do I need to dry burn a new coil?

[CommaHolly]

i think i'm going to have to send one of my employees to the store for some cotton balls. It's good to be the boss.

and it's good to be an employee sent on an errand,,,,,,,,,,,,that's when I typically had a cigarette!!!!!

 

[good_apollo]

i never should have taken out the original coil i made......

 

[Huckleberried]

I tried cotton balls, and they work great IF I can get the amount of cotton just right. That prove to be troublesome for me, so I switched to cotton yarn. It's much easier for me to get the thickness right with the yarn. Other people have a lot of success with cotton balls.

Are you just wrapping around the strand or micro coiling? It seemed to choke my yarn just a tad too much. I keep saying I'm giving up on cotton, but I have a whole thing of sugar and cream yarn and a whole box of sterile cotton balls. Silica isn't bad, it's just a PITA.

 

[Huckleberried]

i never should have taken out the original coil i made......

NOooo! Don't give up on it, just let your juice do it's work. If you don't like the flavor later, then maybe give it another go?

 

[Spazmelda]

Are you just wrapping around the strand or micro coiling? It seemed to choke my yarn just a tad too much. I keep saying I'm giving up on cotton, but I have a whole thing of sugar and cream yarn and a whole box of sterile cotton balls. Silica isn't bad, it's just a PITA.

I wrap both the standard and micro coils on a drill bit, then pull the yarn through with a piece of kanthal used as a needle threader.

for the yarn, you can also pull off some of the ply if the 4 ply is too thick. Like use 2 ply. You probably already knew that, but I just thought I'd mention it to be sure.

 

[Huckleberried]

Ok, thanks. I used a 5/64 drill bit. I'm trying out a 4-40 machine screw a little later. I'm only using a Protank, but thanks!

 

[Spazmelda]

Ok, thanks. I used a 5/64 drill bit. I'm trying out a 4-40 machine screw a little later. I'm only using a Protank, but thanks!

It should work. That's how I do a cotton wick for a protank as well. For a silica wick, I wrap around the silica.

 

[tj99959]

It should work. That's how I do a cotton wick for a protank as well. For a silica wick, I wrap around the silica.

And that's where we get back to the original question. With silica you can dry burn with the wick installed, with cotton you have to dry burn without the wick. In either case, the easiest way to turn your coil into a micro is to dry burn and then squeeze. Micro simple means that the coils all touch eachother (squeezed together)
A 28ga 10 wrap coil will be 2 ohms +/- depending on diameter of coils.

 

[good_apollo]

Well, I got rid of the ekowool. I decided to try to build a a vertical coil (non micro, don't have a torch) and pack the empty areas with cotton. As of right now it's working great.