Nautilus coils gunking BAD after one tank

[Animosity1719]

Any ideas as to how to get this built up gunk off my coils, i have had this nautilus for three days and now both my coils i got with it are caked with gunk and giving me funky gross vapes...i tried setting one in vodka for ten minutes then rinsing with hot water but the gunk wont come off. Any help on this would be appreciated. Been smoking fuzion vapor eliquid which is only 70vg.


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[erikbal]

I find that after a few days with mine they get to the point where I can't go above 3.8v without getting a burnt taste. I've been soaking in vodka and rotating between 2 or 3 of them and that seems to help some but doesn't bring them fully back to life. The one I just swapped out a little bit ago was just from last Friday and the coil I could see didn't looked gunked up at all but the vapor production dropped off quite a bit. I've tried dry burning but that seemed to leave a permanent burnt taste in the filler material which sucks because it seemed to be burning off a lot of gunk. If you come up with anything that works let me know! I really like this Nautilus but with how expensive the coils are I'd really like longer life out of them. I am not into rebuilding yet either so that's not really an option for me.

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[doots]

probably only remedy is to change to a clear juice and less vg if you want to use those attys. Could be your heads. Try others. Mine dont do that.

 

[catlady60]

What flavor are you vaping? Some flavors are coil gunkers. I have that same problem with my Iclear 16 coils when I vape MBV Coffee. I solve the problem by cleaning and dry burning my coils after every tankful and even rotating heads.

 

[Tinkiegrrl]

The darker and thicker the juice, the more quickly the coils gunk up. You may want to google "dry burning" coils. I think there are videos out there that show you how to do it, althrough I'm unfamiliar with Aspire coils.

 

[Arnold Ziffle]

I don't have a nautilus yet , but when I dry burn my 30s coils I boil them afterward to get rid of the burnt taste. Also, unicorn blood lasts less than two days in every tank I've tried except the 30s. Six weeks now and still going strong.

 

[Bolivar]

<snip>....I've tried dry burning but that seemed to leave a permanent burnt taste in the filler material which sucks because it seemed to be burning off a lot of gunk. If you come up with anything that works let me know!

I did the same thing and got the same results. Took the coil apart and the wrap that feeds the coil wick was scorched. I tried putting a new wrap in, but couldn't get it in like I wanted. It was like trying to remodel a house through the keyhole in the front door. I'm pretty sure you could put a new single coil in it like Rip does, but don't mess with the wrap that surrounds the coil. I gave up on that coil, chalked it up to learning that dry burning doesn't work well on these assemblies and put in a new one. The only up side is I salvaged a rubber bottom grommet out of it.

The only thing I could think of that might de-gunk the coil would be an ultrasonic cleaner, but I don't have one to try it out.



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[LimeFox]

I don't have the Nautilus (yet), but I do have both the Aspire et-s and Vivi Nova (which, I believe, have similar coils). And because I'm still trying to find a couple of ADVs, I switch out juices a lot.

I vape 100% VG and I noticed that even after an Everclear soak and a 15 minute medium boil, I still had residue on the tanks (not to mention the coils).

I now add about 1 teaspoon of vinegar to 2-3 cups of water when I do the boil (that's an estimate on the liquids, I don't measure). After the boil, I hold the coils vertical under running water (to rinse off the vinegar).

And I let them dry for at least 48 hours. Maybe it's the Florida humidity, but 24 hours is never enough dry time for me. After letting them dry, I do a dry fire -- if I smell vinegar, I do a pulsing dry burn until the vinegar smell is gone (which I haven't had to do since I started rinsing them under running water).

This has worked really well for me -- but you don't want to overdo the vinegar. Vaping vinegar really clears the sinuses and curls the nose hairs. <knowing nod>

 

[Animosity1719]

Its highway robbery to sell you this product and have a coil last you 2-3 days and charge 18$ for a freakin 5 pack, guess i have no choice but to learn how to rebuild


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[Botomline]

Any ideas as to how to get this built up gunk off my coils, i have had this nautilus for three days and now both my coils i got with it are caked with gunk and giving me funky gross vapes...i tried setting one in vodka for ten minutes then rinsing with hot water but the gunk wont come off. Any help on this would be appreciated. Been smoking fuzion vapor eliquid which is only 70vg.


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I soak coils in vinegar then rinse with water. It helps.

 

[volume control]

Its highway robbery to sell you this product and have a coil last you 2-3 days and charge 18$ for a freakin 5 pack, guess i have no choice but to learn how to rebuild


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And if you do learn to rebuild there are far better devices. Complete robbery. I have one too, heads didnt last me long either, even with clear juice

 

[SpeedDemon]

Just going to say this is a much better system if your rebuild the heads your self. Night and day difference