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I found a big spool of butcher's twine in the pantry. It's pretty thick cotton string, maybe 4 millimeters in diameter, made up from a bunch of smaller strands twisted together. I boiled it for a while and dried it, made a coil by wrapping 32 gauge Kanthal around a 4-40 machine screw, then pulled a couple of strands out of the twine to make the diameter just right, these extra strands are used as flavor wicks. Worst part is threading the wick through the coil, but I kind of screw it through. It's a little funky tasting for a few minutes, then perfect. I've got enough of that twine to make eleventy million wicks for my Protanks.
I bought some of that today. How do I know if it is thick enough? How many strands do I put in for the top wick?
I've been a butchers twine evangelist lately. IMHO, it puts the yarn to shame. I don't bother boiling it, since it's meant to use with food it shouldn't have any coating or adjunct ingredients.
cam you buy this anywhere locally like Wal-Mart or home depot?
maybe Walmart? Not sure. Most cooking stores have it. I forget where I got my spool of it. Amazon would definitely have it.
I know you said cotten but why not just buy wick? i just ordered this today https://www.vapingxtreme.com/Wick.html
I have to replace my wick on my cE5 soon as i figure out the right way to do it
I have to replace my wick on my cE5 soon as i figure out the right way to do it
Because q-tips are safe if 100% cotton to not boil and pull off and make 1 wick per side if on a protank/puritank, I have a box with 650 q-tips for around the same price that is 1300 wicks.
Read that someone on here called the makers of q-tips on the process in making them and the only thing used on them is the adhesive on the stick to hold the cotton on it so just grab the tip firmly and pull the cotton off, bam a new wick.
NOTE: this is only q-tip brand 100% cotton (q-tips).
Just buy sterile 100% cotton balls at any CVS/Walgreens, theyre much easier to work with than q-tips imo, require no boiling/worrying about adhesives, and 1 ball will make many many wicks/flavor wicks.
Better yet, use organic cotton balls from cvs. Just grab a peace roll it, and put it through the coil.
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I am loving how much ingenuity people have when it comes to vaping!!!! Would of never though about cotton balls or cheese cloth!!!!
That's what a forrum is all about -- a collection of thoughts, ideas, and anything that matters or doesn't matter.
And cotton wicks. Yes, born in need to find an alternate solution to possible health issues associated with the "legacy" wicking system. There is a big discussion here in ECF on possible enhalation of silica fibers breaking off from a dry silica wick and the enhalation of the carcinogen chromium oxide at CR(VI) level from a highly oxidized SS mesh wick.
It took me almost a month of reading to absob what it is all about. In short, if we have to compare it with cigarettes, the legacy system is still way much safer.
.. but if a cheap ball of cotton works and safer, say "why not"?
i jumped the cotton wagon, like it better than my silica wicks! and its easy to replace on my "Poop in the diaper" build (cotton under the coils)
any tips to avoid "wet sock" taste? i have kanthal 32, cheesecloth, cottonballs etc 
Hello fellow vapers.
I have 90 days free from analogs that I was making myself for .90 cents a pack. Smoking 3 packs a day for me wasn't expensive , just costly on my lungs.
Started with stock C3, C4 cartomizers ontop of a 650 mah battery. Through the weeks of learning all about great vaping, coil rebuilding was a must. Of course silica wicking is the standard but I used cotton ball, cotton yarn ( boiled ) and cheesecloth. Cheesecloth rolled to about 3mm wick size and used in my protanks & mt3's were my favorites for the last 30 days. ( Love the bottom wicking tanks )
But the last few days I've been experiencing an annoying hack like something needs to be cleared from my throat. I switched over to a new / stock MT3 tank and within a day my throat cleared up.
The cotton cheesecloth gives a much bigger vape cloud than the silica wick, and when I first started using the cheesecloth I was getting much more taste. Now it seems the silica is getting great flavor, but still only a nice vape cloud.
NOTE: The next day I switched out to a rebuilt cotton coil, only to feel my throat loading up again with that hard to clear out hack.
I will have to do more in depth studying with different e-juices to see if it's something else besides the cotton cheesecloth that's aggravating my throat.
On a much larger note : My barking cough from 3 packs a day was gone on day 5 of vaping .
To all my unknown friends, VAPE-ON
I have 90 days free from analogs that I was making myself for .90 cents a pack. Smoking 3 packs a day for me wasn't expensive , just costly on my lungs.
Started with stock C3, C4 cartomizers ontop of a 650 mah battery. Through the weeks of learning all about great vaping, coil rebuilding was a must. Of course silica wicking is the standard but I used cotton ball, cotton yarn ( boiled ) and cheesecloth. Cheesecloth rolled to about 3mm wick size and used in my protanks & mt3's were my favorites for the last 30 days. ( Love the bottom wicking tanks )
But the last few days I've been experiencing an annoying hack like something needs to be cleared from my throat. I switched over to a new / stock MT3 tank and within a day my throat cleared up.
The cotton cheesecloth gives a much bigger vape cloud than the silica wick, and when I first started using the cheesecloth I was getting much more taste. Now it seems the silica is getting great flavor, but still only a nice vape cloud.
NOTE: The next day I switched out to a rebuilt cotton coil, only to feel my throat loading up again with that hard to clear out hack.
I will have to do more in depth studying with different e-juices to see if it's something else besides the cotton cheesecloth that's aggravating my throat.
On a much larger note : My barking cough from 3 packs a day was gone on day 5 of vaping .
To all my unknown friends, VAPE-ON
I have tried cotton, from the peaches n cream, the butchers yarn from tractor supply, and another wick from hobby lobby, and no matter what I do with any of them I get the taste of yarn or something, I boil and let dry, not sure what I'm doing wrong, but it's definitely not for me. This was in my EVOD.
Wicks are, supposed to be, just wicks.
Flavor shouldn't be altered by wicks! But we all know it does get altered when changing wicks.
With a VV/VW device, it's easy to get that flavor back by dialing the voltage or wattage, keep playing with the settings until that sweet spot is found.
So, my guess is e-liquid flavors behave differently at different heat levels and the heatsinking effect of the wick (soaking power) alters the burn rate of the same coil, thus the power adjustments above? Dunno, not sure, but my VV/VW gear does it for me.
So all, try it and let us know what you find.
PS: Don't let a cotton wick dry or you get a real throat "hit" of a burning cotton. Hurts more than a silica, more or less like a real harsh dry hit of a genesis wick
Flavor shouldn't be altered by wicks! But we all know it does get altered when changing wicks.
With a VV/VW device, it's easy to get that flavor back by dialing the voltage or wattage, keep playing with the settings until that sweet spot is found.
So, my guess is e-liquid flavors behave differently at different heat levels and the heatsinking effect of the wick (soaking power) alters the burn rate of the same coil, thus the power adjustments above? Dunno, not sure, but my VV/VW gear does it for me.
So all, try it and let us know what you find.
PS: Don't let a cotton wick dry or you get a real throat "hit" of a burning cotton. Hurts more than a silica, more or less like a real harsh dry hit of a genesis wick
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I have never seen it done like this. how does it vape?Same here, single coil, pool of cotton under the coil.
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