Water IN THE TANK to clean coils?

[Johntodd]

How about this ... empty tank, remove wick, reassemble, fill with water, fire it up to clean.

I know it works great to boil pots and pans to get extra funk off them. Would the same hold true for cleaning coils? Just fire it with a tank of water?

Please forgive if there is another thread with this in it.

Thanks!
-Johntodd

 

[jstjoehere]

How about this ... empty tank, remove wick, reassemble, fill with water, fire it up to clean.

I know it works great to boil pots and pans to get extra funk off them. Would the same hold true for cleaning coils? Just fire it with a tank of water?

Please forgive if there is another thread with this in it.

Thanks!
-Johntodd

I just run warm tap water through my tanks and rinse my wicks out at the same time. Then I use a little bit of compressed air in a can to (gently blow) the water from the wicks. I also have been known to just drop my stuff in a little rubbing alchohol (not the coil) and let is soak for a couple minutes then wipe it dry and let it air out a bit. Your coils will eventually get gunked up and you can dry burn them but make sure you understand dry burning and rinse your coils and wash your hands before handling the new wick to keep the nasty taste out. I usually just rinse my tank out when I change flavors every other day or so. When a coil gets slow to heat or Im not getting much vapor its time to at least rewick it. I dont see what it would hurt to soak coils in rubbing alcohol to clean them Im just not sure it would get the gunk off the coil itself.

 

[serenity21899]

Not advisable. If you are changing wicks, you only need to rinse it out if you are changing flavors. You can dry burn the wick if you are not changing it, There are You Tube videos on how to do that.

You will get a bunch of different answers here, but I find that with clearos, the less fussing you do with them, the better IMO.

 

[rc3po]

I just run warm tap water through my tanks and rinse my wicks out at the same time. Then I use a little bit of compressed air in a can to (gently blow) the water from the wicks. I also have been known to just drop my stuff in a little rubbing alchohol (not the coil) and let is soak for a couple minutes then wipe it dry and let it air out a bit. Your coils will eventually get gunked up and you can dry burn them but make sure you understand dry burning and rinse your coils and wash your hands before handling the new wick to keep the nasty taste out. I usually just rinse my tank out when I change flavors every other day or so. When a coil gets slow to heat or Im not getting much vapor its time to at least rewick it. I dont see what it would hurt to soak coils in rubbing alcohol to clean them Im just not sure it would get the gunk off the coil itself.

Cotton is cheap. Why would you want to reuse it?

 

[jstjoehere]

Only time I do rinse wicks is when im at work and they get nasty. Once im home I will either do a dry burn and rewick or just throw another coil in. Guess I should have added that in.

 

[rc3po]

How about this ... empty tank, remove wick, reassemble, fill with water, fire it up to clean.

I know it works great to boil pots and pans to get extra funk off them. Would the same hold true for cleaning coils? Just fire it with a tank of water?

Please forgive if there is another thread with this in it.



Thanks!
-Johntodd

Why are you so vague? Give us some info - what kind of tank are you using?

I have a Russian 91% that is made to be re-buildable. After taking it mostly apart like in the pic, while still on my mod, I fire it until it glows(watch out, the gunk may pop a little) as soon as I take my finger off of the button, I put just the coil under running water. I do that a few times until the coil is clean. Then I put some fresh cotton in it and enjoy.

 

[rc3po]

Only time I do rinse wicks is when im at work and they get nasty. Once im home I will either do a dry burn and rewick or just throw another coil in. Guess I should have added that in.

I think I would keep a spare cotton ball in a zip-lock baggy in my pocket. But I'm kinda picky about stuff like that.

 

[Capt.shay]

How about this ... empty tank, remove wick, reassemble, fill with water, fire it up to clean.

I know it works great to boil pots and pans to get extra funk off them. Would the same hold true for cleaning coils? Just fire it with a tank of water?

Please forgive if there is another thread with this in it.

Thanks!
-Johntodd

It wont get hot enough to burn off the funkys if you have the tank full of water. Do a Youtube search "dry burning" for your model addy. You fire a damp coil, so essentially you are doing what you are suggesting but in a different manner.

 

[Johntodd]

It wont get hot enough to burn off the funkys if you have the tank full of water. Do a Youtube search "dry burning" for your model addy. You fire a damp coil, so essentially you are doing what you are suggesting but in a different manner.

Yeah, it would boil the water, which is way cooler than a dry fire. I see. But damp = steam = more heat transfer.

My tank is a ProTank 2. i also have an IGO-W but I doubt the water would stay in there due to the side air holes.

 

[Shootist]

How about this ... empty tank, remove wick, reassemble, fill with water, fire it up to clean.

I know it works great to boil pots and pans to get extra funk off them. Would the same hold true for cleaning coils? Just fire it with a tank of water?

Please forgive if there is another thread with this in it.

Thanks!
-Johntodd

Won't work. The water will cool the coil to the point it won't burn off the gunk collected on it. The only proper way to clean a coil is to dry fire it so it get Red Hot then let cool slightly and run it under some water.

Also on pre-manufactured heads there might also be a wicking liner which might burn/char when dry firing. That will give you a burnt taste.

If you want to cut the cost of heads, coils, wicks then buy a rebuildable atty and wrap your coils and wick them with cotton.

Otherwise just replace the head when it gets gunked up.

 

[r77r7r]

Just do it and then tell us if it worked..............

 

[zoiDman]

I flush out my Clearos using Hot Tap water at nearly Every Refill. I find that it Great Extends the time between needing to Dry Burn.

And I Don't completely dry the Clearo. Just Rinse, Shake, Blow, Refill and Go.

 

[LondonGirl]

I don't think it would work like a kettle, as the water would be too runny and would flood out and drown your battery.

 

[edyle]

How about this ... empty tank, remove wick, reassemble, fill with water, fire it up to clean.

I know it works great to boil pots and pans to get extra funk off them. Would the same hold true for cleaning coils? Just fire it with a tank of water?

Please forgive if there is another thread with this in it.

Thanks!
-Johntodd

if you remove wick in a bottom coil and put water in the tank, the coil would totally flood.

 

[NealBJr]

Cotton is cheap. Why would you want to reuse it?

IMO, there is a time to use cotton, and a time to use silica. I've found that cotton is a horrible wicking agent in some aspects. I have yet to find a good solution to using cotton in stardust atomizer. Most of what I use now, cotton is preferred, but not everyone prefers my type of atomizers. So, I keep a supply of Silica on hand to help others.

For those who do not have a supply of silica, they may want to clean the wick. Silica can last a long long time. I've used one piece of silica for half a year once, and I changed it just because I changed atomizers. I tried cotton in my Genesis style, but it didn't keep up with the wicking demand, and I was getting constant dry hits. Silica can be torched and cleaned that way and is very resilient.

IF you're using a pre-built wick like in a CE5, protank, vivi nova, etc, the best thing is to just rinse it out as much as you can. There's not much you can do. If you get some supplies, you can venture into rebuilding those, but once you take apart one of those coils, you cannot put them back together efficiently using the same materials (if at all). I do recommend rebuilding them when they get gunked up. It's easier than you think.

 

[EBates]

Lets see, dropping an electric heater into you bath = Bad Thing!

Filling your atty with water and then firing it = What? You be the judge.

If using a silica wick, dry burning will clean both the coil and wick. Flavor wicks burn them with a torch of lighter to clean.
If using cotton, replace the wick after dry burning the coil.

 

[RainbowBabz]

I think I just learned that I cleaned my coils wrong when I just did it. Oops. Can't wait until I have money to get some new coils.
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