Cleaning Clearomisers?

[saspro]

If I've got multiple CE5's and am only using each one for a single flavour (4x CE5's with 4x flavours) do I need to was them out every couple of days or can I just top them off?

I get washing them if swapping flavours to get rid of the old taste but if I'm just refilling with the same liquid should it make a difference?

It's a bit of a noob question but I'm a noob

 

[Mountain_Rain96]

If I've got multiple CE5's and am only using each one for a single flavour (4x CE5's with 4x flavours) do I need to was them out every couple of days or can I just top them off?

I get washing them if swapping flavours to get rid of the old taste but if I'm just refilling with the same liquid should it make a difference?

It's a bit of a noob question but I'm a noob

I do the same thing you do, multiple clearos with different flavors (4), and I only have to clean mine roughly once a week, to do a dry burn. Yeah, you should be fine just topping them off for several days on end.

 

[saspro]

do a dry burn.

As in no liquid and a couple of hits on the power button? (told you I was a noob)

 

[ilovehugehits]

I wouldn't do a dry burn.
Just try to make sure the clearos stays half full.
Washing them out only makes sense, if you burn a liquid at higher voltage or change flavors.
I also prefer CE series clearos.
I'm not a coil changer though.
Once it's fried I just toss them.
fasttech sells them cheaply in bulk.

 

[Slose]

Yeah if it's the same flavor your good.

 

[Red_Bird]

As said, if you're not changing flavors in the same clearo just top them up a few times. After 3 times though I'd take'm apart and run hot tap water on them and then drop them into a bowl of distilled water to get rid of tap water chlorine and the like.

Let'em dry out on paper towel/ towel......If you get bad performance (less vapor, bad taste) you need to dry burn or change the coil and wick.

Light colored eliquids don't clog up atomizers fast, dark colors + NET tobaccos do. So do very sweet eliquids.

 

[skyztheLynnit]

I've been using vodka to clean the hardware.. does distilled water work just as well?

I'd like to spend more money on juice instead of vodka that i don't drink lol

 

[ilovehugehits]

I just use clean warm tap water.
I order Clearos from FastTech in bulk.
So one is usually dedicated to a specific flavor. If I trying out a sample. I use 510 Nano minis. I would save the vodka for parties. Distilled water works great. Just screw on the top & shake it up!

 

[Kaokao]

Thx for the tips

 

[skyztheLynnit]

Ty huge ....! I'll check out the nano minis .. definitely switching to distilled water then.. i hate using it bc i look at it in my soak cup and think.. i could be tipsy off that

Eta.. i meant hits.. not .. the other word lol

 

[Red_Bird]

Ty huge ....! I'll check out the nano minis .. definitely switching to distilled water then.. i hate using it bc i look at it in my soak cup and think.. i could be tipsy off that

Eta.. i meant hits.. not .. the other word lol

repeated alcohol baths will degrade wick and plastic housing

people bathing clearos in alcohol will complain a month later they taste PLASTIC in their juice

distilled water is great...but don't TOP OFF too much before giving them a bath! Maybe 3 tanks of same juice...then bath

its 88 cents a gallon at walmart here.......for really tough stains, smells and flavors you can add a touch of apple vinegar TO the distilled water if necessary

I keep a covered rectangular RUBBERMAID container for my clearo/tank bathing, lol. Pour out the distilled water and change it every 2-3 days.

 

[skyztheLynnit]

repeated alcohol baths will degrade wick and plastic housing

people bathing clearos in alcohol will complain a month later they taste PLASTIC in their juice

distilled water is great...but don't TOP OFF too much before giving them a bath! Maybe 3 tanks of same juice...then bath

its 88 cents a gallon at walmart here.......for really tough stains, smells and flavors you can add a touch of apple vinegar TO the distilled water if necessary

I keep a covered rectangular RUBBERMAID container for my clearo/tank bathing, lol. Pour out the distilled water and change it every 2-3 days.

Great info here.. whew all the time i spend cleaning.. filling.. but I'd much rather clean my clearo than my bathtub lol

 

[WallyC]

Why is distilled water preferred? will tap water work?

 

[watsonjohn]

I too using 4 clearomizer with different flavors. Alcohol and distilled water might be good to clean those.

 

[Red_Bird]

Tap water works...where I live they add chlorine and other things....So I run hot tap water initially through it for a few min, then drop into DW to remove chlorine....fish it out with tweezers and shake, then towel dry.

I'm just trying to have the cleanest experience I can.

 

[Vapoor eyes er]

When I used CE5s I would wash everything in distilled water. If I was vaping dark juice I'd soak the head for 5 mins in PGA or vodka. If the coil was gunked up I'd do dry burns- 3 secs bursts and rinse afterwards in distilled water. Realize rinsing in tap water contaminates the unit with bacteria that is safe in our digestive system BUT can cause nasal/ sinus infection- info straight from my Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) Surgeon.

 

[Red_Bird]

Just be careful with excessive exposure to alcohol too. It does degrade wick material and plastics. I don't want plastics leeching into my eliquids. I don't even use plastic bottles FOR my eliquids I make. Only glass.

I go through lots of syringes though but I rinse those out with straight DW a few times or 33% apple vinegar + 67% DW. (add apple V for hard to get out flavors, I rarely need any)

Bet you never got a shot or glass of whiskey served to you in plastic! Its glass.

 

[thebeingwithin]

my clearo's seem to burn out before they need to be washed. maybe i'm doing something wrong...or vaping too much.

 

[Topwater Elvis]

Liquids far more caustic than vodka or PGA are stored & sold in plastic containers.

Vinegar oxidizes metals. Remember the middle school chemistry experiment where various types of vinegars are used to almost instantaneously oxidize various metals.
The coil and other metals inside the clearo can/will form a layer of oxidation after being in contact with vinegar especially vinegar water mixtures.
So then we dry burn to remove the layer of oxidation then rinse with water which creates a new layer of oxidation. You might think a dry burn will prevent oxidation, the wick is still saturated with water so the wicks doing their job keep the coil wet until the water evaporates from the wick.
Water simply takes too long to dry which leads to a condition where metals oxidize, water + metal = rust.
Coil oxidation from using water or vinegar to clean is far more likely to cause contamination of the juice and or fowl taste than a rapidly evaporating non reactionary with metals cleaner such as PGA.

A clearo filled with PGA and let sit for a 2 ~ 10 minute soak then emptied & lightly dry burned, then rinsed with PGA (filled 1/2 way vigorously shook then emptied) then another 1 ~2 second dry burn is as clean as one can get and you don't have to wait 12 ~ 24 hours for the water to evaporate.
Cleaned with PGA the clearo is ready for use as soon as the wicks look dry.

Just me, if a clearo gives off a plastic taste it and the juice inside go into the trash immediately.
In my opinion if what you're inhaling tastes like plastic that should set off warning bells in your head, hmm,,, none of my juices have a plastic flavor the taste must be coming from somewhere other than my juice, this can't be a good thing. .

Most if not all of these cheap clearos are mass produced by extremely low QC manufacturers made from plastics of often unknown and or flat out misrepresented quality.

 

[Oktyabr]

Mine (ALL my silica wicked devices, not just clearos) get disassembled so the wick and coil can be accurately cleaned, then get a quick rinse under HOT tap water. This helps chase any remaining juice out of the wicks *and* helps melt some of the gunk that may have accumulated. Then I dab the wicks dry with paper towels.

Then a quick swish in unflavored vodka to help displace any remaining water, melt more gunk, and kill any possible bacteria. Dab dry again with paper towels.

Assemble *without* the tank or top, so the coil is exposed. Pulse the fire button to "dry burn" until the coils get a nice, even orange glow. Adjust with needle or toothpick, etc. if spacing is bad. **After a tank is freshly filled with juice is NOT the best of times to discover there may be a short in your coil!** While I do this I also blow hard on the coil to help blow out any gunk (that has now been baked to ash) off of the coil. Again, the toothpick, etc. may assist in this.

Re-assemble and fill with juice. If I'm not going to fill it immediately after dry burning, or if the device is particularly nasty (some flavors are VERY persistent!) I may leave it (all the components exposed to juice) over night in a vodka bath and then dry burn the next day.

Tap water generally has chlorine in it to inhibit bacteria. PG, used in our juices is also a great bactericide.