Is my Ego atty dying

[eils51]

I need some help here people, please. I am still new to vaping and was wondering about my Ego attys, if they are hard to draw on and hard to blow through to clean, does that mean they are on their way out, I have tried cleaning with distilled water and/or alcohol, drying and blowing. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Sinlak]

Maybe the wick is 'bunched up' or something inside the atty, Try and use an Ear Syringe and push watter threw it really hard untill the whick comes out a little then pull the wick out with some tweezers. (you dont need the wick, infact ull get better taste without it)

How long have you had this atty?

 

[eils51]

I don't have an ear syringe, and I am not confident enough to go poking into the atty, this particular atty, I think is about 3 months old.

 

[Sinlak]

3 months, yeah prolly dieing =p

 

[MiXoLoGiSt]

Yeah at 3 months i will say its probably on its last breath.

 

[carpedebass]

Have you tried dry burning?

 

[WomanOfHeart]

Three months is a pretty long life for an atty! The only way to really tell if it's dying is to use a multimeter. Just off hand, I would say that it's time to replace it.

 

[dormouse]

Have you ever cleaned your attys? When I used atomizers I had to clean one every weekend because by the end of the week they would be a bit gunked up and not drag as well or vaporize as well. I alternated a pair and had a 3rd as total spare backup.

 

[XKingXGregX]

start stocking up on atomizers

 

[eils51]

Thanks to everyone for your replies, I figured it was dying and yeah, 3 months is pretty good, I do have a stack of new atty's. I'm not sure how to "dry burn".

 

[dormouse]

Well dry burn is another good way to kill attys. With no cart on you press the manual button in until you see a wiff of smoke/vapor (but usually no more than 4 seconds - stop if you do not see a wiff of smoke) then let up on the button. DO NOT point it at your face. A mirror might be good. Then you wait a few second and do it again and again until it doesn't seem to be making smoke. At that point it may have burned off whatever was gunking up the coil. Or you killed it.

 

[daggit2005]

i killed one atty dry burning it so i would not recommend that.

at 3 months its on its way out. i have 2 that are that old and still work but they are showing some age now and not producing good vapor.

i clean mine by putting them in a jar with about 4-5 tablespoons of baking soda then dribbling vinegar in till the baking soda is used up. then i boil some water and put them in that for a few mins and flush them, then do that again for a few mins. then i blow them out and let sit overnight.

 

[EVIL]

I am 2 months into Vaping...already gone thru 6 attys between My fiance and I ... research on here lead Me to purchasing an UltraSonic jewelry cleaner,some wire mesh, and wicking silica. I began taking the piercing caps out of the attys, and discoverd that some had almost fused to the coils, tugged out of the piercing needle by the gunk in coil. Cleaning atty with the piercing plate out enables a much more visable approach, and replacing the wicks deffinately brings the atty back to life, good as new after a good ultra sonic cleaning. the processes are explained in depth in the forums, so I will the indepth brekdown. weekly cleaning will add life to the atty having not known this at first, My attys averaged about 2 weeks of good life with EXTREME vaping.

 

[carpedebass]

https://www.myvaporstore.com/v/vspfiles/assets/images/egotankatomizercleaning.jpg

The thing is, without dry burning the eGo-T atty, you're never going to effectively get rid of the hard shell of burnt juice on it. Boiling, soaking, alcohol, etc will get rid of SOME of it, but not all. If you want that puppy to perform like new, you're going to have to dry burn it. Like everything else, there is a learning curve to it, and yes, there is a risk of popping the atty...but it will never perform up to potential after that dry crust has developed unless you dry burn.