It does work

[StarsAndBars]

Up front, this post is about dry burning you LR atty. Everyone seems to have their own secret method to clean/revitalize an atty. The one constant is most people say 'oooh, don't let your LR atty get dry."

I began reading a few posts about some people saying they will let the atty fire with no liquid in order to clean all the dry gunk off the coil, but I've always been hesitant to try it.

I was lurking around on here and some guy had posted a video of this dude dry burning a LR atty for what had to be 30 seconds. Probably more but I don't want to risk exaggerating. It wasn't till the last few seconds till the glowing red coil could be easily seen all the way across. The guy in the video said that's when its time to stop. I just tried it with a LR 510 from eastmall that hasn't been performing to par shall we say. It took what seemed like forever to see a red coil. Lots of burnt smelling vapor BTW. After I saw the coil, I released the switch on my PV, gave it a few seconds to cool, then hit the switch again. Bam! beautiful glowing coil right off the bat. Guess what happened next..... drip, drip, drip...and drip, press switch and oh yeh, the atty was working like a hoss again.

I by no means say to do this often or that an atty may not be harmed in the process, but if you've got an old clunker, definitely try this before you abandon it.

 

[Liv2Ski]

Yup Starsand Bars - it has worked for me too. I clean out with a quick suck and blow through of warm tap water first prior to a dry burn to revive a week atty (LR or standard).

 

[banjo]

I have not lost an LR atty since I began using them about 2 months ago. I never dry burn them or let them go dry while vaping. I also never clean them. I just blow them out once or twice a day - and I vape fairly heavily all day.

 

[BradSmith]

The first few months of vaping I was really worried about my atties I was always doing something with them. Now I just keep them from drying out and I don't overfill them. I guess it's just a matter of practice getting to the point were you don't overfill or overdrip them. However, I have changed many other things as well, higher voltage for one and not vaping dark liquids or high concentrations of VG. With higher voltage you get massive hits with PG alone.

However, I do agree that you might as well try something if your atty is not working good enough and the dry burn does seem to help. It probably shortens their life but who cares if it was not working? A shorter life atty is better than useless anyday.