What did I do to my atty?????

[videoequus]

Hi everyone,
This is sort of a funny story,but not! lol
I was down to 1 working atty.. 306 cisco 1.5...love this thing..ordered attys today an d paying nothing happens to this before they get here..my other 306 died out of teh blue the other day..
So I actually dropped it in the sink of dish water...
Amazingly battery still works,so I soaked the atty in some vodka fo r about 30 min... put it in the oven for about 30 min on low to try to dry it out.. Now it has NO airflow I cant blow through it,it will fire but it is somehow absolutely clogged..
Any idea what I have done????

 

[Hoosier]

Hitting Murphy's Law of Atomizers is always tough. (When down to one atty, something will frag that atty before your delivery of new attys.)

Something clogged the air passages. Doesn't take much as they get pretty small and the is usually all kinds of stuff floating around in my dishwater.

I would do the alcohol soak again, but I would not put it in the oven afterward. I'd try blowing it out while it was still wet from the alcohol. If I could get any alcohol through it, I'd keep that going. Alcohol in mouth and blowing it through the atty to see if a "power rinse" can get that clog cleared.

One should not follow my suggestion if they have to drive, operate heavy machinery, think clearly, talk to lawyers or cops, and/or go to work within the next few hours.

 

[dee5]

"One should not follow my suggestion if they have to drive, operate heavy machinery, think clearly, talk to lawyers or cops, and/or go to work within the next few hours. "

Haha Hoosier! Yea, obviously the hole in the atty is blocked by something. You don't say if you rinsed it out after the soak, I would've run it under very warm water, blow it out, rinse, blow it out, rinse, blow it out---about 10 times. Blow it out real good from both ends to finish and you may not have to let it dry before dripping some juice on it and giving it a try. And this may sound like a "duh", but make sure you aren't blocking that little air hole with your fingers. Since you don't have another atty to try with the battery that went for a swim, does the atty work on other batteries? One would assume that if the tip lights up it's still working but you should try the atty on any other batts just to be sure it's not the battery.