Cleaning pro tank 3 coils

[Mogy]

I absolutely suck at tinkering so dont laugh... I been watching all these videos and reading anything i could find on the subject. Gathered up the courage to open the coil so that I can see the wire and the wicks... Unlike the videos i been watching none of my wicks are on top of the coil for easy lift up.. They all jamned underneath the wire... So here is what i did and seemed succesfull so far.

1 did not wait too long to clean them about 2 tankfuls or so

2 soaked the coil in alcohol about 10 or so min.. Did not really time.

3 rinsed very well with hot water from the tap.

4 dried the outside very well.. But left the wicks wet

5 hooked the whole thing on my old ego battery and dryburned in 3 sec intervals till the wire was glowing nicely again.

This did not burn any of the wicks in the coil.. I have never been able to get the wicks out without causing havoc and ruining the coil...

 

[CountBoredom]

...And how'd it go? Hopefully better than my attempts!

Up until last week, all I did was rinse my MT3S coil heads each time I refilled a tank. After a while, the heads went bad and I tossed them into a little baggie with the thought I would experiment on them one day. Then, last week, I tried the dry burn route. Similar to you, I washed the coil (I skipped your alcohol step), dried, removed the flavor wick, and dry burned:

First attempt: I neglected to wash everything after the dry burn, resulting in very bad, burnt taste that ruined all the juice in the tank.
Second attempt: Remembered to wash, et al., and I got vapor--but zero flavor, burnt or otherwise.

I had watched some of the videos, and really couldn't see anything I needed to do differently, so I chalked my failures up to just a general lack of ability. Apparently, dry-burning my coils was not going to work for me.

Then I found this process, and tried it yesterday. First one worked like a charm! The second one cause a bunch of leakage until I discovered that I had not trimmed the wicks enough (one was getting caught in the threading when I was tightening up the tank base). It works now.

If your process failed, give the re-wicking process a shot. Maybe it will help...

 

[Mogy]

Hit n miss lol... Killed 2 saved 1 ... Waiting for my carto tank to get here so that this one can be a back up / switch out 1...


I think the challenge for 2014-2020 will be to learn the basics of tinkering...

 

[C.M. Wilson]

I've had excellent luck with PT3 coils. I bought a Mini 3 close to two months ago. I've binged and chain vaped on that thing ever since! Between flavors, I just rinse the whole thing really well, soak the coils in hot water a little bit, flush them out again. Dry everything off, and then dry burn just until the coil glows all the way across. I changed up the coils a couple weeks ago just to see what happened and the performance change wasn't noticeable. So I guess my process has been working well.

 

[Mogy]

it been getting a whole lot better since i left the coils in place lol.. first i thought i had to get em out... there was no putting them back lol

 

[CountBoredom]

it been getting a whole lot better since i left the coils in place lol.. first i thought i had to get em out... there was no putting them back lol

LOL! That would be the difference between re-wicking and re-coiling, I believe. I'm not brave enough to try re-coiling yet.