Has anyone thought about an atty/carto cleaner?

[Njt07]

I was thinking about this on my way home from PT. What if you took some atty connectors attached them to some pvc (high heat) or copper tubing, welded or screwed all that on a platform and leave a nozzle for either a steam cleaner to shoot through or hot water? It would be like a nightly cleaning thing, you screw your attys or cartos on every night, let it run through a cycle while you sleep then have freshly cleaned attys or cartos in the morning.

I dont have a background in making stuff, but if you had a fan that would blow through the tubes after then it could help speed up the cleaning and drying process.

Gonna have to think on this a bit more, i dunno if a shark type steamer would have enough oomph to get to more than a couple tubes or not.

Am i making any sense?

 

[ancient puffer]

Makes sense to me, but really, atomizers and cartomizers are designed to be disposable. Life gets much simpler if you just use them until the performance drops off, then grab a new one. I get them in bulk for around $4 USD each (atomizers), and get around 10 days use from them. WAY cheaper than analogs

 

[KeysBum]

Plenty of posts here with much simpler ways.

 

[Njt07]

what i was thinking about was a "fire and forget" type of cleaner. Right now aside from steaming, ultrasonic, flushing with and without needle, soaking in vodka and assorted other liquids, all require you to do the cleaning then to wait for a few days for the atty or carto to dry. Steaming requires you to do it one by one as an activity, then you still need to wait.

As far as throwing away atties or cartos as they go bad, i agree that is MUCH simpler but, and I'm not one of those save the environment types, I see this as kind of wasteful if all it requires is a daily cleaning. Kind of like PMCS on military vehicles, if you do the "maintenance" then the product just keeps working. Also i guess I don't have the same disposable income as a lot of people on here do as I only have my one lonely Reo Mini .

@keysbum Im just trying to see if there may be a better way rather than just sticking with what is here an now.

Was thinking about this a bit more maybe just a drying system. You soak or steam the carto or attys then after complete screw on the platform where a fan (maybe computer fans) can blow air up through the atty or carto to speed dry them. Or maybe just my wife's dehydrator...

Im gonna have to see what I can come up with.

 

[KeysBum]

what i was thinking about was a "fire and forget" type of cleaner. Right now aside from steaming, ultrasonic, flushing with and without needle, soaking in vodka and assorted other liquids, all require you to do the cleaning then to wait for a few days for the atty or carto to dry. Steaming requires you to do it one by one as an activity, then you still need to wait.

As far as throwing away atties or cartos as they go bad, i agree that is MUCH simpler but, and I'm not one of those save the environment types, I see this as kind of wasteful if all it requires is a daily cleaning. Kind of like PMCS on military vehicles, if you do the "maintenance" then the product just keeps working. Also i guess I don't have the same disposable income as a lot of people on here do as I only have my one lonely Reo Mini .

@keysbum Im just trying to see if there may be a better way rather than just sticking with what is here an now.

Was thinking about this a bit more maybe just a drying system. You soak or steam the carto or attys then after complete screw on the platform where a fan (maybe computer fans) can blow air up through the atty or carto to speed dry them. Or maybe just my wife's dehydrator...

Im gonna have to see what I can come up with.

Sorry if I was too curt. Flushing with very hot water then completly drying works. The key is completly drying, and airflow it the key to that. I have a fan by my bed with (for lack of better terminology) a screen that I can wedge a carto into and it drys cartos like a champ. My experience is flush and dry once and then pitch. Low tech, no cost, easy.

 

[Bowtie]

30cc syringe with water twice through, then blast with compressed air. That usually does it. For me anyway.

 

[Njt07]

Dont air compressors spray little droplets of the oil used to lube them? Thats why i was told to never use an air compressor in a computer...

 

[Bowtie]

Dont air compressors spray little droplets of the oil used to lube them? Thats why i was told to never use an air compressor in a computer...

If there is a inline oiler attached you will get oil. I have used a compressor many times for computers (and my atties/cartos) with no issue at all.


Besides, whats wrong with a little oil on your computer?

 

[hairball]

I use a food dehydrator that has a top circulating fan on high to dry mine. 8-12 hours and they're done.

 

[VapahMan]

I use a food dehydrator that has a top circulating fan on high to dry mine. 8-12 hours and they're done.

That's a good idea. Time to go steal my sisters dehydrator... Sorry puppies, no more jerky