Tilley Vaporizer

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  1. Mendoza603

    Mendoza603 United States Subscriber

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    Hi my friend
    I'm looking for any recommendations how to clean a vaporizer inside.
    Please if any body have a recommendation.. Please let me know thank you.
     
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    1. Take out the cleaning needle.

    2. Fill the vapouriser with carburettor cleaner and let it soak for 10 minutes.

    3. Tap the bottom of the vapouriser on a block of wood to dislodge the carbon inside.

    4. Repeat a few times.

    5. Heat the vapouriser with a blow torch until all the carbon and cleaner inside is burned away, then repeat cleaning with carburettor cleaner.

    6. When there is no more carbon coming out of the vapouriser clean it with a pipe cleaner.

    If the jet is enlarged, you might have to get a new vapouriser: they were not really designed to be fettled. Rather, they were meant to be replaced.

    Saludos

    Tony
     
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    Hi tony
    Thank you for the explanation. I really appreciate
    Are you a Tilley collector? Also my friend
    Did you speak Spanish?
     
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    My Spanish is very basic: for example, I know how to get essentials like "Dos cervezas, por favor". But I am not fluent...

    Yes, I collect Tilleys.

    Saludos

    Tony
     
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    Ps. I assumed you were from Argentina with the handle Mendoza, but I see you are from Pemberton. Is that the one in WA?

    Cheers

    Tony
     
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    Lol. Is ok I love my Argentinian people also.
    I'm from Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.
    I'm 46 years old and I been living in USA for the pass 20 years.
    I'm a Tilley lamps collector in USA.

    I see you have a TL106 pork pie.
    That is why I ask.
     
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    I have a number of Tilley Pork Pie X246s; later X246s; an X246A; Tilley 146s; a couple of Tilley 106s; Tilley R1s; a couple of odd Tilleys; a couple of Tilley EX 100s .... Plus some Australian Kayens which are copies of Tilleys...

    Cheers

    Tony
     
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    Hi Mendoza took a picture inside of the vapouriser
    highly magnified. It is kind of what your aiming for when you have finished cleaning the vapouriser as such
    If you carefully press your cleaning needle as far as it goes ,sometimes it shows proud and other times it sits inside .Then give it a little brush off of any debris that gets pushed through .Sometimes you have to get at it from the top side with the needle very very carefully .

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