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Is your vape coil gunked up? Here’s your step-by-step guide to cleaning your rebuildable vape coil and removing that excess vape gunk, so you can and use your coil for longer before replacement.
Vape Coil Cleaning Guide
Quick Links
- What is a vape coil and how does it work?
- Why should you clean your vape coil?
- What happens if you don’t clean your vape coil?
- Step-By-Step Guide: How to clean your vape coil?
- Conclusion
- Recommended Vape Coils to Buy Online (UK)
Q. What is a vape coil and how does it work?
Answer: A vape coil is a metal spiral-shaped hard wire component that, together with your wicking cotton (or other material) heats up the e-liquid in your e-cigarette and turns it into vapour (hence why we call it “vaping”). The coil itself sites within your e-cigarette’s atomizer compartment and is powered by the battery in your vape mod.
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Q. Why should you clean your vape coil?
Answer: A common question we get asked is: “can I replace my vape coils?” The simple answer is yes, you can clean and reuse your vape coils. Every e-cigarette build is different, and the amount of times you can reuse your vape coil depends on a number of variables. This includes your mod type, its age, the type of coils, the mod wattage, type and flavour of vape juice and the way and frequency that you use your e-cigarette. But cleaning your coils regularly ensures that you get maxium performance by getting rid of all that accumulated the gunk (which is more scientifically known as “excess carbon deposits” or simply “charcol”).
Q. What happens if you don’t clean your vape coil?
Answer: You’ll notice that after a while your e-cig gives decreased performance including not giving you as much flavour and your longer hits getting rough towards the end of the hit instead of smooth. These are clear signs that you need to clean your coil and replace the wick. Of course you could simply remove and replace your coil, but that would be taking the jam out of the doughnut of your vaping experience. Depending on your coil 1-2 months of coil clean can be undertaken before replacement is necessary. When your flavour and vapour doesn’t return to normal it’s time to replace your coil.
Step-By-Step Guide: How to clean your vape coil
1. Open your mod deck and prepare your coil
Start by opening up your mod deck so that you have direct access to the coil head
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Key points about preparing your vape coil
- Clean coils from start to finish
- Find a clean space/surface
- Make sure your vape battery is charged
- Protect any surface from getting dirty
- Carefully remove the clearomizer protector from the vape tank base
- Away from sink
- De-wicked
2. Remove the vape wick
Use tweezers to remove cotton from one direction
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Key points about removing the vape wick
- Remove wicks
- Dont tug on cotton too hard, damage or mishapes coil
- Pluck at the cotton to fin it out
- Wicks are removed from coil
- Needle tip instead of tweezers to remove cotton wick
- Use scissors to cut one end of the wick, easier to pull out
3. Burn off the vape coil gunk
Fire up your mod and wait til it glows bright red, which burns off the excess gunk
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Key points about burning off the coil gunk
- Key part is heat the coils to burn off the
- Coils get bright red
- Wait until coils are bright red
- Heat the coils and blow air with your mouth
- Release button
- Rinse coils under water for a few seconds
- You will hear a sizzling sound
- Dry burn
4. Cool, rinse and clean your coil
Wait until the coil is cooled and rinse in a cup of warm water and clean
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Key points about cleaning your vape coil
- Turn water on warm (cold not a good idea) to room temperature
- Burn and dunk in water (wait to cool down)
- You will see smoke coming out of the coils
- DO NOT HOT COIL DUNK IN COLD WATER, this will ruin your coil
- Avoid this thermal shock of cold to hot temperatures, warps the metal
- Conserve water
- Go to a cup of water (let’s save water!) dont need to use the tap
- Fine bristle wire brush, scrape with toothbrush, Rba cleaning brush with metal bristles, Rub coils with toothbrush bristles
- Next remove residue from coil
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- vodka for 24 hours
- Rubing alchohol
- Coca cola
5. Repeat, re-wick and you’re done!
Fire up your mod again to dry the excess water, blow off any debris
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Key points about completing your vape coil cleaning
- Fire up again to burn off excess water
- Repeat process 1-2 more times
- All gunk is removed from coil
- Shake off excess water
- Time to re-wick coil
Conclusion
Having completed your coil cleaning session your vape flavour and hit should be returned to original, giving you the same or similar performance to a new vape coil. Process does not last forever, so cleaning your vape coil can be done until the coil cleaning process is no longer effective and your vape coil needs to be replaced.
One of the fun things about vaping is the endless amount of experimenting you can do and learning in the process, and its the same with cleaning your vape coil, everyone has a slightly different variation on others. So tweak the vape coil de-gunking process as you see fit.
By finding a method to clean your vape coils, they will last longer and at the same time perform to a high standard, giving you great flavour and a perfect hit.
When its time to replace your vape coils, we have a great selection of coils for you to choose from at My Online Vape Store – see below for a selection of our best selling vape coils…
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