Odd thing happened cleaning ego-t atty

[Twisty]

After 3 days of continuous vaping on a new ego-t atty it was getting pretty hard to draw and the flavor was getting even more muted. I cleaned the atty like I have been cleaning my regular 510 attys by giving it a warm alcahol bath for about 15 minutes. When I dried it with a paper towel the black finish came off. Now it's a shiny sliver. It's vapeing better than ever with more flavor.

That was about a week ago. I was going to contact my vender but it's been working so good I don't want to jinx it.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Harry

 

[Beez]

Ok, just my take, but it is hard to come up with a possible reason why the coating would have any effect on your vaping experience. Your cleaning, however, likely did have an impact and is probably the factor responsible for the improvement. BTW, after an alcohol clean I have also seen the coating chip on my tank atty, presumably from the drying effect of the alcohol.

 

[sickofanalogs]

Well, I cannot speak for the finish coming off, etc but I can speak for how cleaning the tank atty really improved the taste and vapor production for me. I took it off, blew it out and put in some alcohol drops, blew those out, let it dry and tried it and WOW! I agree, that's just what it needed.

 

[ledouxmike]

Have you had this problem with 510 atty's? I've had it on one of my 510's. Only had two. and on one of my eGo mega atty's. I cleaned them both with alcohol. I'm not sure if its the alcohol or the e juice. I've had ejuice leak a bit where the cart and atomizer meet.

 

[Codex Gigas]

Kind of the inevitable side effect of using alcohol on a painted surface.

 

[ledouxmike]

I've only had the top part of the atty do this, not the whole thing. I wonder if vinegar is safer. I used it to clean one of my atty's and it worked just great cleaning out the atty.

 

[Twisty]

Have you had this problem with 510 atty's? I've had it on one of my 510's. Only had two. and on one of my eGo mega atty's. I cleaned them both with alcohol. I'm not sure if its the alcohol or the e juice. I've had ejuice leak a bit where the cart and atomizer meet.

No, never had a problem with the 510s. However, they were EM attys where as the ego tank atty is Joye.

 

[JWebb]

Harry you in Bridgeton, work at Boeing?

 

[Twisty]

Harry you in Bridgeton, work at Boeing?

Not Boeing. I'm a nail bender.

 

[DuncanDisordely]

hehehe I 'stole' the riva 510 cone and replaced it with my riva 901 cone when I bought one for someone, I figured the shorter cone would be better on their shorter atty and vice versa for me.... well I got myself some cartomisers and guess what, they are too fat for the cone! I had to peel off the sticky black plastic 'jacket' they have on and they are a lovely shiny steel underneath and now fit my cone lovely.

Yeah I know it isnt quite alchohol, or tank related, but it reminded me!

 

[afrazier5]

I'll agree that alcohol can take the painted finish off of an atty. But what immediately comes to mind is what type of alcohol are you using? I've soaked mine for days sometimes because I forget it's soaking and never had it totally strip it.

 

[Twisty]

Wow, I thought I was the only one! I guess next time I won't just drown the whole atomizer for over a minute now

I will continue to use this method on this atty since there is no more paint to damage. If I get another tank atty I may do it differrently. Maybe not. I'm not too worried about color coordination. If you saw the way I dress you would understand.