I have eight coil heads for my smok pyrex aro 2 and they gunk up within 1-2 days, sometimes I barely get 24hrs out of one before i have to clean it. does anyone know why this is happening? is it because the coil heads might be getting old?
Why are my coil heads gunking up within 1-2 days?
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Really dark colored juices, juices that are downright hard to see through, will have that affect of coils. The darker the juice, the more particles that will burn onto the coil and junk it up, as well as clogging the wick. The biggest reason to use rebuildable heads is to be able to run such juices economically.
Of course there is the possibility that you are running it too cold or too hot, that may apply if your juice is fairly clear and you are still burning it badly
Of course there is the possibility that you are running it too cold or too hot, that may apply if your juice is fairly clear and you are still burning it badly
Ive been using the same flavor of liquid (ry4 from ecblend) for over 2 years now and this has never happened.
so what has changed? how long did they used to last?
do you rewick them?
=== wait a minute === do you dryburn them or just try to 'clean' them
I've only had my smok pyrex aro 2 for like a year but still. The coil heads used to last a week or 2, maybe longer before I had to clean them finally. I don't rewick my coild heads, I just dry burn, rinse, then pop another one in.
well that's the problem
dry burning will get rid of stuff off the metal of the coil; it will get rid of a lot of the stuff on the silica wick but it can't burns it off the wick completely; eventually the silica wick is going to fall apart also;
you should rewick with cotton ; check out youtube videos for protank rewick
Just a guess here, but after a number of dry burns the coil weakens(brittle) this is true, but I wonder if also the coil is becoming more porous which collects residue easier.
Also, I've only purchased two 5 packs of coil heads since I've had my smok pyrex aro 2 tank.
I use an amber colored flavor but regardless I got tired of buying and stocking replacable coil heads so I got a tank with a rebuildable section. Then I discovered I wanted to clean the coil and rewick daily. Now I use rda's because refilling more often is not that much of a headache, they are smaller, there is no glass to break,they are easier to rebuild than tanks, and the flavor and vapor quality tends to be better (the improved flavor and vapor may be because I'm vaping on a freshly cleaned build every day which I can do because cotton and wire cost pennies and with a bit of practice it only takes a few minutes). A week ago I got a temp control mod which makes dripping even easier to live with so far.
May be some day there will be replacable coil heads that cost 25 cents instead of dollars. That could happen if somebody figures out a way to eliminate the hand labor from assembling replaceable coil heads and the market is large enough. Manufacturing works like this, buy raw materials, add value, sell for a profit. Then, the more of something you can make the closer the cost can come to the bare cost of raw materials.
May be some day there will be replacable coil heads that cost 25 cents instead of dollars. That could happen if somebody figures out a way to eliminate the hand labor from assembling replaceable coil heads and the market is large enough. Manufacturing works like this, buy raw materials, add value, sell for a profit. Then, the more of something you can make the closer the cost can come to the bare cost of raw materials.
The problem is obvious.
The coils are old, you've dry-burned them and rewicked them for as long as you can, and they are now virtually unusable and need to be replaced.
Surely you didn't think these things could last forever did you?
The coils are old, you've dry-burned them and rewicked them for as long as you can, and they are now virtually unusable and need to be replaced.
Surely you didn't think these things could last forever did you?
I make my own juice and it's a dark one. It gunks up my coils pretty fast. I've just gotten used to it and resigned myself to winding a new coil every day. It's not that hard, and only takes a few minutes to wind a coil for .8 ohm and install it on my gennies. Kanthal is cheap. If you are using proprietary coil heads that's another matter, and might not be so easy to deal with. When I first started vaping I found myself rebuilding Kanger Protank coils constantly, and had 25 of them in rotation. This became too much quite quickly, and it transpired that it was RBA time in short order.
Usually I can just slip the wick out and burn off the coil, using it over for a long time, but sometimes it's so gunked up that it's just stuck so hard to the wick I can't get it out of the coil and I have to wind a new one.
Usually I can just slip the wick out and burn off the coil, using it over for a long time, but sometimes it's so gunked up that it's just stuck so hard to the wick I can't get it out of the coil and I have to wind a new one.
I purchased another 5 pack, I just hope it gets here before my camping trip lol
this may and will sound stupid i admit before asking this..but for our more dark juices that increase the chance of gunking and making the life of our cols shorter can we and would it help if we were to strain them a few times in a cheese cloth? again i admit it does sound stupid lol or is it just the thickness of the viscosity in the dark juices?
I assume you mean strain the juice..yes? If so then no all that will happen is loss of juice, perhaps some of the flavor too that remains on the cloth. Cheesecloth itself has rather large holes and all you would be doing is pouring right through it. Now if this were possible a paint strainer used in automotive paint mixing is small enough to filter out small particles, but that said, still will not work to improve gunking up.
Try soaking them in pure grain alcohol (Everclear) for a few days, rinsing them well in hot water, and then letting them dry overnight on a paper towel.
Washing and reusing disposable coil heads is an art unto itself. I personally rebuild Protank coils and reuse them, wicked with cotton, for quite some time. Try scrubbing them in water with a pipe cleaner (outside and inside the coil, if you can) along with a regular soak.
this is what i do now, a few days soaking in cheap vodka and a full day to air dry and good as new..i can usually do this 2 to 3 times before i get burnt taste my regular vaping wattages and that lets me know its time to put it out of its misery and go to a new one..
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