Cleaned my clearomizer & now it doesn't hit as strong

[Tebo]

Hey everyone I'm new to vaping & have been smoke free for about a month now!

I was watching a tutorial on youtube how to clean stardust clearomizers and figured its about time I cleaned mine.

I rinsed some peices in water, and dry burned the coil

I noticed after doing this when I put my juice back in, it was hitting alot weaker, like the throat hit was nearly faded compared to how it was hitting before! I have a couple clearomizers new, and they work like new, so I could really noticed the difference in the 1 I cleaned.\

Been vaping on it for 2 hours now since I cleaned it, it was hitting really weak so I went back an dry burned it 2 more times.

Now I'm pretty positive it would work fine with a new coil/wick.. which is an easy fix and no biggie.. but I'm just wondering maybe there is some water somewhere that mixed with the juice an making it hit weaker? Or when dry burning did I possibly ruin the wick wrapped around the coil inside to make it hit like this?

Note: water did get on the coil where it burns while rinseing, could it just take a few days/hours before its hitting the way it was? Even tho its been dry burned?

Any experience with similar situations, or advice on what I might've done wrong much appreciated!!!

 

[hrlw817]

It is possible the wicks are still wet with water. How long did you let the Stardust dry? If the wicks are still wet, or if there is still moisture inside it, you could use a hairdryer to help speed the dry time.

 

[Tebo]

It is possible the wicks are still wet with water. How long did you let the Stardust dry? If the wicks are still wet, or if there is still moisture inside it, you could use a hairdryer to help speed the dry time.

I didn't necessarily wait to let anything dry. When dry burning the gunk off the coil, I'm pretty sure the wicks got dry from that.

Should I of waited a day or few hours b4 putting juice in regardless, before trying to vape thru it again?

 

[hrlw817]

Actually, the wicks that are down inside the Stardust don't really dry with the dry burn. Only the part of the wick on top of the coil will dry. I just let mine air dry about 2-3 days. I have 4 in rotation, so I clean two while using two. Mine aren't the kind that you can rebuild.

 

[gewre]

I have had the same issue but after while everything are OK

 

[cdunn96]

The wicks being wet from water can cause this but I also have found that you need to take a couple puffs without pressing the button as if the clearo was new. Maybe it is just time to start a new one.

 

[Vapoor eyes er]

I wash the head, dry burn, wash again and final quick dry burn. I have a bunch in rotation so they can dry properly over a couple of days- adding juice to a clearo with wet innards will dilute the juice. If need be run a hair dryer on low/ warm/ cool to dry the innards quickly. Be very careful not to damage the plastic or the rubber O rings with too much heat.

 

[AttyPops]

1) Clearos are disposable so don't use em forever.
2) It's supposed to get wet where the coil is... that's how you clean the coil & wick. So if it didn't get wet enough, it didn't get clean
3) Dry burning weakens the coil. It fragments. The resistance goes up too. It would be a weaker hit then, of course.

Once the coil drys it may be better, but will never be like new.

Try cleaning without dry burning. Dry burning is an atty resurrection method for dealing with a gunked coil that is not cleanable other ways (so you don't have to throw it out). However, you should try a regular cleaning 1st.

 

[ninjuh]

To clean Stardusts you shouldn't dry burn. Rinse with hot water, blow out both ends. Repeat. Fill up, you're good to go

 

[jeffjr464]

i take about 7 or 8 "mouth tokes" with a fresh cleaned wet coil, gets rid of all the water, the juice starts to come through, but 2 hours of vaping on it? can't help ya, i'd chalk it up as toasted

 

[KarenB]

I have 2 clearomizers that aren't rebuildable and have to clean them ... I have done the dry burn but as soon as I see the coil heat up I consider it "done" and put it aside for 12-24 hours. I have only had 1 die on me (I have a clearo that is rebuildable so wasn't too concerned). In fact I just loaded a "cleaned" clearo and am vaping "as normal" through it.

How many cleanings has this one had? Metal degrades over time.

 

[Tebo]

This was the only cleaning.

I notice my other clearomizer, both stardust v3, doesnt hit as strong as the 1 I cleaned origionally did

should I toss both of them an just buy new? & never clean them lol

 

[zuzette]

something i tried this weekend on bunked up vivi Nova head-on denture cleaner tablet and neat boiling water. cleaned a "dead" head so its useable and a slightly better head to near new. rinse after wards. do not dry burn. just let it air dry.

 

[zuzette]

gah...phones suck for posting. sorry about the phone pidgin.

 

[JUDGMENT AFFIRMED]

This was the only cleaning.

I notice my other clearomizer, both stardust v3, doesnt hit as strong as the 1 I cleaned origionally did

should I toss both of them an just buy new? & never clean them lol

The pro's said everything you need to know. I wouldn't throw it away, i got a V2 that i'm still useing from july 7th. I just put a new cotton wick and coil in it on saturday. I'm rotating between a couple clearomizers also and i didn't actually burn the coil out...just got tired of waiting and wanted to try rebuilding.
The only thing helpful that i can add is, if you didn't clean your V3 before you used it the first time, you may be getting some "hit" from what was in there from the manufactoring process. I got the worse hit ever when i put a new replacable head in the Kanger T2, without cleaning it first. After cleaning, everything is better.