Can i clean a Ni200 coil? if yes, how to procede?

[URL260]

Hi, i have a Eleaf Gs-Air TC Ni200 Coilhead in a Gs-tank i received together with the iStick tc 40
....i'm using it since 10 days...
today i noticed that the tank is flooding every time i refill. Also the the taste became very "sour".
I'm new with Ni200 coils...can i just rinse it under the tap and let it dry to reuse?

 

[Lurl]

You can. Ideally you would just replace the coil especially if you have been using darker e-juices you can't really get that stuff out too well. I've never personally cleaned and reused a coil but have had a few hits from a friend who did that to one of her coils. I have read into it and usually it is recommended that if you are going to do that that you would use alcohol (only ever read of people using vodka) and water. Put the mixture in a container & shake dirty coils in it and leave it to dry. I'm sure you could find videos on youtube about it.

That being said it seems like if you actually do this, it will taste a bit weird at first and you buy yourself maybe another day or 2 out of the coil.
Your best bet really is just to buy new coils and replace them as necessary.

 

[Vapin4Joy]

I usually get another week or so out of Crown and Subtank coils by washing them. My method>>>One cup of water in a small pot, a quarter teaspoon of salt, heat water to boil, drop in coil and boil 5 minutes, remove coil and place top on a couple of sheets of writing paper over night to dry, the paper pulls the moisture from the cotton. Different strokes for different folks.

 

[Lurl]

Hey, maybe that's the key. Every place I looked into said to use alcohol and water. Maybe the alcohol and water method is just ineffective.
Where did you get the salt idea from?
I don't mean to nay say - again I've never tried. Think it would work for any coils?

 

[Vapin4Joy]

Hey, maybe that's the key. Every place I looked into said to use alcohol and water. Maybe the alcohol and water method is just ineffective.
Where did you get the salt idea from?
I don't mean to nay say - again I've never tried. Think it would work for any coils?

It's been a while, one night I watched a YouTube of this really somewhat crazy women doing a review on the Subtank Mini, seemed she was in love with it and this was her method on cleaning the coils, she was on a tight budget. I said what the hell and gave it a try, it worked. The sodium breaks down the crud.

 

[Lurl]

It's been a while, one night I watched a YouTube of this really somewhat crazy women doing a review on the Subtank Mini, seemed she was inlove with it and this was her method on cleaning the coils, she was on a tight budget. I said what the hell and gave it a try, it worked. The sodium breaks down the crud.

And you get another week or so out of the coils? That's actually really impressive.
Does it work with dark and light juices?
I might give it a try.
Might sound like a stupid question - but is rust something you would have to worry about?

 

[Vapin4Joy]

And you get another week or so out of the coils? That's actually really impressive.
Does it work with dark and light juices?
I might give it a try.
Might sound like a stupid question - but is rust something you would have to worry about?

Yep, works with light and dark, I usually clean them when the flavor starts to drop off, there is really nothing to rust, I have not seen any rust after a cleaning. The agitation from the boiling water does all the work, if the cotton is really dark before cleaning, after it is really very close to what it was when new, not exactly but close.

 

[jsr27]

I usually get another week or so out of Crown and Subtank coils by washing them. My method>>>One cup of water in a small pot, a quarter teaspoon of salt, heat water to boil, drop in coil and boil 5 minutes, remove coil and place top on a couple of sheets of writing paper over night to dry, the paper pulls the moisture from the cotton. Different strokes for different folks.

Would this work on the prebuilt coils on the tfv4? Seems like a great idea!

 

[Vapin4Joy]

Would this work on the prebuilt coils on the tfv4? Seems like a great idea!

I can't answer that, I don't use a tfv4. The only thing to do is give it a try, I get a 80-90% success rate I guess.

 

[Model_A_Ford]

I don't know about the GS Air coils. I wash the Crown coils just with hot water and carefully use a q-tip to clean off the inside of the wire. I'm cheap, I'm saving all the used coil heads to eventually rebuild them.


I should probably try boiling them, that should clean a bit better than just running under the faucet.