I made a very poor (for me) choice on a
juice flavor, of course I tested it out in a brand spanking new atty
. I can not get rid of the taste of the gross juice and even the smell is sickening and just as strong as it was yesterday.
This is what I've done so far: blown out the atty about 5 times, dripped and vaped about 3 other flavors, blown out again.
Any suggestions? I really don't want to trash this new atty but I will if that's what it comes down to.
Thanks!
There is likely no need to toss the atty. Cleaning the atty is quite possible, and a good thing to do once a week or so anyway. Dripping other flavors will often not work for really foul juices.
Here is my atty cleaning method. Some soak in alcohol of various types (PGA, vodka, rubbing alcohol). I do
not recommend this, as alcohol can occasionally dissolve adhesives in some attys. I know that when I did this the attys died faster, and while it might not be related, it might be. Now they last much longer, and this method works better for me anyway:
1. Put the atty in enough hot water to cover it by a 1/2-inch or so. Add a Polydent tablet (other denture-cleaning tablets that fizz work well too). Soak it for 12 hours, agitating it occasionally.
2. Flush the atty with lots of hot water. I put water in a small container, and put the atty cart-end to my lips, and suck water in and out of the atty through the holes at the threaded end. Like a straw, but blowing and sucking water in and out of it.
3. towel dry the excess water off of it, and either let is sit cart-end up on a paper towel for a day or two, or else you can use tweezers, hemostat, clothes pin, or pliers, to hold it and dry it with a blow dryer. Some put it in a 200 deg oven for 30 minutes, which works too.
4. It is common to do a "dry burn" when the atty is dry or close to it. Put it on the batt, without a cart, and press the button for 5 sec bursts until the coil is glowing bright within a second or two.
This cleaning method should clean out the foul taste. Drip 3 drops of the new flavor on the bridge, add the cart (or not) and enjoy. If it didn't work, you may have to either repeat all these steps, or soak in alcohol for a couple of hours (last resort).
The good thing is almost everything left in an atty is water soluble, although a surfactant (polydent) is generally needed to speed the dissolving up. Another good cleaning solution is Crest Health Pro, which you soak the atty in for about 10 minutes, then flush with hot water, dry the atty, the dry burn. This was previously my cleaning method, but I've found the polydent works on glogged and sluggish attys better. In fact it brought 6 old "lost cause" attys back from a certain grave.
