Cotton wick help!

[Bawn]

Any good tips or tricks for wrapping silica tight and neat ?

practice my friend. takes some time but you will get it down to second nature. i could wrap a coil in under 10 seconds perfect. took me about 3 months worth of messing up and learning how fast you need to wrap it, or the main thing how tight. i always used 2-3mm wick in everything and usually used 28g for sub ohm or 1-1.5ohm. anything higher i used 32g. you just gotta make sure you dont wrap the wire too tight around silica. you will suffocate the coil and that will lead to dry hits. i wrapped it tight enough the coil would stay put but loose enough where i can still move the coil on the wick. a tip for that is, put a needle behind the wick as you wrap your coil. once the coil is wrapped remove the needle, and that should give you enough space and room for your coil to sit. no need to crank it down, it will do more harm then good. make sure you have more coil then what you will need, i find it makes it easier to get your wraps nice and close and even. when your using 28g make sure you torch the wire, that limits the spring characteristic of the 28g. makes it easier to wrap smaller uniform coils. if the coils aren't perfect don't worry, you can fix them up to be nearly perfect once its attached to the device.

if your going for a micro coil, that's going to be tough with silica. you will def have to use 1mm silica for that and some how manage to squeeze it in. but for micro coil wraps just use the drill bit method. the drill bit method is almost fool proof.

 

[emus]

The cotton break in period tends to becomes a thing of the past once you get a feel for how tight to pack cotton inside coil.

Cotton has a very clean taste if has good interface w/ coil.

 

[second2none]

practice my friend. takes some time but you will get it down to second nature. i could wrap a coil in under 10 seconds perfect. took me about 3 months worth of messing up and learning how fast you need to wrap it, or the main thing how tight. i always used 2-3mm wick in everything and usually used 28g for sub ohm or 1-1.5ohm. anything higher i used 32g. you just gotta make sure you dont wrap the wire too tight around silica. you will suffocate the coil and that will lead to dry hits. i wrapped it tight enough the coil would stay put but loose enough where i can still move the coil on the wick. a tip for that is, put a needle behind the wick as you wrap your coil. once the coil is wrapped remove the needle, and that should give you enough space and room for your coil to sit. no need to crank it down, it will do more harm then good. make sure you have more coil then what you will need, i find it makes it easier to get your wraps nice and close and even. when your using 28g make sure you torch the wire, that limits the spring characteristic of the 28g. makes it easier to wrap smaller uniform coils. if the coils aren't perfect don't worry, you can fix them up to be nearly perfect once its attached to the device.

if your going for a micro coil, that's going to be tough with silica. you will def have to use 1mm silica for that and some how manage to squeeze it in. but for micro coil wraps just use the drill bit method. the drill bit method is almost fool proof.

Thanks I was using a small screwdriver to make the coils, but The harsh hit from cotton doesn't go away even days later, actually it wasn't bad at 1st but got worse as I vaped.

 

[emus]

I would start w/ around 20% VG because it wicks easier than 60% VG. 60% VG is much more likely to burn. Some flavorings choke the wick w/ crud.

Cotton should be very loose in deck holes but a bit firm inside coil. Sometimes I pack wick tighter inside coil w/ drill bit.

I have excellent fast wicks inside 3/32" and 5/64" coils. I don't have luck w/ wicks inside 1/16" coil. Some put 1/16" micro coils on the cloud (inside coil is left empty).

 

[gchirki]

My cotton is turning brown after a day's use, or less. Is my voltage to high? bc the liquid doesn't taste burt, but my cotton wicks are compacted, brown, and don't hold as much after a day. Maybe I'm letting them get too dry before dripping again?
I really want to make cotton wicks work bc I find I enjoy microcoils and have not yet figured out a good way to get ecowool through them after wrapping.

I have found that if the cotton is too tight in the coil it will turn brown where it touches the coil. If you put the cotton in so tight that it moves the coil when you tug on it (if that makes sense) then it is too tight. Remember the cotton will expand a lot once it gets wet. Also I have found the cotton holds on to a lot of the sugars in the juice. If i use a juice like bobas that is thick, dark, and sugary; I have noticed the cotton needs to be changed about every week.

 

[gchirki]

OP,
Like others have said, cotton has a break in period of about 10-20 drags for me. I use organic cotton and the first 10 drags or so it tastes like doo-doo. After the break in period I prefer it a lot more than silica. I was never too keen on the idea of using glass fibers as a wick because i was paranoid about inhaling pieces of it. Plus the cotton is way way cheaper. One bag of organic cotton balls from amazon or walgreens is around $4 and it lasts almost a year. I use it really often too. On average building about 5 coils a week with it from changing flavors in my RDA and rebuilding kanger heads

 

[Impulso]

I was making the mistake of rolling it up too tightly, which caused a wierd after taste. I've been fluffing the cotton ever since, and i dont have any more cottony taste from the first puff.

I was also using too much cotton. My feeling is that the juice(all the way inside) that was being absorbed was not being evaporated by the coil, and it just ended up staying there way too long compared to Silica etc. I have no evidence of this, but just my thoughts on why my own tasted so different from being too condensed to being fluffy.

 

[emus]

Twisted 30 GA wire has worked great for me. It is very hard to scorch wick with 1.5 ohm twisted wire coil and 3.7v. Drop to sub-ohm and scorching is much easier.

 

[emus]

I was making the mistake of rolling it up too tightly, which caused a wierd after taste. I've been fluffing the cotton ever since, and i dont have any more cottony taste from the first puff.

I was also using too much cotton. My feeling is that the juice(all the way inside) that was being absorbed was not being evaporated by the coil, and it just ended up staying there way too long compared to Silica etc. I have no evidence of this, but just my thoughts on why my own tasted so different from being too condensed to being fluffy.

I don't roll cotton wick fibers either.

 

[danny4x4]

I'm having an issue with throat hit it almost burns even after a day or two of vaping. I switched to a stock silica wick and the harsh taste was gone any ideas as to the cause of this ?

Your cotton wick may have been scorched. Happened to me before.

 

[Mark Howard]

I have found that if the cotton is too tight in the coil it will turn brown where it touches the coil. If you put the cotton in so tight that it moves the coil when you tug on it (if that makes sense) then it is too tight. Remember the cotton will expand a lot once it gets wet.

You were totally right. Rewicked both of my droppers yesterday and they are still spot on. Thanks!


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