Ecowool or cotton in a kayfun kite? I seem to get a nasty cotton taste when I use a microcoil with cotton. Am I doing something wrong?
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Ecowool or cotton?
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I have no idea, but I too am interested in this question, so I'll just give you a fist bump!
"burning" flavors that you might encounter when dealing with e-cigs.
burning the coil tastes like a hot metallic dry hit. (this is caused by the coil not making good contact with the wick)
burning the wick tastes like (silica tastes like a nasty chemical) (SS mesh tastes like silverware but not as hot as an over heated coil) (cotton tastes like burning cotton) this is caused by the coil compressing the wick and not allowing enough juice to flow into the coil area) or is just caused by poor wicking.
burning the coil tastes like a hot metallic dry hit. (this is caused by the coil not making good contact with the wick)
burning the wick tastes like (silica tastes like a nasty chemical) (SS mesh tastes like silverware but not as hot as an over heated coil) (cotton tastes like burning cotton) this is caused by the coil compressing the wick and not allowing enough juice to flow into the coil area) or is just caused by poor wicking.
Bought some eko wool with my lite. Got some organic cotton balls from cvs too. Have been using the cotton balls. They work so well I don't even want to try eko wool . I get a weird taste with cotton at first (kind of like a really faint dryer sheet smell) , but it goes away after a tank or two. I did boil several balls and let them dry. Still got the funky taste , but it was gone after like a quarter tank or so with the boiled ones
I don't boil my sterile cotton. I use ekwool and cotton, just ordered 2mm ekowool today. Cotton isn't as hard to get a hold of... hollow eko wool is the only way to go with silica. I don't get why people would insert "imo" after statements. No .... it's my own opinion.
cotton all day. it is so easy to replace and so cheap. once i went with cotton, i never went back. just buy a bag of organic cotton balls. that should last you a lifetime. plus its natural and you dont have to worry about the chemicals in silica.
Eko wool from Russia, or Organic cotton balls from Walgreens works for me. I boil them just for peace of mind, but I have used them without boiling. I mean i can smell the peroxide that they used to whiten them. Boiling gets rid of the smell for me, anyway your choice. I dont think it would be harmful either way. Eko-wool yeah, chemicals blah blah, this is not new stuff, people have been using this for years. (you light the whole damn thing on fire! im sure most of the chemicals are either gone or will not burn further from temperatures from the vape. Just my thoughts.
So far, my health seems to be getting a lot better from the switch from cigs to vaporizing. I can't complain.
So far, my health seems to be getting a lot better from the switch from cigs to vaporizing. I can't complain.
Chemicals in silica? Silicon+Oxygen×4.. the amount of heat silica can withstand is rediculous. Nothing is going to be left behind if you touch it properly. I'm more comfortable applying quick, large amounts of heat on a covalent molecule..and I can only boil cotton, so the crap that doesn't boil off at 100C is left behind when it dries. No product is 100% pure. But yeah...you don't have to worry at all with natural products..or organic labeled products.
what chemicals are you talking about??? its amorphous silica.. SI02 or Silicon and oxygen. amorphous refers to the pattern of bonds (or rather the lack of a pattern).
according to "Project cotton" a study from the University of Missouri. The chemical composition of cotton fiber consists of ninety-five percent cellulose, one point three percent protein, one point two percent ash, point six per cent wax, point three percent sugar, and .8 percent organic acids, and other chemical compounds that make up three point one percent.
amorphous silica is in fact natural occurring. Opal is a hydrated amorphous form of silica. amorphous silica is two elements, SI an O. its not some wild Polysaccharide chemical cocktail like cotton.
strychnine is natural and %100 organic. it comes from a tree....
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Lol..yeah. Plus, "organic" products don't use compost materials, unless owned by hippies. They use extracted nutrients from organic matter..now another word comes to mind when talking about extraction and bonding...oh, synthesize maybe?
Lol organic or not i tried cotton. Even tried boiling and soaking in PGA but I got a nasty flavor. It wasnt burnt just cotton flavored. I use silica just a rinse in PGA and I never taste it.
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This comparison is not equivalent. Poison is poison. There are many poisons, the vast majority of which come from plant or animal secretions/alkaloids.
Organic is simply a term used to coin a product's manufacturing process and quality of materials used. The fact that poison is "100% natural" does not mean that "organic" products are invariably evil. It all boils down to the component nature and the methods used to produce such products.
I'd rather buy "organic" anything, as opposed to the less QC'ed mass produced version of whatever that might be. To each their own.
I'm using cotton on the Russian, have a dual micro coil vertically mounted with an external wick wrapped around it. 28 amg Kanthal 1.3 ohms vapping at 15 watts. Fraking awesome vape. I pre-boiled a handful of cotton so that I'd have plenty on hand. Only used one ball so far.
I've used silica and works fine but when I went to micro coils, it couldn't keep up with the higher wattage like cotton can. One thing with cotton, need to make sure it's well saturated with juice before vapping your build. Other wise one can get a singed flavor. This has been the best build so far on my Kayfun style rba. I've done at least 5 different type builds, silica builds, SS mesh with silica hybrid, micro, vertical micro, now the dual coil vertical micro.
I've used silica and works fine but when I went to micro coils, it couldn't keep up with the higher wattage like cotton can. One thing with cotton, need to make sure it's well saturated with juice before vapping your build. Other wise one can get a singed flavor. This has been the best build so far on my Kayfun style rba. I've done at least 5 different type builds, silica builds, SS mesh with silica hybrid, micro, vertical micro, now the dual coil vertical micro.
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