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I bought a bag of Muji on Amazon a couple of years ago and used it exclusively until around this time last year when a vendor I purchase from tossed in some Cotton Bacon for free with an order. I found it to be easier to work with, faster to wick thicker juices and it seems to hold up better to the lower builds I like to do and the heat they create. Since then, I've used it almost exclusively.
Last spring, that same vendor threw in some Native Wicks with an order and that was pretty good, too. The texture of Native Wicks is softer and it slides through your coil easier when you wick with it. Cotton Bacon is more coarse and tends to grab the coil more when you pull it through. I still have most of a bag of Muji that I haven't touched in a year.
Last spring, that same vendor threw in some Native Wicks with an order and that was pretty good, too. The texture of Native Wicks is softer and it slides through your coil easier when you wick with it. Cotton Bacon is more coarse and tends to grab the coil more when you pull it through. I still have most of a bag of Muji that I haven't touched in a year.
I use Shiseido Japanese cotton pads found at my local Shoppers Drug Mart,works great for me.Eleven or so dollars for a hundred and some odd sheets.
When this pack gets low I may go to Sally's Beauty Supply and buy and try out some Rayon.
When this pack gets low I may go to Sally's Beauty Supply and buy and try out some Rayon.
To avoid a weird break in taste with rayon, wet the wick after you've trimmed it and etc. then let some of the juice vaporize on your ohm's reader or mod or whatever you are building on. I mean don't go nuts or anything, but do that for a bit with the cap off, kind of pulse it. Makes it easier (I think) to place the tails and whatnot where they need to be and I'm all about easy. Then fill and place cap on (or the reverse if it's topfill) kind of gets things going and I don't think rayon has much break in taste in any case but if you are sensitive to rayon taste, that will get rid of most of it.
Anna
Anna
I use Muji. Have tried various others (cotton bacon etc), but found no difference, personally. I kinda lean towards the belief that "cotton is cotton"...once it's in the coil and juiced up, it's all the same. But, that's just me.
Muji is cheap and, for me, the easiest to work with, so I stick with that.
Muji is cheap and, for me, the easiest to work with, so I stick with that.
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Rayon cured me of using cotton wicking. Cotton always had that wet t-shirt taste until it broke in. Rayon, not so much. I only replace rayon when I need to dry burn the coil. That's about 5 to 7 days. When I remove the wick to dry burn I always think that I could put it back in and keep on vaping, but I change it because it's already out of the coil.
Break in on a Rayon wick occurs rapidly. Cotton, even Koh Gen Do, took a lot longer to produce accurate flavor.
You do have to make the Rayon wick fit a little more tightly into the coil. Cotton expands when juiced. Rayon shrinks a little. You know it's the right size if you have to twist it a little to get it through the coil without flexing the coil legs. It should hump up on each side of the coil just a little. The next time you take it apart the ends of the wick will have shrunk and are even with the coil size.
Break in on a Rayon wick occurs rapidly. Cotton, even Koh Gen Do, took a lot longer to produce accurate flavor.
You do have to make the Rayon wick fit a little more tightly into the coil. Cotton expands when juiced. Rayon shrinks a little. You know it's the right size if you have to twist it a little to get it through the coil without flexing the coil legs. It should hump up on each side of the coil just a little. The next time you take it apart the ends of the wick will have shrunk and are even with the coil size.
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I always do this with both cotton and rayon.
Same here.
I know it's right when I get that squeak.
I still use both. Mainly rayon, but cotton when my coil leads are up top. I seem to find a touch of space at the top of the coil when I go to rewick with rayon.
hmmm I wonder.... do a 50/50 mix of rayon and cotton... call it cotyon or would it be rayton.. and if it turns out terrible... rotton 
hmmm I wonder.... do a 50/50 mix of rayon and cotton... call it cotyon or would it be rayton.. and if it turns out terrible... rotton
It would probably be half as good as an all Rayon wick.
I think it would be a lowest common denominator thing, because it's not like adding in some rayon would change cotton's properties in any way, would it? I mean the cotton would go bad at the same rate the cotton always does, so you'd just be wasting the rayon, I think?
IDK maybe some magical fusion would happen who knows, that's an experiment that one.
Anna
Unless you vape 100 ml a day that hundred sheets of shiseido will last you couple of years... I bought the same shiseido a week before I bought big box of rayon that will last twice as long... I will probably not use all my wicking material in my lifetime... I have also bag of cotton bacon... rayon is the best but to be sure that it is true I use from time to time cotton.
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