Cleaning your atty - dark, delicious juice

[critterbug]

I'm hard on atties. I go through one Joye LR 510 in about 2 days. If I'm being super-considerate of the little thing. I'm doing this at 3.7V/1800mah on a GGTS.

Here's the thing - I love my butterscotch buttercream cupcake. I vape it all day long. Not so continuously that my atty gets really hot, though... that is, until it gets clogged, starts leaking, etc. Then it gets hot fast and tastes not so good. Sadly, that takes only a couple of days.

I'm thinking, since others claim to get a week or two out of their atties (if not more), it must be my favorite juice that is dooming these atties. I am not going to quit vaping it. It's great stuff. Everything else pales in comparison (salute to ol' TV).

So... to those of you who are vaping dark, sweet juice... is this happening to you - the atty getting clogged. If so, what do you do to preserve or rejuvenate your atty?

 

[markimar]

I use carto no attys for me but Im finding caramel favoring, cafe mocha (one of my top 5) and dark liquids do clog my carto quicker. Light colored and fruit juices last a week for me compared to 2 to 3 days on dark liquid. But ill be damned if I'm give up my caramel popcorn and cafe mocha! I truly think the manufacturer's caught on to two week thing and are making them cheapo now so you have to buy more.

 

[BanjoMan]

Not trying to start a hardware war but I find the easiest-to-clean reliable vape for dark, dirty juices are the CE2 cartos. I use a *lot* of TV Tobacco/Menthol daily and it gunks up an atty fast. After killing more than a few trying to clean them I started using the CE2's and never looked back.

They're definitely not for everybody but if you can make them work for you they're very reliable and most importantly, easy to clean.

 

[ames001]

I'm hard on atties. I go through one Joye LR 510 in about 2 days. If I'm being super-considerate of the little thing. I'm doing this at 3.7V/1800mah on a GGTS.

Here's the thing - I love my butterscotch buttercream cupcake. I vape it all day long. Not so continuously that my atty gets really hot, though... that is, until it gets clogged, starts leaking, etc. Then it gets hot fast and tastes not so good. Sadly, that takes only a couple of days.

I'm thinking, since others claim to get a week or two out of their atties (if not more), it must be my favorite juice that is dooming these atties. I am not going to quit vaping it. It's great stuff. Everything else pales in comparison (salute to ol' TV).

So... to those of you who are vaping dark, sweet juice... is this happening to you - the atty getting clogged. If so, what do you do to preserve or rejuvenate your atty?

i'm not too sure what cleaning method you are using, but when my 401s get clogged i simply blow them out, slide them into some vodka, swirl it around a bit, and after 8 - 30 hours (whenever i remember that theres attys soaking) i just boil a pan of water, turn off the heat, through them into a veggie spoon with smaller holes than my atty and jiggle for a minute. i still have all my original ultras and a few regulars from my first month of vaping (i vaped from march 2010- september 2010, had a relapse, and have been vaping again since mid january) granted i always have 13 on the go, but thats still a long time.

i got my ex one of the 510 kits Geoff sold for awhile, and he bought enough extra attys to have 5 atties in total. this was back in july and he vapes about 1/3 of the time... he uses this method and is still vaping 1/3 of his waking days and my last update he still had 3.

 

[critterbug]

thanks, marki, banjo, and ames!

I've done cartos and clog those up pretty quickly, too. I do like the cleanability of the CE2s and the taste. Sometimes on those xls, though, even after cutting the wick, I get a little burnt taste after the liquid is half gone. These all have their pros and cons, but my favorite throat hit, vapor production, and taste comes from an LR atty in its first few hours of life. Darnit Darnit!

ames, I'm trying your cleaning method on a few that I've written off as nasty and clogged. Not much luck with cleaning by vodka soaking and blowing out, but I'm game. Alternative is just throw them away.

marki, yah - what you said. Ultimately, I'm just not giving up my favorite juices!

 

[ames001]

i've put over 120ml through some of these attys. my blowing them out into a tissue, you take almost all of the 'clogging' juice out of the atty. the vodka soak gets the rest, and then the boiling water gets rid of the vodka. once you've blown them out and set them to dry they look, perform, and unless you had a real strong flavor, taste like new

 

[ames001]

i just remembered, i got that cleaning method from a post either in the newbies or equipment subforums. it was discussing every cleaning method as attys are designed to be reusable in contrast to cartos

 

[antlion]

I'm hard on atties. I go through one Joye LR 510 in about 2 days. If I'm being super-considerate of the little thing. I'm doing this at 3.7V/1800mah on a GGTS.

Here's the thing - I love my butterscotch buttercream cupcake. I vape it all day long. Not so continuously that my atty gets really hot, though... that is, until it gets clogged, starts leaking, etc. Then it gets hot fast and tastes not so good. Sadly, that takes only a couple of days.

I'm thinking, since others claim to get a week or two out of their atties (if not more), it must be my favorite juice that is dooming these atties. I am not going to quit vaping it. It's great stuff. Everything else pales in comparison (salute to ol' TV).

So... to those of you who are vaping dark, sweet juice... is this happening to you - the atty getting clogged. If so, what do you do to preserve or rejuvenate your atty?

Heyo, well I've found that if you set your atty in some vodka or even some cheap isopropyl alcohol for an hour or two and then blow it out into a paper towel and let it dry for a few hours you get a good few more sessions out of it before you have to do that again... This seems to particularly be the case with Tasty Vapor juices... With other lighter vapes from other vendors you can just use water and a dry burn and its up in minutes. Tasty Vapor is my special occasion with friends at parties or bonfires usually.

 

[rawrscary]

I have to clean my attys out about every 2-3 days as well or they taste burnt anytime I'm using TV juice. All I do is throw them in a glass with rubbing alcohol when I to go bed, then just run them under hot water and blow them out, then more water, then blow them out till I cant smell the alcohol in them anymore. Then I just sit them up on a paper towel for an hour or so and they are good. Give them one final blow to get any water out and they are squeaky clean again.

Cartos, I just throw away after a few days. Not going to bother cleaning them.

 

[tranced]

I blow them out, soak in hot water until the water cools, blow them out, soak in iso alcohol over night and then rinse with hot water, flush them out really good with a water pick and let dry. Boiling water means walking them into the kitchen and I'm lazy. I do 4 at a time leaving me with one to vape on and they survive quite a bit that way.

 

[Nik-Lux]

Hm, water pick is a good idea. Never thought of cleaning them with that.

 

[4mehealth]

What I've found (in my limited experience) is soaking in anything seems to shorten the life of the atty. With the BP, it seems the atty's last a lot longer. I had one that I thought was on its last legs. Slapped it on the Buzz and it's like it had a new lease on life. Currently at week 5 with a Cisco LR atty. Typically they'd be practically dead in 2 weeks.

All I do is blow it out once or twice a day.