Use Anything for a Wick...

KYFlyer67;2698024 said:

zoiDman,

Thanks for your replies. I'll respond to both of them.

First the easy one. zoiDman says: "Not sure if these are the alloys you are using..." YES. Those are the ones.

And this one. zoiDman says: "I’m familiar with Chromium Oxides. But I’m a little confused when you say “Oxidize”. What exactly are you doing to the SS mesh and why?" I'm not doing anything with SS mesh, at least not in this post. In this post I'm "oxidizing" the nichrome wire. In a thread that has become somewhat legendary on this forum, Raidy described how you can roll stainless steel mesh into a wick and burn it with a lighter (oxidize it). Once oxidized, the SS mesh becomes the wick in a very cool DIY atty he named "Genesis". If you're not familiar with that thread, you can find it here: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/modders-forum/132663-all-my-mods-part1.html.

So Raidy "oxidized" a stainless steel wick, making it non-conductive. An atomizer wick must be non-conductive. Otherwise it will short out the resistance wire (nichrome or kanthal) coil.

But then again, the wick wouldn't have to be non-conductive if the resistance wire coil is non-conductive. My point is that you can make the resistance wire non-conductive by burning it with a lighter, IF the resistance wire is nichrome 60. Once you make a nichrome 60 resistance wire non-conductive, you can use ANY material as a wick, including conductive metals. This opens up many possibilities.

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