Nasty Taste and Smell after dry burn with 510.

[bobbysox10]

My first atty I dry burned attys without a problem. My next atty everytime I dry burn i get a nasty taste smell that goes away after a few hours. Does anyone know why this happens? I make sure that after dry burning I drip 3 or 4 drops on the atty and use a fresh cart. please help.

 

[debook]

You still have "crap" in the wicking or baked on the element. Soak it in Coke for a night and then really hot water for an hour. Let it dry for 6+ hours and dry burn it again. Pain in the ...., I know, but sometimes it takes some work to get the burnt in crud out. Running it at 6 volts also will clean it out pretty quick if you have the means.

 

[bobbysox10]

but the bad taste is not there until I do the dry burn. It like when I change flavors sometimes the old flavor is still there so I do a dry burn and blow it out etc drip a few drops put in fresh cart of new flavor and then it starts.

 

[sjohnson]

The dry burn does just that, it burns off sticky, hard and atomizer-killing e-liquid residue on and near the coil. Burn anything, and the resulting effect is it tastes and smells burnt.

The only way to remove the burnt taste is to remove the burnt material.

That's why I like using an ultrasound cleaner before and after the dry burn. Before to remove what can be "blasted" off the atomizer and after to remove the burnt residue, nixing the burnt taste due to the dry burn.

Also, since switching from commercial to DIY e-juice, I get almost no burnt taste even without cleaning after a dry burn. Something is in commercial liquids I've bought that builds up on the coil, whereas VG, PG, PGA and a few drops of flavor are leaving almost nothing.

 

[me who]

You still have "crap" in the wicking or baked on the element.

Agree, some flavors leave solids behind, some almost completely vaporize

Running it at 6 volts also will clean it out pretty quick if you have the means.

Agree, at 6v but be careful sometime they just go "pop"

 

[bobbysox10]

I may agree except for Johnson Creek. As much as I don't like them I have always been able to dry burn without tasting nasty crap. Well now I know what it is. Should i do longer dry burns or do more of them when i do it?

 

[bobbysox10]

SOLUTION FOUND http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/tips-tricks/69834-my-atty-resurrection-method.html