Cleaning tank atomizers

[Urban Nightmare]

Just wondering what others do to clean their tank atomizers. I mean the ones with the metal tube with some filler in it to guide the juice down to the atomizer.

My normal bridged atomizers I just run warm water through them and then let dry. I usually put a small piece of paper towel in to soak up the water a bit faster. Give them a short dry burn to evaporate the left over water (after a couple of hours drying) then they are as good as new. Even better because they don't have any plain PG in them. Two drips of juice and I'm vaping again.

Urban Nightmare

 

[Cobber]

Search you tube. There was a great tutorial on how to clean them

How I clean my eGo-t atty... or... Sunday morning at Vicky's kitchen sink - YouTube

I think that is it

 

[Urban Nightmare]

Good video. I just tried pulling the center tube out of my SMK atty and it wouldn't come out. I don't think I want to ruin it now so I'll just wait until it's dead and then dissect it.

 

[Switched]

Best way is to vape 1ml of straight PG through it.

 

[Urban Nightmare]

Then I would have to buy straight PG

Might be worth a shot. I do like how an atomizer tastes right after it's been cleaned. Gets rid of all the flavours I've vaped through it.

 

[Switched]

Menthol liquids also have a cleansing effect IME.

 

[Cokeybill]

For a tank atty, i soak them in vodka for 1/2 hour, rinse in warm water, then soak in hot water, rinse, blow thru batt end and let dry over night. i try to have several attys and use 1 atty for each flavor juice.

 

[Sweeney Todd]

Just started giving the Ego-T tank system a chance (I'm usually a carto man) so I'll try that cleaning method. Thanks!

 

[Pipeous]

I stick with one flavour to a tank, use until it doesn't work well and toss away. they're pretty cheap.

 

[Can_supplier]

I'd advise against cleaning of any kind, as it shouldn't be needed and often does more harm that good.

First, what do you expect to be cleaning out of your atomizer? If you are using a e-liquid made with things meant to be vaped, all that is going to be left behind is the flavor of what you vaped before.

People often mistake an old weak atomizer for one that needs cleaning. When an atomizer get old and weak, it can't keep up. It becomes flooded with juice and doesn't vape well. Many people think cleaning it is the answer. Short term it removes the extra juice so its not flooded and does vape better, but for a very short time (in this short time most reviews of how to clean your atomizer are written), but because the real problem is it was old and tired, very soon it goes back to performing like it did before.

When you clean with many of the "recommend" agents, you can do more harm than good. You are putting something through an atomizer that was never meant to be there. Some of the suggestions can leave deposits that stick to the coil and cause a hot spot, resulting in early failure. Think of if you were to pour your cleaning agent on a glass plate and let it dry, would it leave something behind? Well thats what you are going to have sticking to the coil in the atomizer. Simple tap water is filled with impurites that leave deposits behind.

You also risk taking away the prime of the atomizer, so it is actually running dry and hot after the cleaning.

Many of the suggestions for cleaning agents are products I certainly would not want to inhale, so I would not put them in my atomizer for any reason, regarless of how well I think I got them all out.

My suggestion, cleaning does nothing. If you want to rid your atomizer of a flavor, its like Swtiched said, run pure PG through it.

 

[Pipeous]

yup, I tried boiling cartomizers, soaking crap in alcohol and vinegar... a tank atty is what $8? about the cost of a pack of cigs...

I soon realized boiling a $1 carto was like rolling tobacco from the cig butts

 

[Concat]

I always found cleaning the tank atomizers to ruin them. It’s better to let them just run their course. Cleaning was always a last ditch attempt to get them to work again. If you soak them in water or alcohol or whatever, they take forever to dry out, and most of the time it somehow made the draw way too tight.

Vaping pure PG through it might be the best way to do it. I never tried it, but it seems it would be preferably to water or alcohol.

 

[Cokeybill]

As long as the alcohol gets rinsed out completely and hot water rinsed after...I've had no probs and my original Ego T Type A Attys are still working strong after 5 months. Maybe the clone issue comes into effect? Mine are original Joyetech.