I don't clean mine either. I give them a good 'blow out' once in a while, but when I WAS cleaning them, I wasn't getting the same life out of them. I think any AGGRESSIVE form of cleaning just ruins them..
My first atomizer is dying :(
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It seems the atomizer is an excellent catalyst for the development of superstitions.
When something keeps occurring that is not fully understood, and seemingly random at times, it is natural for the human brain to try and find a cause and effect relationship to explain those events.
And when you combine that with a touch of obsessive-compulsive tendencies, which it seems many of us have, then you have a very fertile soil for all sorts of explanations and superstitions to develop around atomizer care and what causes atomizers to fail.
But in the end, there are real explanations for these things.
All it takes is to understand them, and then they can be dealt with properly.
That is the goal of my previously posted thread about atomizer facts.
And I welcome anyone to post in that thread if they have facts to add to the discussion.
When something keeps occurring that is not fully understood, and seemingly random at times, it is natural for the human brain to try and find a cause and effect relationship to explain those events.
And when you combine that with a touch of obsessive-compulsive tendencies, which it seems many of us have, then you have a very fertile soil for all sorts of explanations and superstitions to develop around atomizer care and what causes atomizers to fail.
But in the end, there are real explanations for these things.
All it takes is to understand them, and then they can be dealt with properly.
That is the goal of my previously posted thread about atomizer facts.
And I welcome anyone to post in that thread if they have facts to add to the discussion.
If you do the Highping dry burn method, step by step including the rinsing with very hot tap water, and it doesn't fix your atomizer and make it work as good as new again, I'll eat my hat.
An atomizer either dies, because the coil snaps, or it fades away due to built up crud, or gets clogged up with dried up juice. If it is not dead, it just needs to be cleaned correctly, and correctly is by doing the Highping method using a series of hot water rinses and dry burns.
I am on a mission to stamp out atomizer myths.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ion/97014-facts-about-cleaning-atomizers.html
I know you've been doing dry burns, but clearly they were not long enough to burn off all the crud.
Either that, or you now have dried up juice clogging the mesh, because you don't wash the atomizer.
I just thought this needed more attention....
...and I don't think you should talk about me like that!
Hey you should do an atomizer myths thread! Or compile all myths into the facts thread. Like say you have a certain fact: example: myth: "atomizers need to be cleaned to perform well and live long"DC2 said:It seems the atomizer is an excellent catalyst for the development of superstitions.
When something keeps occurring that is not fully understood, and seemingly random at times, it is natural for the human brain to try and find a cause and effect relationship to explain those events.
And when you combine that with a touch of obsessive-compulsive tendencies, which it seems many of us have, then you have a very fertile soil for all sorts of explanations and superstitions to develop around atomizer care and what causes atomizers to fail.
But in the end, there are real explanations for these things.
All it takes is to understand them, and then they can be dealt with properly.
That is the goal of my previously posted thread about atomizer facts.
And I welcome anyone to post in that thread if they have facts to add to the discussion.
Fact: "some atomizers need to be cleaned depending on what they've been through and what type of juice you use on them, others do not"
Just an example no truth to it really, but I think that'd be a really fun thread. Like mythbusters of the e-cig world
Not a bad idea really.
I could compile all the various myths into the facts thread!!
And then that thread could cover both myths and facts all at the same time.
It's just that there are so many myths, it would be a substantial effort.
Except that's a fact.
And that's a myth.
All atomizers work the same and have the same issues.
And the resolution to those issues has been pretty much proven.
Bad example.
Check out this poll to see how many of us I am talking about...
Do you have obsessive-compulsive tendencies?
Yikes!!!
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DC2 said:Not a bad idea really.
I could compile all the various myths into the facts thread!!
And then that thread could cover both myths and facts all at the same time.
It's just that there are so many myths, it would be a substantial effort.
Except that's a fact.
And that's a myth.
All atomizers work the same and have the same issues.
And the resolution to those issues has been pretty much proven.
Bad example.
Like I said there is no truth to my example. I didn't want to spend tons of time thinking of a good example because I figured you'd know what I meant..
WOW what can you say about nostalgia I haven't had a good "blow out" in....well....
... let's just say awhile now....Domino that was priceless - I love the Pipes - and so very appropriate!
Thank You
i knew about talking about attys,dang it mine just upped and died 1 hr ago,she was a trooper,she showed me the way.she will be truely missed its sad.
Okay well, what I actually meant was that "All atomizers need to be WASHED to perform well and live long" which is in fact NOT a fact. THAT is a myth because actually washing can kill the atomizer.If you had reversed the facts and myths, that would have been more clear.
And also, not all atomizers are the same and have the same issues, that's not true. 901 atomizers need to be treated differently from 510 atomizers. 510 atomizers run much hotter and can get too hot a lot quicker than 901 atomizers. And also the manufacturing of pretty much ALL atomizers is different from atty to atty. You can get a bad one and have to modify it to perform like a "good one".
I do not believe that washing can kill an atomizer.
I think that is another myth.
From a logical standpoint, there is no reason I can see that washing with water can kill an atomizer.
And I have washed multiple atomizers dozens and dozens of times and it never killed any of them.
I think a lot of newbies think they killed an atomizer that they washed simply because they did not let it dry long enough before trying to use it, and of course if it is still wet then it seems like it isn't working.
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Remember, we are only talking about washing atomizers.
So with that in mind, how do they need to be treated different?
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