How often do you guys clean your tanks??

[VHRB2014]

rta`s, with a wick change, it just makes it nicer to do. With rda`s, when they get really funky or I`m trying to get rid of an overly oxidized flavor. In other words, sumthing that has sat around for entirely too long.

Cleaning for me consists of filling the cleaning tuperware with water, nuking it for about 2.5 minutes, dropping in parts, coming back 10 minutes later and letting them air dry.

 

[stormjib]

I wipe out my drip tip with almost every rewick but I only put my tanks trough the ultrasound about once a month. It's always amazing to me how dirty the water gets from a tank that looks clean. I use a little dish detergent in the ultrasound, with hot water, and run it for at least two three-minute cycles. If it's a new atty, I run it for at least five cycles...I'm slightly phobic about germs on new attys, on old ones, not so much.

 

[mountaingal]

This thread got me thinking,,,,I have not washed my tanks in at least a year. I do take off the drip tip and clean it by running a q-tip around it and the base.
HMMM, maybe, I will clean them tomorrow.
I only use one juice, so, that maybe why I haven't thought about that in quite awhile.
I use to clean my old Ego-c once a week. I'd soak them in rum and air dry.

 

[David Wolf]

Every now and then my tank will get a little leaky. Like today I didn't notice it had tipped over and I got juice all over haha. Anyway, I always like to have a nice clean tank. Even if my wick and coil are still good, I'll vape all the juice out and take it apart and rinse the tank and stuff. Make sure everything is nice and tight. Do you guys do this?? Or just when you change coils and wick??

I usually rinse my tank in hot streaming water every time I refill it. But then again I also usually pop in a new or rebuilt CLR coil too lol. I love a fresh vape!

 

[Alter]

With my subtank mini's, if I can spin the glass or it moves I take it all to bits to clean with soap cause that means juice has got behind the rings.
The RBA part once in a while I take then apart to clean the cooties out of the airflow and under the positive insulator along with shining up the positive pin with sandpaper. I have a bunch of little brushes I got out of fasttech to scrub the driptips, they get real bad after a while. Generally speaking when the coil toasts then I just replace the build and atty. I don't dryburn and reuse builds very often anymore unless its a fancy clapton or other exotic coil.

 

[Asbestos4004]

I guess every time I rewick or rebuild I clean em somewhat. I'll use a tank for a few weeks and then rotate it out for something else. At that point, I'll break it down and put it in the ultrasonic cleaner until it gets used again. I hate dirty tanks. It's probably psychological, but I'm convinced they vape better when they're spotless.

 

[Eskie]

...clean? Wash?

Yeah, that's what I thought too.

Maybe every 4 to 6 weeks I'll vape a tank down, disassemble, and hand rinse in hot water. No, my house is not a pigsty.

I do rewick and dry burn my coils just about once a week, so the base does get rinsed that often. See? I'm not totally lazy.

 

[Frenchfry1942]

I'm with Eskie. I can tell when a wick needs changing, so I hot-water clean and air dry over night, burn any coil gunk and I have a small wire brush, re-wick, and refill. I redo a coil about every two months, probably just to feel better.

It is relaxing, too.

 

[1/2 fast]

never clean my tanks after the first time. drip tips get cleaned when i see gunk. lol

^^^Exactly what I do too^^^ Hasn't done me in yet.

 

[Belhade]

Yeah, that's what I thought too.

Maybe every 4 to 6 weeks I'll vape a tank down, disassemble, and hand rinse in hot water. No, my house is not a pigsty.

I do rewick and dry burn my coils just about once a week, so the base does get rinsed that often. See? I'm not totally lazy.

Same here, though my house kinda is a pigsty.

And I don't know what's up, but I never get any gunk on my mouthpieces. I've seen people whose tips are crusted with shmutz which is totally disgusting. Not here.

 

[sos2001]

Whenever I have to sniff to remember what flavor was in the tank last week....

 

[vapdivrr]

I wash out my tank about every two refills and start over with a fresh clean tank. I buy flavoring from halo because they are very well known for testing their eliquids so once my wick gets flavored i am good to go for about two months without adding flavoring or changing out my coils. Just what works for me. Flavor your wick and it will treat you well

So you vape un flavored? but just add a bit of flavor to the wick?

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[englishmick]

I rinse them under the hot tap whenever I change the wick or coil. Some parts need a little more effort. The inside of the chimney gets coated with dark colored stuff that won't rinse off with hot water, likewise the deck and the drip tip. I reckon if it won't rinse off it might be something I don't want there, like products of heated juice. Those parts I rinse and then clean with paper towel. The inside of the tank rinses off fine.

 

[Oomee]

Is it time for my catchphrase?
Everytime I re-wick I boil mi gubbins'!

 

[pappcam]

I do that too sometimes if I'm in a rush, but I'm a bit OCD about them being sterile. I don't trust tap water.

Yet you trust to inhale the vapour into your lungs from a liquid that you can't guarantee the ingredients of?

Interesting.

Anyway, I clean my tanks every couple of months or when I'm switching to a different flavour. I do clean the drip tip with a q-tip or piece of paper towel every few days.

 

[IgnorantCig]

Whenever I change my coils, which varies, but approximately every 7 days.

 

[dobroeutro]

Tanks about once a month, RTA's & RDA's when I rewick, so about once a week...

 

[tazzle]

I don't keep track because I have too many going at once. Whenever flavor tastes weird, or I'm getting less flavor, or vapor seems to diminish, I rinse, clean, rewick, and maybe recoil. Because I have so many running, that turns out to be nearly every day. Some days I do two or three. I was going to say that today I did none, but I forgot! I washed and rewicked one early this morning.

Like dobroeutro, I think it probably averages out to once a week per RTA. (I use small tanks with small chimneys and pretty small coils; great flavor but increased gunking; larger tanks probably need less changing.)

 

[Letitia]

Every 4/6 weeks I rinse "everydayers" with hot water & put in ultrasonic for 3 cycles. The "sometimers", when I get around to it after using a few days. Drip tips & chimneys as needed.