when your coil gets gunky...

[Tspringer34]

What do you do? I use cotton or bamboo wicks so I have to remove the wick for a dry burn. I am curious what other members do to clean their coil. I am using the rm2. Last time I took the wick out and fired up the coil in bursts til it was red. Made an ashy mess in my rm2. I have read that some people rinse theirs under water. Is this safe? Battery in or out? Coil is still attached or removed from atomizer?

Sorry for all the questions but I'd like to do this right and avoid any mess or possible damage to my device.

Thanks gang

 

[Mudflap]

I use silica.

When my coil gets too gunky, I do one of two things:

1. Soak the rba in 99% isopropyl alcohol for a bit (with top cap removed) and then let it air dry
2. Attach it to an unregulated 5 volt box mod and fire the coil till it glows orange, blowing on it every couple of seconds

or

1. Remove the gunky wick and coil and trash it
2. Build a new wick and coil and install it

Some of my DIY juices are worse offenders than other. It's all good, tho.

 

[rouxdoo]

I use ekowool in RM2 at fairly low resistance (.7-.8) with thick, gooey tobacco juice. I have to dry burn about every 6ml (once/twice a day). I know it's almost time to burn when the flavor starts to taste like oven scrapings smell when you clean your oven. Over squonking can keep it tasting bearable at this point for a little while.

I generally wait until my battery is starting to fade, unscrew the cap and fire it while blowing ash until my coil glows nicely and the wick looks clean. Then I pop in a fresh battery and hit the power once to make sure the coil is responsive again.

Now for the best vape of the day!! YUM!

 

[supertrunker]

I use silica or nextel wick; cotton never lasted me more than 2 days. I try mudflap's '2)' - then straight to the 'or'.

It's faster to make a new wick and coil than to mess about with them, alcohol soaks, brush with kid's toothbrush, stonemason's chisel etc.


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[bigbassbrent]

I use cotton in my rm2 and have been making DIY juice that will gunk it up in less than a day. I remove the wick from the coil then dry burn the coil until its clean. (It does make a mess on the pretty white ceramic base of the rm2.) Then I take the rm2 off my grand and rinse it clean in water. After that I wipe it dry, clean it with a paper towel then dry burn one more time and install a fresh cotton wick. This takes all of 5 minutes or so. I am willing to do this once or twice a day because the juice is so darn good!!

 

[Commie]

When I was using cotton (organic cotton balls), I usually rolled a few wicks and kept extras behind the battery in my Reo. When a wick gunks up, I could pull it out, dry burn the coil while blowing on it til it's orange and then thread the new wick. The whole thing takes about a minute. Blowing on the coil while burning it takes care of the ash.

 

[TheGreekTitan]

When I was using cotton (organic cotton balls), I usually rolled a few wicks and kept extras behind the battery in my Reo. When a wick gunks up, I could pull it out, dry burn the coil while blowing on it til it's orange and then thread the new wick. The whole thing takes about a minute. Blowing on the coil while burning it takes care of the ash.

I don't use cotton wicks, but that is a really great idea. Way to think "inside" the box.

 

[super_X_drifter]

Unflavored nic leaves no gunk

 

[Commie]

Unflavored nic leaves no gunk

The downside is that it also has no flavor

 

[Mudflap]

Flavors ...!

edit: What the Heck? Foxtrot Tango Whiskey is censored? LOL

 

[Tspringer34]

I have been using unflavored ironically! I don't know if maybe its just torching the wick or what but there is black build up. Using the same wick and could for 2.5 weeks now. 100% VG juice.

 

[darkzero]

I use silica & have some Ekowool on order. I also don't bother with cleaning coils. When I feel it's time I just toss it & build a new one, wire is so inexpensive. Because silica is so cheap, I think I might end up just continuing to use silica on my EDC Reo. I'll decide after I get the Ekowool.

 

[darkzero]

Unflavored nic leaves no gunk

Been curious, does unflavored have absolutely no flavor whatsoever? The nic doesn't have any distinct taste? Say if you have higher nic content, is there any difference your taste buds can pick up or is really just a difference in buzz & TH? I just can't imagine an absolutely flavorless vape.

 

[super_X_drifter]

Been curious, does unflavored have absolutely no flavor whatsoever? The nic doesn't have any distinct taste? Say if you have higher nic content, is there any difference your taste buds can pick up or is really just a difference in buzz & TH? I just can't imagine an absolutely flavorless vape.

Dude, there's plenty of taste in the vaporized nic. There's no potpourri flavor that all the "flavored" juices I have tried had. My guess is that if you've acclimated yourself to "flavored" juice, unflavored would be sorta bland, but that's what I like about it. Just smoky vapor is the flavor of unflavored

 

[darkzero]

Dude, there's plenty of taste in the vaporized nic. There's no potpourri flavor that all the "flavored" juices I have tried had. My guess is that if you've acclimated yourself to "flavored" juice, unflavored would be sorta bland, but that's what I like about it. Just smoky vapor is the flavor of unflavored

Hmm, that sounds interesting now, thanks. I may have to try some. Any particular place you recommend to get some? I'm very picky on flavors & I don' t like PG. I kind of know what you mean, I have some samples that taste leafy/herby. And I can't stand all those fruity or crazy sweet stuff. Coworkers & a few friends are into all that, I'll never buy a sample of stuff like that no matter how good some one says it is, it's just not for me. I like stuff that is very subtle so there's very few that I have actually liked so far.

 

[super_X_drifter]

^ wizard labs.
I run 24 mg in 30 pg / 70 VG. To me it's the best kept secret in the vaping community.

 

[Commie]

Depending on concentration, you can taste nicotine. At 18 or 24, it starts tasting a little peppery to me. Since I'm not a fan of that, and since I can't chain vape for 20 minutes at that concentration, I started with 12mg. My wife says she can taste it even in that, so she vapes 6mg.

 

[Shelbeethehmmrgirl]

Well you have got me convinced to try it. I am getting flavored out. I am always chasing that cig taste. Can I order it in VG vaping to much PG gives me headaches.

 

[Sterno]

when mine get to gunked up i just toss it and make a new one

 

[super_X_drifter]

Well you have got me convinced to try it. I am getting flavored out. I am always chasing that cig taste. Can I order it in VG vaping to much PG gives me headaches.

Yes, you can get 100% VG. Oh, and you'll really freak when you see how little it costs