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Note: Nicotine is light sensitive, meaning that direct exposure to light;
especially sunlight will degrade the nicotine in the liquid. Store your
fluid in a cool, dry place or in the fridge (away from children) and it should have a stable shelf life of 2 years.

Maintenance and Cleaning: Use Isopropyl alcohol (IPA) to clean your
PV, it is cheap and effective. This is just simple rubbing alcohol and is sold
everywhere, usually 70%. Use IPA on a piece of paper towel or cloth.
Do not pour the IPA on the battery/charger or soak the battery/charger in IPA.


Battery: Clean contacts with IPA dabbed on paper towel.
If you drip too much fluid onto the atomizer then you may have gotten some fluid
into the battery, twist up the corner of your paper towel and insert it into the hole in
the battery contact and see if it wicks up any fluid. If it does, continue to wick the
fluid out until a twisted up corner of the paper is dry.
Charger: Clean contacts with IPA moistened paper towel.
Cartridge - empty: Rinse or wipe down with IPA. Remember this
goes in your mouth and mouths are nasty. IPA will sanitize the
mouthpiece. Do not forget to do the inside as well, some vapor
condensates on the inside when direct dripping using an empty cart.
Cartridge – Polyfill/Fluval: Rinse with water, hot water is better.
Soaking in hot water also works. Firmly pat dry with a paper towel.
Clean inner cart the same as outer cart.

Atomizer:
Regular Cleaning (every day to few days, or if the draw on the PV is harder
than normal)- Drain the atomizer by either:
1. Leaving it upside down (wick side down) on a piece of paper
towel to gravity drain the fluid out of the atomizer. OR…
2. Blow through the threaded side (that attaches to the battery) of the
atomizer while holding the wick side with a piece of paper towel (to keep
the fluid off your fingers). This is the quicker way to drain your atomizer.

Heavy Cleaning (Every week or two, or if the atomizer doesn’t seem to be
working correctly):
Step 1. Rinse atomizer in hot water: 3 different ways to do this -
1. Using tweezers hold the atomizer under the faucet and let hot water run over it
for 2-3 minutes. Do not drop in down the drain!
2. Soak in very hot water for 3-5 minutes.
3. Boil it for 3 minutes. (DO NOT PUT IN THE MICROWAVE)

Just use one of the above methods, and continue to step 2.
Step 2. Soak atomizer in Isopropyl (IPA) for 3-5 minutes.
Step 3. Rinse with hot water like in Step 1 but only for a minute.
Step 4. Let atomizer dry by blowing it out and resting it wick side
down. This will require you letting the atomizer dry an hour or more
(the hotter the water the less time it takes to dry) or do another quick
dip in the IPA and let drain, this will have the atomizer dry in a few
minutes after blowing it out and draining it wick down on a paper
towel.

Note: After cleaning the atomizer the wick will be very dry. If you’re
going to use a pre-filled cart, first direct drip 3-4 drops (taking time
to let the drop soak into the wick before dropping again) and then
place the cart on the battery and vape. If you’re going to direct drip with
an empty cart first direct drip 3-4 drops, taking time to let each drop
soak in, take a drag or two (vapor production will likely be weak or
stop after fewer drags). Direct drip 2 more drops and take a couple
drags. Repeat this until your vapor production is back up to full strength.

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I just wanted to bring this post back up because I think Stu answered a lot of questions for the new folks and it seems like we've had another rush of new members lately.... woo hooooo..... and maybe it will help as many folks now as it did when he originally posted this. Thank You Stu !!!

Hey, thanks for this. Looks like I've been asking a few questions that have been covered in the past, being a newbie. This was extremely helpful so thanks for reposting it for those of us who are new.