautilus BDC heads using the ultrasonic cleaner and not seeing much cleaning action. Kanger heads clean much better if you take the air tube and the flavor wick off and leave the coil open. The ultrasonic takes the crud off them, but it helps if you periodically pull them out and run sink water over the coils and use a toothpick to break off the crud.

So far, I'm not getting the overall results I hoped for from the ultrasonic cleaner, but mine is a cheapo Harbor Freight 35w model I picked up on sale. It's a rebranded model that's sold by Walmart and a number of other retailers. YouTube shows guys cleaning small engine parts and rifle cartridges in the same model, but they use cleaners we can't use on ecig parts. I've tried half white vinegar and half water and that improves the cleaning, especially in getting the hardened crud loose. Part of the problem is that the coils are down in a hole, partially shielded from the wave action.

 

[OldSeer]

Stop dry burning them. I just rinse my tank, top and coil in warm water, blow through the top hole, repeat and let dry overnight.

Once they taste burnt you are done.

This is the one single person that has come close to the secret of how to keep the Aspire Dual Coils up and running all the time... not for just a few days or a week or so. And this applies to many different types of bottom coils.

Each and every single day... because I am one heck of a FLAVOR CHASER... and the CLOUDS follow...
I take the heads off of the bottom of my clearomizers and pull that little tank to the side with the coils inside of it...
and follow closely a system where I take a tissue and wrap it around that little tank.. and give it some very
good pressured blows through the TOP hole... thus emptying (forcing out) all the liquids stored up inside... (and there is) and blowing stops any
gurgling and cleans off residue on the coils and around the walls and send moisture away from the holes on the insides
that NO soaking can ever accomplish... AND if this is done once a day.... you'll find your coils lasting on into MONTHS
not days or weeks... and it doesn't matter if your e-liquid is Boba's bounty 100% VG or some 50/50 e-juice.

And every bit as important is having some pipe cleaners around
because what you see on a clear plastic drip tip of condensation
is and does build GREATLY in the air shaft of your clearomizers DAILY!
And it runs down into your COILS and can ruin them in NO TIME at all.
And sooner or later it will run out the bottom hole of the coils and someone will yell LEAK!!!!!

You should never let that happen... when you say your coils are going bad in a couple of days
and air shaft full of condensation... will and can leak fluid down into you coils in EVEN a single day
and cause GREAT problems... YOU'RE important... take care of what belongs to you!

 

[PaulBHC]

Great advice. I don't do that daily but it sounds like I should. I'm guessing the cheap clearos are worse because they don't get as hot.

 

[DaveP]

This is the one single person that has come close to the secret of how to keep the Aspire Dual Coils up and running all the time... not for just a few days or a week or so. And this applies to many different types of bottom coils.

Each and every single day... because I am one heck of a FLAVOR CHASER... and the CLOUDS follow...
I take the heads off of the bottom of my clearomizers and pull that little tank to the side with the coils inside of it...
and follow closely a system where I take a tissue and wrap it around that little tank.. and give it some very
good pressured blows through the TOP hole... thus emptying (forcing out) all the liquids stored up inside... (and there is) and blowing stops any
gurgling and cleans off residue on the coils and around the walls and send moisture away from the holes on the insides
that NO soaking can ever accomplish... AND if this is done once a day.... you'll find your coils lasting on into MONTHS
not days or weeks... and it doesn't matter if your e-liquid is Boba's bounty 100% VG or some 50/50 e-juice.

And every bit as important is having some pipe cleaners around
because what you see on a clear plastic drip tip of condensation
is and does build GREATLY in the air shaft of your clearomizers DAILY!
And it runs down into your COILS and can ruin them in NO TIME at all.
And sooner or later it will run out the bottom hole of the coils and someone will yell LEAK!!!!!

You should never let that happen... when you say your coils are going bad in a couple of days
and air shaft full of condensation... will and can leak fluid down into you coils in EVEN a single day
and cause GREAT problems... YOU'RE important... take care of what belongs to you!

I don't pull my heads off and blow them out, but I do blow mine out daily into a paper towel while still on the mod. I just hold the tank (attached to my Provari) horizontal and rotate it until the air hole (the largest) is pointing down. Blow through the drip tip and rotate the tank back and forth a little to encourage the juice to gravitate to the hole. You get a half inch spot of dark juice and any gurgling goes away.

 

[DaveP]

Since the Aspire heads are hard to get into and rebuild, I found this guy's method of micro-coiling the heads pretty interesting. He pulls out the dual coils and replaces them with a single micro-coil to get what looks like great results.

It's worth a look just to watch him pull one apart and retrofit it. There's also one on the BDC rebuild.

This is for the Aspire BDC.
Rebuilding The Aspire BDC - YouTube

And one for the Aspire Nautilus

 

[Bill220]

This is the one single person that has come close to the secret of how to keep the Aspire Dual Coils up and running all the time... not for just a few days or a week or so. And this applies to many different types of bottom coils.

Each and every single day... because I am one heck of a FLAVOR CHASER... and the CLOUDS follow...
I take the heads off of the bottom of my clearomizers and pull that little tank to the side with the coils inside of it...
and follow closely a system where I take a tissue and wrap it around that little tank.. and give it some very
good pressured blows through the TOP hole... thus emptying (forcing out) all the liquids stored up inside... (and there is) and blowing stops any
gurgling and cleans off residue on the coils and around the walls and send moisture away from the holes on the insides
that NO soaking can ever accomplish... AND if this is done once a day.... you'll find your coils lasting on into MONTHS
not days or weeks... and it doesn't matter if your e-liquid is Boba's bounty 100% VG or some 50/50 e-juice.

And every bit as important is having some pipe cleaners around
because what you see on a clear plastic drip tip of condensation
is and does build GREATLY in the air shaft of your clearomizers DAILY!
And it runs down into your COILS and can ruin them in NO TIME at all.
And sooner or later it will run out the bottom hole of the coils and someone will yell LEAK!!!!!

You should never let that happen... when you say your coils are going bad in a couple of days
and air shaft full of condensation... will and can leak fluid down into you coils in EVEN a single day
and cause GREAT problems... YOU'RE important... take care of what belongs to you!

Thank you sir!

 

[Bill220]

I've been using OldSeer's method and it seems to be working so far. You should see the dark gunk that comes out of the heads after only one day. It's disgusting.

 

[PaulBHC]

I watched both videos and did a couple of BDC with single coils and cotton. Getting the caps back on was tough. Cut off one insulator pushing the pin while placing the cap on a hard surface. Next one I did in the ego style base. Did not work so well. Removed the filler and it works fine. Once I have a system down, I'll post my thoughts.