Atty cleaning

[scfaster]

I have a collection of atomizers that have had multiple strong flavors through them and now they taste quite nasty. I tried soaking in hot water, Coke, alcohol and hydrogen peroxide. None of that helped.

Other threads here have mentioned polident denture cleaner and ice machine cleaner. I tried the 3 minute Polident today. Hot water, double tablets, no effect. Did it again, let it soak an hour, and it helped a little, but maybe the flavors are just drowned by the 'minty fresh' in the Polident. It was pretty strong. That Joye atty now has chocomint in it, complimenting the Polident. It still doesn't taste great, but it is better.

When I stopped at the hardware store for ice machine cleaner they did not have any. Close enough was coffee machine cleaner ($4.50 a pint). It is still acid based, and not toxic to ingest with a decent rinse or three.

I started with some boiling hot water, and added a good bit of coffee machine cleaner. I threw my Boge Pro atty in and left it sit for an hour or so. It helped a lot, but I could still smell the chocolate pina colada orange mint nastiness.

I then went to work burning it off. I tied on a Joye mega battery and burned off the atty repeatedly. Once it stopped stinking I driped distilled water onto the bridge and burned that off. I used almost the whole battery, but it worked. VIOLA! My Valencia orange tastes great again.

I'd be inclined to try the coffee maker cleaner again, and this time let it soak more than an hour.

In the meantime I ordered a couple of packs of cartos for trying out different flavors. Once I settle on one or two for a daily vape I will break in a real atty with it and exclusively use that flavor in it.

Lessons learned..
1) Use cartos for trying different flavors, use attys for one flavor only.
2) Coffee Machine cleaner works OK, but you will still need to burn some flavors off.
3) Polident kind of worked, but not well. They did not have the smoker's version, maybe that helps.

 

[portguy]

I used to use Polident. It works fine after 15 minutes. Now i just use Highping's atty cleaner method with a twist. I leave a bunch of atties soaked in vodka overnight. Then i dry burn them.

 

[psycho52799]

Yea i know what you are saying i am having the same kind of problem trying to get my atty very clean. I wish one of these e-cig company's would make some kind of really good cleaning agent that would make your atomizer like new again.

Nice job with the coffee machine cleaner stuff seems like it worked petty good for ya.

 

[TunnelVision]

Gonna try the hot water method an see how it works...
Might give the Vodka a try also....
Vape on....

 

[DC2]

Nice job with the coffee machine cleaner stuff seems like it worked petty good for ya.

What really worked for him was a dry burn.

And here is the best method for cleaning them...
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/tips-tricks/69834-my-atty-resurrection-method.html

And here is some information on when and why you should clean them...
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ion/97014-facts-about-cleaning-atomizers.html

 

[TunnelVision]

Yea i know what you are saying i am having the same kind of problem trying to get my atty very clean. I wish one of these e-cig company's would make some kind of really good cleaning agent that would make your atomizer like new again.

I sorta doubt they would want to do that.....
I think it would cut down big time on their sales of atty's....
Vape On.......

 

[scfaster]

The dry burn helped a lot, but the coffee machine cleaner made it happen. I tried the dry burn w/o the cleaner and it was not the answer. I fried a fairly new Joye dry burning it so much, and it still stunk on it's dying sizzle. I am not saying the dry burn is not the way to go. It obviously helped and was key. I had a stubborn case and the CM cleaner helped a lot.

I also think that dripping distilled water onto the hot bridge helped too. I used to use water to clean the grill between orders way back in the short order cook days flipin' eggs at Peter Pipers Pancake House, and it works great.

 

[DC2]

The dry burn helped a lot, but the coffee machine cleaner made it happen. I tried the dry burn w/o the cleaner and it was not the answer. I fried a fairly new Joye dry burning it so much, and it still stunk on it's dying sizzle. I am not saying the dry burn is not the way to go. It obviously helped and was key. I had a stubborn case and the CM cleaner helped a lot.

I also think that dripping distilled water onto the hot bridge helped too. I used to use water to clean the grill between orders way back in the short order cook days flipin' eggs at Peter Pipers Pancake House, and it works great.

When you are dry burning are you following the Highping method? In other words, are you rinsing the atomizer out with hot water before and after doing the dry burns? Because if not, doing a dry burn can possibly bake on any old juice that is sitting in the atomizer mesh that surrounds the coil pot.

That mesh does not get cleaned by a dry burn.

Doing a dry burn without rinsing in hot water first, or cleaning in some other fashion, is a pretty good way to clog up an atomizer and/or bake in a burnt taste that you'll never be able to get out.

 

[portguy]

When you are dry burning are you following the Highping method? In other words, are you rinsing the atomizer out with hot water before and after doing the dry burns? Because if not, doing a dry burn can possibly bake on any old juice that is sitting in the atomizer mesh that surrounds the coil pot.

That mesh does not get cleaned by a dry burn.

Doing a dry burn without rinsing in hot water first, or cleaning in some other fashion, is a pretty good way to clog up an atomizer and/or bake in a burnt taste that you'll never be able to get out.

Second that. The 1st pass burns the hardcore juice, only after the second pass the burnt gunk gets washed away leaving the atty as good as new.

 

[OldCoot]

i use peroxide to clean my addys, ,just soak for about 30 mins,,,rinse in warm water, blow out,,,dry,,rewet with juice and back to vaping,,works great