Well I've heard great things about Linux but that's as far as my knowledge goes. I hate to mess with this OS because it's pretty new and synched with my ipad. Think I'll not rock the boat here......sounds interesting though.
Hey all. So I'm making myself frantic trying to work out a cleaning ritual for the use and reuse of coil units for the PTII Mini. Ask the Vets is a 2 day wait so maybe ya'll can help me out, I have some specific questions.
1. Is dry-burning something you do with EVERY cleaning? It seems it would unravel the wicks awfully quickly and yeah they're cheap but they ain't THAT cheap.
2. Is dry-burning just what you do when the coil unit starts performing poorly? If so, what do you do in between?
3. I have one tank and want to switch flavors but the head in there is performing pretty much fine. Still, I think the tank itself needs a cleaning, it looks a little murky.
4. So for JUST switching flavors on a well working coil unit, what do I do? Just run it under warm tap then soak in DI water and let dry? Then every once in awhile, when it stops performing, give it a dry burn? This sounds like it makes sense to me. With this method I can also switch up the heads while one is soaking and just dry burn them when I need it. The only thing is I'm not sure if it's RIGHT, haha. Am I on the right track here, friends? I guess I'm not really sure how long these things are supposed to last in the first place.
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
