Dry Burning the Apsire Nautilus

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Hello everyone,

This is my first post. I've vaped for about a year now, and have gone through the gamut of different mods, builds, juices, clearos, and the like. I do not shy away from wrapping my own coils, fiddling with stuff that shouldn't be fiddled and so forth. Without further adieu, I have a question for Aspire nautilus users.

Can you dry burn the Nautilus Aspire head? (my new tank and heads should arrive very soon) I have a couple Aspire BDCs (vivi nova style), and I use this method to dry burn my BDCs' head.

1. Pull center post off of a wet head
2. Throw away the filler material lining the head (I use Boba's Bounty 100%VG, Gorilla 100%VG, or Hype 90VG/10PG -- and getting rid of the lining does not flood/or leak)
3. Soak head in alcohol for approximately 5-10minutes.
4. Rinse with deionized water.
5. Let dry overnight
6. Dry burn...

It seems from my research that the center post does not come off of the Aspire Nautilus head. Is the new filler material sensitive to heat insofar that it'd get burned in a dry burn? I had the worst of luck with that filler material on the Aspire BDC -- to me, that filler crap was what seemed to be the quality control issue... Or, is there anyway to take out the filler material without compromising the head? I'm curious as I'm frugal, and would like to get the longest performance out of a $3-$4 head.

 

[cyndezu]

Great question, would love to know the answer. I have three heads I can't use 'cause the juice tastes funky with them.

I'm no help, sorry.

 

[joecil]

Actually you can rebuild the Nautilus Micro Coil Build In The Aspire Nautilus - YouTube

 

[WhySoCereal]

In my experience building microcoils, you'd have to pull out the cup that holds the coils in place to pull out the filler. That cups set pretty well, which means you'd have to pull the coils out along with the cup, remove the filler, and then place the coils and cup back in the head.

I've tried dry burning these bad boys as well. I find it easier to simply rebuild them.

 

[Nick Dubs]

So the consensus is that you can't really dry vape these? This guy seems to be doing it, but his vid is in Spanish.

 

[Nick Dubs]

Dry Burn Nautilus - YouTube

 

[Micsubin]

Here is a link to Rip Tripper rebuilding a micro coil for the nautilus http://youtu.be/VAmIJIUeEUg


Mic

 

[Nick Dubs]

I've seen that. I'm asking about dry burning the stock coils. You you do this successfully?

 

[nicetucu]

I've always dry burned and use a head for weeks at a time before I toss it. It looks like it worked in the Spanish video. What do you have to lose really. If it doesn't work just throw out the coil head. I don't usually rebuild stuff cause my close up vision sucks at my age. I would have to wear something like phil B has just to see it properly.

I'm digging the nautilus, but I still love carto tanks a bit better. As for a tank it's good, just not $35 good lol. $3.50 per coil is a bit pricey as well if you can't dry burn this puppies. I may try what Rip Tripper did and see if there is an improvement, just need some gear to see what I'm doing.

 

[Bolivar]

I tried dry burning a head. Everything came out tasting scorched afterwards. I tossed the head, but took it apart first. There are 2 liners that are in the well the coil sits in that bring the juice up to the coil wick. Both of these were burnt/ scorched. I tried to replace them, but the well they sit in is small and deep...I didn't have any tools small enough to work in that confined of a space, so after about an hour of fiddling, gave up. Also, the coil wick was rather puny. It literally fell out of the coil when I removed the coil from the head.

I'm sure you could recoil and rewick these heads like Rip shows, but heed his caution and leave those well liners alone. If you can see they are burnt or scorched, the head is toast.

YMMV





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[Merryhellion]

Just tried dry burning my Nautilus (kretek really gunks the coils up). Restored vapor output pretty well. I left the wick/wadding alone other than to use a 1 tip to pat it fairly dry (pat, not rub or poke) before doing so. To avoid frying the wick, I patiently pulsed, starting around 3.7 volts, and gradually turning it up as I went, to around 4.2v. Pulsed between 1 and 3 seconds a go. With the airflow set to the largest diameter hole, I could blow lightly with my lips to the hole, and help the smoke off the coils evacuate the head so that it would not redeposit. Now mind you, I got this tank to vape kretek, so I can't tell you if it would taste burnt with another, lighter, flavor in the tank. After a few burnt tasting hits (probably didn't clean it completely, in a rush to get out the door), we were back to good old clove ciggie taste again. YMMV, and kretek/clove is something of a burnt tasting flavor by nature.

The wick itself is pretty frustrating so far; my first coil head actually barfed up half of the wet fluff on a deep lung hit and it was sticking to the inside of the drip tip. At least that made it easy enough to snatch with a prickly type pipe cleaner =) I'd keep an eye on the draw/drip tube path for this problem, if you use this tank. Who wants a mouthful of nic juice soaked gunk in their mouth?

Aspire is a pretty solid company, so I figure they will be working a fix for the loose wick business in. Love love LOVE this tank!