When it comes to mixing chemicals... You have to ask yourself what you are trying to achieve?
Unless you are creating a "New chemical compound", by mixing two chemicals... do not mix them. (Eg, if mixing eggs and flour creates super-clean, then you are just washing with eggs and flour. Wash with eggs first, and then wash separately with flour. You are not saving time mixing two chemicals, just creating a potential hazardous compound.)
Never mix any two unknown chemicals unless instructed for dilution. If alcohol cleans OK, and water cleans OK, mixing the two will not clean BETTER, it will still just clean it OK. Don't create a situation where there is only more danger or less danger. The key word there is "Danger".
If you mix an "Acid" with a "Base", you are 100% going to get a chemical reaction. You will create "Water" (H2O), and the remainder of the two chemicals which will be left after the neutralization has occurred. This could be pure arsenic and pure mercury, now mixed with water. Though you started out with eggs and flour. (Severe, but realistic, dramatization there.)
For those afraid to try the cleaner solution. The option of using "Club soda", which is pure seltzer-water (tonic), is the better alternative. (There is no syrup/sugar in club soda.)
Seltzer is Water (H2O) and Carbon-Dioxide (CO2). We breath both those elements every day, in high volumes. Though we desire an adequate level of (O2) to offset the (CO2) and (H2O).
Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2)2 (One Hydrogen per One Oxygen), will quickly break-down into (H2O)2 & (O2) under heat and in UV exposure. (Water and Oxygen) This is why you store H2O2 in a cool dark place, in an opaque bottle.
Alcohol (90%+), is flammable but it will evaporate at room temperature, within a 48 hour period. Alcohol can be saturated/diluted with warm water, and will evaporate in minutes. (Do not use in large volumes, in an enclosed area, or near any exposed flames or pilot-lights.)
For the ice-cleaner... it is food-safe, only when used as instructed. 1:50 mixture, in an ice-machine, with the first batch thrown out. You don't clean an ice-maker every week/month. If you used 100% undiluted mixture, you would have to throw out 50 batches of ice, since the mixture would be 50 times stronger. (Just for example.)
Personally, I would try the hot water first, followed by the alcohol (90%+) second, followed by the seltzer-water (Tonic) third, followed by the ice-cleaner citric-acid for nickle fourth, followed by the ice-cleaner phosphoric-acid fifth. Each time between washings, using water to flush-out any remaining chemicals. Ultimately keeping the vaporizer stored on a sunny window-sill, to ensure it is 100% dry in a few days.
One thing is clear. The use of acids and alcohol to clean these devices, indicates that there is still an undesired level of oils and sugars within our juices. It is also clear that the coil is getting up to the temperature of combustion at times. (Not that it is always at a combustible temperature, but it does carbonize some of these oils and plastics.)
Hopefully in the future, they will add some temperature control to these devices, and most gunk will easily be removed with alcohol, and not carbonize. (It is the expanding carbonization which is lifting the elements off the solder-board. This would also not happen if the elements were crimped from behind, and then soldered.)
If the Americans don't do it, the UK guys will... and then the Chinese will just copy it, and do it cheaper. However, if you don't voice your opinion to the sellers, and the manufactures... they will keep making this stuff disposable, and selling it to you at top-dollar prices. Apparently, they stuff the money in their ears... so the less you give them to stuff... the more they hear you!
When it comes to disclaimers, I know what you are saying... I had someone ask me why they couldn't inject bleach into themselves, to rid them of aids... They had read an article which said that bleach is used to kill aids. (Kills aids on floors and counters, not inside humans.)
Unless you are creating a "New chemical compound", by mixing two chemicals... do not mix them. (Eg, if mixing eggs and flour creates super-clean, then you are just washing with eggs and flour. Wash with eggs first, and then wash separately with flour. You are not saving time mixing two chemicals, just creating a potential hazardous compound.)
Never mix any two unknown chemicals unless instructed for dilution. If alcohol cleans OK, and water cleans OK, mixing the two will not clean BETTER, it will still just clean it OK. Don't create a situation where there is only more danger or less danger. The key word there is "Danger".
If you mix an "Acid" with a "Base", you are 100% going to get a chemical reaction. You will create "Water" (H2O), and the remainder of the two chemicals which will be left after the neutralization has occurred. This could be pure arsenic and pure mercury, now mixed with water. Though you started out with eggs and flour. (Severe, but realistic, dramatization there.)
For those afraid to try the cleaner solution. The option of using "Club soda", which is pure seltzer-water (tonic), is the better alternative. (There is no syrup/sugar in club soda.)
Seltzer is Water (H2O) and Carbon-Dioxide (CO2). We breath both those elements every day, in high volumes. Though we desire an adequate level of (O2) to offset the (CO2) and (H2O).
Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2)2 (One Hydrogen per One Oxygen), will quickly break-down into (H2O)2 & (O2) under heat and in UV exposure. (Water and Oxygen) This is why you store H2O2 in a cool dark place, in an opaque bottle.
Alcohol (90%+), is flammable but it will evaporate at room temperature, within a 48 hour period. Alcohol can be saturated/diluted with warm water, and will evaporate in minutes. (Do not use in large volumes, in an enclosed area, or near any exposed flames or pilot-lights.)
For the ice-cleaner... it is food-safe, only when used as instructed. 1:50 mixture, in an ice-machine, with the first batch thrown out. You don't clean an ice-maker every week/month. If you used 100% undiluted mixture, you would have to throw out 50 batches of ice, since the mixture would be 50 times stronger. (Just for example.)
Personally, I would try the hot water first, followed by the alcohol (90%+) second, followed by the seltzer-water (Tonic) third, followed by the ice-cleaner citric-acid for nickle fourth, followed by the ice-cleaner phosphoric-acid fifth. Each time between washings, using water to flush-out any remaining chemicals. Ultimately keeping the vaporizer stored on a sunny window-sill, to ensure it is 100% dry in a few days.
One thing is clear. The use of acids and alcohol to clean these devices, indicates that there is still an undesired level of oils and sugars within our juices. It is also clear that the coil is getting up to the temperature of combustion at times. (Not that it is always at a combustible temperature, but it does carbonize some of these oils and plastics.)
Hopefully in the future, they will add some temperature control to these devices, and most gunk will easily be removed with alcohol, and not carbonize. (It is the expanding carbonization which is lifting the elements off the solder-board. This would also not happen if the elements were crimped from behind, and then soldered.)
If the Americans don't do it, the UK guys will... and then the Chinese will just copy it, and do it cheaper. However, if you don't voice your opinion to the sellers, and the manufactures... they will keep making this stuff disposable, and selling it to you at top-dollar prices. Apparently, they stuff the money in their ears... so the less you give them to stuff... the more they hear you!
When it comes to disclaimers, I know what you are saying... I had someone ask me why they couldn't inject bleach into themselves, to rid them of aids... They had read an article which said that bleach is used to kill aids. (Kills aids on floors and counters, not inside humans.)
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