Anyone Know what the wire mesh is made of?

[Mommabeans]

I've been trying to find a suitable substitute for the wire mesh band around the wick in Ego T that broke in half when I was trying to rewick on both of them. I don't have any atties laying around to salvage the bridge from and both my Ego T atties work. Wondering if the aluminum braid inside a Coax cable would work but I feel like I should be wary of vaping anything aluminum. I've tried EVERYTHING to make these wick right. I have silica rope and I have tried using the batting from inside an old carto, or the fiberglass tubing cut in half length wise from inside old cartos. I've tried wire wrapped around, I've even tried a section of fabric bandaid wrapped around. I have even tried not using anything, just looping it through and either cutting the loop at the top and leaving it looped inside the spike. NOTHING is working. I can get a few good vapes with some experiements, but then dry awful, painful hits. Most of them time, I can't get it to wick at all, not matter how much or how little silica I use. I'm frustrated. I don't want to have to buy another atty. Any help would be appreciated. And no, I am not going to tie a bunch of knots, especially when I can't see a photo demonstration of exactly what he means....

Thanks in advance.

 

[Dana A]

I remember seeing it on a few different you tube videos on rebuildable attys. Hope this helps

 

[Mommabeans]

No, it doesn't. The question was about what the wire mesh was made of, and what, rewording the question, was/is it's orginal intended purpose? Has anyone figured that out. I'm not talking about rebuilding atties. I'm talking about rebuilding WICKS for Ego/Tornado T. I've tried ALL the alternatives, even tried just threading the silica thread in many different thicknesses through the spike. Nothing is working. Damn thing won't even prime half the time.

 

[Myriad Dark]

I would imagine it would be stainless steel mesh as it was originally intended to wick juice to the coil of the atty which serves the same function as the stainless steel mesh wick in a rebuildable atty.

The SS mesh draws the liquid towards the coil by means of capillary attraction which is a faster means of moving liquid than regular absorption through the silica wick which seems to be used to hold the liquid by the coil.

 

[crizzle3275]

I would imagine it would be stainless steel mesh as it was originally intended to wick juice to the coil of the atty which serves the same function as the stainless steel mesh wick in a rebuildable atty.

The SS mesh draws the liquid towards the coil by means of capillary attraction which is a faster means of moving liquid than regular absorption through the silica wick which seems to be used to hold the liquid by the coil.

Are you sure that this stuff is in fact Stainless Steel wire mesh? I always thought it was more of a high temperature alloy, maybe like an inconel or Hastelloy type of thing? I always though stainless steel would not hold up to the heat, but I could be wrong, also what size is the wire mesh that you guys used? I know its super fine, how many wires per inch? Maybe about 150? or just 100?

Here is a measuring guide for the stainless steel material:
Custom Wire Cloth - Belleville Wire Cloth Co - Cedar Grove, NJ

 

[Oneida]

These threads have extensive discussions about the use and safety of SS wicking materials -

Wick materials. Safe vs dangerous.

Just Stainless Steel Wick and Filler

Stainless Steel Doughnuts for dripping

 

[dano87]

Thanks for those links, they've been really helpful.



Cadisch Precision Meshes

 

[Sincronicity]

I have searched the forums a number of times for any mentioning of this. I figure I'll go ahead and ask this question here, rather than read the (several hundred) pages of repeated bantering and proclamations over and over of best methods and materials. Reading up the forums, I read about how silica wick splinters and those splinters can get into your lungs. A darned good reason to want to go to mesh, not to mention all of the raves of how flavors increase in a good way. I'm looking at pricing and locales of vape sites and the purchasing of mesh from ebay in larger sheets at about the same price as most vape sites (tough competition) Anyone have an idea of substitutions to the mesh when running low by say purchasing and cannibalizing an item such as store sold coffee filters/strainers? I don't know if these are ss or aluminum. Would a ss coffee strainer work if it just has to be there overnight?