Some Important Maintenance TIPS:
1. Regular Washing of the Mod:
A once a month 'shower' to our mods keep them from getting crunchy and move along their threads smoothly. It also enhances its sheen and ensures that any traces of e-liquid anywhere has been removed. Those fine specks of e-liquid could play a spoil sport in many ways.
2. Scrubbing and Polishing the internal Contacts:
Sans the Paps-X and the LUX (both with silver/gold plating), the brass contacts of others do accumulate oxidization residue, which adversely affects in conductivity. After washing them try polishing them too with any brass/metal polish (eg.
Weiman's,
Mother's,
Nevr Dull etc.) and you'd find a sea of difference in the current it processes thru to your atty. It fires up with a bang, exactly as it was when new. I do so once a month as a routine maintenance of my mods.
Note: Silver/Gold contacts (viz. Paps-X and LUX) just need normal soap wash and a dab with paper towel to get going. Do not scrub/polish them - lest you lose that precious metal coating.
3. Don't apply Noalox on the threads:
Feeling crunchy? Don't take Noalox to your threads
! Neither any oil, grease, wax, polish, whatever. You'd render more harm than good. It'd affect your mod in
two fronts: (a)it would hinder in conductivity, (b)and attract more dirt over the time, wherein your button/couplings/lock-ring will get crunchier. As mentioned before - just a soap water cleaning works out well.
4. Use Talcum Powder instead, if you must:
At most dab a tiny bit of
talcum powder from the vanity room, over those irritating threads. Blow clear it off, and then try re-coupling them. You will find the thread joints get extremely smooth. And over some usage it'd disappear completely - leaving no trace/residue behind. A trick I learnt from my military stint.
5. Polish that brass:
Yes, we love our patina. But remember - patina also hinders in conductivity, besides gradually 'eating' into the metal. For those moments when we believe our brass mod (the Alu-Bronze LUX included) isn't behaving it's best - or we want the shine back ~ feel free to re-bolster the device with some Brass Polish
*! I polished my LUX to it's original glory recently (
Post #248) and it's doling out the power as it did on day-1!
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*A very personal choice ~ I avoid Brasso, b'coz of it's abrasive nature and the residue it leaves behind.
