Anyone else stressing over wicking material?

[SteveW]

I'm really surprised not to see people using Imeo's (I believe Imeo originally came up with the idea, SO sorry if i'm wrong!) idea of using unoxidized mesh and no resistance wire, with the mesh itself being the coil. LongHaul and Bishopeals seemed to have good luck with the methods.

Can't see that working at all in a genny. But I will withhold judgement, how about starting a thread on this technique?

 

[dhomes]

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as long as the area under the coil is oxidized enough there is no need to worry about it touching the bottom of the tank

it's not only becasue of short though, it MAY be subjective, but I feel that it feeds the liquid a bit better if leaving a thin pin size hole in the center.

Which would kinda make sense, if your wick is fully submerged you have the whole outter area + inner area of the wick in contact with the liquid, I'd guess that improves capilarity + gravity effect (I always tilt, not because I feel I have to, but because I find it more comfortable with tube mods, that's jsut me though and YMMV)

 

[dhomes]

Sounds like the method I had plan and what i'll be using, except thinking of folding the top end of the wick before I roll it just a mm or so to make it a bit bigger, then inserting into coil, should sit a few mm above the posts as well and prevent the wick from falling through. Only difference is the wick maintains a circle and not a bend at the end (I have OCD...)

yeah that's basically what I meant, you would be making a tiny triangle at the top of the wick where it ends perpendicular to the length of the wick, maybe 1 mm by 1 mm on the short sides, that works as a stop for the wick from falling into the tank if the coils are a bit too loose after using the drill bit method

 

[Vito Capone]

I took the dive into the ceramic wick with the aga-t. Yes, I am making my own from topfin bubble stone that I shape to size, wash under hot water and torch to a glow. It has been the cleanest vape with the best flavor I have found yet compared to silica or ss wicks. As this is what looks to be nothing more than porous stone to me (realizing the limitations from just visual observation), and giving the full torching I apply to it, I really have no safety concerns. Works very well for me.

I am in with Stringer here, I have the same set up with my AGA. I am making my own with the stone and it is a cleaner taste than any other wick I have used thus far. Making my own is also cheaper and they are not as brittle as the purchased ones because you can form them a bit thicker.

 

[Thrasher]

yea i cant see the imeo method working in a geni, i keep meaning to try it in one of my drippers but to work in a geni means the hole needs to be insulated and one of the wires goes in the tank on the bottom of the wick, also at around 40 mm from top to bottom the geni wick will end up very high resistance this way, as well as the part in the tank becoming hot and boiling liquid for no reason. the method you descrip is a 7 mm wide piece of mesh wrapped around a silica wick and no res wire attached on the sides of the mesh making a bridged atty with a silica feeder inside.

 

[Hello World]

ZEn was supposedly using a teflon insulator - dont know personally.

One end of Zen's plastic insulator is burned brown.

I tested polyolefin-based heat shrink tubing set 2mm below the top of the wickhole on a SS wick dry-burned continuously for well over 30 minutes. No plastic fumes, scents, no burn-marks. My 4mm-bore AGA-T2 SS unoxidized solid wicks are very heavy (180mm x 38mm), bounce around and need to be tight-fit secured to the wickhole without generating continuous shorts.

 

[pdib]

Yeah, I'm stressing. I'm not sure if I'm really clear on this; but I gather some folks are using aquarium air stone for wicking. This is not good, IM(oh so humble)O. Glass beads held together by resin/composite. These are not made for heating up and inhaling, people.

^ me^ 2 days ago

I took the dive into the ceramic wick with the aga-t. Yes, I am making my own from topfin bubble stone that I shape to size, wash under hot water and torch to a glow. It has been the cleanest vape with the best flavor I have found yet compared to silica or ss wicks. As this is what looks to be nothing more than porous stone to me (realizing the limitations from just visual observation), and giving the full torching I apply to it, I really have no safety concerns. Works very well for me.

ditto ^me^ today. . . . . . . 1 Phoenix, 1 AGA @ 1/8" bubblestone, 1 AGA@ 9/64