Do you clean or just rebuild?

[Njt07]

Does anyone have a good suggestion/method for cleaning tanks with the cotton wicks?

When i was using them, im now using rebuildable atty tanks, i would gently pullout my cotton wick (edit: by twisting the yarn, twisting will break the wick from the coil if its stuck) from the coil, dry burn the coil, blow the ash off or unscrew and rinse off but dry burn again if rinsed, then using a needle threader thread a new cotton wick in and done, takes only a couple min.

honestly you could do this daily, get the peaches and cream cotton yarn from walmart and just have a bunch pre cut and seperated, i was using two threads of 4 for vivi novas.

 

[anavidfan]

I saw this on another post , I saw someone mention using efferdent denture tablets. I tried it out and it works. I figured if efferdent or any other denture tabs are safe for use on something meant for oral use, than its probably fine for cleaning atties. If I do just one I break up the tablet in half and then quarters and add enough water to cover the atty and drop the tab in and let it soak, the longer the better. I tried it on my vivi nova heads done with cotton and works perfectly. I rinse thoroughly and dry and use. Just like new.

 

[guitarman023]

I actually have a crest spin brush pro that put water on and then scrub the coil and wick on my bliss atty. I check ohms, I wrap my coils at 1.5 roughly and once they get up to about 2.5 or close, I wrap a new one. I also take this time to hit the wick with the torch to freshen it up as well. My coils usually last about 3 weeks before I wrap a new one. They cost me .5 cents to rebuild.

 

[Dougiestyle]

I have ceramic wick in my A7 and it holds up to dry burn, as well as hitting it with a pen torch. The ceramic doesn't break-down with the heat. Cleaning is a real PITA when I'm only doing it once a week. I've taken to dabbing as much nicquid out as I can, then I invert the coil/wick in a capful of PGA and fire several times. After wet-burning it in PGA I dry-fire it until it glows orange. By this time if the ceramic's not white agian, I repeat. I've had success with this in my A7 as well as the VVN. I haven't touched the VVN since building my VW Bottomfeeder, tho.

Cotton wicks don't hold up to dry burn. Don't even try it. Coils can be salvaged from nasty cotton wicks, but once a cotton wick is toast, it's toast. Hug it goodbye if you so choose.

 

[anavidfan]

I have ceramic wick in my A7 and it holds up to dry burn, as well as hitting it with a pen torch. The ceramic doesn't break-down with the heat. Cleaning is a real PITA when I'm only doing it once a week. I've taken to dabbing as much nicquid out as I can, then I invert the coil/wick in a capful of PGA and fire several times. After wet-burning it in PGA I dry-fire it until it glows orange. By this time if the ceramic's not white agian, I repeat. I've had success with this in my A7 as well as the VVN. I haven't touched the VVN since building my VW Bottomfeeder, tho.

Cotton wicks don't hold up to dry burn. Don't even try it. Coils can be salvaged from nasty cotton wicks, but once a cotton wick is toast, it's toast. Hug it goodbye if you so choose.

Try the denture tabs, Dougie, it works wonders, cotton come out white and the coils are clean.