Cleaning CE2's

[bluedog1300]

Hi there... I've just bought my first pack of Clearomizers after starting vaping with an Ego T system three months ago. I love the taste, the vapour, the shape of these cartos so much more than the (leaky) tank system! I've found threads about CE2s that say they last with care & "cleaning"... but (with apologizes to Will S.) "To clean & how to clean... that is the question?" There is a uTube video that shows taking them apart & washing the wick under a tap... however, the plastic tubes of the CE2's I have are firmly... very, very firmly... glued to the battery connection.... there's just no budging them! So, not being able to pull the wicks out... is there any other way of cleaning these??? I'd like to help them last as long as possible!

 

[Nomoreash]

Unless you've got some CE2 clearos I haven't heard about there is no glue attaching them to the base. They just slide down over an O ring that is supposed to seal the juice from coming out the bottom. If yours are different that's a new one on me.

Also if you plan on keeping them you'll probably want to replace the stock tubes at some point. They are fragile and start to crack around the base. I use a 3ml BD Syringe cut to size of the original tube.

You can clean them with the tube on, I often do. Just flush them out really well, let them dry and then do a dry burn to clean the build up off the coil but be careful if you do a dry burn with the clear tube still on, heat builds up fast. A few seconds (maybe 5) at a time until the build up is gone works great for me.

 

[Olef]

Hi bluedog... none of the CE2's I have ever seen are glued but they are a tight fit. Screw them on to an eGo battery or a mod so the thread is held firmly, then grasp the plastic tube and rock it side to side at the same time as pulling. It will come off. Be gentle though if you haven't already removed both silicone rings from the other end else you may end up pulling the ceramic cup off the shaft. It sounds difficult but it isn't. I can strip down ten clearo's in a couple of minutes when I do my weekly clean for me and my wife.

I would also advise you to search out the BD 3ml syringe mod and the wick slot mod on here.

I get brand new clearo's, remove and discard the original plastic tubes as they are rubbish. I fit the syringe mod tubes after doing the wick slot mod. When I clean them once a week I pull them apart, do three runs in the ultrasonic cleaner in plain hot water to remove the juice, then I dry burn until the wicks are white again and re-assemble.

My wife and I change clearo's every day or two so at the end of the week I have 8 - 10 to clean in a batch. We are just going into our sixth week of using clearo's and we have yet to lose one, they just keep on going. We are still on the original ten. Once you have done the wick slot and the syringe mods they are a consistent good vape that just goes on and on.

In our experience they cost ten percent of what atomisers do, give far more flavour and vapour, and last a ridiculous amount of time compared to their cost.

 

[bluedog1300]

@Nomoreash & Olef... thanks for the all of this! I will go & find the mod threads right away! I have examined the place where the plastic tube fits over the battery connection... with a jeweller's loupe no less... and there's glue there for sure!!! Rocking it gets me nowhere. So... I'll try cleaning them with the tube on. I've removed the silicone bits from the top alright. I guess I was concerned about flushing them with water given that the warnings about getting juice on the atomizer when you're filling them. I thought that meant that you could blow the atty if it got soaked. However, it must get pretty damp from the wicked juice anyway.

I am amazed at how much more satisfying all around the vape is with these. We had taken to vaping as soon as we tried it... however, we have had trouble giving up those last few analogs each day. Neither of us could figure out what it was that we needed from them.... they taste awful... & the truth is there's way less 'smoke'. Certainly, the habit of holding something cylindrical between your fingers is a piece of it! I'm surprised by how many subtle threads there are in the fabric of my cig addiction! Now... with the clearomizers... I'm realizing what a great vaping experience feels like.

Analogs... I'm putting you on notice.... your days are numbered!

 

[Nomoreash]

@Nomoreash & Olef... thanks for the all of this! I will go & find the mod threads right away! I have examined the place where the plastic tube fits over the battery connection... with a jeweller's loupe no less... and there's glue there for sure!!! Rocking it gets me nowhere. So... I'll try cleaning them with the tube on. I've removed the silicone bits from the top alright. I guess I was concerned about flushing them with water given that the warnings about getting juice on the atomizer when you're filling them. I thought that meant that you could blow the atty if it got soaked. However, it must get pretty damp from the wicked juice anyway.

I am amazed at how much more satisfying all around the vape is with these. We had taken to vaping as soon as we tried it... however, we have had trouble giving up those last few analogs each day. Neither of us could figure out what it was that we needed from them.... they taste awful... & the truth is there's way less 'smoke'. Certainly, the habit of holding something cylindrical between your fingers is a piece of it! I'm surprised by how many subtle threads there are in the fabric of my cig addiction! Now... with the clearomizers... I'm realizing what a great vaping experience feels like.

Analogs... I'm putting you on notice.... your days are numbered!

I'm curious, I've never seen a CE2 Clearomizer that used glue to attach it to the base. Any way you could post a pic or link to the ones you have?

Water won't hurt the coil, it gets wet with juice anyway. Once you do a dry burn to get the build up off the coil the water is gone. You can also use other solutions that evaporate faster than water. I use ISO and PGA is also popular.

They are great, best performing and tasting cartos I've found. Often need tinkering and replacing the tube to get them performing optimally and make them last but after that they just keep going and going.

 

[Olef]

Yes, if you can get a pic of these glued CE2's that would be interesting...

 

[bluedog1300]

The Tech Wizard in our house is on a motorcycle trip! When he gets home later this week... I'll get him to upload the pix I've taken!!! (& maybe learn how to do it myself!!!)

 

[emus]

Dry burn works good on a freshly cleaned and dry CE.

You can pick at wick to help w/ slag build up.

Make sure wick is touching every coil winding.

They are nice...I'm hoping to find a black or stainless steel XL CE in stock.

 

[bluedog1300]

Thanks emus... thumbnail helps... everything seems so little in there! I'm about to stiffen my spine & launch into my first attempt at clearomizer cleaning... perhaps even a wick mod... If the first one doesn't work out too well, it seems to me that a couple of bucks spent in reconnaisance is always worth it!!

 

[loft]

Emus, Stormy has them in stock. I just ordered two packs of them. A buck or two more than everywhere else - but it beats waiting for them for days/weeks/months.

 

[ricks]

I have seen different types of CE2's as to where they attache to the threaded end. The CE2's that I use have a rubber o-ring to seal them. On someone elses, they have NO o-ring at all. They look different and might use a glue to hold them in place. Ive seen them in this forum recently. Ill try and find it and repost it here.

 

[bluedog1300]

Okay... so first clearomizer cleaning went, well, okay... if you don't count trying to mod the wick & pulling it (temporarily) off the coil! Feeling clumsy but getting the hang of it. Tried the "Flush & Burn" method I found in another thread... given that I don't seem to be able to remove the plastic cylinder from these. I flushed & flushed, burned & burned & burned some more... still couldn't get the wick clean at the coil... no more smoke coming so I stopped. Tastes a little odd, but nothing like a dratty Ego atomizer! My favourite vape at the moment is "Coffee 'n Cream"... a very thick juice... so I tried the slot mod suggested by you, Olef, and it worked really well! Thanks for that. The next task (for the techno-challenged) is uploading the pix I took of these seemingly glued cylinders! Soon.

 

[Nomoreash]

I'm not sure what you mean by modding the wick and pulling if off the coil but I probably wouldn't go that route. The coil is wound close together and if it gets moved around to much may touch and cause a short.

Replacing the tube and widening the slots where the wick goes trough is all I do, quick and simple. What battery are you using for a dry burn. The proprietary batteries may not have enough umph to burn the coil clean. Happened to me when I tried to dry burn with a Riva Battery. I went through 2 full battery charges and it still didn't burn it all off although it did help. Since you said the smoke mostly stopped it probably got alot if it. If it's really crusted which coffee flavors will tend to do you just might need more power to clean it. I use a 5v pass through now strictly for dry burns. If the coil starts to glow orange evenly across the coil then everything should be baked off.

The weird taste might be the crud that burned off the coil mixing with your juice. If mine is really caked I'll do another rinse after a dry burn to make sure everything is flushed out.

 

[bluedog1300]

@Nomoreash... I'm using my Ego Tank batteries... which I think are the same as Riva are they not??? I do have an Ego passthrough... would that be better??? The coil burns red across most of itself except for in the very middle... still a small lump of dark stuff... & it took forever to get that much burned off... minutes... many minutes. I found myself thinking... "Am I really going to hang in for this process with every carto???"

The thing about pulling the wick off the coil came from trying to mod it in the way I had seen in a video link from another thread. Lifting the wick (very gently) on either side of the coil to allow the thicker juices more room to travel to the coil. I tried this after the eternal burn blitz... I think the wick had become fragile... it just frayed away from the coil when I tugged on it (very gently!!) Perhaps I had fried the life out of it! I will try the 'flush again' approach... that makes sense.

 

[Adik Ted]

I saw a video where the guy boiled them (they were metal rather than clear) and did the same with mine. I then dried them out with a hair drier and dry burned them. They worked better after that but I felt they never wicked as good. Would I have been better just rinsing them under the tap with water, drying them and dry burning them?