Recently I've been on a 'rebuild the atomizer!!' kick, I ordered my 36 gauge nichrome wire from that store that sells 10ft for $2 with free s&h before I even found that site listed in the rebuild the atomizer threads, and am waiting for it to arrive in the mail. I'll need to go out and find some good wick material, maybe order the silica stuff online, I don't know yet...8-o
The reason I want to rebuild my atomizers is they keep getting an extremely foul taste after a week of usage
(I'm a pretty heavy vaper
), and they lose performance pretty quick. I've found the performance can be temporarily restored with the boil clean method, but the foul taste eventually stops going away even with boiling for 20+ minutes.
The first atomizer I got with my kit wasn't fully dead, but I couldn't use it because it tasted horrendous every time I'd take a drag. so my first attempt I took a small propane hand torch, and cooked the crap out of it to get rid of the glue holding it together... Of course i did it all wrong and tore up the connector threads and basically destroyed it
, but that did let me get a look inside.
About 45 minutes ago I finished fully taking apart and putting back together another 510 atomizer (from TW) that was starting to develop a bad taste, and performing like crap in general. (And, it still works, YAY!
). 3 hours.. phew..
I had to torch it to get it apart, I tried boiling for 15 minutes as suggested in the rebuild thread, but it wouldn't come apart.. boiled longer, still nothing. so I put a pair of pliers around the gold colored band, put a rubber band around the plier handle so it wouldn't fall out, and used a torch to burn above the gold band..
I did a few 10 second burns (moving it all around trying not to stay in one spot, and making sure I didn't burn to low as to not melt the (rubber?) parts that keep the + and - seperated) and kept testing with another pair of pliers, until it finally started to wiggle, and was able to pull the connector out of the bottom with the atomizer core still intact. The band was still on the main cylinder, but the core was out.. I then separated the band from the cylinder with the torch, being a little (but not much) less careful now that I couldn't really destroy anything (And I had spare of this part from the first go). This was required to make it easier to re-assemble later..
I have 2 left in my multipack, one I'm using now, one spare - and the one I worked on that's now super easy to take apart. I can't wait to get the rest of the materials I need to finish the rebuild, replace the coil, wick, and the non conductive materials used to keep the wires from making contact where they shouldn't... I just read on here (something I've never seen on any TW forum thread
) that LR atomizers can destroy ego batteries? That would be bad, I'll have to make sure it's over 2ohms right?
As soon as I can afford to, I plan on making a couple box mods of my own too, and playing around. I'm glad I found this place, what a great wealth of information. Thank you guys for existing!
