E-cigarette as coffee stirrer

[Belhade]

Short and simple, my two year old took one of my units and dropped it into my coffee cup. I blew out the atty which works fine, but the battery is having issues. It's a Luci automatic, basically a 510. I've been sticking a twist of paper towel into the battery hole and drying out the threads as well as shaking to get the coffee out. Sometimes it works - shaking it eventually turns the LED on and if I assemble the unit and suck my cheeks inside out I'll get it to vape. Any suggestions, or just let it finish drying and hope it

 

[Lab]

i would let it dry.. seen another post about putting the battery in rice since it absorbs the fluids..

if there was sugar in the coffee.. might want to try and drain the battery's power and rinse with alcohol..

 

[Trioxin]

I've submerged a battery before, and I hate to say, it never did work right again. Probably have to get another battery.

 

[StormFinch]

If it's still working sporadically I'd say you have a 50/50 shot of resurrecting it. Like Lab said, clean it with alchohol and then stick it in a ziplock bag full of rice for a few days to a week. I've heard of people dropping them in the snow, losing them in a dew covered yard, falls into bathtubs, even in the toilet (eeww) and they still worked after some drying time.

 

[MacArthurBug]

Oh dear. I've almost done it myself a half dozen times.

 

[Belhade]

Thanks guys. Rice occurred to me a little bit ago. Yes there was sugar in the coffee, so I'm gonna give it an alcohol swab and then rice it up.

 

[Belhade]

Update - the battery works. Sometimes it's a little sticky/hard to draw, so I'm assuming there's still some sugar on the switch. But I used it all day yesterday. I'll just clean it up and rice it some more.

 

[the86d]

If you have a compressor or a can of compress air, after some 99% iso. alcohol...?

At least you didn't let 'em play with analogs! Or Lighters!

Just 11-36mg liquid in a device designed to deliver it. heheee

 

[Belhade]

Oh, he's a little pisser. He'll hand us lighters, but he finds mommy's analogs and breaks them all!