Cleaning Boge 2.0 cartomizers

[Shining]

I cleaned several Boge cartomizers by placing them in boiling water for 5 minutes, shaking them out and allowing them to dry for 24-48 hours.
When I went back to use them, most of them were no good. I could hear the sizzling sound but no vapor was being produced.
I've watched several videos to clean them in that manner and didn't even leave them boiling as long as most say.
Is that common for the Boge cartomizers? They were fine as long as I just ran them under water, but the boiling seems to have killed them.

 

[The Big Chief]

Boiling seems to cause issues with ink leeching in my oppinion, as well as contaminants from the water itself, short of using distilled. You have to understand that cartos, even boge arent meant or built to be used indefinetly, nor designed to be cleaned. They are disposable, meant for one use, milked for a dozen. Ive seen youtube vids of taking them apart and cleaning, reassembling etc- and honestly, it aint worth the 2 bucks. Good clean water will help clean, but removing the char from the batting that surrounds the heating element (cant see this inside the white batting that you CAN see) is near impossible once it happens, short of taking it apart. Hot water will melt and liquify the gunk and a good blow through the tip, not threaded end, will force most of the water and liquified goo out, but will never bring used material back to "new" status, as the batting- working as a water purifier filter would catch all contaminants that wont fit between the pores . At best, I can get 3-4 days of quality vape from a boge 2.0..Your mileage may vary. For the trouble, If one good soak and blow doesn't work, you know a brand, spanking new one will. But once soaked, water in a carto will take much more effort to vaporize than PG or VG does, and any remaining contaminants will only add to the struggle.

 

[Kurt]

I agree. Sounds to me like there is residual water present. I clean my cartos by removing the caps and soaking them in alcohol for a couple hours, then flushing them with hot water, which I draw up into them by using the carto as a straw, then gently blowing the water out, several times. Shake and dry them as much as I can with a paper towel, then put them into a 250 degree oven for an hour. This dries them completely. Just letting them sit for a day or so doesn't, in my experience, allow all the water in the filler to evaporate. Relatively low heat does.

I would say 90% of my cartos are reusable at least three cleaning cycles, with several days of refilling before each cycle. I have some that are still going strong after a few months. About 10% will not survive a cleaning, or else will be rather nasty to vape after wards. Yes, they are cheap, but not free, and money is tight these days. Every day I can get my nic without paying someone is a good day.