Can I dry burn stainless?

[sofarsogood]

Can I dry burn stainless the same as kanthal?

 

[PaulBHC]

I tried a couple of times with 316L but it didn't seem to vape the same after rewicking. I bought 100ft roll from Temco for cheap and decided it was just as easy to make a new coil.

 

[Chemical Bromance]

I tried a couple of times with 316L but it didn't seem to vape the same after rewicking. I bought 100ft roll from Temco for cheap and decided it was just as easy to make a new coil.

I dry burn my SS316L all the time when rewicking and they seem to work fine. This way, I've made my parallel dual coil builds last almost a month. My buddies do it too.
What do you mean by them not vaping the same? Is it a taste thing? Or a faulty reading?

 

[whiteowl84]

Absolutely.
That's the beauty of 316l.
TC to power mode to mech in the same build.

 

[Templar1191]

Yes!
In fact, dry burned stainless is much much cleaner than dry burned nichrome/kanthal
Or Ti lol

 

[bigrobbie]

Yuppers, give em a good pulse as you would kanthal

 

[sofarsogood]

The point of concern would be unhealthy compounds being liberated by heating stainless to red hot. I'm inclined to think that's not a problem but may be there is an authoritative answer. I'm dry burning stainless but would still like to hear an informed answer.

 

[bigrobbie]

Stainless steel is a metallic alloy known to contain at least 11% of chromium; chromium in solid stainless steel should not be regarded as a health hazard. Hexavalent chromium can be formed when performing “hot work” such as welding on stainless steel. In these situations, high temperatures involved in the process result in oxidation that converts the chromium to a hexavalent state. Hexavalent chromium is very toxic, is found in tobacco smoke, and is known to cause lung cancer. Hexavalent chromium formation during vaping has not been investigated, but it can be generated before use, when people oxidise the stainless steel wick/mesh by torching it until it glows red-hot. The real problem is that we do not know if this previous oxidizing process results in an instability of the chromium-ion bonds with subsequent release of toxic chromium even at normal operating temperatures. In absence of clear demonstration of hexavalent chromium in the aerosol of e-cigarettes, my personal advice is to use organic unprocessed wicks (e.g. cotton). –

Professor Riccardo Polosa

 

[Froth]

Stainless Steel (dry burn)

Lots of information in there, too lazy to re-post it.

Cliff notes: You can dry burn it to your hearts desire, any harmful chemicals(ex: Hexavalent chromium) that could possibly be released from SS wire can only happen at a minimum of 1400C(2552°F), this mostly occurs in processes such as welding. Even the hottest of hot 200 watt dry burned coils will not reach this temperature, even so if they were able to you would have to be inhaling across red hot molten coils to stand a chance at inhaling the byproduct of the chromium oxidation reaction, and even then the mass of the wire contains such a small amount of chromium by weight that your respiratory system would be more damaged by the inhalation across such hot coils, than from the gasses released by them.