how to clean cartomizer to make it last longer

[bear-runner]

right now I have an EVOD BCC and have seen quite a bit an how to clean the coil and dry burn it to make it last longer. is it worth it to do this as a pkg of 5 is only about $7. So my question is what is the best way to clean wicks ( have seen suggestions to use distilled water or soak in vodka) and any other tips more experienced vapers would know of.

thanks

 

[3mg Meniere]

It is definitely worth it. It is just too simple. However, I have enough extras that I do a bunch at once. When you have maybe five, take the chimney off of each one (pliers make this easier), and rinse them. Remove the flavor wick and toss it. I put them in water with denture tablets. After a few hours soak, I rinse them again, roll them up in a washcloth, and squeeze. Then I attach each one to the base, and dry burn to check coil and burn off any more gunk. Then I replace the flavor wick with a bit of silica wick-- but others use cotton or cotton yarn. Then you replace the chimney. Done. It is really worth it in the long run, so you can spend your money on something else.

However, the correct term is "coil head."

 

[Baditude]

There's a difference between a "cartomizer" and a "clearomizer". Proper terminology.

 

[edyle]

right now I have an EVOD BCC and have seen quite a bit an how to clean the coil and dry burn it to make it last longer. is it worth it to do this as a pkg of 5 is only about $7. So my question is what is the best way to clean wicks ( have seen suggestions to use distilled water or soak in vodka) and any other tips more experienced vapers would know of.

thanks

Whether or how much it's worth it is something only each user can decide.
Certainly the heads are so small anyway, and useable in quite a few versions of tanks they are worth keeping instead of tossing; then if you ever bother to try rewicking them you will likely find that the wicking is so critial to airflow, taste and leaking that it's advantageous to be doing it yourself that to just take whatever you get from a store.

But certainly for reusing stock coils one of the most important things you can do is dryburn; dryburn cleans the silica wick and turns it from black to white.

I hear vodka is best; I use hot water with some vinegar; i put vinegar because of hard water;

 

[jclifford]

I would say you answered your own question at 5 for $7.

Have you ever tried to clean anything with distilled water?

 

[Cloud Junky]

right now I have an EVOD BCC and have seen quite a bit an how to clean the coil and dry burn it to make it last longer. is it worth it to do this as a pkg of 5 is only about $7. So my question is what is the best way to clean wicks ( have seen suggestions to use distilled water or soak in vodka) and any other tips more experienced vapers would know of.

thanks

I would toss the coil heads in a boiling cup of water for a hour or so, I put them on a paper towel and they were good as new. Give it a shot you have nothing to lose.

 

[3mg Meniere]

Certainly the heads are so small anyway, and useable in quite a few versions of tanks they are worth keeping instead of tossing; then if you ever bother to try rewicking them you will likely find that the wicking is so critial to airflow, taste and leaking that it's advantageous to be doing it yourself that to just take whatever you get from a store.

Yeah. A real penny-pincher like me will then collect a bunch which have failed the test, and recoil and rewick. But you are probably not concerned about that yet.

 

[bear-runner]

It is definitely worth it. It is just too simple. However, I have enough extras that I do a bunch at once. When you have maybe five, take the chimney off of each one (pliers make this easier), and rinse them. Remove the flavor wick and toss it. I put them in water with denture tablets. After a few hours soak, I rinse them again, roll them up in a washcloth, and squeeze. Then I attach each one to the base, and dry burn to check coil and burn off any more gunk. Then I replace the flavor wick with a bit of silica wick-- but others use cotton or cotton yarn. Then you replace the chimney. Done. It is really worth it in the long run, so you can spend your money on something else.

However, the correct term is "coil head."

thank you so much for the information. and also thank you for teaching me what it was actually called i wasnt quite sure what the proper terminology was called as im new to vaping.

 

[bear-runner]

There's a difference between a "cartomizer" and a "clearomizer". Proper terminology.

you will have to forgive me i am new to vaping (hence posting in new members forum). I would appreciate it if you explained it to me if i get something wrong, instead of making me feel like an idiot. thanks

 

[bear-runner]

I would toss the coil heads in a boiling cup of water for a hour or so, I put them on a paper towel and they were good as new. Give it a shot you have nothing to lose.

thanks Cloud Junky that was helpful, after soaking them and letting them dry should i also dry burn the heads for a few seconds?

 

[440BB]

Here's a video that might help you with cleaning and dry burning Vapor Lady Lounge Kanger eVod, Protank, MT3, Cleaning and Burning The Atomizer for Better Vaping - YouTube

 

[3mg Meniere]

I have seen another of her videos. She is good.

You can do a dry burn on the bottom coils with chimney, and look for the glow inside, down through the chimney hole. Not knowing anything else, that is the way I did it at first. However, it is better to know that the whole coil is firing up. A hotspot is not a good thing.

 

[Laggy]

you will have to forgive me i am new to vaping (hence posting in new members forum). I would appreciate it if you explained it to me if i get something wrong, instead of making me feel like an idiot. thanks

Don't worry about him. Even if you got the terminology wrong, you still explained exactly what you were trying to get across and people were able to answer your questions. You're not an idiot. Everyone was a newbie once, you can't be expected to automatically know everything.

 

[jjordan]

I have heard of soaking everything in everclear but not vodka is that a cheaper method? I too am a penny pincher and I know you can get vodka realitively cheap compared to everclear. Do yo tthen like soak them in warm water to get rid of the alcohol taste or just do the dry burn and call it good? Sorry for all the questions but I'm pretty new to the vaping scene. Only put down the analogs two months ago. So still a noob.

 

[440BB]

Soaking in alcohol can also dissolve any remaining eliquid, but it can't remove the hard residue that has accumulated on the coil, which must be burned to ash to clean out. Hot water also works just fine.

For clearomizers, I disassemble as much as possible, including removing the silicon cover from the head, give them a couple hot tapwater washes, shake and blow them out, and dry burn them, as shown in the video linked above. I find that it thoroughly cleans them, so you can save your vodka for better purposes!

 

[CassiusCloud]

I used to set mine in distilled vinegar for a little bit,maybe 20 minutes or so..
then pull them out and just add baking soda over the coil and wicks and in the coil chamber then drop them back in the vinegar and let them sit until the reaction stopped..
Then would swoosh the bowl around for about a minute..
then take each one out,but as i was,would swoosh it in the vinegar one last time..then run it under the warmest water i could bare to rinse.
then just sat them on a paper towel to air dry for a day or so or when i needed to replace a coil..

i used to have two sets,one that was drying and the ones i was using..

i just make a coil when i need a new one now rather than going through all that..

 

[3mg Meniere]

I have heard of soaking everything in everclear but not vodka is that a cheaper method?

Yes. Cheap vodka can be bought in 50ML bottles for about a dollar.

i just make a coil when i need a new one now rather than going through all that..

I might start doing that to all of them. Might be quicker once I practice a while.

 

[Mikeo]

you will have to forgive me i am new to vaping (hence posting in new members forum). I would appreciate it if you explained it to me if i get something wrong, instead of making me feel like an idiot. thanks

Well put. I think sometimes the old hands on here forget how hard it is for us new guys to learn all the terminology!

I do clean mine, watched several videos on how to do it. There are several youtube videos that cover the EVOD's and Protank2 specifically....

 

[Baditude]

you will have to forgive me i am new to vaping (hence posting in new members forum). I would appreciate it if you explained it to me if i get something wrong, instead of making me feel like an idiot. thanks

Sorry if I embarrassed you, it was not my intent. Here you go:

Proper Terminology: Is it a Carto, a Tank, or What? A Guide to Juice Attachments

home of the vapers table.com

 

[bear-runner]

Sorry if I embarrassed you, it was not my intent. Here you go:

Proper Terminology: Is it a Carto, a Tank, or What? A Guide to Juice Attachments

home of the vapers table.com

thank you so much that was very helpful