fc-2000 porous ceramic wick

[Ctor]

Count me in as a convert. I got mine this morning from Tankecigs off ebay. I know iI paid too much, and dv got them in a day after I ordered (have more coming from dv). I rinsed, boiled rinsed, boiled again, then rinsed again. I had an aga-t2 drilled out to 9/64ths waiting for them. Coiling went easy, I premade a coil on a 7/64th drill bit, and screwed the wick into the coil off device for a tight fitting coil.

This made it almost perfect when installed on th aga-t2, and it needed minimal adjustment once installed. I filled the tank and let it sit for a few minutes. Based on reports, I expected a long break in.

Well, the first few hits were surprisingly good. I've been vaping it all afternoon and the flavor and vapor are very good. If oit improves much further with break-in, I may have found my vaping nirvana.

Coil is 5 wrap 30 ga @1.7 ohms, vamo is set at 10 watts, vaping 80pg/20vd diy pear.

Thanks to all who pioneered the use and development of these wicks.

 

[vapdivrr]

Sharp as always vap.
I went back to screws lately on the AC9... as much as I liked it (the spring setup), believe it or not, I felt relieved!

i have been back & forth a few times, as soon as i got the ac-9 i immediatly took off the spring but when i snapped a wick i put it back on. i do feel like the spring moves alittle and that i have to re-pull from time to time. next time i am going to pull off the spring and use screws, but this time i will use the 2 ac-9 washers together with a screw above & below, this way maybe as you tighten the screws you wont be able to torque the wire.

 

[vapdivrr]

Well done on the Vid, VapDivrr.

Stoneface, for noobs I would recommend they use their thumb or other finger to counter-pressure a bit, as they are more prone to accidents. I still do that myself, but I also do 6 or 7 precision wraps which often take 10 minutes and by the look of things I pull on the wire even harder. Vap is just too experienced and knows how much he can give her.

yes, its alot easier to just make 2 or 3 wraps, if were to do alot more you would definatly have to take more time with tension and spacing of wraps. i like wrapping devices with the neg post to the left of wick, this way i am able to spin the device, for some reason i cant do this as well with the ac-9 so i just wing it, but with the wire being pliable from the annealing it sticks really well.

 

[vapdivrr]

Count me in as a convert. I got mine this morning from Tankecigs off ebay. I know iI paid too much, and dv got them in a day after I ordered (have more coming from dv). I rinsed, boiled rinsed, boiled again, then rinsed again. I had an aga-t2 drilled out to 9/64ths waiting for them. Coiling went easy, I premade a coil on a 7/64th drill bit, and screwed the wick into the coil off device for a tight fitting coil.

This made it almost perfect when installed on th aga-t2, and it needed minimal adjustment once installed. I filled the tank and let it sit for a few minutes. Based on reports, I expected a long break in.

Well, the first few hits were surprisingly good. I've been vaping it all afternoon and the flavor and vapor are very good. If oit improves much further with break-in, I may have found my vaping nirvana.

Coil is 5 wrap 30 ga @1.7 ohms, vamo is set at 10 watts, vaping 80pg/20vd diy pear.

Thanks to all who pioneered the use and development of these wicks.

pretty good results from just using a drill bit, this method has worked good with ribbon but with round i have found it hard to get pretty tight. i have tried this and when i screwed in the wick the coil didnt come out as tight as i would of liked, but if your getting good results then you did something right. i may be because i vape at much higher watts so at 10 watts its performing better. i would definatly think it will get even better after a couple tanks, so i think your in for a bigger suprise. if you are satisfied with the results then i would continue this method, but in the future if wanted even better results you could look into the electric wrap, and with the 30g you would only need to zap maybe 4x. thanks for the results

 

[vapdivrr]

i guess i did spin the device when making the wraps in the video. i remember at one time i could only spin the device when the neg screw was on the left.

 

[Ctor]

pretty good results from just using a drill bit, this method has worked good with ribbon but with round i have found it hard to get pretty tight. i have tried this and when i screwed in the wick the coil didnt come out as tight as i would of liked, but if your getting good results then you did something right. i may be because i vape at much higher watts so at 10 watts its performing better. i would definatly think it will get even better after a couple tanks, so i think your in for a bigger suprise. if you are satisfied with the results then i would continue this method, but in the future if wanted even better results you could look into the electric wrap, and with the 30g you would only need to zap maybe 4x. thanks for the results

One thing that may have helped is that I heat set the coil over my gas stove before I screwed the wick into it. It's in full contact with the wick and was very tough adjuting the coils for even spacing, even with glowing coils.

I'll look into the electric wrap method. I'm always looking for better or easier ways of doing things.

Thanks for all you contibute here.

 

[Hello World]

One thing that may have helped is that I heat set the coil over my gas stove before I screwed the wick into it. It's in full contact with the wick and was very tough adjuting the coils for even spacing, even with glowing coils.

I'll look into the electric wrap method. I'm always looking for better or easier ways of doing things.

With the electrically annealed handwrap, those coils would be on so tight you wouldn't be able to move them without risk of breaking the wick. When you handwrap with wick already inside hole, you can do a perfect spacing job during winding that requires no further adjustments afterwards. Once in place, it stays in place. As far as I'm concerned, if you can move your coils on a ceramic wick, they are not on tight enough.

 

[Animus]

Just ordered some 7/64 ceramic wicks for my Dids. I've about had it with SS mesh. thanks for the groundwork on all this everyone.

 

[zygote]

Still steamin' along, as always nice to learn a new method.

 

[SteveW]

Scubabatdan wick test:

 

[vapdivrr]

it would of been interesting to see the results with a slotted wick in dans test. the maker of the fc's told me that the slotted wick out wicked the regular round fc wick by a mile when he tested them.

 

[vapdivrr]

One thing that may have helped is that I heat set the coil over my gas stove before I screwed the wick into it. It's in full contact with the wick and was very tough adjuting the coils for even spacing, even with glowing coils.

I'll look into the electric wrap method. I'm always looking for better or easier ways of doing things.

Thanks for all you contibute here.

i guess at 10 watts and after break in period the way you did it would possibly compare to other methods, the difference in a tighter coil most likely would be more evident at higher watts, so if your getting great flavor and no dry hits then all is fine.

 

[vapdivrr]

With the electrically annealed handwrap, those coils would be on so tight you wouldn't be able to move them without risk of breaking the wick. When you handwrap with wick already inside hole, you can do a perfect spacing job during winding that requires no further adjustments afterwards. Once in place, it stays in place. As far as I'm concerned, if you can move your coils on a ceramic wick, they are not on tight enough.

very true, after every coil i do i try to move a wrap and see if i can budge them. if they move i redo my coil. being that i vape usually over 20 watts i know from experience that my coils shouldnt budge for if they did i know either 2 things, one would be dry hits, and 2 the break in time would take quite a while.

 

[vapdivrr]

Just ordered some 7/64 ceramic wicks for my Dids. I've about had it with SS mesh. thanks for the groundwork on all this everyone.

very cool, so are you going to use them in an aga, or maybe a zap?

 

[vapdivrr]

i guess that was a slotted wick in dans test, what is that bd13 anyways, has anyone tried it? actually i only vape at 20 watts for a short time i guess, if you figure in voltage loss and underload voltage i would say my actual vaping wattage is closer to 17 to 18, but you still need a pretty tight coil for that.

 

[gdeal]

i guess that was a slotted wick in dans test, what is that bd13 anyways, has anyone tried it? actually i only vape at 20 watts for a short time i guess, if you figure in voltage loss and underload voltage i would say my actual vaping wattage is closer to 17 to 18, but you still need a pretty tight coil for that.

Hey Vap....BD13 is another formulation of Al2O3. I have tried the BD13. As Dan demonstrated in his test, it does wick faster, and in actual use it delivers more juice. So far I have used the 1/8th on a mechanical and compared to my home slotted FC-2000, the BD13 performs very well at higher wattages. (I have some real slotted FC's coming from DV this week and will retest for another comparison).

I posted this in the other forum last night.

 

[Animus]

very cool, so are you going to use them in an aga, or maybe a zap?

DID atty's, And I do have a AGA T plus coming just to test with.

 

[Ctor]

With the electrically annealed handwrap, those coils would be on so tight you wouldn't be able to move them without risk of breaking the wick. When you handwrap with wick already inside hole, you can do a perfect spacing job during winding that requires no further adjustments afterwards. Once in place, it stays in place. As far as I'm concerned, if you can move your coils on a ceramic wick, they are not on tight enough.

I don't do sub ohm coils, and I don't tend to like extremely high wattages, so I don't know if it matters more under extreme conditions. What I can say is that afer a tank and a half, I'm not getting the slightest hint of burnt taste, and the vape is cleaner and more flavorful than anything I've tried before. I coiled up a second aga-t2, same method, only this time it didn't require any on wick adjustments, just some slight tightning of the top and bottom loops, which I did with the coil hot. Awesome vape from the first hit.

I might even have to rethink my flavor percentages on my diy juices as a cherry i mixed for stainless wicks is almost too strong.

 

[vapdivrr]

DID atty's, And I do have a AGA T plus coming just to test with.

you said you have some 7/64 coming, well you definatly will have some wiggle room there. in my did i use a 1/8 wick, havent tried a 7/64 in the did, but it should perform just as well. i also have an aga-t, the original one, i have had a 3/32 wick in that one for a long time and im not sure if a 7/64 will fit in that. the newer aga's might have a bigger wick hole, im not sure. good luck

 

[vapdivrr]

I don't do sub ohm coils, and I don't tend to like extremely high wattages, so I don't know if it matters more under extreme conditions. What I can say is that afer a tank and a half, I'm not getting the slightest hint of burnt taste, and the vape is cleaner and more flavorful than anything I've tried before. I coiled up a second aga-t2, same method, only this time it didn't require any on wick adjustments, just some slight tightning of the top and bottom loops, which I did with the coil hot. Awesome vape from the first hit.

I might even have to rethink my flavor percentages on my diy juices as a cherry i mixed for stainless wicks is almost too strong.

awesome, i have heard of people as they switch to ceramic about the flavoring percentages and nic as well. sounds like you have it going on all cylinders.