Does ekowool have heat shielding properties?

[hippieben]

I'm curious about any potential heat shielding properties of ekowool. As far as I understand, it's basically a silica version of XC-116 which is designed to be ceramic heat sleeving. I'd like to do a wick with a qtip stick (tightly wrapped paper type, not plastic) inside of 3mm ekowool with mesh around the outside where the coil would actually make contact. The big question here is whether or not this coil can be dry burned or whether the qtip inside would be torched.

I'm thinking of picking up a Tiafun clone later today (if my laundry ever finishes) and installing this contraption into that.

Thanks.

 

[Donovan69]

Well I use ekowool in some of the dripping attys i mod and build for friends. Use 2mm,3mm and of course 2mm inserted through 3mm.
Ekowool holds and carries heat. I dunno bout jamming a paper qtip inside of it. Sounds interesting. Dunno how paper would wick either. When I'm cleaning my drippers I rinse under water and dry fire my coils. When i'm building with ekowool I always torch it first. That stuff really stays hot for along time. Well hope ya figure it out! I use a chimney coil/cotton build on my tai fun GT and rock it on my dna 20!