coil gunk woes D:

[element9633]

so I normally change my cotton wick and dry burn my coils once every two to three days or so. well today im on my way to work and I notice im not getting very good hits. turns out my coils were gunked up like crazy and were not heating properly. The only thing ive done different is chance to a mint chocolate chip e juice. it must be something in this juice!! I got home and did a thorough cleaning and im back to great hits again.

just wondering how often you other rebuilders change your cotton out and clean coils

 

[doots]

so I normally change my cotton wick and dry burn my coils once every two to three days or so. well today im on my way to work and I notice im not getting very good hits. turns out my coils were gunked up like crazy and were not heating properly. The only thing ive done different is chance to a mint chocolate chip e juice. it must be something in this juice!! I got home and did a thorough cleaning and im back to great hits again.

just wondering how often you other rebuilders change your cotton out and clean coils

every couple of days here.

 

[Bigflyrodder]

I should at least change the cotton and dry burn every day or every other at the longest but I don't. I've run my KFL+ for maybe 10 days just changing flavors by vaping it dry and refilling with the next without changing wick and seems to work fine as long as flavors aren't wildly different. RDAs I do more often than that but not as often as I should.

If you're talking rewicking coil heads in tanks, change the wicks in those when I rewrap the coils which is when they obviously start to fail.

 

[element9633]

do you notice a great decrease in performance when your coils gunk up? because mine was a seriously noticeable drop in performance... to the point where I was so disappointed it wasn't hitting, that I just opted not to use it all day lol

 

[Susan W.]

Like you already figured out, it depends on the juice. I don't re-wick or dry burn anymore. I just rebuild. Sometimes daily depending on the juice. Some juices I can go a week or so, maybe longer with menthols.

 

[element9633]

I should at least change the cotton and dry burn every day or every other at the longest but I don't. I've run my KFL+ for maybe 10 days just changing flavors by vaping it dry and refilling with the next without changing wick and seems to work fine as long as flavors aren't wildly different. RDAs I do more often than that but not as often as I should.

If you're talking rewicking coil heads in tanks, change the wicks in those when I rewrap the coils which is when they obviously start to fail.

nah im talking on an rda no tanks here. and I do have the tendency to change flavors without changing my cotton out so im sure that's causing a lot of what happened lol

 

[Spazmelda]

I've got one liquid that gives me about a tank (Kayfun) before the coil and wick are totally gunked up. I don't use that one much, but it's tasty.

 

[Jenn Perry]

Some of my "sweeter" vapes get gunky really quick too. I can go days without a change and then bam it gunks up in a day of a certain liquid.

 

[element9633]

Like you already figured out, it depends on the juice. I don't re-wick or dry burn anymore. I just rebuild. Sometimes daily depending on the juice. Some juices I can go a week or so, maybe longer with menthols.

don't get me wrong, I was assuming it was the juice. I just posted this to see how often people dry burn and or rebuild. I love rebuilding, and I would do that, but sometimes you just get that one build that just does it for you, ya know? Sometimes I find that perfect build and instead of hassling to rebuild, I would just rather re wick lol

 

[Frenchfry1942]

Mint is tougher than the average and I get gunk with the chocolate. Just cleaning the coils more often. As to cleaning my bottom coils, I just soak them in vinegar/water for 45-60 minutes. When I take them out, I look at the exposed coil. Generally they are clean, but I take my finger nail and run it through the fibers. After that I hold it with needle-nosed players under the hottest flowing water I can. I let them air dry and they seem good to re-use. Some flavors are just harder to clean/remove the flavor.

 

[Unforeseen]

Moved from General E-Smoking Discussion to Assorted PV Topics - Rebuildable Atomizer Systems

 

[SkvLTD]

I personally only do SS mesh, so with that setup I only really watch for drastic ohm drops as an indicator when it's time to look at the coil. I had one juice gunk up my stuff quickly upon trying it (probably due to a previous and gradual build-up), so all I did was- open everything up, dry burn and blow all that crap off, wiped the debris off of every area I could reach, closed back up, and it went back to running as it should.

No need to fully rebuild since coils do clean themselves when you dry/glow burn and blow all the crap off of them.

 

[BeRight]

Yes - I have the same experience as you - my worse offender is when I use root beer loran's flavoring - major gunk up coil - both inside and outside of coil

Takes me longer to burn off caked up stuff than any other flavoring I use in my DIY juices.

I only use the root beer with RDAs because of this - just easier to clean and re-wick.

 

[SkvLTD]

Granted, I've only ever seen gunk cake once, ever. And having SS mesh builds, cleanup wasn't too bad either. But as I've said, having a battery with ohm meter helps see exactly when something goes horribly wrong on the inside.

 

[Shofixti]

My menthols last at least 3 days before I need to dry burn.

My coffee flavors require dry burns every tank refill.

 

[Mark Anthony]

do you notice a great decrease in performance when your coils gunk up? because mine was a seriously noticeable drop in performance... to the point where I was so disappointed it wasn't hitting, that I just opted not to use it all day lol

I only rewick when I notice a drop off in performance. I use mostly light color juice so mine will generally last for a couple of weeks before needing to be rewicked and a dry burn on the coils. Darker juices will gunk up the coils faster it seems than the light colored juices.

 

[TrolleyVW]

I was using a dark, thicker, banana-vanilla juice that gunked my coils up like crazy. Turned everything near black. At lower resistance , I'm sure it was worse than if I were using it above .5 even but I would just re-cotton after every 2 days or so. I would take the old cotton out, dry fire until red, quickly put under cold water, re-fire again, rinse, repeat. Usually, if done soon enough, you can get the coils looking almost new.

 

[Aphex_Twin]

for a lot of the coils I am partial to, I will just take the entire coil unit still attached to the posts, remove the wicking material, and hit it up in an ultrasonic cleaner for 3 rounds at 3 minutes apiece in warm water. Dont use any soap or cleansers (duh).
It's cleaned every single coil I've had so far and still vapes great. You can pick up an ultrasonic cleaner on amazon for about $22.

 

[Tooth Tamer]

for a lot of the coils I am partial to, I will just take the entire coil unit still attached to the posts, remove the wicking material, and hit it up in an ultrasonic cleaner for 3 rounds at 3 minutes apiece in warm water. Dont use any soap or cleansers (duh).It's cleaned every single coil I've had so far and still vapes great. You can pick up an ultrasonic cleaner on amazon for about $22.

Interested in a ultra sonic cleaner which one are you using from Amazon?

 

[Rickb119]

I have several dozen coils in rotation and swap them out every morning for the same reason that I keep my gas tank topped off. I want to make sure that I have enough "fuel" to get me through the day.