Did i ruin my attys?!!!

[Dpowell]

Last night, i soaked ALL of my attys in water and mostly vodka like i thought i was supposed to do. Then i let dry, blew them out. and used them today. They now taste AWFUL...with a musty burnt taste. I cant even taste my liquid flavors in them.

This is the first time i have done this because normally i just blow them out, but i wanted to get ALL of the flavors out of them!

Now i regret soaking all of my 20 attys...did i ruin them?!

How do i get that taste out?? How do i make them work like they did before?!

PLEASE HELP!​

 

[dysfoundation]

Do a dry burn on them pounds probably still have gunk on them and it soaked up the alcahol but didn't completely dissolve

So put an Atty on your pv
hold the button unill you see a low orange glow.
Then for 30sec rapidly press the Pv button but don't let the coil get bright orange

After that rinse it out and dry it out

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[Dpowell]

Okay, So i need to hold the button down and look at the coil till my 510 turns orange. then hold down and let up constantly for 30 secs. Im afraif to rinse it at all afterward though.

 

[meems]

If you would have rinsed them in water after soaking you should have been fine..

 

[ImJustAvg]

I have never had a problem with a 510 atty cleaning. You can boil them; soak them in alcohol for a few hours and then rinse; but what seems to work best for me is to use a sonic cleaner (from Harbor Frieght) with vodka as the soaking liquid.

Since I only use my 510 for testing out new liquids, it is important that I get all the taste of the old liquid out before trying a new one. And the sonic cleaner does the best in removing the taste.

 

[Dpowell]

Okay, well i rinsed with hot water, then put in battery and got it super hot. Some of them i saw the orange light, but in some i didnt. So the ones where i did not see it, is there something wrong with those?

 

[zoiDman]

I didn't hear you mention anything about 'Priming" the attys after you cleaned them.

After you clean and dry an atty you should put 2 or 3 drops of the e-Juices you are going to use directly into the atty.

 

[Dpowell]

i did, and the ones i couldnt see the orange light up, i got no vapor or really even a hit at all from them.

 

[IOU]

Hey Dpowell,

I don't think you ruined your attys by soaking them in Vodka, but check out this link http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/tips-tricks/69834-my-atty-resurrection-method.html

 

[dysfoundation]

Hey Dpowell,

I don't think you ruined your attys by soaking them in Vodka, but check out this link http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/tips-tricks/69834-my-atty-resurrection-method.html

+1 Best way to clean them

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[Valsacar]

Moved to General section.

 

[n2xe]

I'm afraid that you did indeed ruin all your attys. Once you get the burnt thing going on there is no way to fix it. Dry burn all you want, it just makes it worse.

 

[donnah]

I don't see how you ruined them by soaking them like we all do. If you taste a burnt taste it is probably the wick.. I usually take the wick (not the bridge) out and that takes care of the burnt taste. From what I've seen the only thing that can give you a burnt taste IS the wick. Let us know how it turns out. You can do a youtube search on how to remove the wick.. it's simple and quick..

 

[daisyd]

Only remove the wick if you drip, but I agree with that. The only taste I get from a dry atty now is hot metal. Not tasty, but not the kind of taste where you have to eat garlic to get rid of it either.

 

[silentt]

i soaked a couple cartos and let it dry and filled them up and they don't even fire anymore. it's whatever since i have a lot, but i was just trying to clean them good instead of just blowing them out. I won't do that again.

 

[donnah]

Yea. The wick is just for cartridges. But if you drip you don't need it