Atomizer No No

[Melinda09]

I use an ultrasonic jewlery cleaner with alcohol for a half hour and do no rinse, then after blowing it out I put it in under a fingernail dryer to dry, in about a hour it's good to go again
Nutttso

Woo-hoo! I have one of those too. Slick idea! I have a couple of questions: When you say that you used "an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner with alcohol", did you mean that you used an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner machine, and the cleaning fluid that you used was straight alcohol liquid, or that it was a specific made-for-jewelry-cleaner that contained alcohol as one of its ingredients? It's all communication ... isn't it?

I have the LaSonic Supreme, and I just looked at the jewelry cleaning fluid that came with it. The "Delicate Formula" just says that it's toxic, and to be sure to dilute it with 7 parts of water to 1 part cleaner. The "Regular Formula" says that it contains ammonia and to dilute at the same 7:1 ratio, but no other ingredients are listed on either bottle.

If you used alcohol as a cleaning solution - what kind of alcohol did you use? Vodka (I've read about using cheap vodka somewhere)? Isopropyl? What % was it? And lastly, did you use the regular cleaning instructions for jewelry, as far as time that you left it in and all?

Thanks for the help. I'm just getting to where I'll need to clean mine for the first time, and I've been looking at all of the different ways that people do it. This is the first one that seems really sensible to me - like it will work, and not harm anything.

 

[seminolewind]

I'd like to know what you put in the jewelry cleaner as well, thanks

 

[NutttSo]

isopropyl alcohol 50% it's what I had here so I tryed it, got it at dollar general, put in just enough to cover attie let it work for about a half hour or so, blow out and let dry, I do not rinse heard that cause rust, I use a fingernail dryer just make sure you can't smell the alcohol anymore, put a few drops e-liquid in and let sit then a full cart and it has been good to go, I do this every few days on one of my atties that I use for DIY, and my others I use just for prefilled carts when they start to draw hard,
hope this helps,

NutttSo

 

[Melinda09]

isopropyl alcohol 50% it's what I had here so I tryed it, got it at dollar general, put in just enough to cover attie let it work for about a half hour or so, blow out and let dry, I do not rinse heard that cause rust, I use a fingernail dryer just make sure you can't smell the alcohol anymore, put a few drops e-liquid in and let sit then a full cart and it has been good to go, I do this every few days on one of my atties that I use for DIY, and my others I use just for prefilled carts when they start to draw hard,
hope this helps,

NutttSo

Thanks, NutttSo! I said this before, but it bears repeating: I think that was a brilliant idea that you had to use the jewelry cleaning machine to clean your atomizers. I'm going to use this tip when mine start to draw hard.

So far, I'm blowing the atty for my main flavor out every couple of days, and standing it up on end at night (while it's still warm). I've been reading (and reading, and reading) about different ways to clean them, and for every tip that sounds good, there seems to be someone else who posts a story about how that same thing killed their atty. I think I'll stick to the blow/stand-on-end method for my a couple that I use for my main flavors, but I wanted to be able to clean a DIY atty better, so that I can try new flavors and really be able to tell what they taste like ... clean.

I think I'll try it first for less time, though. The jewelry cleaner instructions say to let the machine run for 1-2 minutes - and only 1 minute longer for extremely dirty jewelry - and follow with a 1-minute rinse. Then, I'll give it a shot of compressed air, and the hair dryer treatment, unless I can find a nail-dryer for cheap. It's funny (not haha) that I just recently found one, old can of "cleaning duster" in the back of an office drawer that doesn't contain any bitterant.

So, one last question for you: did you ever try it with running the machine for less time - without success? Is that why you ran it for 1/2-hour?

I really appreciate the time that everyone on the e-cigarette-forum has taken to share their "tips and tricks" with us newbies.

 

[NutttSo]

I started with the e-cig 2 months ago, and have 6 atties, 3 where to far gone when I tryed this. the other 3 where new and I have kept them going great, I too blow and drain, and every few days they do start to draw hard, thats when I clean them, I tryed a few mins and seen no improvement. untill once I forgot about it and when I did check and the alcohol was discolored. and after drying they worked great. I read somewhere on the forum that water can rust the coil and wick. thats why I don't rinse,
I guess drying is what ever you have on hand to dry them, heck sometimes I stick them in the vents of the window AC and let the air dry them that way lol.
hope this works for you.

NutttSo

 

[Melinda09]

I started with the e-cig 2 months ago, and have 6 atties, 3 where to far gone when I tryed this. the other 3 where new and I have kept them going great, I too blow and drain, and every few days they do start to draw hard, thats when I clean them, I tryed a few mins and seen no improvement. untill once I forgot about it and when I did check and the alcohol was discolored. and after drying they worked great. I read somewhere on the forum that water can rust the coil and wick. thats why I don't rinse,
I guess drying is what ever you have on hand to dry them, heck sometimes I stick them in the vents of the window AC and let the air dry them that way lol.
hope this works for you.

NutttSo

Thanks for posting this idea, and for your replies about the details! I'm going to use this method.