Cleaning replaceable heads for Vivi Nova

[daniele25]

Hi All....question for everyone. How do you go about cleaning the replaceable heads for the new Vivi Novas?

I was thinking I would probably follow a similar process that I had gone through with my Stardusts. Rinse with warm water, soak in vodka for an hour or so, rinse again, let dry, dry burn, quick rinse. Dry and vape.

What have you all found to be most effective for these?

 

[meli.]

Hi Daniele, I pretty much do the same with as you, Only I don't dry before I dry burn. And when they fail -wick degrades, I rewick and coil.

 

[donnah]

I just rinse them with water and let them dry.

 

[Syn007]

Hot water is what i'll use. Sometimes when i wanted to clean them thoroughly, i'll add in the extra step of cleaning them with grunge off super soaker. Never fail to turn the wick sparkling white again.

 

[LongHaul]

Tear it apart and replace the insides. Carolinavapes has the wick and wire for 3.86 shipped to me


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[LucentShadow]

My general cleaning routine for anything with the factory-installed silica wick: Rinse the e-liquid out, blot the wick somewhat dry (if possible), dry burn until the coil glows red for several 3-5 second inervals, rinse the ash off, air dry completely. Brings them back to nearly new, many times.

I've also been replacing the wick and wire for quite some time, though. Not the easiest thing to do, but they can work so much better if you experiment with them enough.

 

[donnah]

Tear it apart and replace the insides. Carolinavapes has the wick and wire for 3.86 shipped to me


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I checked that out.. you've been using the nichrome wire? Is it as good as kanthal (or maybe the same thing?) I don't know much about wire. I've rewicked with cotton but I see they're selling a glassfiber wick.. is this the same as silica? Was wanting to get away from silica.

 

[daniele25]

Thanks for all of the info! I'm hoping they hold up better than the Stardusts did after cleaning. (even though I have more spare heads, I never went with the rebuildable Stardusts) Been super happy with how the vivi novas perform so far!

 

[LucentShadow]

I checked that out.. you've been using the nichrome wire? Is it as good as kanthal (or maybe the same thing?) I don't know much about wire. I've rewicked with cotton but I see they're selling a glassfiber wick.. is this the same as silica? Was wanting to get away from silica.

Glass fiber is likely less durable to heat than silica, and probably a worse choice, IMO. Both can have shards of various sizes come off for various reasons.

I've never used kanthal, so I can't compare that. I'm fine with nichrome of the 80% nickel, 20% chromium variety. Some people think that kanthal tastes better. It's generally considered a bit more durable than nichrome, too, but I've never popped a nichrome coil. Any metal allergies would be the biggest consideration, as kanthal is aluminum, iron, and chromium, so a bit different in composition.

 

[DantesInferno]

I rewicked my vivi nova with cotton and 32AWG kanthal. These are super easy to take apart and rebuild. So ya I won't clean them ill just put a new coil on.

 

[Unforeseen]

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[havok333]

If rewicking/recoiling with cotton I'd definitely not try a dry burn after trying to clean. If the cotton scorches it sucks for ever more. Probably easiest just to make new wick/coil as others have already suggested.

One thing I did try whilst waiting for my first order of Kanthal to hit the mailbox...
* Gently pulled old, used-up wick out of a stock coil
* Rinse with warm water
* Dry burned all the crap off the coil until pretty glowing red
* Placed a piece of candle wick on top of the coil

Put everything back together, filled with juice, couple drops down the center tube, let stand 5 minutes to soak up, and vaped away! Wasn't sure if wick lying on top of the coil would feed juice well enough but it did just fine. Even after getting the Kanthal and building coils I've still kept this setup in another VN tank and it still works. After using about 10 days or so taste was going south so pulled that wick out and put a fresh one in. This method doesn't seem to work quite as well as coiling around the wick but is much easier to get things cleaned up.

 

[mostapha]

Normal cleaning: Rinse & dry burn.
More thorough cleaning: vodka soak, & dry burn.

Rinse afterwards…repeat if necessary.

Works for me, and one of my heads is like 38 days old or something like that……used every day……most of it as a sole vape. Love 'em. I want to re-coil/wick with SS Mesh and Kanthal at some point, but they just refuse to die. I have a pile of like 8 or 10 of them because I was afraid they were going to die as fast as cartos……apparently I was worried for nothing.

 

[lotsoffish]

Tear it apart and replace the insides. Carolinavapes has the wick and wire for 3.86 shipped to me


Sent from my truck using 3 toasters a broken microwave and 6 rubber bands McGyver style......Chuck Norris aint got crap on me

What specifically are you purchasing from Carolinavapes to use for a coil and wick?

 

[jbmcdan]

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