Dry Burning RxW

[rc10mike]

Ive seen posted on here many times that rinsing is not required with RxW, only dry burning. For some reason, I cant see why this is recommended.

Every time I do a real good dry burn..turning the wick pure white..Im still left with this nasty burnt taste.

Why is this?

Im using 3mm RxW with 28awg coils built to read .8 ohms.

Oh and its not just RxW, same thing happens with silica.

 

[muzichead]

Your coil may be too tight on the wick and its choking it. I've been dry burning mine for a few months now and its still like new. Maybe you could post some pics of your setup for further evaluation...

 

[Raynman]

You may also want to try your dry burn with a torch rather than the fire button.

 

[X-Puppy]

I've been running XC wick since it was first introduced. Unaware that some folks dry burn without rinsing, it just made sense to me to rinse it first so that's how I've always done it.

I rinse with hot water as hot as I can get it from the tap. I turn down the flow and carefully rinse my atty without removing it from the mod - just enough to rinse out the juice and the wick starts to turn white. Then dry burn until my coils turn red. Then brush the crust off the coil's and give another quick dry burn.

Recently I did a rebuild on an atty I've been running for about a month with ReadyWick. I had been rinsing and doing thorough dry burns with this particular setup. I would rinse and dry burn the coils red 4 or 5 times until the whole atty was dry before juice and vape. This is when I found out that ReadyWick is not really totally indestructible. The wick underneath the coil area was like black charcoal and almost completely degraded to powder. Needless to say I tore down this setup in the first place because I was getting burnt flavor and it wasn't performing very well.

Since that time I still do a through rinse under hot tap water but I only bring the coils to glowing red once before brushing the crust off with a small wire brush. I'm finding once is enough, twice at the most, a quickie after brushing. I do soak up as much water as I can with a paper towel or Kleenex before doing the dry burn.

I just thought I would share this because it has worked extremely well for me YMMV.

(dual 12wrap Nichrome 80 tightly tension wrapped, 1/16th ID ~.4Ω, XC132/ReadyWick Thin 2mm)

The moral to this story is rinse and don't overdue your dry burns.

 

[muzichead]

I would tend to think the rinsing in water and brushing is doing more damage to your XC than dry burning. I dry burn my coils every couple days and my last wick lasted 2 months. The only reason I changed it out was I wanted to change the resistance of my setup. The only part of the wick that I saw any type of wear were the ends that were exposed. The middle of the wick looked brand new, after 2 months of use!!!

 

[RattlerX]

When I dry burn I will sometimes use small tweezers and pull the wick out a bit to make sure all the burnt area under the coil is clean. I have had two wicks that I replaced because they would not hold juice and I could not get clean. Both of them I left in too long before dry burning and the gunk was so heavy that the wick would not slide freely in the coil.

I am careful to clean/dry burn every few days and I have not had any issues since then.

Once you notice that you are squonking more often to avoid a dry/burnt hit it is past time to clean. I started out rinsing and then dry burning but now I just hit the button until it catches on fire and gets clean.

Use a new fresh battery so it gets as hot as possible.