Probably the cheaper steel, some of those 14-16mm ones have an ordinary screw to replace the BF one or they come in 2 different types BF or Normal dripper.
One question why do you keep rebuilding your tanks, I normally change the wick after 6 or more tankfuls but very rarely rebuild the decks, just clean & dry burn/brush the coils to get rid of the gunk build-up (kanthal of course)
I rebuild them every few days but with 7-10 going that's one or two a day. I rewick almost daily. The gem tanks are particularly picky. Sometimes the stainless one takes a couple of wicks to
Get right with the cotton or rayon. My adv is a sweet 90% vg. Heavy caramelization.
I'd had some issues with a couple of
Mods which left me not using temp control much. If I use temp Control and I don't change flavors then I don't rebuild anywhere near as much. I never keep the same wick for
More than two Days. By day three it's in need of a change. I can show you the wick I have after a few hours and you'd think it was time!
What would help me reduce it is to
Keep the same atomizers on The same mods with the same juice. I'm Just coming to the end of several Experiments to arrive at that point. Which juice taste best on which build in which tank. My adv tastes completely different in 0,3,6 and in the gem as well as the piccoloid More than anything. Nothing else has the same flavor as that. But every other tank with it has a similar Profile with potency being the difference. It's a shock how different that juice can be under caring circumstance - which is why I wasn't shocked to read in here someone thought it was disgusting
Realistically I see the rebuilds if I keep the same
Flavors and mod / atomizer combos at around where you are / 20 ml max for a wick. Mostly temp builds means no fry burns for me.
All that said when I build with twisted or Clapton the dry burns work very well. With 28-30 gauge not so much. Depends how much dry burning they need. The wire gets very brittle and very black.
I've kept playing with this magma over the last couple hours of not sleeping. I really have it dialed in even without a standard build in there. It's more than good enough with the squonk for me to
Figure out if this is a good way to go. If the squonker tastes as good as the magma with less mess of dripping I'm going to be a very very happy boy / probably order a second.
I sleep about 4 hours every two days.
I also vape a TON right now at least 15 ml a day - I've started injecting more nicotine to cut that down - i definitely reduced to fast and the few flavors I love I just chain vape all day - bed rest plus nothing to do plus medication = vape-O-holic
Point taken though. Some of it is probably boredom and trying different builds and such that wouldn't change with a setup change