while dry burning with a silica wick, the wick caught on fire. is that ejuice catching fire or what? any explanation would be nice
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Silica will not burn (at least not any ANY temperature that could be achieved with a battery power source); so chances are if it happened I would guess that it was 'gunk' build up on the coil. I don't think juice would catch fire.
Most likely. I saw a video of how to "torch your silica wick before use" or something similar and it was torched with a butane lighter and burned for a little while. When it stopped burning, it wasn't charred or anything, it's just whatever was soaked into it burning off. Silica has a ridiculously high burning temperature, something like 1600 degrees. Not sure on the exact number but as I understand it, your coils are not powerful enough to actually burn or char silica wicks.
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AFAIK all originals are silica, I replace them all with cotton and remove to dryburn
then replace. Silica is sorta shiney, cotton not!
Edit. it isn't dryburning if there is juice there.
Why the difference? Actually, just looking at a new tank, they have the same wicks as the replacement coil heads I have- cotton. Is silica better?
Any coils/wicks that are purchased from a vendor (unless specifically stated otherwise) are silica. AFAIK there are no vendors offering coiled wicks that are anything other than silica.
What atomizer are you guys talking about?
As for the first post: it is normal! The juice is burning, not the wick. This happens right before the wick is all out of juice.
When I make a new coil on my RBA I drop a few drops of e-liquid on it and dry burn it until it catches on fire. Let the fire burn out and repeate the process 2 or 3 times. I do this to clean my wick since I don't torch it with a (butane) lighter.
So, if your wick is well saturated with liquid there will be no fire.
BTW after around 10-15 seconds of dryburning the fire starts, so there are no problems whatsoever (if you have juiceflow
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As for the first post: it is normal! The juice is burning, not the wick. This happens right before the wick is all out of juice.
When I make a new coil on my RBA I drop a few drops of e-liquid on it and dry burn it until it catches on fire. Let the fire burn out and repeate the process 2 or 3 times. I do this to clean my wick since I don't torch it with a (butane) lighter.
So, if your wick is well saturated with liquid there will be no fire.
BTW after around 10-15 seconds of dryburning the fire starts, so there are no problems whatsoever (if you have juiceflow
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Does silica look and feel exactly like cotton? Maybe I can't tell the difference. I use Halo Triton tanks and their replacement coil heads. There's no difference between the ones which come in the tanks and the replacements, as far as I can tell.
Silica fabric is used in many activities where it is needed in constant 1800F degree temperatures for long periods of time. It is designed to withstand the heat and not deform or get destroyed...or in your case, catch on fire. Silica doesn't infact, look like a cotton-type fabric material. However...it doesn't feel like it at all. It has almost a waxy feel to it, maybe just a smooth feel would be a better wording for it. Did you actually see flames or just smoke and get a burning smell?
Silica is the same type mesh style material that is used in coleman camp propane lanterns.
Silica wicks look like a white rope which could be mistaken for some other material. If looked at closely I would say it resembles nylon rope more than cotton.
If you put a flame to nylon it will melt; to cotton, it will burn and you will be left with ash; to silica and there will be no change.
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I've had my RBAs catch fire when dry burning. It's just leftover juice reaching it's ignition point.
Look like cotton, but must be silica. Took a match to one, and it didn't catch fire.
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