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emus

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After you guys dry burn, do you rinse it out or blow it off or anything? Is there any microscopic "ash" afterward?

I dry burn and wash my de-wicked flavor tester coils.
I just dry burn unflavored coil if it looks ok.

Now that you mentioned it. I think I'll start washing all de-wicked coils. Probably safer.
 

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I started with cotton and fell in love immediately. I wasn't too crazy about silica after trying it. Then I figured I would try ekowool since everyone raved about it so bought some in different sizes and tried them. I ended up going back to cotton real fast. It's the best and I use cotton for everything from vivi nova heads, evods, Kanger T-3's, and my Cyclone rda :) Love the stuff!
 

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I use cotton cooking twine that I get at Bed Bath and Beyond. It does need to be boiled first as it is natural, unbleached cotton. I also soak the completed heads in Everclear for a while and then air dry. I find that this greatly reduces (to about 3-4 puffs) the "burn in" time. It also gets rid of any residual gunk in the head.
 

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As long as you remember: DON'T DRY-BURN COTTON!!
You're golden!!:D
My spool of Peaches 'N Cream yarn....and sterile cotton from CVS....should last me several lifetimes!!;)

I've been making cotton wicks since June of last year, when I picked up a box of the CVS 'Rolled Cotton'. I pulled a handful off the roll and put in it a ziplock sandwich bag and am still using that same handful.
 

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I've been using cotton on everything - and I mean everything!

Rewicking my Protank w/ cotton has given me better performance - much better performace - than I ever expected to get out of them: rich flavour, clouds of vapor. Besides those obvious selling points - whenever I feel it's needed, I simply take out the cotton wick, dry burn the coil, replace w/ a new wick, and I'm good to go. Simple and easy, with the best flavour/vapor yet.
 
I'm using T3's and I just can't seem to get the same flavor with cotton as I did with silica. I'm using boiled cheese cloth, 15 strands doubled over for the main wick (so 30) and two 15's for the flavor wicks. I don't get a COTTON taste, I just get next to no taste at all... I've tried it with cotton from qtips as well with the same results. Any idea what I may be doing wrong? I have 3 total heads and only 1 is brand new in the package, so I need to get this figured out before I go having to order more new heads just to taste my delicious watermelon juice...
 
I'm using T3's and I just can't seem to get the same flavor with cotton as I did with silica. I'm using boiled cheese cloth, 15 strands doubled over for the main wick (so 30) and two 15's for the flavor wicks. I don't get a COTTON taste, I just get next to no taste at all... I've tried it with cotton from qtips as well with the same results. Any idea what I may be doing wrong? I have 3 total heads and only 1 is brand new in the package, so I need to get this figured out before I go having to order more new heads just to taste my delicious watermelon juice...

I do notice that the ones I've rebuilt seem to hit easier/a little more airy than stock... Maybe if I put some more flavor wicking in that could make it tighter and thus more flavorful?
 

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I've been experimenting with building coils and using cotton on the Protank 2. I kept having a weird taste, even after boiling the cotton. I just built another two using cotton. The first one I used with one of my favorite flavors, Sweet Tart (I know, a simple flavor but it's pretty tasty). I'm still getting a weird taste with the Sweet Tart. The second one, I used with another favorite, Queenside by Five Pawns. The one with Queenside tastes great. So now I'm beginning to wonder if maybe it's just the Sweet Tart that I don't like, not the cotton. Does that makes sense? Is the Sweet Tarts real flavor coming thru, making me not like it as much? I don't know. I guess I'll build a few more and try it with other flavors. I do know that it took about a dozen draws before the Queenside started tasting as great as it does.
 

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I've been experimenting with building coils and using cotton on the Protank 2. I kept having a weird taste, even after boiling the cotton. I just built another two using cotton. The first one I used with one of my favorite flavors, Sweet Tart (I know, a simple flavor but it's pretty tasty). I'm still getting a weird taste with the Sweet Tart. The second one, I used with another favorite, Queenside by Five Pawns. The one with Queenside tastes great. So now I'm beginning to wonder if maybe it's just the Sweet Tart that I don't like, not the cotton. Does that makes sense? Is the Sweet Tarts real flavor coming thru, making me not like it as much? I don't know. I guess I'll build a few more and try it with other flavors. I do know that it took about a dozen draws before the Queenside started tasting as great as it does.
The flavor of juices DOES change from one device to another. I have a DIY watermelon that I love. It tastes RADICALLY different when in a CE5 vs my cotton wicked EVOD vs my cotton microcoiled RM2. Same juice from the same bottle.
 

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I totally agree with Myranny above. I have an ADV that I love but in a carto you can't hardly taste anything to it. I put the same flavor in a Vivi Nova, a Protank and an Evod and several at our vape meet tried all three to determine which they preferred. It was basically a hung jury in that everyone seemed to like different, but there was definitely a difference in flavor among the 3 devices. I've loved some flavors while dripping on my RDA, and then can't stand them in a clearo, and vice versa.
 

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I've been experimenting with building coils and using cotton on the Protank 2. I kept having a weird taste, even after boiling the cotton. I just built another two using cotton. The first one I used with one of my favorite flavors, Sweet Tart (I know, a simple flavor but it's pretty tasty). I'm still getting a weird taste with the Sweet Tart. The second one, I used with another favorite, Queenside by Five Pawns. The one with Queenside tastes great. So now I'm beginning to wonder if maybe it's just the Sweet Tart that I don't like, not the cotton. Does that makes sense? Is the Sweet Tarts real flavor coming thru, making me not like it as much? I don't know. I guess I'll build a few more and try it with other flavors. I do know that it took about a dozen draws before the Queenside started tasting as great as it does.

My litmus test for cotton wick builds is to verify clean taste w/ unflavored juice. Sometimes the cotton burning undertones are persistent. If you pull a wick and it has browned right away then something is not right.
 

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My spool of Peaches 'N Cream yarn....and sterile cotton from CVS....should last me several lifetimes!!;)

DasBluCig and others whom have tried both yarn and balled cotton, which do you prefer and why?

I just recently moved from stardust clearos to a Protank clone. I didn't care for it at first. Tried rewicking the stock coil with cotton, was still disappointed. Built my first microcoil and wicked with cotton ball, MAGIC!

I'm thinking the P&C yarn may yield a more consistent result but wonder if there is a flavor difference between the two.

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