Ok, while I was at the grocery store earlier, I saw a bag of cotton balls and suddenly remembered that I wanted to try using that in my rebuildables. I'm still pretty new to all this stuff and only use rebuildable drippers right now and on a VV device, so no sub ohm vaping. There was only one type of cotton for sale so I just grabbed a bag. It does not say its sterile or organic. I know people say you have to boil it so I boiled about 10 balls for about 20 minutes then squeezed out as much liquid as I could and then laid them out to dry on some paper towels. After they're dry, they should be ok to use right? And when I roll my wick, should I try to thread it through the coil or wrap the coil around it? Seems like threading it through might be kinda hard? I just got some 31 gauge kanthal so I'm probably going to try it with that on a IGO-S.
cotton ball wick, boiling and threading
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Yep... OK to use.
If you look closely at the cotton balls, after they've dried, you'll find that they are "rolled". You can try to unroll them, which will make them (sort of) flat, and relatively easy to remove thin, long segments.
What ever your coil inside diameter is, pull off what you think is enough cotton to roll between your fingers to thread a wick into. When you discover that it's either too big or too small, try again... cotton is cheap. ;-)
What you want, and taking into consideration how flimsy 31 kanthal is, to have the wick pull through with only a slight amount of drag. If you snag it on the coil, pull it out, wet your fingers, roll it a bit tighter, and try again. The idea is to get it in there with a minimum of fuss and bother... not so loose that most of it is not in contact with the coil... not so tight (dense) that the coil chokes it off.
Don't worry if you don't get it figured out the first few trys... it's a learning experience.
This last bit is the way I do it... how you do it is all you. Take the "tails" of the wick and... one end, the "fatter" end, can lay in the juice well. The skinny end, which should be on the end of the coil closest to the ground stud, you can tuck, loosely, under the coil. What ever is hanging over the edge of the atty base... just snip off with scissors.
Generally with RDAs, you thread the wick into the coils. Wrapping around the outside is more common with vertical coils on pressure differential RBAs, like a Kayfun or clone.
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If you look closely at the cotton balls, after they've dried, you'll find that they are "rolled". You can try to unroll them, which will make them (sort of) flat, and relatively easy to remove thin, long segments.
What ever your coil inside diameter is, pull off what you think is enough cotton to roll between your fingers to thread a wick into. When you discover that it's either too big or too small, try again... cotton is cheap. ;-)
What you want, and taking into consideration how flimsy 31 kanthal is, to have the wick pull through with only a slight amount of drag. If you snag it on the coil, pull it out, wet your fingers, roll it a bit tighter, and try again. The idea is to get it in there with a minimum of fuss and bother... not so loose that most of it is not in contact with the coil... not so tight (dense) that the coil chokes it off.
Don't worry if you don't get it figured out the first few trys... it's a learning experience.
This last bit is the way I do it... how you do it is all you. Take the "tails" of the wick and... one end, the "fatter" end, can lay in the juice well. The skinny end, which should be on the end of the coil closest to the ground stud, you can tuck, loosely, under the coil. What ever is hanging over the edge of the atty base... just snip off with scissors.
Generally with RDAs, you thread the wick into the coils. Wrapping around the outside is more common with vertical coils on pressure differential RBAs, like a Kayfun or clone.
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All very well said. I will add watching a YouTube video on cotton ball wick will help you a lot. Seeing it makes it so much easier to understand.
I personally don't try to unroll the cotton ball, I just tear off a little piece, stretch it length ways, roll one end as tight and thin as you can, holding one piece while stress twisting the end well create a nice tight funnel or "needle" that you can then push and twist into your coil, twist with the coil wraps like threading a screw...that seems to help me..
Also the cotton is going to expand a little bit too...and I've heard you can choke the cotton if it's too tight in the coil. Think of your finger swelling while wearing a ring. Ideally you want the coil (the ring) just touching the cotton (the skin of your finger).
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I personally don't try to unroll the cotton ball, I just tear off a little piece, stretch it length ways, roll one end as tight and thin as you can, holding one piece while stress twisting the end well create a nice tight funnel or "needle" that you can then push and twist into your coil, twist with the coil wraps like threading a screw...that seems to help me..
Also the cotton is going to expand a little bit too...and I've heard you can choke the cotton if it's too tight in the coil. Think of your finger swelling while wearing a ring. Ideally you want the coil (the ring) just touching the cotton (the skin of your finger).
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I wrap my coils around a blunt nose syringe needle, then after the coil is mounted, twist up my cotton nice and tight and thin, put the needle through the coil and thread the tail of the cotton inside the needle, pull it out through the coil, and you have your cotton started through, then just twist tight and pull cotton till you have what you want out the other side. Then I untwist the cotton, so as to fluff it up, trim the ends, place them where the belong, saturate, good to go.
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