Without a Doubt - Dry burning is the best resurrection method.

[kgeiger002]

I know the cleaning debate is never ending but I need to state my recommendation on the best way to bring an 510 atty back to life.

Every atty reaches a point where its just not performing like when it was new. When that happens my best advise is to do a dry burn. Preferably on a de-bridged/de-wicked atty. Rinse out with hot water - blow it out then engage it for a few seconds. After each dry burn give it about 15 seconds to cool and repeat the process. As you continue to do this you will (On de-bridged) notice the coil turns red. Continuing this process you will see that the coil heats up red more on the coil. I'd say six or seven dry burns will give you a nice fully red coil. At which point you are done and can rinse it out with warm water - or you could just filler up and start vaping.

fyi - Please be aware (when dry burning) if you engage it too long you will most probably pop the atty. Just do it untill you see the coil turn red a for a second and repeat (as mentioned like 6 or 7 times).

Happy vaping!

 

[donnah]

I like the dry burn method too.. I do this to mine every few days and haven't messed one up yet. Actually my dry burn method was a bit more complicated and time consuming..I would rinse the atty then do a series of burns.. then rinse again and do another series of burns.. it worked but it took awhile to get the atty running good again and then it would taste burnt for a little while...

I just tried what you posted and my atty is performing like new again.. way better than what I was doing! Only took a couple minutes, I didn't rinse at all and it didn't take any time for the atty to jump back, no burnt taste at all! Worked great! Thanks!

 

[Rainbowz]

Please excuse my ignorance, I don't read here as much anymore due to work, but I know what de-wicked means, but what is de-bridged? Thanks!

 

[AttyPops]

I only dry burn when I have to. It seriously shortens the coil life, but may be necessary in some cases. Regular rinsing/blowout will keep the need to dry burn down. Some people never dry-burn and never need to. Varies with juice too. I don't de-wick nor do I de-bridge. FYI - I can still see the red. So, to others reading this, FYI it's OK to dry-burn with just a standard atty.

All in all, a helpful post, since it will help people resurrect atties. Just don't use dry burns unless you need to, and hopefully not very often. You should be blowing out the atty twice a day anyway. A "mini-dry-burn" after using water or ISO helps to dry it. But try not to get it too hot and stress the coil. It's the heat the breaks the coil, you see. Dry burning is a "last resort" to resurrecting an atty.

2 cents.

Let the debates continue......with doubts. lol. I only posted this, not to argue with you, but to help those that haven't formed an opinion yet get longer use from their atties. Some think that they need to dry burn 100% of the time (as their only cleaning method) about once per day. It's too much. You should use other methods 1st. Dry burn only when you must.

 

[fray]

I inadvertently did a long dry burn in my pocket. I noticed when I smelled something horrid.

The atty tasted awful. Even my drip tip had re awful smell. I was in a hotel room in the middle if nowhere so I stuck it in some hotel mouthwash over night. In the morning it was still bad, and smelled over the next few days. Luckily I didn't throw it away because as I was going through some of my stuff I gave it a wiff and there was no more smell.

I Put a few drops on it and tried it out and had the beat vaping experience ever. The taste was perfect an I had tons of vapor. It lasted me another few weeks before the coil popped.

I have tried to recreate this with no luck. Maybe it was a fluke, or maybe the atty was on a lot longer than I would think.

 

[Cranston McCloud]

Bumping to move back to top of list.
I am trying this first thing when I get home tonight.

 

[IanK1968]

I did a dry burn and now everything tastes burnt. I tried cleaning it and still the burnt taste is there. I think I burned out my atty doing a dry burn. I did 3 at 5 seconds each. Just be-careful when doing a dry burn. I have the 501 atty

 

[donnah]

I did a dry burn and now everything tastes burnt. I tried cleaning it and still the burnt taste is there. I think I burned out my atty doing a dry burn. I did 3 at 5 seconds each. Just be-careful when doing a dry burn. I have the 501 atty

try removing your wick. go to youtube a search for removing the atomzier wick.. it's quick and easy.

 

[DC2]

First let me say that, yes, dry burning is definitely the best way to clean an atomizer.
But you have to know how to do it, and do it right.

And removing the wick or debridging the atomizer is so not necessary.

This is the thread that anyone interested in doing dry burns should read...
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/tips-tricks/69834-my-atty-resurrection-method.html

You MUST wash the atomizer out really well before you do dry burns.
Otherwise you are just going to bake all the old juice in the atomizer and screw it up.

And you really should rinse it out afterwards as well.
Otherwise you're going to be vaping ashes and think it tastes like crap.

Dry burns are the only thing I do now to clean my atomizers.
And they pretty much last forever.

 

[Shantia]

Has anyone else had a wick in the coil go super brittle and 'burnt' from dry burning. I cant get the burnt taste out of my atty now, even when its saturated.

 

[JD1]

Please excuse my ignorance, I don't read here as much anymore due to work, but I know what de-wicked means, but what is de-bridged? Thanks!

Here's a vid on it. YouTube - Atomizer Debridge | De-bridge (HOW TO) Keep in mind that if you take out the bridge, you can only drip. Lots of folks swear by the flavor but we're all different and lots of folks don't find that much difference. I'm in the latter group, but if you have several attys and you drip, you might try it for yourself. I do take out the wick but only because it gunks up and makes the atty harder to clean. I'm also in the group that does not do dry burns at all. I clean with a few drops of H2O2, then a few drops of 90 percent alcohol so they'll dry fast, set them aside for a few hours and they're fresh as a daisy.

 

[dave8944]

DC2 is correct, but I never wash mine. Instead, I drain my atty for a few hours (invert with tissue stuffed in hole with bridge). Washing it makes it hard to get it going again. However, if you never wash it out afterward you will likely get black dust on the connection side that will prevent the battery from making a connection. I just clean connections with tissue when that happens. Plus, I use a 6v mod to do the burn. It's the only way to maintain an atty. Alcohol wash, boiling, and every other method has failed me.

 

[unsure]

Hard to disagree with someone with over 7K posts but I guess I will. I'd never try to dry burn a Cisco especially an LR. In my opinion its the fast way to kill one. As a matter of fact Avid does not recommend dry burnning their attys. I use to have their instructions some where and when I find it....I'll post it.

 

[DC2]

Hard to disagree with someone with over 7K posts but I guess I will. I'd never try to dry burn a Cisco especially an LR. In my opinion its the fast way to kill one. As a matter of fact Avid does not recommend dry burnning their attys. I use to have their instructions some where and when I find it....I'll post it.

I don't know anything about Cisco atomizers, but yeah, you have to be very careful when dry burning an LR atomizer.

 

[ComaKid]

I dry burn my Cisco 1.5ohm LR 306 attys at least once a week and they last months. Dry burning is only bad if you don't know how to do it right.

 

[unsure]

My Cisco die a natural death. I never let them get to the point of having to dry burn them. They get blown clean daily and I have 2 306LRs in rotation lasting over 4 months. Usage over time will take their toll on any atty and they will decrease in performance no matter what you do.

 

[DC2]

Usage over time will take their toll on any atty and they will decrease in performance no matter what you do.

I'm going to have to disagree.
A dry burn done correctly will bring atomizer performance back to new.


I recently compared a brand new atomizer to the atomizer I had been using exclusively for 7 months.
No difference could be detected.

 

[unsure]

I'm going to have to disagree.
A dry burn done correctly will bring atomizer performance back to new.


I recently compared a brand new atomizer to the atomizer I had been using exclusively for 7 months.
No difference could be detected.

That being true....please PM me your addy. LOL

 

[DC2]

That being true....please PM me your addy. LOL

As much as I would like to do so, that particular atomizer had to be decommissioned awhile back...

I was using my last atomizer for more than 7 months before I killed it, through no fault of it's own.
I feel asleep and wound up lying on my Chuck for who knows how long.

I woke up and my whole entire Chuck was hot to the touch.
The atomizer smelled like burnt plastic, and I'm quite sure I melted the plastic disk under the coil pot.

It still worked just fine though, but the burnt plastic taste was permanent, so I had to break out a new atomizer.

 

[tonyorion]

First of all, unless you drip, the recommendation to dewick and debridge an atty is somewhat useless.

Secondly, you cannot bring a dead atty "back to life". If you can, the atty is not dead; it is just performing poorly. Buy a multimeter and learn how to use it. Costs about the same as some attys and will save you a ton of wasted effort finding out beforehand if your coil is burned through.

Thirdly, if your atty starts to collect gunk because of the juice you are wicking, then it is a bad idea to just throw heat on it. Yes, enough heat will turn the gunk to ash the way it is done in a self cleaning oven, but it will also create a hot spot which will cause your atty to burn through. You would be better off to remove as much of it as possible mechanically through a warm/hot water rinse and then do the dry burn as in the HighPing method or use a mild oxidant to get the gunk out (denture cleaner, vinegar/baking soda). Things like alcohol won't help much in trying to remove burned on foods, so why should they remove burned on juices?