Dryburning tips

[Gas]

These are some tips I learned during many dryburn sessions.

1 When to use dryburn?

You can either wait until the atomizer losses performance and when no matter what juice you use and how much you try other cleaning methods, you still feel that awful burned taste in your mouth but you can either do it once a week depending on your vaping habits.

2

The sooner you dryburn, the less are the chances to have an epic fail and burn the atomizer itself ( or well, the resistance) Why is this? It's just because the more the fibres are filled with burned juice, the more the resistance will have to heat to dissolve those reisidues,risking overheating and raising the chances to break the atomizer.

3

Make sure the battery you're using is fully charged

4

Blow on the atomizer from the distance after you've heated it to quickly cool it down ( don't put your mouth on the cart fitting part )

5

After dryburning for a while it's better to wash everything under hot water and blowing on the atomizer side putting your mouth where you usually insert the cartridge letting out water out from the battery side before starting again. This will take away a lot of fragmented residues that are still in the atomizer.

6

Don't take the number of dryburns descripted in the method http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/tips-tricks/69834-my-atty-resurrection-method.html as law. The time of the session only depends on how much burned material is stuck on the fibres so the more there is the more you'll need to keep burning.The best marker that tells you dryburn is complete is when switching on the atomizer no more burned smell comes off from it.

For now no atomizer I have died during the process using the method, I hope this will add some extra info that could be useful to everyone

 

[stover.p]

These are some tips I learned during many dryburn sessions.

4

Blow on the atomizer from the distance after you've heated it to quickly cool it down ( don't put your mouth on the cart fitting part )

Thanks for the tips Gas and #4 is very important! I got a nice blister on my lip from hot juice popping out of the atty when I was dry burning and blowing! OUCH!

 

[Gas]

Thanks for the tips Gas and #4 is very important! I got a nice blister on my lip from hot juice popping out of the atty when I was dry burning and blowing! OUCH!

Anytime! I just hope these tips will help someone even if the method is already perfectly clear

 

[jennyhadadot]

jeeeez, I've been a vaper for almost a year. I've kind of stopped coming to the forum since I thought I knew it all...lol. I've been going through attys like crazy lately and thought I'd look to see if there were any new developments in the care and feeding of attys. So glad I came across the dry burn method! I had a tin full of "bad" attys and I revived 11 (about half) of them. At $7.95 each...well, you can do the math. Thanks so much for all this great info...I gotta read the forum more often!

 

[vikings]

Thanks for posting this! I'm definitely going to try it this weekend

 

[mphsjeep]

jeeeez, I've been a vaper for almost a year. I've kind of stopped coming to the forum since I thought I knew it all...lol. I've been going through attys like crazy lately and thought I'd look to see if there were any new developments in the care and feeding of attys. So glad I came across the dry burn method! I had a tin full of "bad" attys and I revived 11 (about half) of them. At $7.95 each...well, you can do the math. Thanks so much for all this great info...I gotta read the forum more often!

Do a quick shake in a small tupperware container wash with PGA...shake again with water to rinse and then use the dry burn method above......bet a few more of those attys come back.....good stuff here!!!!!

 

[jennyhadadot]

Do a quick shake in a small tupperware container wash with PGA...shake again with water to rinse and then use the dry burn method above......bet a few more of those attys come back.....good stuff here!!!!!

Oh yeah...there's no way I'm throwing out any atty again! I'll try that tip next. I noticed that some of them will have a slight sizzle but after holding down my PT it still won't glow. I think I will try to revive the bad ones again when I get a bit more time. Way I figure it, I saved something like $90 by just coming to this forum and reading some very well written instructions! Thank you forum people!!

 

[Gas]

Thanks for posting this! I'm definitely going to try it this weekend

You're welcome!

 

[vikings]

Hey Gas, I'm still getting that burnt smell....similar to burnt plastic actually. I've been dry burning for quite some time and have done the wash and blow cycle 4 times too. Could it be that there's something wrong with the atty? It's still pretty new (8-10 days) and hasn't exactly been heavily used....plus, I seldom drip.

The smell is pretty strong....enough to make me gag if it hits me directly.

Another question (sorry!): apart from smell, would smoke/vapor be an indication that there is still some gunk in the atty when I dry burn? Is the atty supposed to heat up without any smoke/vapor when it's clean?

Thanks for all the help...I really appreciate it!

 

[Grenage]

Hey Gas, I'm still getting that burnt smell....similar to burnt plastic actually. I've been dry burning for quite some time and have done the wash and blow cycle 4 times too. Could it be that there's something wrong with the atty? It's still pretty new (8-10 days) and hasn't exactly been heavily used....plus, I seldom drip.

The smell is pretty strong....enough to make me gag if it hits me directly.

Another question (sorry!): apart from smell, would smoke/vapor be an indication that there is still some gunk in the atty when I dry burn? Is the atty supposed to heat up without any smoke/vapor when it's clean?

Thanks for all the help...I really appreciate it!

If the atty has not been used much, I'd recommend against a dry burn. You can kill an atty if you get it wrong, so you're best off ,aiting for it to get wimpy.

A burnt smell can be down to an atty that's too dry, just as much as it can be down to a gunked-one.

 

[ournature]

Hey Gas, I'm still getting that burnt smell....similar to burnt plastic actually. I've been dry burning for quite some time and have done the wash and blow cycle 4 times too. Could it be that there's something wrong with the atty? It's still pretty new (8-10 days) and hasn't exactly been heavily used....plus, I seldom drip.

The smell is pretty strong....enough to make me gag if it hits me directly.

Another question (sorry!): apart from smell, would smoke/vapor be an indication that there is still some gunk in the atty when I dry burn? Is the atty supposed to heat up without any smoke/vapor when it's clean?

Thanks for all the help...I really appreciate it!

does the coil glow orange while dryburning?
If it doesn't, you need to keep going with dryburns untill the coil glows and no vapor is coming out.
If it glows but there's even little vapor rising you need to keep going.
When the atty is too hot to touch stop burning and wait few seconds to cool it down, then start again.

 

[Gas]

Hey Gas, I'm still getting that burnt smell....similar to burnt plastic actually. I've been dry burning for quite some time and have done the wash and blow cycle 4 times too. Could it be that there's something wrong with the atty? It's still pretty new (8-10 days) and hasn't exactly been heavily used....plus, I seldom drip.

The smell is pretty strong....enough to make me gag if it hits me directly.

Another question (sorry!): apart from smell, would smoke/vapor be an indication that there is still some gunk in the atty when I dry burn? Is the atty supposed to heat up without any smoke/vapor when it's clean?

Thanks for all the help...I really appreciate it!

Don't worry about the atomizer itself, because the amount of gunk on the coil can also depend on the composition of the liquid you're using. Just keep burning until no more stink comes out. hat's the best marker to know when it's clean

 

[d0nj03]

you need to keep going with dryburns untill the coil glows and no vapor is coming out.
If it glows but there's even little vapor rising you need to keep going.

Jesus, that's gonna take hours. I've tried this "dry burn" for about half an hour on a couple of evenings, but frankly I lost all patience and there was still vapor coming out so I just gave up.

I don't know how I'm going to go about all this atty cleaning business, but it's starting to look like something I'm definitely not going to be doing every day.

 

[FeistyAlice]

I've been using the method for over a month now on my 510 attys and DH's 801s. We both vape heavily and I mostly drip with a box mod. I haven't ruined one yet. And yes PATIENCE is the word.

A couple of things I have found helpful:

DH gets his 801 attys really gunked and he draws almost continuously keeping the PV pretty hot. For the really bad ones a grain alcohol soak speeds up the process. I use a pill bottle, with screw on safty cap for soaking and reuse the GA. The wide opening allowes me to get the attys out using tweezers. Then hold atty a few inches above the bottle and blow from screw end to expell excess GA back into the pill bottle. Don't blow too hard or you'll blow some of th GA out of bottle. Then give atty a few wrist slings. I like to soak them at least an hour but longer is better. Then start the original method starting with hot water flush.

More important, in my opinion....... When doing the first drying, when trying to get the first orange glow, I don't hold the button untill the first glow. Instead I only hold it a max of 2 seconds and then blow into atty just like you do when doing the first 7-10 glows. This may add a little time to the process but I suspect it may be easier on the atty and power source. (I use inexpensive, < $20 a piece, manual PTs, and my tiny, old Netbook.) Sometimes it seems like the first glow will never happen but as long as there is a sizzle it will eventually glow. Time to first glow is heavily dependent on much water you can get out of the atty before starting the method.

If I'm doing several at a time using the spin method in a heavy cotton athletic sock helps greatly to get excess moisture out of the attys. I keep one just for spinning in a kitchen cabinet.

I just did five 801s and five 510s yesterday. The ones that did not have the GA soak took more than two "continuous glow" sessions to get completely cleaned out; one took five sessions instead of two. All that had been GA soaked took only two "continuous glow" sessions, as in original description of this most excellent cleaning method.

During the "continuous glow" session I start seeing the whisps of smoke only after 20 seconds. I then continue to 30 seconds and stop, repeating from beginning after atty has cooled and I blow them out from screw end.

Hope this helps someone.

 

[BiffRocko]

One more tip to add to this list. Be especially careful when dry burning LR attys. The lower resistance means it will get hot faster and thus will be much easier to pop.

When I'm dry burning LR's, I lay off the button as soon as I start to see any glow at all. Then I wait for the glow to die and pulse the button, again releasing as soon as I see any glow. It takes a bit longer, but lowers the chance you'll pop an atty when using this method.

 

[DC2]

Great tips!


This is how I tell when the dry burn is done...
1) The coil glows all the way across
2) There is no more smoke coming off

Another tip that works for me (YMMV) is using my big 18650 battery at 3.7v to do the dry burn.
I don't have to worry about blowing the atomizer because it never gets any hotter than a nice orange glow.

I also do my dry burns in a very dimly lit room, so I can really see the coil good.

 

[Xanax]

Dry burning is SOOO unhealthy for atomizers. And also, if you're doing a dry burn to get rid of a "burnt flavor" you're making it worse. It's counter productive. You'll basically be ensuring that your atomizer will permanently taste burnt. IMHO, no one should ever dry burn an atty for any reason whatsoever. Not trying to ruin your thread, OP, but it's true.

 

[ournature]

Dry burning is SOOO unhealthy for atomizers. And also, if you're doing a dry burn to get rid of a "burnt flavor" you're making it worse. It's counter productive. You'll basically be ensuring that your atomizer will permanently taste burnt. IMHO, no one should ever dry burn an atty for any reason whatsoever. Not trying to ruin your thread, OP, but it's true.

in my esperience my dryburned atties do not taste burnt at all after the cleaning process.
In fact they DO taste burnt BEFORE the cleaning...

 

[Papa Lazarou]

in my esperience my dryburned atties do not taste burnt at all after the cleaning process.
In fact they DO taste burnt BEFORE the cleaning...

I agree ournature

 

[kgeiger002]

If you only drip then (for me) the easiest way to remove (and prevent) a burnt taste is to simply remove the bridge completely. Much of the burnt taste is simply embedded within the mesh of the bridge. Without the bridge you can see the coil if you want to dry burn. I personally never have had a need to dry burn once I do this though.