Hey CMD, how are ya. Yep, I'd agree the RxW treatment is the ultimate. It thoroughly vacates (closes up) the interfiber spaces. Eliminating virtually all of the refractory tastes imbued during kilning. There is still some there. You'll detect it during break-in for a few ml and on occasion when you apply higher power. The cleaned ceramic from SnG does carry with it more of a residual of the refractory taste. However, the fiber spaces seem to remain more open with the cleaned product and so it's more immediately conducive to flavor. Treated ceramic takes a bit longer. The break-in period more pronounced. Depends on the juice and your vaping style. However, both will give you as good or better flavor results as the best cotton with far and away better wick lifespan to wash than Eko or silica could ever dream. That is, it takes far longer to reach its saturation point. Cotton fairing the worst there but right up there with Nextel on maintaining flavor delivery or accuracy.
Just my take after more than a thousand Kanger builds so far with every wind and wick I could get proper fit with. On that subject, it takes seconds to thread XC-132 (slim, 1/16" o.d. roughly) into anything from 1/16" to .07" (#50 wire gauge, or 1.778mm). The last being the easiest and probably most productive from 2.0-2.2Ω. I've tested absolute beginners that never saw a coil and watched them do it in seconds after one demonstration.
But I will agree it's stiff. The rigidity actually helps...so that it it doesn't fold over like a wet noodle. Pretty much why silica and Eko FAIL. Too loose a fit you get hot high turns. Nice hot vape you get then. What some consider production. But it's one that's diffusing the vapor (already made), not vaporizing juice.
Now to each his own. Some people like a scorching cup of coffee. Can't say that would be one that most would savor.
In my estimation it's that wet vapor that yields flavor not the same juice recycled through diffusion. The greater the wet vapor as a ratio of the two, the better the vapor result in my opinion. After all how much flavor do you get out of a scalding bowl of soup, huh? Ahaaa…but the vapor sure smells great.
At the end of the day you want an efficient coil and wick that closely complement each other in fit. This ensures the most vaporization for energy conducted. No sagging of wick ends. No incomplete contact of coil surfaces anywhere. That's what ensures the most uniform vapor, flavor and reliability.
On that score ceramic wins hands down.
Thanks for your input CMD (this was mostly for the newcomers).
Good luck all.
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