sham-wow!

**Vandal996** · 05-05-2009, 07:02 PM

I did not try the hemp myself. I have been playing with 100% silk thread. It seems to wick really well but it is a little difficult to keep the thread tucked in the cart. I may try a piece of silk cloth next.

**craig armstrong** · 05-05-2009, 11:28 PM

I didn't know that the vaporizer could get hot enough to melt the polyester?

**doc g** · 05-05-2009, 11:51 PM

has anyone tried sham-wow as a wicking material?
according to the tv commercial, you should be able to get about a pint of juice in 1 cartridge!
But seriously, has anyone measured the actual temp of a glowing atty?
Will measure the temp of my 510m attys as soon as I get a new battery for my cen-tech IR thermo,
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**spradling** · 05-06-2009, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by feathersncream

no minimike not quite the same - same seed but grown differently & actually now the genetically eng the seeds to make them ... Free Hemp is grown like corn close together so that the fibres are long

Actually, Hemp=Male ........ plant (contains no ...), .........=Female ........ plant (contains ...).

**DCrist721** · 07-01-2009, 02:52 AM

Originally Posted by spradling

Actually, Hemp=Male ........ plant (contains no ...), .........=Female ........ plant (contains ...).

Actually, Hemp is a cultivar of ........, and is different from ........ grown for drug purposes. Male ........ plants do actually contain .... They contain very little ..., but if they are of the drug producing variety there is enough ... that a small quantity of hash can be made from the leaves.

Both male and female plants are grown for hemp production. However, over the past century hemp has been bred so that it is now it's own variety of plant separate from drug-producing ........, so even the flowers of the female hemp plants contain extremely little .... They have managed to get the ... levels so low that it would take several whole plants to produce enough ... to produce just one intoxicating dose of .... In other words, you can't really produce any drugs from hemp. Further more, after the fibers have been harvested they are treated to remove all traces of ....

So to the person whom Spradling was responding to, while hemp and ......... are of the same species, they are two very different plants (just like a Chihuahua and a St. Bernard are the same species but very different animals), and hemp does not produce any drugs, so it isn't against the rules to discuss the use of hemp.

**happily** · 07-01-2009, 03:00 AM

Originally Posted by doc g

has anyone tried sham-wow as a wicking material?
according to the tv commercial, you should be able to get about a pint of juice in 1 cartridge!

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I seriously want to know about this.............you could easy get a pint if Billy wasn't just playing us.

**RandallFlagg** · 07-01-2009, 03:04 AM

Originally Posted by doc g

has anyone tried sham-wow as a wicking material?
according to the tv commercial, you should be able to get about a pint of juice in 1 cartridge!

**tmbrown327** · 07-01-2009, 02:31 PM

Just thinking off the top of my head here, but it seems to me like the stuffing material itself must be non-absorbent. The general idea is to have a material that wicks well and supports a capillary transfer method, but must not absorb the liquid. Polyester seems to do that well, and I think the 'grain' of the polyester plays a part as well. If the fibers are running parallel with the direction of wicking, the better it will perform. When the fibers get crushed, then it starts losing its performance. Also, the bridge of the atty should prevent most polyester from contacting the heating coil. If yours is doing that, then stray polyester fibers are probably sticking out of your carts and should be trimmed or use a new cart. FWIW and IMHO

**framitz** · 07-01-2009, 09:12 PM

I don't think any absorbent material will work very well, it wants to absorb the juice NOT wick it to the atomizer. Sham Wow is especially nasty, it doesn't even work good for it's intended purpose. I thought about trying Sham Wow, but saw that it doesn't wick well at all, so I use pieces to absorb excess juice and to clean up.

I'll stick to neatly trimmed poly fill and keep it wet, never had any burn doing it this way.

When I restuff I try and get the fibers oriented the same way as much as possible before inserting into the cart (pull gently apart, fold, repeat about 10 times), this seems to make a BIG difference. When my carts go dry they are just about completely empty.

I also found that if I use 10 to 20% less stuffing than original, the carts wick better, but if you go too light it may leak. Some experimentation is needed to get it just right.

I tasted burned poly fill a time or two when I first started vaping, but quickly learned how to prevent it.