I keep forgetting this - did you solve your problem of dry burning and rinsing an RDTA?
Back when I was using 28g, I'd dry burn and rinse. But as the coil got munted with a brush, I'd use a twirled corner of a baby wipe. And just ran that through the coil a few times. Seemed to work just fine - and sometimes I'd brush off the outer coil with a wipe, instead of rinsing.
I still use them now to clean tweezers etc, as they are so much thicker than tissues.
The only brand of baby wipes that are thick and strong enough are these ones:
And!!!! If you don't want to look a dork in the baby section, you can buy them online
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