Bout to throw this protank, this silica and kanthal in the trash

[fog80]

I've been obsessively watching rebuilding videos and building my coils. I finally start getting the ohms I want with no shorts and now I get no freaking draw when I pull.

Ive got juice on my hands, little pieces of silica wick everywhere and still cant vape.

So whats the next "next best thing" out there because Im sick of my protank. I'm not necessarily looking for a rebuildable, I just want something that will fire when I push the button on my provari, give decent flavor and not leak on me.

 

[mace bewley]

Had the same problem.... Switched to micro coils and cotton in the PT, no problems after that!

If not that I really like the Iclear 30B

 

[Rickb119]

I have to agree with mace.

I tried silica a few times (before discovering cotton) and didn't really care for it. I use cotton cooking twine from BBY (boiled at least twice) and use a bead threading needle (Hobby Lobby) to pull it into the coil. Several more strands for the flavor wicks and you're good to go. It wicks great and tastes sooooo much better than silica. The downside is that it gunks up much quicker than silica. The MUCH better flavor is well worth it though.

I started making regular coils (1.8-2.0 ohm) with 32ga and 5 wraps. I now make micro's with 30ga and 9 wraps. I still get 1.8-2.0 ohms but it's a much better vape.

 

[Photogirlkim]

Try cotton. I've done a rebuild on a pt2 with a micro coil and it worked great

 

[fog80]

well cotton did the trick. I just rolled up a little cotton from a cotton ball and threaded it through the coil. Good flavor and vapor.

Thanks!

 

[GetVaked]

Try a new base, the one with adjustable airflow. Also heard the grommets could be tightening draw as well.

 

[Alter]

Instead of building your coils on a piece of silica or ekowool, you build the coil on a percision screwdriver, allen key or whatever thats just wide enough to fit inside the slits of the cup of the protank and install it without any wicking with the wrapping device you choose. You add the cotton after its all installed, test burned to see if its shorting. I use a bead threader (IMO gives a more consistant amount of wicking material on both sides of the coil) but the twist method works also. After you got the coil installed into the head and before you cut the excess off, give both legs a slight pull to tighten them up cause when you put the insulator and positive pin back inplace, there is a tendancy to push the last wrap on each end up and make a hotspot, especially with a microcoil.
I have miles of ekowool around and along with cotton hemp fiber and silica so I've had my run with all the popular wicking materials but I was getting tired of replacing the cotton/hemp all the time and sometimes the breakin taste was unruly so I took some of the 2.5 hollow ekowool I have, cut a 2 inch piece off and unbraided it. Using the bead threader I folded 3-4 strands together and inserted into a bead threader and folded them over again and insert that into my coils. I now have the convience of using cotton/hemp with the dryburn ability of the ekowool. I don't see why you couldn't use this method with silica but I didn't boil or torch my ekowool but you have to torch silica and once you torch the wool or silica it gets crispy and harder to work with.
I use a 1mm silica flavor wick in all my builds, not to stop the flooding but to stop the splattering of the juice up the mouthpiece and giving you a juice film in your mouth.

 

[WarHawk-AVG]

All of the protank/EVOD coils can use a very simple "tuneup" it's not rebuilding em (it's like putting better sparkplugs, wires and a new air filter in your car)

The silica wick over the coil wick sometimes gets loose or is too tight and either results in dry hits or gurgling

A very easy process to fix it is available
You need some organic cotton and a pair of nail clippers

1. Remove the chimney and rubber cap
2. Remove the silica wick over the coil (leave the wick inside the coil)
3. Take a tiny strip of cotton roll it into a string the same width as the coil
4. Lay across the coil
5. Replace the chimney and cap catching the cotton under it
6. Snip the extra off with nail clippers
7. Reassemble, let it sit for a few seconds to wick the juice into the cotton
8. Vape Yo Face Off!!!

Tuneup, not a rebuild

 

[ToeJamX]

After about six months of vaping, I got the "rebuildable fever". I had a lot of fun with it. Sometimes my builds worked out great, other times I almost shorted out my device, and ended up with a handful of juice. Now, I just buy premade heads for my devices. They average about 2 dollars each and I get an average of 8-12 days use. 20 cents per day and 10 seconds to replace it makes me a happy vaper The flavor, vapor and throat hit aren't appreciably better with rebuildables either, or at least that's been my experience...