Does anyone else just dry-burn?

[bushmaster]

No soaking or other preparatory measures. If I find a atty becoming a little sluggish when I'm out fishing or away from the house, I'll pull the cart off and dry-burn for 3-4 seconds, blow on the bridge, dry-burn for 3-4 seconds, etc, until I find the smoke coming off the atty quicker and the red glow coming quicker. Makes a big difference in the vape afterwards and hasn't done any harm that I've seen.

 

[LowThudd]

Just FYI, I used to dry burn all the time, until I lost like 4 attys in a row. Just my 2 cents.

 

[speedemon]

Yes i do that works dood.Screwed up my 1'st try did not blow it cool inbetween heat ups.Pop went the atty.As long as you heat for a couple of seconds then blow it for cool down.Repeat over till better works great

 

[Hammond Egger]

I used the dry burn method very successfully for about a month then went through three attys in five days. Now I'm a little gunshy.

 

[jiveman]

yea this works great, i still do it, but like people have said, you're going to go through a lot more attys. I went through 3 in a month because I "popped" them by going just a bit too long on a dry burn, or doing it too frequently. I was careful to stop as soon as I saw the glow appearing, or if it felt hot, but they all "popped" out suddenly at one point or another because it's not always easy to distinguish. I can't really think of an alternative though to get the same result as efficiently, so i'm still on board with the dry burning.

 

[kj4lxw]

Been following Ourei's advice from this thread and it's been working great for me.

Just keep blowing on the coil as I burn, continue blowing for cool down after releasing the batt's manual button.
If I need to take a breath I let go the button, take a quick breath and blow a second or two to aid in cool down, then crank it up again.

I use my pt to burn as it will run 8-9 seconds before auto shut off so I can get good long burns, I count to 5-6 for each burn. Then count to 3 on cool down.

The other weird thing I do (and we all have some weird .... thing we doing in our pv maintennace), I use a drinking straw to blow through. Use it to aim the air right into the atty.
I keep burning until there is no smoke. Sometimes I have to dry burn a little while until it will start smoking. Then I keep going until it won't anymore. I might do it every 3rd day, I might do it twice a day, been working ok for me and my 510 attys so far.

ymmv....

 

[doots]

No soaking or other preparatory measures. If I find a atty becoming a little sluggish when I'm out fishing or away from the house, I'll pull the cart off and dry-burn for 3-4 seconds, blow on the bridge, dry-burn for 3-4 seconds, etc, until I find the smoke coming off the atty quicker and the red glow coming quicker. Makes a big difference in the vape afterwards and hasn't done any harm that I've seen.

That's what I do too but I do it every few days.. I don't wait for any big buildups,