Cleaning Kanger PT2 coils

[Virtual Life]

I am happy enough with the vapor but not the longevity. Been using PT2's for 2 months now and I have enough coils that I just saved them when they tasted burnt or clogged. I did keep the burnt ones separate so I know I only tried to clean non-burnt ones.

It was a dismal failure. I took off the silicon rings and set them aside. Took off the top post and removed flavor wicks. Boiled in water all but the silicon and wicks for 10 minutes. Discovered the flavor wicks won't survive this, lost 2 in seconds, so removed them from the water. Blotted out the wicks as best I could. Dry burned the coils until the silica turned white again and no residue on coil (used magnifying glass), rinsed everything and let air dry for 10-12 hours. I put one back together and it tastes horribly burnt.

I did try to use it without the flavor wick but then it floods. I suspect it is the used wicks that are my problem. Any thoughts? I do have cotton balls and trying that next, but do I need to sterilize (boil) them first?

 

[vaperature]

Not sure where you got that incredibly complicated procedure from but cleaning the heads is a lot simpler than that. There's really no need to boil anything or air dry anything. When I clean my heads, all I do is run them under warm water. Then I dry burn them. If the flavor wick looks shot I just replace it with a bit of new silicon wick. You don't have to let anything air dry. Just squeeze it inside a paper towel for a few seconds after blowing through it with your mouth. Then dry burn it. It's not going to get any drier than that.

Using cotton isn't something I can give advice on because I've been using the same heads for months now and still haven't gotten to the point where I'm forced to rebuild one because a coil and wick is that shot.

 

[Virtual Life]

OK, so there is an easier way. But over-cleaning as I did still leaves me with a burnt taste. How can that be? Dry burning too much will melt the silicone insulator; this is not likely because I have watched many videos before trying.

 

[EBates]

CJLaity and I use the same procedure with one exception. I use very warm water and hold each atomizer under the running faucet so anything in the heating coil chamber is rinsed away by the rushing water. I do a final rinse using an eye dropper half full of Everclear. Then blow it out and it's good to go.
The only time I remove the 'stem' from the atomizer is when I rebuild it.
I've tried boiling once, but didn't see any improvement over the process described above.
My experience with burnt atomizers is, unless you have 'cremated' the atomizer. The above process should get it cleaned up, but it may take a few hits after cleaning for it to go away. If not its' next stop is the trash, spare parts, or rebuild pile.

Good Luck

Update:
Tried the Dry Burning technique today.
That Really Works. Had a Protank atomizer that I had tried to clean using my cleaning process above on 2 times after having burned it by inadvertently holding the fire button down on my Vamo.
Watched a couple of videos on cleaning using the Dry Burn technique. Decided to try it on the burnt atomizer.
Opened the atomizer finding the flavor wick black and the main wick and coil black and caked with crud.

Rinse in hot water
Dry Burn
Blow it out
Reassemble
Fire it up.

The first couple of puffs had a slight burnt taste, due to re-using the original flavor wick, but beyond that the atomizer is good as new.