Cleaning The Ego-T

[kingcobra]

I've read some people who have been surprised at my fairly light routine cleaning my ego-t attys, so I wanted to let people know exactly what I'm doing, and maybe get some comments from other people as well.

A lot of people will use water or solvents on the atty and I've read that some people are saying they have had some not so good experiences with it and recommend you don't run anything through it other than juice, even water, and that you don't really need to. I agree here, and you hear a lot of stories about how people have trouble with these attys and have killed them and I suspect this is the main reason. They aren't designed for these other substances. You have enough trouble getting rid of the damn primer fluid they put in it, you don't want anything else messing with it.

So what I do when I sense that the draw is even a little harder, which is every couple of days or so, is to completely blow it out and then with the cart out, give it about 5 dry burns of about 3 seconds each. You don't want to go any longer than that as you will overheat the atty, but this burns off some of the old stuff on it it seems. Then I just put the tank back in and I'm good to go for another couple of days.

I have a new atty I'm looking to break in and I compared them and the one I've been using for 6 weeks performs just as well as the new one. I'm still trying to get the new one clean though as far as the primer juice goes, which is a bit of a pain but there doesn't seem to be an easy way around this. What I do with that one is, start with blowing all the excess fluid you can, and then vape the thing without inhaling here and there to break it in. Then here and there you blow the thing out and then keep working it. I don't want to inhale it until it's clean because the juice still has a bit of a crappy taste to it. Then once you've vaped about 3/4 of the tank, dump and wipe it out and start fresh and this gets you pretty close to where you want to be.

So this all seems like it's a bit of a pain in the ... to break in a new atty but it's really not that bad and beats using it without the good taste.

 

[AllYourBase]

I don't rinse my tank atties in water or alcohol either. If it feels plugged, I blow it out for a minute, then keep vaping. I've never done any cleaning to them other than that.

This seems to work great, as I am still using the original two atties that came with my starter kit. Five months ago. Amazingly, they both still work like new, which surprises me because I am a fairly heavy vaper. I think it's probably pure luck that they are still working, though.

 

[Antoly]

Wow! Five months! I've never been able to make them work well for more that five days. Killed 15 of eGo-Ts in two months. Tried all known ways of cleaning. I think now that you are right, any extensive cleaning destroys wick more or less. But what about the gunk on the coil? Blowing out doesn't remove it. I think you case AllYourBase is not just a pure luck but a proper e-juice, not producing a lot of gunk.

 

[AllYourBase]

Well, I've vaped DIY juice almost exclusively, using 100% PG for the first three months and a 75/25 VG/PG mix for the last two months. I'm not sure why it doesn't cake onto the coil, my juice is pretty thick.

 

[Concat]

I’m really lazy when it comes to cleaning my atties. I’ve been vaping for almost 3 months and I swear I’ve probably only cleaned each atty twice. I haven’t had any die on me either. I use Ego-T and Ego LR atties.

I have a more reactive routine than proactive. That is, when they start to suck, I toss em in a bowl of warm vodka. Let em dry overnight, then dry burn them and rinse them with hot water, and finally dry overnight again.

Blowing out the juice every 3 days seems wasteful. Hell I’ve read that at least one person on here does it every day. I just don’t notice a performance drop until weeks of neglect :/

 

[Switched]

I've read some people who have been surprised at my fairly light routine cleaning my ego-t attys, so I wanted to let people know exactly what I'm doing, and maybe get some comments from other people as well.

A lot of people will use water or solvents on the atty and I've read that some people are saying they have had some not so good experiences with it and recommend you don't run anything through it other than juice, even water, and that you don't really need to. I agree here, and you hear a lot of stories about how people have trouble with these attys and have killed them and I suspect this is the main reason. They aren't designed for these other substances. You have enough trouble getting rid of the damn primer fluid they put in it, you don't want anything else messing with it.

So what I do when I sense that the draw is even a little harder, which is every couple of days or so, is to completely blow it out and then with the cart out, give it about 5 dry burns of about 3 seconds each. You don't want to go any longer than that as you will overheat the atty, but this burns off some of the old stuff on it it seems. Then I just put the tank back in and I'm good to go for another couple of days.

I have a new atty I'm looking to break in and I compared them and the one I've been using for 6 weeks performs just as well as the new one. I'm still trying to get the new one clean though as far as the primer juice goes, which is a bit of a pain but there doesn't seem to be an easy way around this. What I do with that one is, start with blowing all the excess fluid you can, and then vape the thing without inhaling here and there to break it in. Then here and there you blow the thing out and then keep working it. I don't want to inhale it until it's clean because the juice still has a bit of a crappy taste to it. Then once you've vaped about 3/4 of the tank, dump and wipe it out and start fresh and this gets you pretty close to where you want to be.

So this all seems like it's a bit of a pain in the ... to break in a new atty but it's really not that bad and beats using it without the good taste.

Blow them out and every now and again Vape a tank of unflavoured liquid. Dry burning atties although extremely popular leads to premature death.

 

[heXy]

My first tank died prematurely due to alcohol cleaning. Now I just do a brief blow out and run a tank of PG through it. Works like a charm, 3 months old and still going strong.

 

[Lambch3p]

When my juice starts turning dark in the tank or they seem clogged I soak with a denture tab for 15 minutes and drop everything into my sonic jewelry cleaner for a while, rinse and let them dry. I haven't had a single problem with any of my ego-t or lr ego-t attys, everyone is still going strong. I bought my first in Febuary. They all vape like new. I also use 100% vg (I add distilled water to thin it a little). I've never had any leaking or wicking problems with any of them and I'm still using my original tanks that I pop the tops off of to fill. The ego-t has really been WAY less maintance, less fussing and less mess then the normal 510.

 

[BCman]

im using the bauway ego itanks and all im doing is when i notice the taste going nasty and flavor nonexistent and lack of vapor is simple running them under hot tap water for 1 min, blow out, dry for 24hrs, then lightly dry burn 4-5 times. Coming up to 80 days now and its still going strong.
My juice ratio is pretty much 75-80%vg 20%pg.

 

[UnoAllaVolta]

I've tried all sorts of fancy methods without much success. kingcobra's blow and burn seems to be working best so far.

 

[kalvinf]

I don't rinse my tank atties in water or alcohol either. If it feels plugged, I blow it out for a minute, then keep vaping. I've never done any cleaning to them other than that.

This seems to work great, as I am still using the original two atties that came with my starter kit. Five months ago. Amazingly, they both still work like new, which surprises me because I am a fairly heavy vaper. I think it's probably pure luck that they are still working, though.

Well luck or not, this is working for you and I'm down for the simpler the better.

 

[kingcobra]

The rince under hot water might be worth a try as a last resort for me I guess, when the usual stuff doesn't do it anymore. Blowing out the old juice might seem like a waste but it does work for me and we're not talking that much juice really. A tenth of a ml maybe, what does that cost, a nickel? It's not that this juice is fresh anyway so that doesn't bother me. Blowing it out every day might be a little much though, every 2 or 3 days seems to be enough in my experience anyway.

As for damaging the atty with a little dry burn, well it's not exactly dry as there is juice in the thing you want to burn off, we'll see about that, you may be right, but having the thing clean is important too. It does seem like less is better though and the less you do the longer it lasts based upon other people's stories on here. So maybe I'll just try blowing it out and just go with that and I can save the dry burns for when that doesn't work. Thanks to everyone who shared their experiences here!

 

[DevilFishPhil]

I've only been using mine for a week but I've been changing flavors 2 or 3 times a day so I've been cleaning it by following kingcobra's method of blowing out the excess liquid, and doing a few quick dry burns. So far I haven't noticed any performance drops and the taste always come in clean.

I'm curious about burning a tank of unflavored PG or VG - do you actually vape an entire tank or just a few puffs?

 

[Concat]

Probably a whole tank. The flavors really seem to hand around in the ego-t. I think there's quite a bit of wicking material to trap the juice.

Hell whenever I switch juices, especially from something strong to a neutral flavor (going from Peach to a mild tobacco), I can still taste the strong flavor after two tanks of the new stuff.

I've never bothered with unflavored stuff. Just don't use conflicting flavors back to back. Banana flavor right after coffee flavor might not be a good idea, for example. But chocolate would be alright.

 

[Pipeous]

I have killed more t attys using the black tanks and vaping them dry, than with ones you see the juice and refill in time. not sold on dry burning them. just blow them out. and I would keep one atty for one juice and had a different colored tank to go with each juice.

it's hit and miss. some attys last forever it seems and some died within a week...