Boiling Stainless Steel mesh?

[tnt56]

Does anyone boil their mesh before use? I was building some nova wicks(since their not available yet, and I don't want to depend on the chinese to get them ready. Nothing is what it's supposed to be. 1.8ohm reads up to 2.4ohms. Get real)
Just learning to rewrap wicks and after I ran out of the wick material I had,(don't ask cause it was laying around in a box so I don't know if it's silica or cotton or whatever).
I boiled some SS 400 mesh. Best wick I ever made. Ohmed out at 2.0 which is what I'm searching for.
The boiling made it a bit easier to roll than before when I was fiddling around with wicks. Boiled 2x's and let cool.
Just courious.

 

[tnt56]

So am I the only one who's tried this?


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[Rule62]

I don't boil mine. I lightly torch it before wrapping. It also makes rolling easier, as well as burning off whatever manufacturing residue might be there.

 

[c00lkatz]

People boil silica, SS mesh, and cotton before use typically. Some boil, some don't. The 12x12" sheet of #400 SS mesh I bought off ebay I used before boiling and after boiling, and I couldn't taste a difference. However, the cotton balls I bought from Walgreens, even though many say you don't need to boil, tasted awful before boiling. While I was boiling them I could smell the same thing I tasted as it was coming off. After boiling, they taste fine.

Others go so far as to boil their SS atomizers before use, and some even use soapy water. I just give them a thorough rinse with hot water and dry roughly with a paper towel, and have yet to see anything come off or get an off taste (due to the atty itself). A hot water rinse is a must (you never know how it was handled before it got to you), but I think boiling and soap is a little OCD when it comes to the actual atomizers themselves. As for wick material, YMMV.

 

[meatsneakers]

You should always boil or at least wash mesh. I've had sheets that smelled like oil and I don't want to be inhaling any remnants of that. Same for most rba's. Some guy in China could have picked his nose before putting the o-rings on

 

[tnt56]

Thanks for the replies all. The 24"x24" sheet I got off eBay had a sticky residue on parts of it. That was my concern.