What a good way to get extra life from a coil? It's seems too small to rebuild and I've heard cooking them is not good.
Coil cleaning
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It depends on what your doing it on.
In an rda:
1) Remove the wick, unless it is silica, which will not burn.
2) Pulse the coil until red hot, continue to pulse for a few seconds to really burn all the gunk.
3) While continuing to pulse, blow on the coil to remove burnt off gunk.
4) Rewick the coil.
In most clearos:
1) Remove wick, unless silica
2) Pulse the coil very gently, blowing continually - hard. If it gets red hot you will more than likely scorch the rubber grommet, at which point you may as well throw away the coil.
3) Rewick
In an rda:
1) Remove the wick, unless it is silica, which will not burn.
2) Pulse the coil until red hot, continue to pulse for a few seconds to really burn all the gunk.
3) While continuing to pulse, blow on the coil to remove burnt off gunk.
4) Rewick the coil.
In most clearos:
1) Remove wick, unless silica
2) Pulse the coil very gently, blowing continually - hard. If it gets red hot you will more than likely scorch the rubber grommet, at which point you may as well throw away the coil.
3) Rewick
^^^This. The silica might turn white or even glow. don't worry about it, it won't burn up. +1 on the rubber grommet. I've wrecked a few attys because of that.
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I do it a lot these days though. It just took me a while to figure out the trick to it.
Which is, as I said above, to pulse very gently so as not to build up too much heat, and blow as hard as you can. I have experienced a few head rushes from this
. Oh, another thing... blow at an angle with the clearo coils, I had red hot gunk blow up into my face once, the price of experimentation I guess.
The best way to prolong the life of a coil is to avoid gunking it up in the first place. If you stay away from dark, sweet eliquids, your coils will last a long time and won't need drastic measures, like dry burning. I only vape clean, clear ejuices and my regimen is very simple: once a week I just soak them in PGA (if you can't get PGA, a cheap, strong vodka is a good substitute) and once in a while I fill my tanks with unflavored base (PG or PG/VG mix), increase the wattage a bit and vape that for a while until the juice in the tank runs clear. PG is a good solvent and this method of wet burning is gentler on the coil than dry burning.
If you don't (or can't) use alcohol, denture cleaning tablets are almost as good when it comes to coil cleaning--just get an unflavored variety, unless you like minty flavors. You can also drop your coils in a microwavable bowl, cover well with distilled water and nuke them for a few minutes. Just make sure that your coils are fully submerged in water.
That said, all coils are disposable and should be discarded as soon as the vapor production and/or flavor begin to deteriorate.
Good luck and welcome to ECF!
If you stay away from dark, sweet eliquids, your coils will last a long time and won't need drastic measures, like dry burning. I only vape clean, clear ejuices and my regimen is very simple: once a week I just soak them in PGA (if you can't get PGA, a cheap, strong vodka is a good substitute) and once in a while I fill my tanks with unflavored base (PG or PG/VG mix), increase the wattage a bit and vape that for a while until the juice in the tank runs clear. PG is a good solvent and this method of wet burning is gentler on the coil than dry burning. If you don't (or can't) use alcohol, denture cleaning tablets are almost as good when it comes to coil cleaning--just get an unflavored variety, unless you like minty flavors. You can also drop your coils in a microwavable bowl, cover well with distilled water and nuke them for a few minutes. Just make sure that your coils are fully submerged in water.
That said, all coils are disposable and should be discarded as soon as the vapor production and/or flavor begin to deteriorate.
Good luck and welcome to ECF!
Denture cleaning tabs that dissolve and fizz work really well for me. I give coils 2 short baths, rinse with hot water, dry them and then do a dry burn. Replace the flavor wicks with new wicking and the coil works like it is new. Can do this with a coil 3-4 times before discarding it.
All I've been doing with mine is giving them a hot water bath.
Then take them apart and dry the parts out. Dry burn the coil with short bursts till it glows evenly.
I let it all dry overnight, put the original flavor wick back in and vape on.
Works good so far.
Then take them apart and dry the parts out. Dry burn the coil with short bursts till it glows evenly.
I let it all dry overnight, put the original flavor wick back in and vape on.
Works good so far.
On my bottom coil cartomizers I simply:
-remove the tip thingy from the atty
-remove the top wick(s)
-soak atty in very hot water for a while, or rinse in hot running water
-let dry
-dry burn ... carefully
-rinse in hot running water (again)
-let dry (again)
-put the top wick(s) back in, or new top wick(s)
... and I'm ready to vape again, with an atty that tastes, works and feels like new.
-remove the tip thingy from the atty
-remove the top wick(s)
-soak atty in very hot water for a while, or rinse in hot running water
-let dry
-dry burn ... carefully
-rinse in hot running water (again)
-let dry (again)
-put the top wick(s) back in, or new top wick(s)
... and I'm ready to vape again, with an atty that tastes, works and feels like new.
I soak mine in Everclear. Then soak in hot water. Take them out of water and let them dry out.
Will try rebuilding coils later on this week.
I agree that dark-sweet e-liquids are very hard to clean....but those flavors are some that I really like to vape.
Will try rebuilding coils later on this week.
I agree that dark-sweet e-liquids are very hard to clean....but those flavors are some that I really like to vape.
I hot, hot water rinse, dry burn, hot water rinse.
DO NOT DRY BURN COTTON.
I use to soak in alcohol, rinse in hot water. I've used the denture tabs, they did ok. I'm finding lately that just rinsing in hot water before a dry burn works fine for me, though I did give up one flavor that gunked up badly and quickly.
Rebuilding is really not that difficult. I watched a BUNCH of videos on youtube, then finally gave it a try.
DO NOT DRY BURN COTTON.
I use to soak in alcohol, rinse in hot water. I've used the denture tabs, they did ok. I'm finding lately that just rinsing in hot water before a dry burn works fine for me, though I did give up one flavor that gunked up badly and quickly.
Rebuilding is really not that difficult. I watched a BUNCH of videos on youtube, then finally gave it a try.
I use protank and puritanks exclusively:
Soak in alcohol overnight
Rinse throughly with warm tap water forcing water into the wick area
Towel dry and blow out any water
Remove the gasket and stem
Remove the flavor wick(s)
Dry burn 6 watts, 5 seconds on/off. Repeat until coils are all turning red and wick is clean.
Blow the burned off crud away
Place the flavor wick back on top of the coil
Dry burn as above to cleanup the flavor wick (4-5 cycles should do it)
Reinstall the stem and gasket.
You are good to go.
Soak in alcohol overnight
Rinse throughly with warm tap water forcing water into the wick area
Towel dry and blow out any water
Remove the gasket and stem
Remove the flavor wick(s)
Dry burn 6 watts, 5 seconds on/off. Repeat until coils are all turning red and wick is clean.
Blow the burned off crud away
Place the flavor wick back on top of the coil
Dry burn as above to cleanup the flavor wick (4-5 cycles should do it)
Reinstall the stem and gasket.
You are good to go.
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I use mostly RBA's because they are so easy to maintain. I dry burn and change wicks after about 4 days equivalent use.
I use a lower wattage setting (7 watts) so the coil doesn't burn out. Remove wick, Fire button until it starts glowing red/orange, release, and repeat about another 3-4 times. A 30 gauge wire lasts me about 2 months before I have to recoil. Easy, even for a lazy guy like me.
I use a lower wattage setting (7 watts) so the coil doesn't burn out. Remove wick, Fire button until it starts glowing red/orange, release, and repeat about another 3-4 times. A 30 gauge wire lasts me about 2 months before I have to recoil. Easy, even for a lazy guy like me.
One word, two syllables........VODKA! This cleans well and when left to air dry, the alcohol will evaporate almost entirely. Once the coil reaches temperature it will burn off any residual alcohol left from the cleaning. I found that if you pulse it once or twice before filling and priming, it does the trick. Won't taste a thing (unless you use a flavored vodka). Works we'll for me and my coils last twice as long.
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