Awesome. Just to clarify, it's the cotton balls that sells anywhere?
Also I couldn't really find the 14 gauge lock needle anywhere so ordered from amazon... 50 pieces...
I got the sterile rolled cotton from CVS pharmacy. I imagine you could use a cotton ball too but I have heard that some of them have some distasteful chemicals on them? Dunno.
Wizard labs has the needles very cheap. I just ordered some 16 gauge too to make smaller bore coils too
Here is a photo tutorial of a very easy way to build the RM2. Many of the principals would apply to any bottomfed RBA. Props to Juice Junkies photo tutorial on the original REOmizer for simplifying the process and giving me the courage to try it for myself. For me the photos work so much better than videos, cause you can look at the same one as long as you have to to understand it. It is going to be a sequence of posts, since my coil building skills are much better than my picture posting ones . I have also discovered a neat little trick that makes installing the rolled cotton wick even easier... (it was already easy).
Here goes:
Here are the tools i use:
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Nice post!
I have been using a 4-40 machine screw to wrap my coils. Find they make nice coils that don't touch each other. Just for grins I found the 14 gage needle fits nicely inside the finished coil. Then using your method to pull my cotton wick through the needle, then, remove the needle from the coils. Coils remain separated and don't touch each other. I am rebuilding T3's, but, should work the same here.
HRH - coffee/chocolate (of course) flavours! My fingers are sore from making wicks all the time! It's easy enough to rewick them using cotton balls - you did well getting 3-4 days from it - i cannot.
i have resigned myself to the fact that making 5 coils a week is normal, since she will not change her habits and i am stubborn enough not to either!
Now: imagine the case if you ruined 5 cartos a week? you'd be a little less tolerant i think.
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Really no need to replace coil everytime your cotton wick gets burnt, broken, or funky. Simply take out old wick, dry burn coil until all the old juice and wick pieces are burnt to white ash, remove ash from coil and slip in a new cotton wick! I dryburn/ rewick about every 2-3 days. I recoil about once a week.
That is really strange. They were uploaded directly to ECF. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can "reload" em?
Thank you.