Notes on Mesh Builds

Annie56;12199470 said:

Some more building notes (mesh ) -- with the Dids, I really was not having the best of luck. I was using a poop-load of mesh for the wicks--11cm 400--basically a stick of rebar wire lol. Coiling 3 wraps 28g kanthal, 0.8-1 Ω.

Coils would light up like a dream, after pulsing oxidized. Add juice--50/50 pg vg Ry4 from Quantum Vapor. This juice, and Cappuccino, from the same vendor, are my ADV.

Had to tilt like crazy, to get any wicking (wick was not tight in the hole). The builds were so hot, they were slowly cooking my juice. My cappu would still taste ok-burnt coffee. My Ry4 tasted like a tin of sardines, after a while.

Played with my Did clones--posted another little thread about that. Had great success. 3 wrap 32 kanthal. Tiny little wick-hole on those little Chids, maybe not even 2mm.

Got me thinking. When I watched the vid that MM Vapors has about setting up the Did, the man uses a little Allen key to roll his mesh.

I decided to do something different (no, not cotton--tempted tho ). Sort of the same idea as the Chid, but kind of an inverse. STRAW wick. You don't want to overwhelm your teeny wick on the Chid with a heavy gauge wire, like 28, or even 30. You could force-feed the goose that is the Standard Did with some massive wick, and cook that goose with a coil of 26 or 28 gauge kanthal. But force-fed goose, or burney-juice casserole is exactly what you are going to get, on an unregulated mech, like what i run my gennies on.

So I did two builds today, after a long shift, with one break with my gas-station disposable. 2 inch square 270 mesh. Rolled around a 2mm stick. Took it off of that. Kept rolling mesh on my little Chid Allen key, till it fit loosely in the wick hole. Two juice-burns on the wick-- to stiffen it. Coiled off of the atty--left the Allen key in the wick as a brace. Installed wick/coil. Pulsed --popped one coil . When all of the coils glowed even, put in a fresh battery, pulsed some more. Added juice.3 wrap 32 kanthal 1.9-2Ω--a middle-aged ladie's vape that doesn't turn my Ry4 into my mother's Lenten tuna-casserole. I have to use my fill-plugs now...

No pix, hands too sore from fixing my wiper-blades. Looks like any gennie

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