Juice Eating Paint off My Atomizes
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I know you may not want to hear this, but I thing you should either take the paint off or find a clear coat that will protect the paint.
Maybe some do. I have smoktek dc and boges, I just scratced them w/ a box cutter and nothing came off. I use them in a tank mod and nothing comes off. If there is a coating, it's not a problem IMO
I think I see a cognitive mistake in my reading of your post. My brain went to cartos, you're talking attys. Sorry. That having being said: I can see a problem if a coating or paint or anything was coming off in a tank mod. What is the problem with an atty shedding a little? Aesthetics? I'm not one that really cares that much about what things look like. I vape a Buzz pro w/ a tank mod in the grocery store.
My question is what's in the juice that is taking the paint off anything!!! Yikes!!!
It's too slow to be used as a "paint remover" but it removes paint.
One mechanism is the fact that it is hygroscopic.
Most painted surfaces are not completely sealed. There are microscopic pores in most painted surfaces. The active attraction of water molecules into these pores or edges or scratches in the paint causes base metal corrosion and expansion causing the paint to crack and flake off. It doesn't actually "dissolve" the paint it just destroys the paint to substrate bond.
Vaping around high class painting (rocketships and racecars) is an absolute NO-NO.
One mechanism is the fact that it is hygroscopic.
Most painted surfaces are not completely sealed. There are microscopic pores in most painted surfaces. The active attraction of water molecules into these pores or edges or scratches in the paint causes base metal corrosion and expansion causing the paint to crack and flake off. It doesn't actually "dissolve" the paint it just destroys the paint to substrate bond.
Vaping around high class painting (rocketships and racecars) is an absolute NO-NO.
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I have had this problem recently with newer 510 atty's and my conclusion is this.... it isnt the juice causing this problem - It is 1. cheaper paint 2. the heat from the atty causes it to peel off.
Propylene Glycol is used in "Green" environmentally friendly paint removers.
One fingerprint of PG on a water-break-free surface being prepared for painting can migrate and cause several square inches of lift off (low adhesion). PG vapors in the air can cause fish-eye and clouding in freshly painted surfaces. Exposed dual-metal interfaces (aluminum and stainless for example) can corrode due to the molecular intrusion of water molecules from the air absorbed by liquid PG, and so on and so on.
It's not a "Bad" chemical but has some interesting properties.
One fingerprint of PG on a water-break-free surface being prepared for painting can migrate and cause several square inches of lift off (low adhesion). PG vapors in the air can cause fish-eye and clouding in freshly painted surfaces. Exposed dual-metal interfaces (aluminum and stainless for example) can corrode due to the molecular intrusion of water molecules from the air absorbed by liquid PG, and so on and so on.
It's not a "Bad" chemical but has some interesting properties.
I did a little experiment, I had a hunch that it might be the cinnamon flavoring I use so I tested it, I put a new black atomizer in a closed container with PG, I also put one in a closed container with Cinnamon RedHots flavoring from TPA and let them soak for a three days.
Turns out it is the Cinnamon RedHots flavoring that is taking the paint off.
Now I am wondering what other ways of striping the paint off there are, I don't want to soak every atomizer I have in cinnamon flavoring, I would probably end up with a bunch of atomizers that taste like cinnamon for ever.
Any suggestions?
Turns out it is the Cinnamon RedHots flavoring that is taking the paint off.
Now I am wondering what other ways of striping the paint off there are, I don't want to soak every atomizer I have in cinnamon flavoring, I would probably end up with a bunch of atomizers that taste like cinnamon for ever.
Any suggestions?
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