cotton re wick

[Jrat god]

When you clean an atty that has been rewicked with cotton can you dry burn or do you just let it air dry? Just rewicked a vivi nova with cotton yarn . Havent had to clean it just yet and was wondring how to. Clean it properly

 

[skoot]

You can't dry burn cotton. Rinse with hot water and replace the wick if you need to.

 

[spider362]

What skoot said.

If I want to dry burn my T3 I have to remove the cotton wick, dry burn, and then replace the cotton wick with a new one.
No big deal since I bought a package of cheesecloth. Gisibillions of cotton threads for rewicking.

 

[toadyfatz]

Yeah...cotton is so cheap just take the cotton wick out and dry burn and replace with a fresh new cotton wick...I don't even bother trying to clean the wicks. I've used only one organic make up pad in about a month of rewicking so at this rate one package will last me a couple years LOL!

 

[Cheechako]

Does your old cotton wick stick to the coil when trying to remove it?
Mine gets pretty crusty and sticks to the coil, is there a trick to getting the old wick out?
Thanks!

 

[skoot]

I don't even bother with the old coil. I got 100 ft. of Kanthal for $8 and a whole skein of organic yarn for $12. So that's like 100 coils out of the Kanthal. I usually sit down and crank out a dozen of them at a time, and toss them when they get gunky. I used to tie flies for fly-fishing and have a vise setup, takes me 10 min.

 

[toadyfatz]

Does your old cotton wick stick to the coil when trying to remove it?
Mine gets pretty crusty and sticks to the coil, is there a trick to getting the old wick out?
Thanks!

Yeah, sometimes mine are a bit rough to get out. I've only destroyed one coil though. All I do is make sure the wick is nice and wet and then I will trim as much off from one side as I can so it is less that has to go through the coil as you are carefully pulling on it. Usually I am able to get them out this way with sometimes just a bit of distortion to the coil. Then I just use a small sewing needle and carefully get the coil back in the correct spot. Just also make sure the coils are evenly spaced and not touching the sides of course. Works for me every time now.

 

[Big Screen D]

Does your old cotton wick stick to the coil when trying to remove it?
Mine gets pretty crusty and sticks to the coil, is there a trick to getting the old wick out?
Thanks!

I burn it out.

 

[michliu]

I don't even bother with the old coil. I got 100 ft. of Kanthal for $8 and a whole skein of organic yarn for $12. So that's like 100 coils out of the Kanthal. I usually sit down and crank out a dozen of them at a time, and toss them when they get gunky. I used to tie flies for fly-fishing and have a vise setup, takes me 10 min.

Only 100 coils out of 100 feet of kanthal? I hate it when I have a 1/2 inch that I need to snip off.