Wow, some of you are taking the plunge and ripping out bridges! Kudos to you! Even if you have a less-than-mediocre experience, I believe it's very educational - you learn a bit about your atomizers

I'll add some info here for those of you who are getting into bridgeless dripping, since this will help many of you in the thread. For those of you who don't direct drip on your coils, this is a look into the routine, so you can see if it's something you want to try! Here goes:
About the mesh in the atomizer, you don't have to pull any of it out if you're scared. As long as the bridge is pulled out, you can drip right on it. The mesh will simply hold liquids, which can affect the taste, so any mesh sticking out that you can twist/cut with the tweezers to get out will help, but it's not necessary.
The stuff in the bottom of the atomizer is connected with 2 wires to the threaded part on the very bottom, and there's some room for play, so if, while pulling out the bridge, you notice everything is moving up, stop and push it all down with the tweezers. Wiggle the bridge and try to get it out without pulling up the bottom. If you have 2 tweezers, you can hold down the bottom parts (the coil in the tub, the surrounding mesh) with one tweezer, while yanking out the bridge with the other tweezer.
There's only 2 things to being a direct dripper - ripping up your atomizer, and cleaning/dry burning it. I'll address the cleaning part in this post for those of you who have already pulled out the bridge
Cleaning the atty:
1 - Blow through the top.
Place the bottom, threaded end of the atomizer in a tissue. You're going to blow through the top, and liquid will come out through the airholes around the threads into the tissue. First, blow as long as you can - doesn't have to be hard - but blow, and listen to the sound... you'll hear gurgling, and other stuff. Blow over and over until things sound clear, or until you run out of breath. Check the tissue. If there's liquid, you should keep blowing. You can actually blow until little to no liquid is on the tissue. Just do it until you tell yourself you're done. If you want, blow until your cheeks puff out, and then squeeze your cheeks in to force air through the atomizer. If you can't do this, that's fine, but it helps. The point is to just get as much liquid as you can out of the atomizer. For really tough, oily liquids (like Atomic Cinnacide, Clove, Pizza, etc) the more you blow, the better!
2 - Blow through the bottom.
Now wipe the threads good, and blow from that end (the bottom) into the tissue, which you'll now be holding over the top end. It's harder to blow from this end, but you just want to clear the airholes of any liquid. So you don't have to blow too hard or too much. Just listen for any gurgling noise and blow until it sounds clear. If you're hardcore, blow really hard (use the puff-cheeks-and-squeeze method) and you'll actually get a lot of juice out. It might not show on the tissue, but look inside the atomizer and you'll see juice all over the inner walls. The mesh surrounding the tub actually has liquid in it. Again, just blow until you're impatient
3 - Wipe inside the atomizer.
This step is easy, and it makes dry burning the atomizer faster. Just twist up a dry part of the tissue, and stuff it into the atomizer. Just get it as far in as you can, and stuff as much tissue as you can into it. Twist the tissue and the atomizer back and forth to wipe the inner walls, the coil, the tub, the mesh stuff - and you're done. If you want, take out the tissue, wad up another clean area of it, and do it again. The cleaner your atomizer, the more of the taste you'll get out of the previous liquid.
and finally,
4 - Dry burn.
In this step, keep blowing constantly. If you stop to take a breath, let go of the button. Blowing whenever you hold the button is the important part
Wipe the threads of the atomizer, screw it on the battery, look into the atomizer and hold the button. Blow into the atomizer while it's burning to clear out the vapor. It'll help cool the atomizer a bit, and you can watch it. When part of it glows orange, you can let go of the button, but keep blowing to cool the coil a bit. After a second or two, hold the button, keep blowing. Go until everything glows orange. Keep blowing and you can press the button, let go, press, let go - when everything is orange, you're done!
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You now have a very, very, very clean atomizer, and I bet you can see WHITE inside the coil. Haha you are so going to enjoy your next vape
Okay. Something to remember is to
shake your bottle before dripping. Especially, especially with harsh juices like atomic cinnacide. Many juices separate when sitting, and you'll pay the price if you don't shake it first!
Shake.
Now put 2 drops in that clean atomizer, and take a vape. If you had a nasty juice in there before, your first few vapes may have a slight leftover taste. But you can bet it'll be gone soon. There's no such thing as a 'flavor that never goes away' when you have a bridgeless, wickless atomizer. You're in the big leagues now
This deep-cleaning of the atomizer can take about a minute or two of your time, and if you're really fussy (like me) you can do it between every single flavor you're using. Even if it means 10 to 20 times in one day. Or if you're lazy (like I sometimes am) you can do it once a day. You'll know it's time to clean your atomizer when you have a taste that won't go away, or you notice it's harder to inhale (meaning there's juice saturated in the mesh area surrounding the ceramic tub). Also if you have a nasty throat hit with your vape, there's a number of reasons - your coil is dirty, you didn't shake your bottle or... wait for it... you're actually tasting the juice full strength (which means next time, get a lower nicotine version!)
I might not have covered everything but I think I did. I'll be happy to help out anyone either in this thread, through private messages, or you can find me living on ECF chat (notice the link on the top of every page that says 'live chat' you just click it and it takes you right to me haha
