Fellow drippers: How often do you blow out your atty?

[phillydave]

Out of curiosity, how often do you:

A. Blow out your atty
B. What prompts you to blow it out?
C. How often do you clean your atty? And what method do you use?

-Dave

 

[Rosa]

A. probably a couple of times a day or so...
B. either the vapor drops off (oops, flooded it) or it gets dark and funky looking
C. never (unless it's already a lost cause....)

 

[jj2]

1. I did if it was flooded. Leave it pointed down at night and morning is the best vape of the day.
2. It was flooded.
3. Only when I thought it needed it.

 

[Maxine]

A. Rarely
B. New or flooded
C. Never (exception: dry burn to get rid of hated new flavor residue)

 

[VictoryNotVengence]

Out of curiosity, how often do you:

A. Blow out your atty
every night
B. What prompts you to blow it out?
the moon comes out
C. How often do you clean your atty? And what method do you use?
after 3 weeks or so. shake it in a shotglass full of isopropal alchole for a few hours

-Dave

 

[LibertariaNate]

A. Once a day (usually evening), or I flooded it
B. Daily ritual, or I flooded it
C. Once a week - Denture cleaner soak, rinse, dry burn

 

[ogredog]

a.at night or
b.in between strong flavors that dont mix well with what i want to switch too/when clogged/or a nasty nasty juice/or crusty
c. blow/boil and another method id rather not mention again lol

 

[throatkick]

Out of curiosity, how often do you:

A. Blow out your atty
B. What prompts you to blow it out?
C. How often do you clean your atty? And what method do you use?

-Dave

a. Rarely if ever
b. After awhile atty performance slips. Sometimes a but of juice accumulates.
c. If blowing it out doesn't correct issue.

 

[studio52]

I start my day with a clean atty...been using this one for a few weeks...just like new still. Every night I blow it out run it under hot water and blow it out set it on a paper towel to drain...start again in the morning. Only blow it out during the day if I flood it out.

 

[Dicot]

A. Once every few days or when I flood it.
B. When the draw becomes a little stiff or occationally when I do a drastic switch in flavor ie caramel/coffee to fruit, etc
C. I used to clean my attys every 2 days during that first week, then I moved to once a week, now I really only clean them once every two weeks or when blowing them out doesn't work well enough.

My method for cleaning...
Soak for like 15-20 min in iso, run the alcohol through the atty until it comes out in a nice stream. Then rinse several times with warm water and blow them out. Then dry burn, rinse with water again and dry burn again. No setting out to dry necessary! Basically I follow Highping's method, except with an intial iso soak. Highping's method

 

[Old Chemist]

Soak for like 15-20 min in iso, run the alcohol through the atty until it comes out in a nice stream. Then rinse several times with warm water and blow them out. Then dry burn, rinse with water again and dry burn again.

I used to use isopropyl alcohol earlier, but found out after some experiments that using hot water is quite effective. Unless you use very "thick" liquids (eg chocolate) it's very simple and efficient. After soaking in hot water I use careful dry burning method. Works fine with both old type small 510s attys and big cone type, too.

 

[Terraphon]

A. Blow out your atty

When I first open them and every couple days or so after.

B. What prompts you to blow it out?

When they start to get a stiff draw or show leakage which is not proportional to the amount of liquid dripped

C. How often do you clean your atty? And what method do you use?

When I see the performance drop off significantly. I use the coke method (except with RC Cola because the pH is the lowest of all colas) and vodka soaks (if I need to clean a bad flavor out of an atty)