ive seen several different methods of cleaning your coils....just wondering what some of the methods you vets use. I mostly use the kanger t3d and mini protank 3. also, several people have advised me not to dry burn....what do you think?
cleaning your coils....
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I use PBC TANK. So I just unscrew the bottom and that has the coil in it. I throw it in a cup of HOT tap water. Let it sit for like 5 min and then stir, 5 more min then stir. Then take it out and dry everything up, then dry burn the coil untill its clean (flavor wicks and coil itself both should be white, not black anymore.). Then I fill up a nice new tank of juice, put a drop on the coil and the flavor wicks to prime it faster and put it back together. Let it set for 15 min on top of my Silver Bullet then take some dry hits (to get some more liquid going). And ready to rock and roll. I can get my coils to last 3-4 weeks . Not bad for $1.49 each heh.
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Personally, I don't have much confidence in stock coils. I don't dry burn anything I can't take apart and actually watch the coil burn. Another issue is that if you are cleaning, but not re-wicking, sometimes gunk will stick in the silica fibers (I'm talking about the single coils, but guessing the dual coils have silica wicks too) and doesn't burn off, leaving a burnt taste. I cleaned my Kanger heads by swirling them around in a cup of very hot water, drain and repeat a few times, and then leaving them to air dry overnight. When they got too old I put them in a jar to save for when I started rebuilding.
Personally, I don't have much confidence in stock coils. I don't dry burn anything I can't take apart and actually watch the coil burn. Another issue is that if you are cleaning, but not re-wicking, sometimes gunk will stick in the silica fibers (I'm talking about the single coils, but guessing the dual coils have silica wicks too) and doesn't burn off, leaving a burnt taste. I cleaned my Kanger heads by swirling them around in a cup of very hot water, drain and repeat a few times, and then leaving them to air dry overnight. When they got too old I put them in a jar to save for when I started rebuilding.
Sorry to .... in, but new vapers may get confused by what you meant.
It's ok. Dry burning is putting your coil on your mod without the tank after you soaked in Hot water and wiped the bottom part dry. At this point the only part that should have water on it is the coil/flavor wicks. Then hit the fire button for 3 seconds, hit it for 3 seconds etc and blow on em once every 2 rounds (Blowing on the wicks/coils will shake off the black crud on your flavor wicks/coil) until the coil/wicks are white instead of black. My bad 
The good rinse + grain alcohol stuff does work, as it basically helps dissolve the particles, but I sorta gave up on a day or two after learning to rebuild. Like Ocelot I there was still particulates and gunk in the wick, and while the alcohol helped, it was alcohol I couldn't then drink. I'd either need to torch it or dry-burn it hardcore, which meant burnt rubber insulators...
...and then it turned out with the PT2 coils I could just rebuild the whole coil in 10 minutes and it'd be faster than going through all the cleaning steps. It gets way worse with dual coils, both in rebuilding & getting the particulates out. I'm not saying you shouldn't try, but keep your expectations in check as a lot will depend on how much you've let them gunk up. Be prepared to spend a lot of time doing the cleaning steps over and over until you aren't getting a funk if you've let it gunk.
...and then it turned out with the PT2 coils I could just rebuild the whole coil in 10 minutes and it'd be faster than going through all the cleaning steps. It gets way worse with dual coils, both in rebuilding & getting the particulates out. I'm not saying you shouldn't try, but keep your expectations in check as a lot will depend on how much you've let them gunk up. Be prepared to spend a lot of time doing the cleaning steps over and over until you aren't getting a funk if you've let it gunk.
It's ok. Dry burning is putting your coil on your mod without the tank after you soaked in Hot water and wiped the bottom part dry. At this point the only part that should have water on it is the coil/flavor wicks. Then hit the fire button for 3 seconds, hit it for 3 seconds etc and blow on em once every 2 rounds (Blowing on the wicks/coils will shake off the black crud on your flavor wicks/coil) until the coil/wicks are white instead of black. My bad
No, I meant the part where you fill up your tank and take a couple of cold (no power) draws to get the juice wicking. Sometimes that action gets called a "Dry Hit" which it is anything but. If one doesn't get the juice flowing, as you described, then a person could get a dry hit.
I hope I didn't come off too critical, I'm just trying to keep the terminology consistent. It can get confusing, like when someone uses the term "Bottom Feeder," when they mean bottom coil.
No, I meant the part where you fill up your tank and take a couple of cold (no power) draws to get the juice wicking. Sometimes that action gets called a "Dry Hit" which it is anything but. If one doesn't get the juice flowing, as you described, then a person could get a dry hit.
I hope I didn't come off too critical, I'm just trying to keep the terminology consistent. It can get confusing, like when someone uses the term "Bottom Feeder," when they mean bottom coil.
No problem, tomato tamato kinda thing,i guess
and cool, I am actually drinking egg nog <3
You have more focus than I do. I still have my jar of Protank heads. I like wrapping RBAs, but rebuilding PT heads reminds me of watching grass grow.
I throw em in a pot and let them boil for 10-20 minutes. You can actually see all the bubbles moving through the coil and cleaning them. I throw a few spoonfuls of baking soda in there though I have no evidence that that even does anything, but its baking soda, so it probably doesn't hurt. And I only dry burn if there's still some odor hanging around after, which has been maybe 5 times since I started cleaning this way. I use mostly Protank2 and Protank 3 (both exposed and enclosed wicks) coils. I've done it with some aspire coils too, though I've never had a tank work long enough to really gunk those upso i can't really say how it would work. Especially with that rockhard nonsense in the new BVC's that won't even wick my juice lol.
Oooooh with some podcasts going it isn't so bad if you assembly line it -- it's kind of a nice way to zone out as a big batch and not cause trouble. It's a little nicer as microcoils; with the right pg/vg ratio & cotton, that's a pretty damned great vape and dry-burning becomes a lot less ridiculous if you don't let them get too far gone.
Jimbo... you can dry burn dual coil Kanger heads. They (along with Innokin 16, 30) are silica wicked coils which are perfect for burning off the gunk.
Wash them (soak if you want), dry them, dry burn, fill and vape.
Well, I use only rba's, I build my own, wick my own kind of thing. But, once cleaning is due, or usually, more likely, way past due, yank the wick, get out the water pick, and set it on high, cleans 90% of the gunk off the coils, and cleans the build deck, quite nicely, also Just Saying. 
, then once dry, throw it on a mod, pulse the coils up red hot, blow off any ashes, get out a piece of twisted wire, that is used as a rasp file, to clean out the inside and outside of the coil/coils.
Once satisfied with their cleanliness, then do a few pulses and squeeze if necessary, insuring optimal coil heating/pulsing. Once satisfied, wick her up, slip in the juice, and it's off to the vapes.
If you are pulling the wicks, yeah, dry burn baby, get her back down to metal. Primp where needed, wick it, wick it Good!!! Juice it up, test fire, look good??, assemble fill and vape.
Vape long and Prosper.!!!
Just Saying. , then once dry, throw it on a mod, pulse the coils up red hot, blow off any ashes, get out a piece of twisted wire, that is used as a rasp file, to clean out the inside and outside of the coil/coils. Once satisfied with their cleanliness, then do a few pulses and squeeze if necessary, insuring optimal coil heating/pulsing. Once satisfied, wick her up, slip in the juice, and it's off to the vapes.
If you are pulling the wicks, yeah, dry burn baby, get her back down to metal. Primp where needed, wick it, wick it Good!!!
Juice it up, test fire, look good??, assemble fill and vape.Vape long and Prosper.!!!
I have really good results cleaning all my equipment by soaking in distilled white vinegar. Seems to work even better then alcohol.
I've watched a lot of videos claim to just take a bunch of long continuous puffs without inhaling and eventually the burnt taste is gone.
I'd approach this suggestion with care. I tried a vinegar soak once with a stock head and couldn't get the vinegar taste out of the wick no matter what I did.
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