Dan, you never answered my question.....
Is it a boy or girl?
Am very curious where this is going.
What is the general consensus? Should this "prop" method be combined with the SUCKaTON, top feeding atty or bottom feeding cart?
I guess at the end of the day it may just boil down to personal preference and aesthetics. If you want something small that feels like a real ciggy, the cart or top atty may be best. If you like endurance and lots of liquid holding capacity, the tube juice feed is the answer.
I'm however dying to know how the silica rope is holding out? I gotta get some of that to try.....
The search feature of this forum leaves a lot to be desired. It finds lots of things, just not many things related to your search term. OK, I'll stop whining and ask my question: Can someone point me to the SUCKaTON thread, cause I'll be damned if I can find it. It's not porn right?
Anyway, currently I can only speak to top vs bottom feeding cuz I haven't build a SUCKaTON. I've been using a top-feeding version (with needles & pins of course) and it's great. Before that I tried the bottom-feeding version... and it's great. Both have their pros and cons.
Top-feeding PROS
No epoxy, fiberglass, or thread. I'm a little worried about e-liquid soaking with epoxy. However, everything I read seems to indicate that cured epoxy is very inert.
Design is a little simpler with no glued-in center tube and not much worry of the hypo needles shorting together since they have quite a bit of space between them.
Works great for dripping or using a cart with filler.
Very little to no leakage.
Top-feeding CONS:
Vapor and TH are very good but variable. When the wick is too wet or too dry, vapor and TH suffers. Sweet spot is halfway between refills.
Coil, wick (disc wick in my case), and cart filler must be measured and placed precisely so they just touch. Otherwise, juice won't flow (wick) properly.
Shorter time between refills compared to bottom-feeder.
Bottom-Feeding PROS
Long time between refills.
Vape is more consistent from full to empty.
Can be a one piece atty design. Separate cart not really needed, unless you want to use a dummy.
Bottom-Feeding CONS
Liquid soaking in epoxy and possibly brass/copper could be a health concern. Then again, maybe not.
A little more difficult to build in my opinion.
Leaking is a little more likely than top-feeding - especially when the e-cig is upside-down.
I think what I'm really saying here is that there will be a lot of demand for BOTH. If this gets a sticky I think both versions should be included. To me, the most important central design feature is the "needles-and-pins quick-change coil". That's the real invention here. I can change a coil on mine in 30 seconds, which means my monthly atomizer bill just dropped to near-zero.
