the did feels completely hand made, and the metal feels like its a better quality. but to be honest if i had to choose, i would pick the ac-9.
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the did feels completely hand made, and the metal feels like its a better quality. but to be honest if i had to choose, i would pick the ac-9.
dual ceramic wick? not yet, heck in almost a year i never even tried a dual ss mesh wick. i believe that with a perfect set-up, it wouldnt make enough difference to go through the hassles. i guess if your a chain vaporer then maybe it might add a little extra wicking. if you ever attempt, let us know.
you know i seen a post about adding lenght to the ceramic if it was to short for the atty. now looking back at the idea, it might have been a good one, for initially i misread his post and said that i thought it was a bad idea, but after thinking about it more, maybe he had something. well anyways he had asked if adding a small lenght of ss mesh around just the bottom of the ceramic wick would work if wanting to add lenght. well how about mending your broken ceramic this way? somehow take a tube lenght of ss mesh and bridge both ends of ceramic together, the only thing is how would you get the mesh to hold? i guess if you had it tight enough it would stay. all you would need is a lenght of maybe 1/4 in of ss mesh, hollow so that the ceramic would slip into both ends. maybe more effort than its worth? but the mesh should wick up to make the ceramic wet. just a thought, instead of throwing away the wicks
A quick update on my progress with the homemade fishwick (fine bubble stone from PS). I started out a week ago with the cotton thread overwrap, 4/3 32g 1.9ohm coil on the aga-t. It worked perfectly out of the gate at 9 watts on the vamo - plumes with great flavor for 4 days. Then the coil gunked up, so I recoiled (same as above) with another cotton thread overwrap. For whatever reason, my juice was going dark after a tank or so. Recoiled again with less cotton and the same problem - bummer. I just got some 30g kanthal A1 today and sanded the top of the wick (still the same initial fishwick), rinsed and torched, and coiled a 5/4 30g 1.4ohm setup directly to the ceramic with no cotton this time. I'm one tank into this and the flavor improvement is noticable going from 32g to 30g and the vapor production is getting almost to the level I had initially with the cotton wrap. I'm confident that the vapor production will improve as the wick/coil breaks in. The flavor is outstanding and no discoloring of the juice so far. I think I'm on the right track...
cool, i wonder why the discoloration? when you recoiled to add just a little cotton did you clean the wick in any way?
love the thicker wire and lower resistances, i have always thought the flavor is better with the thicker wire. 28g is the best, although sometimes you just cant use it if you have a vv mod that cuts off at 1.3. but if you have a mechanical mod and use the 28g, its awesome. actually the provari v-2 can do coils to 0.8Ω. right now i have a 1/8 wick in my did with 28g 3/4 wrap at 0.9Ω, taste is great. i can use this on the provari or mechanical mod, although the mechanical mod produces more watts for this resistance.
Yes, each time I rinsed under hot water and torched the wick to a glow. Maybe as frog mentioned I had a hot coil. I can't see any other reason for it after the initial setup did so well for 4 days.
As a matter of fact, I just received my telescope today. I have 28g on the way, so I should be able to set up a sub 1 ohm coil soon!
The DID is probably my favorite, craftmanship wise. There's just something about it that speaks quality. Not the easiest to set up, because of the size of the ground screw. Wrapping a coil in place is a bit difficult, but can be done.
Well Stringer, I am in the same boat. I just picked up some 30g at a local b&m store today and have two tanks with the bubble stones in them @ 1.3-1.4 ohms. Fantastic! I did not wrap the cheesecloth around the wick because I was in a hurry to try them out. I think I am going to leave it off.
Thanks to vapdivrr for the wire recommendation!
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What about a piece of the Nextel xc116 or 118 depending on the size of the ceramic, it is a sleeve already so you may be able to just slide the two broken pieces into to the "sleeve".
the 28g compared to a 30 or 32 is just a bit slower, but puts out some thick tastey vapor. what i do with the 28 is to depress the button on my pv just before i start to bring it up. this gives it just a second or two to warm up. if you just hit the button as you start to vape it, you have to take a couple of short primer puffs. but like i said, once it heats, is really nice. a 3/4 wrap is about .09Ω,,,, a 4/5 would give you about 1.2Ω. also i have vaped a 2/3 wrap with ss mesh, this comes in around 0.6Ω, vape this one carefully for it will make you cough if you pull to hard. not sure about this one with ceramic, for you need some good wicking.
And the idea to sand the top of the wick - looks like I'm cotton free from here on.
they must have changed the ground screws when going to ss, for the ground screw in my brass contact did is just a flat screw.
Thanks divrr. I'll give the 3/4 wrap a try and follow your advice.
thanks, i think if you need an instant flavor and vapor coil maybe go with the thread, if you can just bare with it for a tank or so, just wrap on the wick, this way the wick will stay cleaner much longer. i think just a light sanding works pretty good also, i think it speeds up the break in by a half tank.
yes this could make a difference to use less vg to start, but for me all my juices are about 100 percent vg. you know they say that pg has the flavor and vg has the vapor. i dont know, i have tried some pg juices and they just had no vapor, but i didnt see that they had more flavor compared to the juices that i vape which are 100 vg. the 100 vg juices that i vape have a ton of flavor.
It is very good now, so I am definetly ok if it just going to get better.
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