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Uncle Ralphie

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1. Dry burning is something I do with every cleaning. Your coil will have X amount of heating cycles, it only lasts so long. My theory is that if you dry burn before there is too much gunk you only have to get it red a few times each wash cycle. The longer it goes the more gunk builds up on it and the main wick.

2. I use mine for a few tank fills 5 or 6 on a mini 3 or 4 on a protank, I change it before there is a problem, sometimes you can just wash it, pull the flavor wick and see the coil is clean. It is good to go again.

3. You can probably just rinse the head out, there are numerous things you can do to speed up the small amount of time it takes for it to dry.
4. same. But sometimes I just shake the few drops out of the tank and shake off the base/head and refill with a different flavor. (I am lazy.)

My method is a lazy persons method, I bought several 5 packs. I have 2 little bowls on my desk, one with cleaned coils and one with dirty coils. I use the clean ones when changing flavors or after a few tanks. When I get 5-10 in the dirty bowl I go through my cleaning ritual. It takes 15-20 minutes to wash them out and leave them apart to dry, then about the same the next morning to dry burn, rinse reassemble and throw in the clean bowl to dry.

The flavor wicks will get gunked up and you cannot burn the gunk off them without unraveling them, at least I can not. You can use one 1.5mm silica wick to replace the two 1mm flavor wicks that kanger uses. Silica wick is cheap, you can get it on ebay. I have actually moved over to cotton to replace the flavor wicks. We have it at home, I just boiled some and have it in a bag near my kit and twist little bits up. It does swell so you have to "not pack it in".

I rarely have to throw any heads away, I did try my hand at recoiling a few of them. They are not that cheap, but they are cheap enough to throw away when they cant be saved need to be recoiled :)

I rinse , dry and burn coils after every tankful..........I have lost 1 T3 in 4 months time. I use Peaches & Cream from Wal Mart fabric section, to replace the flavor wick every tank. Works for me
 

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I rinse , dry and burn coils after every tankful..........I have lost 1 T3 in 4 months time. I use Peaches & Cream from Wal Mart fabric section, to replace the flavor wick every tank. Works for me

That's dedication right there. My tank is 1.5ml I think. I rarely fill it up all the way and can empty it in a little over a day. It seems to me I'd be spending more time waiting for everything to dry than I would actually get to vape. I think I've got to find a slightly less time consuming method. But thank you :)
 

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That's dedication right there. My tank is 1.5ml I think. I rarely fill it up all the way and can empty it in a little over a day. It seems to me I'd be spending more time waiting for everything to dry than I would actually get to vape. I think I've got to find a slightly less time consuming method. But thank you :)

WAIT for stuff to dry...........NEVER !!!! amazed.jpg I have 1 dozen T3's (2.5 ml) and 2 dozen spare heads. I keep 6 to 8 in daily rotation

after their "bath" I set em on the baseboard to dry. I change flavors many times a day and I found that way to be the best. Me likum variety :p
 
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WAIT for stuff to dry...........NEVER !!!! View attachment 285855 I have 1 dozen T3's (2.5 ml) and 2 dozen spare heads. I keep 6 to 8 in daily rotation

after their "bath" I set em on the baseboard to dry. I change flavors many times a day and I found that way to be the best. Me likum variety :p

Oooh I see. Well, it's going to take some time to build up that kind of stock. In a perfect world, though :)
 

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Of COURSE I blame you all. It's why I like it here so much. It's YOUR fault I spent the money I was going to use to patch my tire on juice instead. It's just easier that way. You all are my scapegoats. Baa.

To everyone else that is. To me, I just like it here :)

I don't know what you consider a big bottle, but the bigger the bottle the longer the aging time, if you have any small bottles around transfer some to it and it will age faster. I had the Rainbow Sherbert for like a week before trying it and I love that stuff, I had to hide what I have left as it was a sample that was sent when I had ordered some flavorings.
 

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Of COURSE I blame you all. It's why I like it here so much. It's YOUR fault I spent the money I was going to use to patch my tire on juice instead. It's just easier that way. You all are my scapegoats. Baa.

To everyone else that is. To me, I just like it here :)

Ok, now that you are complaining I am going to complain, due to the fact that you just couldn't hush about the darn Rainbow Sherbert, I had to unhide mine and now it's in the darn iClear30 and it's all your fault that it's going to be gone tonight, so there! Tit for Tat! :p:facepalm:
 

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I don't know what you consider a big bottle, but the bigger the bottle the longer the aging time, if you have any small bottles around transfer some to it and it will age faster. I had the Rainbow Sherbert for like a week before trying it and I love that stuff, I had to hide what I have left as it was a sample that was sent when I had ordered some flavorings.

I got the sherbert from black friday sale and i still dont like it, which makes me sad, it smells spot on sherbert, but i just dont like the "taste". Same thing with bubblegum, smells great, taste yuck to me. My sherbert is 30ml @ 12mg, so Dusty, pm me your address and i will send it to you! Its either you or down the drain! I cant find the bubblegum tho, it must have went down the drain already
 

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Similar, I have some attys? I don't know much about them. A few boge ones and 510s. I'll have to double check when I'm home exactly wth they are, but you want? I'll Never use them.

Well, if you are using them I'll put the to use. I didn't think I was going to like a carto tank much but it's very nice actually, I do use some regular carto's on occasion for some juices that are pretty harsh they seem to tone the harshness down. I'm still dumbfounded that everything else in the box was trashed but the tank wasn't! lol Strange the way some things happen.
 

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Of COURSE I blame you all. It's why I like it here so much. It's YOUR fault I spent the money I was going to use to patch my tire on juice instead. It's just easier that way. You all are my scapegoats. Baa.

To everyone else that is. To me, I just like it here :)

wasn't she nicer, when she was drinking?

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Dusty, the door is stiil open very wide,& the candle is lit.
Sorry don't have anything you can use that way, all my stuff is 808

I do appreciate that, I'm really just wanting to get a few XL pre-punched carto's, I found I like that tank and even more now that the damn thing made it through a fire and every thing else was melted. Just weird!
 

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I do the same, dry burn after every cleaning, which for me depends on how dark and gunky the juice is. I can get quite a few tanks out of a lighter juice, maybe only 2 out of coffee, choc., or cinnamon roll. I read about a pretty cool trick for soaking the heads. I always used vodka, was advised against any kind of rubbing alcohol. Then I read that Efferdent or Polident tablets clean the hell out of the heads. I switched over to one tablet in one cup of warm, not hot water, leave the heads in it overnight, and rinse with hot water and let dry. It really works great!! The coils come out clean and the wicks white.


I rinse , dry and burn coils after every tankful..........I have lost 1 T3 in 4 months time. I use Peaches & Cream from Wal Mart fabric section, to replace the flavor wick every tank. Works for me
 

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I do the same, dry burn after every cleaning, which for me depends on how dark and gunky the juice is. I can get quite a few tanks out of a lighter juice, maybe only 2 out of coffee, choc., or cinnamon roll. I read about a pretty cool trick for soaking the heads. I always used vodka, was advised against any kind of rubbing alcohol. Then I read that Efferdent or Polident tablets clean the hell out of the heads. I switched over to one tablet in one cup of warm, not hot water, leave the heads in it overnight, and rinse with hot water and let dry. It really works great!! The coils come out clean and the wicks white.

wellll.... will have to try that........can I soak em with my dentures ??? :blink:
 
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