Dry burning used Kanger coils

[Ohm-y-Gosh]

So, today I've been experimenting with coils that seemed to have had their day. You know, the nasty burnt taste of a coil ready for the bin/trash. Following the advice on this forum, and Youtube, I removed the rubber grommet, tube and loose wicks and proceeded to 'dry burn' until the coil looked a bit cleaner.

And I can report, it worked a treat. An otherwise shot coil is vaping good and clean….like a new coil. Not that buying knew coils is that expensive, especially when compared to the cost of cigs, but discovering I can resurrect a used coil and use again is another snippet on this voyage of discovery.

This hobby gets better by the day.

 

[retired1]

Yup! And wait until you decide to rebuild 'em. They're even better then!

 

[djsvapour]

Well done.

I have mixed results but nearly always get at least one more go from a Kanger head by cleaning and dry-burning.

 

[Simply Red]

This hobby gets better by the day.

Did someone say "hobby"?! Please see signature below.

Happy Vaping!!

 

[Cool-breeze]

Rebuilding them is super easy. Yes they are cheap, out here I get a 5 pack from a B&M for 9. For 11 dollars I got kanthal wire and organic cotton balls to make years worth of coils. This time next year I'll have an extra 100 sitting in my vape budget. I think my vape tastes better too. Congrats on finding more to tinker with, it's such a great hobby!

 

[GaG8tor]

I started dry burning mine also. I usually get another run out of them as well. Can't wait to try rebuilding but have only seen one video on rebuilding a T2. It was in French and not very good quality IMO. If anyone has a good link it would be very much appreciated.

 

[Jugband]

I started out with Kangers, first tank I ever used. I remember being thrilled with my first successful coil dry burn! Your doing great! And yes it is a great hobby! Also, another vote for rebuilding! Now for me, it's the only way to go!

 

[MarkD77]

out here I get a 5 pack from a B&M for 9.

My nearest B&M charges $2.50 a piece, but usavapeshop.com has the protank/evod coils for $4.50 and MT3/TS3 coils for $4.75 for 5 packs. I'm looking forward to trying rebuilding when i get my protank 2 in the mail. Same site has those for $13.99, minis for $11.99.

 

[1buda]

Yes it's a hobby for me. Really fun rebuilding coils and trying different things to use for wicks.

 

[rowdyplace]

I love the Kanger T3s atty. I clean my coils by soaking in denture cleaner. Yes, the tablets used to soak their false teeth in.

Remove the rubber grommet, tube and loose wicks. Drop metal, silicon gasket, the tabs, atty tank and mouth tip into a small (about 1 cup of liquid) jar, and let them soak overnight. Shake often in the early few minutes and at the end of the soak time. I leave mine overnight or longer. Dump old liquid, and rinse in very warm water - shaking and repeating with new water several times.

Let dry for a while. I put mine on top of my TV cable box for a little heat to speed this up. Now do the dry burn thing until the smoke and smell are gone.


Be prepared to replace the loose (top flavor) wicks as need be.

 

[Bill's Magic Vapor]

Kanthal and cotton....nickel a piece. Vastly better flavor and vapor. YouTube shows how. And, if you can rebuild a Kanger, you can build practically anything, surprisingly enough! Who wants to clean coils anyway? Rebuild. When I used bottom coil clearos, I could make a month worth of coils in under an hour. So much better too! Try it, you'll like it! Good luck and welcome to the Forum.

 

[BigCatDaddy]

So, today I've been experimenting with coils that seemed to have had their day. You know, the nasty burnt taste of a coil ready for the bin/trash. Following the advice on this forum, and Youtube, I removed the rubber grommet, tube and loose wicks and proceeded to 'dry burn' until the coil looked a bit cleaner.

And I can report, it worked a treat. An otherwise shot coil is vaping good and clean….like a new coil. Not that buying knew coils is that expensive, especially when compared to the cost of cigs, but discovering I can resurrect a used coil and use again is another snippet on this voyage of discovery.

This hobby gets better by the day.

Hopefully, you saved your old ones. I kept mine and now have about 20 in a rotation. I keep a small bottle w/Everclear in it. The first sign that a coil is not vaping up to it's full potential, I pull it out, pop off the chimney, discard the flavor wick and pop the 2 parts in for a soak. About once a week, I'll fish them all out, give them a hot water rinse and a towel dry and then dry-burn, add a strip of 1 mm new flavor wick and pop the chimneys back on. I haven't used any new coils in a long, long time. And the money saved can go towards a new shiny....win/win!!

 

[revco]

Yep, dry burning is a treat. Just be careful, it's easy to melt that plastic insulator...once you do, it's hard to return from! Glad you got it figured out!

Definitely keep your coils and don't afraid to try rebuilding them once you find you can't recover them anymore. It's a rather satisfying venture, even more than dry burning, once you get the hang of it! You can get many moons of service out of those coils that way and it's only a few bucks to get started!

 

[bgibs1]

Is there a rule of thumb for about how many times you can get by with cleaning and dry burning? Is it one time and then you'd need to rebuild?

 

[olefolks]

I didn't notice if anyone has already suggested this but when you are cleaning and dry burning your coils rather than putting the old or new flavor wicks back in the coil, get some sterile cotton and use it instead of the old wicks. Make them about the same size as the flavor wicks. You will be surprised. Just saying.

 

[vaperature]

Is there a rule of thumb for about how many times you can get by with cleaning and dry burning? Is it one time and then you'd need to rebuild?

The coils actually take a long long time to go bad. Dry burning them will clean them up and you can do this dozens of times. It's the wick that will go bad. Luckily you can just take out the existing wick, leaving the existing coil, and slip a new wick into the existing coil making a brand new head. There are various methods to do this. The easiest is to thread the wick through wire and use it to pull the wick into the existing coil. If you use a 1mm wick, doubled over, threaded through wire, when pulled through the existing coil it becomes 2mm. It helps to douse the wick with juice first so that it slips through the coil much easier without damaging the coil. Hope this helps.

 

[ativ]

Dry burning and cotton is the way to go. Coils and flavor last forever. Just saying

 

[Borescoped]

So, today I've been experimenting with coils that seemed to have had their day. You know, the nasty burnt taste of a coil ready for the bin/trash. Following the advice on this forum, and Youtube, I removed the rubber grommet, tube and loose wicks and proceeded to 'dry burn' until the coil looked a bit cleaner.

And I can report, it worked a treat. An otherwise shot coil is vaping good and clean….like a new coil. Not that buying knew coils is that expensive, especially when compared to the cost of cigs, but discovering I can resurrect a used coil and use again is another snippet on this voyage of discovery.

This hobby gets better by the day.

I see you are in the UK, where abouts? I'm down in East Anglia, Suffolk.

Kanthal and cotton....nickel a piece. Vastly better flavor and vapor. YouTube shows how. And, if you can rebuild a Kanger, you can build practically anything, surprisingly enough! Who wants to clean coils anyway? Rebuild. When I used bottom coil clearos, I could make a month worth of coils in under an hour. So much better too! Try it, you'll like it! Good luck and welcome to the Forum.

While I did also start out by dry burning and flushing out my evod coils/wicks, Bill's advice is sound. If you have the patience and the courage to try, rebuilding your BCC heads with microcoils and cotton will be WAY better. You could even order up your kanthal from The Vape Mesh Co. in the UK, it's where I buy mine at.

If you need help, and are local (in the East Anglia area), you could send me a PM

 

[rucni]

i went out yesterday and got some cotton yard and have some cotton balls kicking around the house, just need to buy the kanthal and give rebuilding a try. dont think i am going to be able to make dual coils for my PT3 but i think a higher ohm coil with the cotton will give me what i want. i tried gutting some old ce5 tanks i had to use the 2.4ohm setup from them but could not get the rubber plug at the bottom to go back in right with the short wires. kept getting 9.9ohm on my vamo resistance check. so figured something isnt making contact since without a topper on the vamo thats what i get. oh well kanthal will be ordered and i will probably be on here somewhere begging for help.

 

[Ohm-y-Gosh]

Thanks everyone for the tips and advice.

Being a toddler in vaping terms, I'm still in the early days of learning my way and every time I come on this forum I learn something new and helpful. Dry burning has really been my first foray into doing anything other than plonking a new head in and vaping away.

I figure the next easiest thing for a learner driver like me is to have a bash using cotton as a flavour wick, and thereafter cotton as a wick thats contained by the coil. Being quite dextrous with my hands (even if I don't say so myself), I reckon this won't be too hard. After which a roll of kanthal will be featuring in 'my basket' next time I go on for supplies. Just need to gen up on the methodology for re-building in the meantime.