The facts about cleaning atomizers...

[Shan B]

Well I used the same liquids, same techniques between the 2 atties, only 1 was using water to clean and 1 iso alc. I'm truly hoping it's not rust, but with my dad who used to clean rust from industrial buildings and do renovations i'm going to kinda take his 30+ yrs experience with what it looks like to believe it is.

IDK what else it could be from other than only using 100% water on it. If anyone has had similar problems or knows what could cause this??!? I haven't the slightest clue. But I do know I use your identical steps with BOTH atties. And again, the only difference with the one that did rust across the coil was I used only 100% water whereas on the other i've only used 70 - 91% iso alc.

still clueless.

maybe something from the factory process? no clue

 

[OldDragon]

I do have problems with my atty's, but not burnt taste. It seems that they start getting clogged, no air flow. Tried most of the cleaning medhods, so far I'm going with just water. Seems if I use alcohal, hydrogen peroxide, and other liquids, the burned on juice just doesn't break down. Even using the liquids in a ultasonic cleaner it still does not break down. But what I have noticed is it seems as wick fibers are coming loose each time I try to clean them, I think it's those fibers that are causing the hard draw.

 

[guitardedmark]

Well I used the same liquids, same techniques between the 2 atties, only 1 was using water to clean and 1 iso alc. I'm truly hoping it's not rust, but with my dad who used to clean rust from industrial buildings and do renovations i'm going to kinda take his 30+ yrs experience with what it looks like to believe it is.

IDK what else it could be from other than only using 100% water on it. If anyone has had similar problems or knows what could cause this??!? I haven't the slightest clue. But I do know I use your identical steps with BOTH atties. And again, the only difference with the one that did rust across the coil was I used only 100% water whereas on the other i've only used 70 - 91% iso alc.

still clueless.

maybe something from the factory process? no clue

This is a little worrysome... I've had some 306 attys that started tasting really funky and I have not been able to figure out why. I was cleaning them with water. Maybe its rust? For the record, I had a LR 510 atty blow up on my while i was vaping with my joye 510. It wasn't even that hot!

 

[DC2]

The coil is made of nichrome wire, which from everything I've read is extremely resistant to rust.

In fact, this link says that nichrome wire "does not rust or oxidize" for whatever that's worth...
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Do-Hair-Dryers-Work?&id=939046

 

[Memphis Weirdo]

This thread is more and more info to add to my ever-growing bank of research material.

I'm a 2-week-old noob vaper, and I'm seriously considering getting a Reo... which will be my first step into the world of atomizers. Since I started, I've only used cartomizers.

Sooooo... now I have to learn all about atomizers: Which one to get? What's the difference? Who makes the best ones? How do you use them? How do you take care of them? How do you clean them?

I swear, this learning curve never seems to end.

Sometimes it's head-spinning, but well worth it.

 

[donnah]

This thread is more and more info to add to my ever-growing bank of research material.

I'm a 2-week-old noob vaper, and I'm seriously considering getting a Reo... which will be my first step into the world of atomizers. Since I started, I've only used cartomizers.

Sooooo... now I have to learn all about atomizers: Which one to get? What's the difference? Who makes the best ones? How do you use them? How do you take care of them? How do you clean them?

I swear, this learning curve never seems to end.

Sometimes it's head-spinning, but well worth it.

I have an old goat bottom feeder and I use the boge 2.0 cartos with it. I kinda like it better than my LR attys. But I use both. I've cleaned mine all different ways.. and then there are some that I haven't cleaned. I've had success with dry buringing and then I've had a couple burn out right after the dry burning. Some say clean em.. some say don't. I really don't know anymore!

 

[Magician of Music]

I'm schizo when it comes to vaping...I use atty's, cartomizers, tanks and DCT's all on a daily basis. I tend to direct drip the most on a 510 and my problem isn't the burnt taste, or clogging...it's a sometimes "off" taste. I try to keep one flavor for each device (I have several PV's) so I am not cross mixing flavors in the same atty too often but it just sometimes doesn't taste right to me. When this happens I just do a hot water rinse and then I dry burn using a pulse method and vape away again. I have done a this method on the same atty 3 times within the same day before and I have yet to kill one by doing this.