Rusting 24g Kanthal?

[uberpollo]

Hey guys,
I recently started playing around with 24g kanthal in a kayfun lite plus clone that I had bought last year and started to notice a serious issue which was that juice would at some point start to look orangish, when I recently opened it up to change the coil to put in a new flavor it was completely black. However when I had previously fired it and had noticed no burnt taste. Any ideas as to what's going on.
Background on build
24g purchased from brick and mortar store
Cosmic Orange BLawesome juice (pinkish)
0.6ohm coil 6 wraps
eleaf istick at 32.2 watts

Cheers

 

[BlueridgeDog]

I would try another type of juice just for some more information.

 

[State O' Flux]

I would try another type of juice just for some more information.

I'd have to agree with this. High sugar contents can discolor quickly.

If the wire you bought is genuine Sandvik Kanthal A-1... the process of it "rusting" or otherwise corroding can take weeks, even months.

There is an alumina layer (aluminum oxide) that develops on the wire surface when initially heated. This layer protects/insulates the iron/chromium content from various nasty exposures... and takes a good amount of dry burns, brushings and dippings (as well as most other aggressive cleaning methods) to degrade it to the point of exposed iron.

 

[classwife]

Moved to General Vaping Discussion from Ecigarette Technical Issues

 

[Thrasher]

Its nothing

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[Margate69]

It's normal. Even my nickel wire will have red cotton or brown cotton. It's from the heat

 

[SissySpike]

Its nothing

Check out everyone's pics


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How is a Knife involved is all I wanna know?

 

[Thrasher]

How is a Knife involved is all I wanna know?

Pretty funny that you should axe that question

 

[Alien Traveler]

I'd have to agree with this. High sugar contents can discolor quickly.

If the wire you bought is genuine Sandvik Kanthal A-1... the process of it "rusting" or otherwise corroding can take weeks, even months.

There is an alumina layer (aluminum oxide) that develops on the wire surface when initially heated. This layer protects/insulates the iron/chromium content from various nasty exposures... and takes a good amount of dry burns, brushings and dippings (as well as most other aggressive cleaning methods) to degrade it to the point of exposed iron.

"Exposed iron" will in no time be covered with Al oxides. I do not believe in kanthal "rust" at all.

 

[Rabbit Slayer]

clean it out then re-juice it, don't use it and see if it still changes color over night

 

[SissySpike]

Pretty funny that you should axe that question

Wed better be careful or Robin will give this thread the guillotine

 

[uberpollo]

Thanks a bunch thought I'd ask just to be safe