Drop-in Burn-off?

[synergis7]

**The baby, for those who have limited time:

Are you supposed to burn off drop-ins somehow, like you do when you make your own coils? Every time I burn off a new hand wrapped coil, I think to myself "man I'm glad I didn't inhale that noxious smoke!"

Now I have a new drop-in rig, and I wonder, do they burn these off in the factory?

**The delivery, for those with less pressing time constraints:

So for the past couple of years I've been recoiling EVOD tanks- I know, not probably highly regarded here, just a cheap plastic clearo - but they've never failed me, are easy to re-coil, and hit like a truck with some high nic juice. I'm not into cloud chasing, I just want a convenient, reliable mouth-to-lung nicotine delivery mechanism. I also dabbled with a Kafun clone long ago, and the Kanger Topbox Mini for about 6 months, but actually liked the EVOD more overall. And I religiously burn off the coils with a butane torch lighter before I seat them (if you burn em' off seated they can melt the little rubber seals in the coil housing).

Anyway, for awhile I've been wanting to get back into flavors that may crack plastic, limited juice options being my only real complaint with the EVOD. Plus the sirens call of convenient drop-ins started to sound in my head: It's so eeeeasy, when the coil's cashed you just drop a new one it, they're really pretty cheap especially compared to analogs...that kind of thing.

So, I dug around and came up with the Kabuki 510 with 1.8 Nauti coils. Had it for a week now, and I gotta say it's a beautiful tank that hits beautifully. But what about burn-off? It's not something I ever thought about back in the day, but now that I've spent a few years making my own coils I worry about it with drop-ins...

 

[bombastinator]

You cannot dry burn drop in coils. It destroys them. One of the biggest problems with the whole drop in concept imho.
I suppose you could get a squeeze bottle and use it as a fake lung to suck off the first few hits of the new coil or something. Iirc nautilus coils can be rebuilt though. It’s a pain in the .... but iirc it can be done. Personally I’d just live with it. There can’t be much on there and we all breathe smog on a daily basis anyway.

 

[stols001]

Yes, drop in coils aren't dry burn. If you are concerned about machining issues and whatnot, you could soak your coil in hot water, though I'm unsure if that might decrease your coil life. I get a tiny hint of a bad taste with some drop in coils, which I just kinda live with, though not with all of them. I find it quite easy to prime 1.8 coils in my Kabuki well enough that I don't get that issue anymore.... It's just a great vape. I think I'm priming them a bit better, I also added 10% water to my max VG (I am sensitive to PG) and that helped my coils starting out a LOT.

Best of luck,

Anna

 

[synergis7]

Thanks for the replies!

@bombastinator I'll have to look into recoiling them...really I just want a nice convenient drop-in though.

@stols001 (Anna) Yeah my Kabuki 510 is a week old, and I can already see it's a serious winner of a tank. Priming the coil is no issue, I just plink a few drops directly down into it, then screw it in and let it soak for a couple minutes. Apologies, I might have been unclear or used incorrect terminology in my original post, so I'll clarify:

I'm referring to how, when you make your own coils, you dry burn before wicking, either on the PV by giving it power, or with a butane lighter if that's not possible (on the EVOD, for example) before seating and wicking the coil. When you do this, you get a puff of thick funky smoke, which I would imagine is a great thing to *not* vape!

With drop-ins, this isn't really possible in the same way, so I'm searching for a way to burn off that funky stuff. Maybe I'm worried for no reason, is there any data on heavy metals output by heated coils that aren't burned off, especially during initial usage?

Plus, this may be a moot point. Since the Kabuki only has one air intake, I can just give it power and blow through that instead of pulling as usual from the driptip, so I'm blowing the first puffs of smoke away from me instead of into my lungs. Just have to ride the line between hot enough to get that burn off and cool enough to not roast a brand new coil.

 

[Mr. Relentless]

Arctic v12 coils are the only ones I know that are pre burned.

 

[SteveS45]

Saturate drop in coils with a whole lot of e-Liquid and blow it out before you install them if you get bad tastes.