The simplest method to achieve optimal performance from your vape is cleaning. Vape juice normally does not stain your vape gear, however, over time residue accumulates affecting the performance of your vape. Vegetable glycerin (VG), one of the main ingredient in e-liquid and darker juice flavouring are extremely notorious for gunk build-up on coils. As the gunk builds up, you will notice a reduction in flavour and vapour production, in the case of tanks, it can also lead to leakage and a burnt taste (yuk!!). So let's take a look at a few vape maintenance ideas.
If you have not cleaned your tank before or in a long while carry out the following steps:
An alternative to water, you may use propylene glycol (PG) as follows:
If the above are not giving you the results you want, its time to move up to the next level using a few common household chemicals for deeper clean.
There are two types of coils, a sub-ohm replacement coils that are encased in metal champer and contain absorbent cotton (wick) and rebuildable coils that you install and wick yourself.
Replaceable coils: Replaceable coils heads for sub-ohm tanks are not really meant to be cleaned, because they contain cotton(Wick) and seriously how do you wash cotton and dry it and still maintaining good performance out of the coils. Therefore, the most you will get out of them is perhaps a few extra days if you are lucky. Here we go:
The coils will now look nice and bright, but sadly you will soon still need to replace despite how they may look.
Rebuildable Coils: Rebuildable coils must be cleaned as Gunk on these types of coils will make your vaping experience suffer by reduction of flavour and vapour production. Let's take a look at how to clean rebuildable coils:
Note: There are times no matter how much or how well you clean coils they are just way beyond cleaning. In this case, its time to rebuild your tank, however, proper vape maintenance will extend the life of your coils.