fc-2000 porous ceramic wick

[DSmooch]

I think LiMn(IMR battery) won't explode if short circuit but will getting extremely hot, unless you use wrong charger...

Here a crazy shorting 2 different IMR batteries, AW IMR18650 and Panasonic CGR18650CH...

wow, I even moved away from the screen! scary just looking at it. So ok, not so bad the IMR, it will melt your hand not chop it off

 

[DeadPerfect]

when my second 3/32 wick broke, i tied the 2 pieces together with kanthal. about 1/8y of each leg so it was long again. then i fed it up through the bottom and tested it. didnt seem to be better than just the tip of the broken one floaing on the juice.

 

[Elias]

Actually after a think and a little research LiMn is the only way to go, Lithium Polymer will explode, trust me I know this first hand, I fly radio controlled helicopters and had a helicopter with a powerful motor but incorrectly placed the lower power batteries in it, suddenly I lost power the heli came down, I walked towards it and thankfully it was a distance away because there was a massive fireball shortly after it hit the dirt.... admittedly these batteries will start a V8 car motor but still the fireball was massive enough to burn me from head to toe without missing a single spot.
Heck I might have a picture of my hand when I suffered 3rd degree burns just where the wires touched and vaporized the metal and I do mean it vaporized it my hand was black with carbon so lipos are a no go for sure just in the event of a short as they will massively discharge

 

[Elias]

this is after I removed the carbon from my hand a few mins later and you can see the hole in the skin where the molten metal penetrated the skin

 

[DSmooch]

when my second 3/32 wick broke, i tied the 2 pieces together with kanthal. about 1/8y of each leg so it was long again. then i fed it up through the bottom and tested it. didnt seem to be better than just the tip of the broken one floaing on the juice.

no! LOL do not go back to the old avatar yet, everything is gonna be ok!
when are you getting your fish stone?

edit: oh ok, I thought you broke another one... i missed the "when" part!
I was thinking maybe tiny drops of super glue might do the trick (avoiding the center part, just on the outside)...

 

[DSmooch]

Elias, look up MNKE IMR batteries, you can draw a continuous 20A vs 10A from the AW so that gives you a bit of latitude if you feel like pushing a little.

 

[DeadPerfect]

Fish stone should be here in a few days. also ordered a dream drip atty to test a broken 3/32 in. well i wouldnt use any type of glue to mix with my liquid.

 

[DeadPerfect]

how about doing this with a 1/8 wick; hot wrap your coil. stick it in the tank, and note how much is under the liquid with a full tank. now pull it out, and coil wrap some silica or even say a 2 layer coating of SS around the wick that will rest in the liquid. now feed the wick through the bottom.

now the full area of the coated part of the wick is in liquid. your vaping away, and now you got 1/2 a tank left. but the part of the wick that is no longer in liquid will be fed liquid better becuase of the silica or ss mesh surrounding it. mabey this will help it stay wet, and feed the dry top of the wick where the coil is on?

what would be even better if someone made a fat wick with a hollow shell, and the hollow shel was filled with ss or silica. thus helping feeding it from the inside out, all the wway up to the coil.

 

[Elias]

Elias, look up MNKE IMR batteries, you can draw a continuous 20A vs 10A from the AW so that gives you a bit of latitude if you feel like pushing a little.

Im use to paying for batteries with my radio control heli's so for me spending 15 - 20 for safety is a no brainer so long as the batts deliver what they state, heck I have batteries here lipo's that have cost me $190 each....

Those batteries certainly look like the ticket, Id rather have a battery idling than a battery at full capacity

 

[DSmooch]

Perfect, what I've done an L ss wick to lengthen a ceramic that was too short for my AC9. The solid ss wick extension will not only give it length but restore wicking as well. verified, it works great. The mesh will adhere to the ceramic so that you can slide the whole wick in and out, no problem. You coil directly on the ceramic, so this not an hybrid wick. The ss extension just helps with the wicking that's all. You cut the wick to length when ur done rolling... good to go. (the ss does not have to be oxidized of course, this is just for the pic)
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[studiovap]

Perfect, what I've done an L ss wick to lengthen a ceramic that was too short for my AC9. The solid ss wick extension will not only give it length but restore wicking as well. verified, it works great. The mesh will adhere to the ceramic so that you can slide the whole wick in and out, no problem. You coil directly on the ceramic, so this not an hybrid wick. The ss extension just helps with the wicking that's all. You cut the wick to length when ur done rolling... good to go. (the ss does not have to be oxidized of course, this is just for the pic)
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Been thinking about this for a few days while looking at my brocken fishwicks

 

[Amirite]

Perfect, what I've done an L ss wick to lengthen a ceramic that was too short for my AC9. The solid ss wick extension will not only give it length but restore wicking as well. verified, it works great. The mesh will adhere to the ceramic so that you can slide the whole wick in and out, no problem. You coil directly on the ceramic, so this not an hybrid wick. The ss extension just helps with the wicking that's all. You cut the wick to length when ur done rolling... good to go. (the ss does not have to be oxidized of course, this is just for the pic)
my

This is a great idea! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Elias]

I was thinking that if someone had a Odysseus then they could try that method with stainless and the broken ceramic for the coil section

I would have tried it (If I had an Odysseus) sigh.....

 

[NamVet68]

Perfect, what I've done an L ss wick to lengthen a ceramic that was too short for my AC9. The solid ss wick extension will not only give it length but restore wicking as well. verified, it works great. The mesh will adhere to the ceramic so that you can slide the whole wick in and out, no problem. You coil directly on the ceramic, so this not an hybrid wick. The ss extension just helps with the wicking that's all. You cut the wick to length when ur done rolling... good to go. (the ss does not have to be oxidized of course, this is just for the pic)
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Great idea! I'm going to give this a try - I just snapped my well broken-in 1/8 fishstick on my DID clone this morning when I was tweaking the top screw (these things are fragile!). It was really wicking well & tasting really good so I hate to have to start from scratch. Its actually still wicking surprisingly well, even though the coiled section is just sitting on top of the portion going into the juice.

I figure I can just flip the wick over (snapped right under the coils) & use your technique to lengthen it back up, hot-wrap a new set of coils, and it should be back in business ... I'll have to give it a try later on..

 

[DSmooch]

oh! yes its a nice trick... glad it helped

 

[DeadPerfect]

hey i was thinking, you know that hot wrap on the bolt that scuba dan dude came up with? well i thought of an easier way;

remove the center post on your aga-t, cut a long piece of wire, stick your wick in , attach the wire to negative post... attach other end of wire to axillary positive post, grab wire with tweezers or something, pulse your mod and wrap. put back center post. cut and attach wire.

hot wrapped right on your mod!

edit, hold on, lol. is that small post a NEG post? well, wouldnt work anyway if you remove the center post. but i suppose you can mod a cheap tank.. say cut the center post, and make it a hot wrapper using your mod to heat the wire

 

[Hello World]

How is it that China can make a ~$20 atty like the AGA that uses o-rings to seal the top cap and they don't pop off as easily as the much more expensive Z-atty's. /Rant End

Exactly why I never take my ZAP out with me anywhere. Even in a pocket where it sits stably vertical, the cap always manages to come off one way of the other. I've had my AGA-T2 cap come a little loose, but never fell off. I never genny-vape near gulleys ... lol

 

[ricks]

Sometimes China can make things a little better... Sometimes

 

[FrogHat]

So how often are you guys cleaning/re-wrapping your wicks? When mine starts popping or turning my juice dark I found that gunk has built up on one of the wraps and just dry burn. I know some have reported dry burning just bakes the juice into the wick and decreases its performance. Dry burning seems to work when in a pinch or at work.

What say you?

 

[DSmooch]

for me it's 2 weeks top. but I don't recoil a successfully EHWed wick, I always keep a bit of slack wire both ends to be able to remove it safely, torch the wick with the coil on it and slide it back in... I'm using a 28g though, a 32g would probably melt on you...or break when you secure it back...

frog, my kids want a frog w/hat like your avatar! your avatar is trouble, i'm gonna have to make one of those now!