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How is it possible to dry burn a cotton wick?? Unlike silica, cotton burns at a very low temp, I can even smell it charring if I attempt to dry burn a cotton wick. Once it's charred, the taste is terrible.
You were probably too enthusiastic.
That's why I suggest dry burning it while the wicks are still damp. It serves 2 purposes.
1) lower the chances of popping the coil.
2) clean the gunk off the wick.
Give it another shot.
The folks here at ecf have been very helpful to me, that's why I want to correct some misconceptions about dry burning.
I feel that maybe those who are against dry burning popped a coil when they first tried it, or they didn't rinse, hence the burnt taste.
If the wicks are still damp...it isn't DRY burning. I do "warm burns" on occasion. lol. But I consider that different. I don't have a goal of turning everything to ash. I just want to loosen the gunk for the next cleaning to clean off the coils. It's a drying burn too...to dry off the water a bit (but not necessarily all the way). Kind of like how you can de-glaze/clean a frying pan with liquid + heat. You don't have to evaporate the liquid just scrape off the residue into the liquid. The hot liquid does the work.
I think...and I hope I'm not mis-quoting highping (sp?)...the original dry burn was an atty resurrection method for coils that were still intact but couldn't be clean by other means. Thus, just burn the crap out of the gunk until it turns to ash...let cool...and rinse. That's not the exact process. There were cleaning steps etc, but the point is....it was burned after the sizzle stopped to turn the gunk to ash.
Burning a dry coil DOES cause pitting and degradation. The lower voltage probably helps keep it cooler. There are even posts about heating a nichrome or kanthal coil too high and risk melting it or ..causing ?chromium? to leach out. The water/e-juice on a coil helps to keep it cool.
So IDK. I'm in the "least -> most" aggressive camp. I work up the scale of cleaning methods, using dry-burn as a last resort. Thus, since it's a last resort before discarding the coil, I don't see any harm in doing it.
Besides, since I started using rebuildable coils, it's way too easy to just replace the coil with a fresh one rather than stink up the place dry burning.
Just my
If you want to clean just the coil, try a sonic toothbrush. I didn't want to buy a sonic cleaner just to clean the coils and I have doubts whether the cheap ones will get the job done.
I have tried the sonic toothbrush method, and it works for the coils. However, the wicks might still be black/gunked up.
I have tried the sonic toothbrush method, and it works for the coils. However, the wicks might still be black/gunked up.
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