Alcohol and hot tap water don't seem to be doing a great job on cleaning my heads. I was wondering if any of you has tried peroxide, the kind you use to put into a wound (not the kind of stain removal).
Cleaning heads with peroxide?
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Putting hydrogen peroxide on a wound is damaging to the delicate new cells that are forming in the process of healing, and actually is a very bad idea.
I don't see how oxidizing an atty would help unless you were trying to roll a mesh wick? Simple heat would work much better?
I don't see how oxidizing an atty would help unless you were trying to roll a mesh wick? Simple heat would work much better?
Using Hydrogen Peroxide is an alternative to Dry burning. Here is a link that has a wealth of info about cleaning. I use wet burning as it is called on some attys.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/new-members-forum/7300-newbies-guide-cleaning-your-atomizer.html
Hope this helps. But if your atty has a coil you can see then dry burn is much easier. I only do it on the dual coil ones and any carto that the the coil is hidden.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/new-members-forum/7300-newbies-guide-cleaning-your-atomizer.html
Hope this helps. But if your atty has a coil you can see then dry burn is much easier. I only do it on the dual coil ones and any carto that the the coil is hidden.
I keep posting this tip and so far I dont think anyone else has tried it - but I swear to you - denture cleaning tablets work beautifully! Of course rinse after using. I have tried alcohol, hydrogen peroxide etc and denture cleaning tablets work much better than either one.
Just pulled two atties out of a small bowl of denture cleaning solution.
Don't know if I got the idea from you, but it was someone on this forum. If it was you, thanks.
Those tabs are cheap. At Walgreens, 3.99 for 90 of them with their brand.
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I'm so glad you said this! Obviously, you know a lot about wound care.
HP is only good to immediately sanitize a cut if nothing else is available.
As for using to clean anything w/metal in it, naw.
For what it's worth, I use baking soda and vinegar followed by a blow out followed by a hot water rinse followed by a blow out followed by a few minutes under the hair dryer to clean my attys.
This is a first, I had never heard of that. Peroxide liberates the oxigen and is a great way to clean a wound, not to kill bacteria, but dirt, rust and other factors that would keep it from healing. It's much better than alcohol and should be used together to clean a wound throroughly.
Chemically speaking, oxidizing a metal cleans it. Hydrogen peroxide together with baking soda clean and deodorize, and power each other. That's why denture tablets make so much good sense... it's almost the same in a compact form.
My experience with dry burning is that it burns the wicks. I leave it as a last resort if I want to keep my heads lasting longer. I do it in devices I have no access to such as attys or closed clearos such as Kanger T0
I love vinegar (a weak acid, specially great with any grease involved) but it's very hard to rinse. In the long run both form deposits on the coil that can't be removed. The combination is great but I wouldn't use in this particular case.
I used this method once. You pack the atty with b. soda, then keep adding vinegar to it until
it stops fizzing. It sure looks impressive, but in the end, it took quite a while before I stopped
tasting the vinegar. Plus, that process alone did not clean the gunk that well - I could still
taste that burn flavor. Dry burning the bridgeless atty helps a lot.
Make sure you run PLENTY of water... it has baking soda that can leave deposits. It removes a lot, but the citric acid it contains is too weak to remove gunk. Nevertheless I'll try, it's worth the shot!
I avoid dry burning when there's wicks present... it burns them. I leave it as a last resort in closed clearos.
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