Cotton mop wick

[DrByteh]

I was walking through Dollarama today looking for the "acrylic lipstick organizer" for $2. Well I found it. Does what I needed it to do. Organize my growing collection of atomizers.


I also found a "yacht mop". It's a replacement head for a mop. No handle. What struck me was it was 100% cotton. So into the basket it went.


Got it home and here is what I found. Each strand is about 45cm or 18in long. Each strand is about 5mm diameter and made up of 4 ply. There are about 50 strands to a mop. If I unravel the strand each ply is about 1mm in diameter.


So I boiled half of it for 30 minutes. No smells or colours. Left it to dry. Burned a bit to see it it really was cotton. Yep, nothing but ash.


Got impatient so I made up a coil and stuffed some unboiled stuff into it. Mounted it in a KFL, primed it, test fired and no issues. Closed it all up. Filled it and vaped my favourite juice.


Considering this is my first ever attempt at building a coil I am quite pleased with myself and the results. It tastes just fine. But I have nothing else to compare it to.


I had been looking around for cotton wicking for quite some time. Balls, pads, yarn, string were considered. This fits my needs. Already in a wick shape, about the right diameter and cheap. Only $1.25CAD


I now have enough wick for a small city.

 

[dice57]

hmm, was eyeing the basket full of lint from dryer, and thought, hmm, wonder how that would wick if twisted up. lol decided to toss it out with the trash though.

Whatever works.

 

[Jimi D.]

I was thinking of a sponge mop. Heck we used to vape with blue filtration foam.

 

[Sthur]

That is another idea of a vaper thinking outside the box. Keep us posted and post some pics of the mop and how the boiled wick works.

 

[p7willm]

Organic cotton balls from the pharmacy are so cheap I would not be the first to use something that was intended to be safe cleaning the floor.

 

[DrByteh]

So how clean is your floor?

I've been vaping the unboiled stuff all night. Tastes and feels fine. After 45 years of crap, I'm not that worried.

No balls. No glory. I'll die happy.

 

[vanillayo]

I was thinking of a sponge mop. Heck we used to vape with blue filtration foam.

Lol, the good ol' days.