How often to clean Atty.

[Daemonz80]

Hi All,

I know there are plenty of thread on HOW to clean your atty. But wanted to get a quick poll as to how often do most people clean their atty to keep them operating like new and possibly what method you use?

 

[doots]

I never clean mine with liquids..

I do a dry burn every week to keep the junk that builds up on the coil at a minimum ..

 

[Upinthehills]

I only clean them when they get hard to draw. Then I blow them out, rinse in hot water and blow out again, then do a dry burn. Works most of the time. I'll do that two or three times if it's still gunky then I'll toss it. Atomizers are really pretty cheap and if I've gotten a couple of months out of it, I'm happy.

 

[ChuckB]

I rarely clean mine. If I get one that's getting gunked up or clogged, a quick rinse in PGA and a dry burn takes care of it.

 

[Automaton]

I clean mine every night with ispropyl alcohol. But this is because at the moment, I only have one. I used Kr8 cartomizers, but I recently got a 901 atty, which works with the Kr8 battery without an adapter.

I've gotten into the habit of dripping when I'm at home a lot of the time, so I find that by the end of the night the flavor is dropping a bit.

 

[Dan1911]

I only clean mine when either

A) I want to remove the cross-contamination of flavors
or
B) to remove the buildup of black gunk or burnt flavor.

I've had some flavors that just wont come out unless I clean my atty.

 

[ScottCocoaBeach]

I saw in another thread that some people recommend boiling them to clean them. Can you only do this with atomizers or can cartos be done as well? Sounds like a bit of a pain so some of these other ideas sound easier. With the alcohol do you get any residual taste?

 

[Automaton]

I saw in another thread that some people recommend boiling them to clean them. Can you only do this with atomizers or can cartos be done as well? Sounds like a bit of a pain so some of these other ideas sound easier. With the alcohol do you get any residual taste?

The isopropyl alcohol is very easy. Cozzicon posted a vid about it here:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ce/113362-cleaning-510-attys.html#post1725326

That's what I've been doing. The alcohol should evaporate completely. You know it's dry when you can't smell the alcohol anymore.

In front of a fan, this only takes about 45 minutes for me. I don't get any residual taste.

However, you CAN'T use this for cartomizers. You can use Pure Grain Alcohol, but don't use isoprooyl (rubbing) alcohol.

And yes, you can boil cartomizers. I just did, in fact.

 

[Dan1911]

I saw in another thread that some people recommend boiling them to clean them. Can you only do this with atomizers or can cartos be done as well? Sounds like a bit of a pain so some of these other ideas sound easier. With the alcohol do you get any residual taste?

I used to do this *all* the time. I would bathe them in vodka and then boil them for a couple minutes and It never hurt them. However the hot water and dry burn method works just as well for me, and its alot easier.

 

[Brick]

Hot water/ dry burn when vapor production seems affected.