Dry burn problems with wicks falling apart

[hesitantly]

I've got a Mini ProTank 2. I've dry-burned two different coils/heads, and both times after taking the wick out, it fell apart into about 10 or more strands. What do I use to replace the wick, or alternatively, how do I keep it from falling apart?

 

[idahohermit]

You don't need to take the silica wicks out to dry burn. But, since you have, go ahead and stick some organic cotton in the coils....just don't try to dry burn the cotton. ;-)

 

[hesitantly]

Oh, okay. I was taking the top wick out just because a guy in a YouTube video did that. He also cleaned up the black stain on that wick with a small blow torch-like lighter. (I didn't do that part.) "Organic" cotton? Would the cotton in a medicine bottle be organic? I don't think I could build a "neat" wick out of that stuff, though. I'll just leave the old one in, but then it will be hard to see if the coil is glowing.

Edit: I pain-stakingly put all the pieces back in, both times. Seemed to work better the first time I did it, than the second.

 

[pufZeppelin]

the way you're doing it (without supplies)

remove base/coil, rinse off in hot water
with coil in base, remove chimney stem/silicone cup washer
take out the flavor wick
(keeping the flavor wick WET is the trick)

dry burn the coil
when done, a drop of juice on it is helpful
then put wet flavor wick back, chimney stem, silicone cup washer

all that and you didn't even take coil out of the base

next time you order something somewhere
add a few feet of 2mm silica wick to your order
then after dry burn, just add the new piece of silica

- Silica Wick 2.0 Diameter 3.5 Feet for Rebuildable Atomizers [gv-SilicaWick-2.0D-1000mmL] - $2.95 : GotVapes.com, E-cigarette Supplies - Atomizers Cartomizers Mods Juice and more

 

[hesitantly]

Thank you, pufZeppelin. I will order some of that next time.

 

[pufZeppelin]

yepper, it's the simplest way to maintain bcc's...

always try to do 'preventative maintenance' by trying to predict before
coil goes wonkers on ya, and hot rinse, dry, re-use...

if not then the dry-burn/new flavor wick method is the next choice

eventually working your way up to a full recoil and use cotton


it's not (PG/VG) juice thickness that fouls the coils
it's the sweeteners that does the most damage

sweet, dark juice might ruin a coil in as little as one tank ;
light, less flavor (sweet) a coil has lasted me for weeks...
maintain accordingly

Vape≈Happy

 

[ImperfectFuture]

I've twice successfully dry burned bcc's (kanger) after dark juice (chocolate with mint). The flavor wicks are another story.

For iclears, they are real easy to dry burn and clean, but the top condom gets stained (don't know the official name for that part, don't know how many actually clean those, is it more a silicone cap?)

You can clean the coils, the other parts are a little more touchy.

 

[cocacola31173]

If your flavor wicks fall apart you can use a itty bitty piece of cotton instead. I tend to always remove the flavor wicks all together but I use 50/50 juice,