Hi all
Hope you're all happy. I am. vaping on a nice Red Apple juice from Alba Vapours here in Scotland.
I've read a lot about cleaning atomizers; as a total newbie, it's coming up to 1 week of use, and I'd like to keep these things working well (while knowing they won't last forever).
I'm impressed by the documentation on ultrasonic cleaners, but I can't shell out on that kind of thing yet. Possibilities I can see:
1) Soak in hot/warm water (not boiling). Bit of lemon juice perhaps.
2) Isopropyl alcohol. I have some of this to clean electronic contacts (probably not a bad idea anyway given the contacts between the atty and battery).
What about tanks? I've filled separate tanks with some good juices. This stuff is sticky as hell. (Mostly 100% VG so far, just got some 80/20 PG/VG). I'd like to clean out my tanks eventually as well, if only to try new juices. What works well?
An odd thing about the Lea I'm using is that the airflow goes right through the atomiser in a straight-through path, brushes past the centre-contact with the battery (through an oddly-shaped contact protuberance on the atty, allowing electrical contact but also a gap), reverses direction upwards through a groove cut out of the female battery screwthread, and finally reaches the outside word through a small hole. So this part is also part of the potential-clogging path. (Experimentally confirmed by trying to vape after working on the gooseneck, and realising that metal filings were probably not a good addition to either the flavour or my health
)
I don't know if this is standard to 510 fittings. Perhaps it isn't, as the gooseneck I bought needed some attention with a hacksaw to allow airflow. The implication of the female thread at the top was that standard 510 atomisers have lateral airholes at the top (atty-end) of the thread, rather than right down on the contact end like the Lea attys.
I know this would all make more sense with some photos, but my phone is an sPhone (....tyPhone) and the camera is... well, a bit blind.
Hope you're all happy. I am. vaping on a nice Red Apple juice from Alba Vapours here in Scotland.
I've read a lot about cleaning atomizers; as a total newbie, it's coming up to 1 week of use, and I'd like to keep these things working well (while knowing they won't last forever).
I'm impressed by the documentation on ultrasonic cleaners, but I can't shell out on that kind of thing yet. Possibilities I can see:
1) Soak in hot/warm water (not boiling). Bit of lemon juice perhaps.
2) Isopropyl alcohol. I have some of this to clean electronic contacts (probably not a bad idea anyway given the contacts between the atty and battery).
What about tanks? I've filled separate tanks with some good juices. This stuff is sticky as hell. (Mostly 100% VG so far, just got some 80/20 PG/VG). I'd like to clean out my tanks eventually as well, if only to try new juices. What works well?
An odd thing about the Lea I'm using is that the airflow goes right through the atomiser in a straight-through path, brushes past the centre-contact with the battery (through an oddly-shaped contact protuberance on the atty, allowing electrical contact but also a gap), reverses direction upwards through a groove cut out of the female battery screwthread, and finally reaches the outside word through a small hole. So this part is also part of the potential-clogging path. (Experimentally confirmed by trying to vape after working on the gooseneck, and realising that metal filings were probably not a good addition to either the flavour or my health

I don't know if this is standard to 510 fittings. Perhaps it isn't, as the gooseneck I bought needed some attention with a hacksaw to allow airflow. The implication of the female thread at the top was that standard 510 atomisers have lateral airholes at the top (atty-end) of the thread, rather than right down on the contact end like the Lea attys.
I know this would all make more sense with some photos, but my phone is an sPhone (....tyPhone) and the camera is... well, a bit blind.
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