Jeremy, thanks mate, appreciated! Nice analogy btw, I get what you're saying, and also why the Busardo test failed in your opinion.
Btw
@All, if wanting longevity out of cotton, then just use more of it! Firstly, as we've been touted so much full with that cotton swells when wet(and rayon shrinks), then people use very little, but although it swells a little, then a) you need enough, especially at the ends, to make full coil/wick contact to not have glowing places and dry-hits on longer pulls, and b) cotton actually shrinks upon high heat! I now wick more densely than I did in the beginning. Also, as i've gone to use 3mm id coils, then the longevity has further improved, which makes sense, since there's more of it that needs to "collapse", before rewicking needs.. Also, that's why I do have a slight feeling about that although rayon is better, as I trust Jeremy's judgement in general, I also have a little feeling about rayons longevity, based on the above, also is somewhat related to using much more material, as it's packed much more, e.g. a 2mm coil is packed with enough material as if using a 3mm coil with cotton, just as a loose example...
Blake, I'm glad to hear another fellow noticing the ammonia, mate! Thanks for letting me know
Sorry, I cannot help you on the mfs nic judgement, as i'm unfortunately crippled in not being able to try the nic vendors that all you US citizens does, and just have to if possible, locate the sources of said nic, and try comparable EU vendors with same sources, but mfs I don't know which uses currently - no one here does... They in the past used a source with very great throat-hit(yes, the THUMP you talk about
) and also some pepper, and e.g. I believe Cyrus was great fan of it then, among others, but then they changed to alchem's nicselect for a short while, but had to give it up because of very bad feedbacks of rubbery tastes/smell, which nicselect frequently had in it's beginning, but not anymore though(ecx, heartlands, nicvape, liquid-barn, nicotine-river etc. etc.). They said they went back to there old trusted source, but the people said it wasn't the same anymore, and e.g. Cyrus sent several bottles back I believe. Now I believe they have medium to pretty good throat-hit, but atleast better than e.g. nude-nic and chemnovatic, and also some pepper and pungency. Again that is just based on user feedback i've read though
I'm sure many others can help you much more specifically though
Btw, a little to late Happy Thanksgiving to everyone here!
I for one am very thankful for all the great knowledge here + the nice people to interact with
THANKS!
- Martin.