Gold hairs when cleaning my 510 atty.

[jimmyjams]

I've been removing weird little golden hair type things from my atty when i clean them out. i use a tooth pick and pull them out a bit and pull them off with a napkin. Are these normal to have? is it part of the atty and i shouldn't be removing them?

 

[jimmyjams]

I saw someone on the forum called them "troll hairs" but they never said anything about them being good or bad or part of the atty.

 

[Lab]

most likely that is the wick.. leave them on or it will make it so that the atty does not draw in liquid good..

 

[jimmyjams]

shoot. well i pulled out quite a bit of stuff. I may have just ruined my atty's.

 

[jimmyjams]

i notice it's tasting pretty burnt now.

 

[Jaganic_Solitude]

I noticed that as well, but I left it alone. I once thought my dyed hair got into my e cig!

 

[TheBlueAdept]

Hmm, I thought the bridge was nickel (which would be silver-colored, not gold-colored! I have not dissected an atty, but would assume that the 'coil' uses windings of copper. It sounds a lot like somehow you have coils becoming unwound!!!

No health risk, but I'd love to understand just what the heck is happening with your atties!

I think 'troll hairs' refers to when some of your poly-fill sticks to the wick, and it ends up looking like those little troll pencil-toppers that have the wild hair. I could be wrong on that though.

 

[ejoker]

removing the wick is fine if you are dripping. but if you use carts ...

 

[jimmyjams]

what exactly is the wick? is that the silver nickel thing? what i pulled out were little gold fiber like strands. I assumed it was cart filler remnants that had gotten stuck. So i pulled them out. I believe they were gold colored because they were soaked in juice. I'm really hoping i didn't ruin my atty's as they're only a few days old.

 

[ejoker]

the wick is under the bridge. sounds like you pulled filler strands out though, and are probably some still stuck in there which may be your burning taste.
i'm no expert here, but try dry burning the atty and clean the bugger off. if you follow my advice and it kills it, i'll give you another atty

 

[TheBlueAdept]

Are the strands wiry, or more like the filler material?

 

[jimmyjams]

i ran it through hot water and dry burned it slowly until it dried. when i put my cart back on it wasn't hitting at all. I ended up having to drip on it to get it to hit. first time i've dripped and i still have the filled cart on. not sure how many hits a drip should typically last for but it did stop hitting after a bit even with the filled cart in it. I'm pretty sure i pulled out the wick. I don't see anything under the bridge.

 

[jimmyjams]

Are the strands wiry, or more like the filler material?

the strands i pulled out and put on a napkin. the juice that was on them that gave them a gold color has come off and it looks like thick nylon thread.

 

[jimmyjams]

they don't look like filler material at all.

 

[jimmyjams]

Well I learned a good lesson on this one. Those are important and not junk built up.

 

[ejoker]

ok, now it sounds like the wick. you just made yourself a good dripping atty

 

[TheBlueAdept]

It's all about learning! Good thing attys aren't too much $, and that one is still usable (for dripping)

 

[CaptJay]

jimmy use an empty cart from now on, with this newly 'created' dripping atty.
I drip thru choice anyway I think its much better.

(As you only can use it now for dripping you should pull the rest of the 'troll hairs' out as they wont do anything now, and might get in the way, may as well finish the job eh? lol)

 

[dark cobra]

Hehe, when i messed up mine the same way, i figured, baaaah to tell with the bridge too.
I just couldnt live not knowing if i had removed ALL the wick after i started pulling it out >_<

In my defense, i SWEAR it looked like there was still some under the bridge...well there wasnt but it DID look like there was!!!

 

[dg99]

I did the same thing with my atty, pulled out a bunch of that nylon-like stuff... at first I thought it was filler but I found out later it was the wick. Surprisingly, my atty still works perfectly fine with carts