Cotton - Worth it?

[hippieben]

I'm using CE3 (I know someone's going to say modding them isn't worth the trouble, but I like em) bottom clearos, and I've picked up some cotton yarn to use as wick, silver wire, and am waiting for some NiChrome wire to arrive via mail. Obviously wicks don't last forever, and cotton can't be dry burned, which is what I've been doing with the silica wicks. I expect each one to last about 3 fills before starting to taste burnt, at which point I'd have to tear them apart and rewick / coil them. Is cotton really worth constantly rebuilding your attys? Ideally I'd like to get a bunch of ceramic cups, and be able to wire up a bunch of them ahead of time, then just drop them in when the time comes. Anyone know where I'd be able to get them? I'm also worried about the rubber O-ring on the battery terminal wearing out from constantly being taken apart, should I be? I realize I'm not going to be able to make one back of clearos last forever, but I'd like to get a couple months at least out of them. What should I expect?

I've already wicked one (using it's own unwound coil, which was a huge pain without a soldering iron) and it seems to work quite well. I expect it to be much easier once I have longer wire to work with...

Thanks.

 

[asdaq]

Just use a really long piece of yarn and keep pulling it through.

 

[rotohammer]

I've rewicked CE3s using debraided cotton candle wick similarly to my post regarding the V3:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...otton-rewick-vision-v3-similar-atomizers.html

 

[TomCatt]

I've been rewicking CE2s with cotton for at least a month now and haven't had one wick burn. The coils have gunked up and I've taken the wick out and dry burned to clean the coil, then put a new wick in. But that's after over a week of use.


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[Switched]

I've been using cotton in my Penelope without issues for over 30mls. The thing to remember wrt rebuildables is that they are cheap to rebuild. Therefore dry burning is a thing of the past. The indicator for a new coil and wick is when the vape has changed from bliss to meh.

 

[rotohammer]

To hammer the point home, you don't dry burn cotton wicks "because you can't", you don't dry burn them because "you don't have to". There is no production lubricant or binders in cotton, and if there were any, the process of boiling it first is the method of cleaning instead of a dry burn. I've had cotton wicks last for 2 weeks with moderate use in a CE3, definitely well worth doing. I just got tired of the filling hassle. I prefer the Vision V2 with the Vivi style heads. Easy to fill, great vape with cotton.

 

[pounder]

Is there a specific type of cotton yarn i should ask for? Can anyone post the best place to get this yarn?

 

[TomCatt]

Look for some 100% natural (undyed) cotton yarn, bamboo yarn or 100% cotton candle wick. Or go to the pharmacy and get a roll of sterile 100% cotton or cotton balls.
The wick can be found on eBay. The yarns can be found at Walmart or similar stores.
I've been using 'Rolled cotton' I got at CVS pharmacy.


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[BJ43]

To hammer the point home, you don't dry burn cotton wicks "because you can't", you don't dry burn them because "you don't have to". There is no production lubricant or binders in cotton, and if there were any, the process of boiling it first is the method of cleaning instead of a dry burn. I've had cotton wicks last for 2 weeks with moderate use in a CE3, definitely well worth doing. I just got tired of the filling hassle. I prefer the Vision V2 with the Vivi style heads. Easy to fill, great vape with cotton.

I dry burn to get the gunk off my coils, has nothing to do with the wick, plain VG or PG will gunk up a coil, with cotton you have to remove or replace the wick to dry burn.

 

[Moletheus]

To answer your post, a big yes! Cotton has enhanced my vaping experience tenfold. I use cotton gauze on my vivi tank and it's amazing.


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[Lumpia]

I have been vodka soaking to degunk the coil. Let it soak for a few hours, maybe move the coil head back and forth in the vodka a few times if I think about it. Set it out on a paper towel to dry, fill, and they vape better then when first built from what I have experienced. I have enough spares (all wicked with cotton) that I can use one while soaking/drying the other, and still have spares. Deciding when to soak is based on flavor and when I start getting dark thick juice that doesn't want to wick. Using this method, I have a head that has been going strong, and not had to be recoiled or re-wicked for about 2 weeks, vaping mainly 50/50 10-12ml a day.

 

[Shub]

100% cotton, peaches 'n' cream brand from walmart works good.

 

[slimest]

Obviously wicks don't last forever, and cotton can't be dry burned, which is what I've been doing with the silica wicks.

Cotton burns much easier than silica materials. Just try to burn a cotton and a silica threads with your cigarette lighter And cotton thread can be dirty as silica thread. People use cotton just in purpose to avoid of a dangerous carcinogenic cilica fibers, but get anothers

 

[xMackx]

Next time you're at the grocery store pick up something called cheese cloth. It's cheap and 100% food grade cotton. Also it comes in loose threaded sheets so you can make whatever size wick you wish, and that means you can measure it with a ruler or thread count (so you can repeat it).

As long as you have plently of room for your cotton wick to expand completely without restriction, wrapping tight coils will not choke the wick. Just the other day I was in a hurry so I put a replacement atomizer with a silica wick in my tank, tasted horrible.

Cotton is one of the most finicky wicks to use, but after you perfect your method it's very clean and well worth it.

 

[Trakitana]

Living in a country where we e-cigarettes are not allowed to be imported, rebuildables are more than just an option.
So since I started vaping about 2 years ago, I've been searching for the right materials for wicks and liquid.
Concerning wicks, I had the wrong idea that the wick material should resist extremely high temperatures, so I never tried cotton. More then a year away from EFC and never thought about using cotton. Just accessed ECF again this week and after reading some posts, decided to try cotton for curiosity.

I was way wrong about the temperature resistance and am happy I have found the best wick material yet for me (besides SS).
I am discarding all of the new silica wicks I was saving for "tough times" and also disposing the silica from my new cartos and atomizers.

I always hated to handle a material that I had to be cautious not to let part of it's billion fragments to reach my eyes or my lungs.
No more silica for me. Just SS and cotton.

 

[taofishdude]

Is worsted weight (bigger diameter) preferable to sport weight? I think sport wt is about 1/2 the diameter of worsted. Worsted is the most common (e.g., peaches n cream)