Caveat: I vape less than 1ml per day
I have never lost an atomizer in the 10 months I have been vaping.
I used some RN4081s and a DSE103 for the first week, without losing them.
Then I started using two 510 atomizers in rotation, for about one month.
Then I added two 306 atomizers to the rotation, and did that for about five months.
So for five months I was using one 510 and one 306 each week, then cleaning them in a Diet Coke bath and letting them dry for an entire week while I used the other 510 and 306 atomizers in the rotation.
For the next three months I switched to only using the two 510 atomizers.
I put the 306 atomizers away, and haven't really used them since.
But they both still worked fine.
Then one month ago I discovered the Highping dry burn method.
I had one 510 atomizer that was putting out less vapor so I tried it.
Now that 510 atomizer works like new again.
So I put away the second 510 atomizer, stopped doing Diet Coke baths, and use only the 510 atomizer I first got almost 10 months ago. It works like new, and at this point I am starting to think that it will last forever at 3.7v on my Chuck doing occasional dry burns as needed.
DISCLAIMER: No atomizers were harmed in the making of this post