easy way to clean attys.
buy a 510
never clean it
just blow it out every couple of days
currently on week 7
buy a 510
never clean it
just blow it out every couple of days
currently on week 7
Hey, I don't know if anybody's covered cleaning of the Volcano cig atomizer and I didn't feel like reading through 11 pages. I just wanted to know if I would ever have to resort to the whole coca cola or vinegar bath. I don't drip. I like the taste of my carts. Do I only just need to blow the atomizers out once in a while?
Cool, thanks for that. as far as drying goes, do I just use a hair dryer on it?
Ok so I had 2 atomizers (Still talking about the L88B model here). One of them wasn't working so well, so I tried the soda bath followed by rinsing in hot water and blow drying. I killed the atty. It won't vape at all. It's not the battery. Is there anything else I can do to try to save this atomizer?
Have you checked it with a meter to see if the coil is "open"? If it is, then it's dead, dead, dead.
Ok. I poked and prodded around the inside of the "non working" atomizer. Now if I draw enough I get SOME vapor but if I inhale nothing comes out. I only get a tiny bit of vapor when I draw on it with just my mouth. Any suggestions?
I DON'T drip though. I only use carts. but I'll try blowing through it again. I let it sit upside down mesh side facing down all night long in a dummy cartridge.
I use the same method to clean mine, warm tap water with a quick blow and let dry.i revers blow thru mine with no cart in.. it heats up the coil more than normal and burns the crud of.. apart from that a straight forward rinse under a running tap seems to work as well as anything..
as for any particulates i think they stay in the cart wool and the atomizer wool they dont pass into the lungs.. boiling water in a a kettle leaves the junk in the kettle.. condensed steam is pretty pure water.. the same thing must happen to condensed in the lung e liquid vapour.. any particulates get left in the device..
so i think people who worry about brown looking wool are on the wrong track.. the brown wool is the crud being left behind in the wool and the atomizers need cleaning because of the crud being left behind in the wire wool surrounding the heater coil..
trog
I don't think they're bad for us, no. I e-smoke. But I think quality of E-Liquid varies, and some contains more particulates than others. I do know that Ruyan publicly announced late last year that it would not use tobacco plant extract in its liquids; the extract dirtied core filters. Why? Particulates. Look at a core after smoking some E-Cig liquid. It gets filthy in a hurry. That filth is trapped particulates.
Now, I have no idea what crud forms on the atomizers, but it does. In other posts, Dr. Loi suggested scraping the atomizers with a needle to loosen the crud. Wow! I'm not surgically skilled and I fear I'd kill any atomizer I touched with a needle. But he noted the buildup and has been searching for a suitable cleaning solution.
I don't think so Tim!I have a good idea. I am a automotive technician. I bought these small wire brushes to do fine little clean up jobs with on car parts, etc. They are like a toothbrush and you can get them in plastic or wire bristles. There are different type bristle brushes from coarse to fine. I bet that would work to clean the atomizer instead of having to pick away at the porous part of the atomizer to clean out the debris build up.
Likewise, I haven't noticed earth-shaking differences after cleaning. I've used both the alcohol and running water methods. Some atomizers seemed to work better after cleaning (but not much better). I drowned one in the water. Another tasted of rubbing alcohol for days. Bottom line: I rarely resort to cleaning them, but do stand them on end periodically to drain the crud out.
It seems to me that a death blow for atomizers is letting liquid evaporate overnight and leave solids of crud on the atomizer. That crud comes from particulates in the liquid. Remember that whatever you find on your atomizer is duplicated inside your lungs. I think the quality of E-Liquid is underestimated in its influence on both our atomizers and the long-term consequences of e-smoking. And what do we really know?
My own plan involves fine lab filtering of liquids before I use them for vapor. Course, I'm working with a lot of homebrew stuff, but I plan to filter E-Cig's liquids that I still have. The fewer particulates the better -- for me and the atomizers.