fc-2000 porous ceramic wick

[MikeE3]

Boden did post this a while ago, not melted but well, a lot of heat can have some interesting results:

Here is the post:

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/modding-forum/362182-next-big-thing-porous-ceramic-wicks-356.html#post9372969

Could this be the beginning of the 1st ceramic U-wick?

 

[badinfluence357]

At first it didn't work for me but I gave it another try and wow, I finally found my setting....yeah!!!

 

[Stoneface]

if the wicks melted, its possible the wicks were made of the wrong fine airbubble filter ....what color is the wick?? ...I'm using the gray and I torched them on the stove its impossible to melt this...
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I seen a post to the affect that some may contain plastic, need to get the proper wicks...

It's not impossible...see the pic of Boden's torch adventure above. These ceramics are aluminum and silica...both will melt if heated hot enough.

 

[SteveW]

Could this be the beginning of the 1st ceramic U-wick?

Same thing crossed my mind . A challenge for the innovators among us

 

[vapdivrr]

didn't know that could happen. those looked like the round wicks as well, so that's even harder to imagine. I guess if those are possible to bend, then the slotted's could do it even easier. I said that I couldn't believe this because I have really torched up some wicks before and nothing like that even came close. this was especially the case just recently when I tried some 26g wire for the first time. this wire is thick and required a real good hot wrap. I would imagine that you would need to hold that torch on that wick a long time in the very same area.

 

[Stoneface]

didn't know that could happen. those looked like the round wicks as well, so that's even harder to imagine. I guess if those are possible to bend, then the slotted's could do it even easier. I said that I couldn't believe this because I have really torched up some wicks before and nothing like that even came close. this was especially the case just recently when I tried some 26g wire for the first time. this wire is thick and required a real good hot wrap. I would imagine that you would need to hold that torch on that wick a long time in the very same area.

I'm pretty sure Boden did that after someone else posted that theirs had "melted." He hadn't done it before then. I would pose a question if someone wants to make a U wick out of a straight wick...what happens to the spaces in the wick that create the wicking after the material is melted and then bent?

 

[SteveW]

didn't know that could happen. those looked like the round wicks as well, so that's even harder to imagine. I guess if those are possible to bend, then the slotted's could do it even easier. I said that I couldn't believe this because I have really torched up some wicks before and nothing like that even came close. this was especially the case just recently when I tried some 26g wire for the first time. this wire is thick and required a real good hot wrap. I would imagine that you would need to hold that torch on that wick a long time in the very same area.

I think pretty muck like steel vap, the material property will change when hot enough. If you concentrate heat and apply pressure no doubt you can bend them. It is another long step from bending to melting however and in our applications I doubt there is any way you can achieve melting wicks.

 

[Stoneface]

Boden also recently recommended not using a torch to clean the wicks...he says the torch can cause fractures that can weaken the wick itself.

 

[crss]

Could this be the beginning of the 1st ceramic U-wick?

yaa, i did that to my cf2000 7/64 28g wire wrap yesterday. bent it straight, but it still snapped at top deck... 2nd wick n coil = awesome

 

[PEneoark]

Whoever decided to post a video of electro annealing the coils on the mod before wrapping is freaking awesome. I did that with my 1/8 non-slotted wick and I am amazed. 5/6 wrap of 28 gauge was 1.2 ohms. I honestly hated hot wrapping with a torch. This is my new gold lol

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[eLCruz]

32g imo, could be a lot harder to hot wrap. I really never use such a thin wire myself, but I know if I were to use a 32g and do a hot wrap the way I do it with 28g, it would definatly pop. I guess if your really careful it could work. personally I only hot wrap on gauges below 30g. I find an electrical wrap works great with 30g, and would do it with 32g if I used it.

Very true vapdivrr, hot wraps a b!#ch with 32g! Aside from popping during wrapping, it "springs lose after wrapping and cooling... not fun at all!

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[zygote]

I'm thinking nextel sleeve for coil part of the slotted. You could still torch the whole thing with the coil, the sleeve wouldn't go anywhere once coiled... it may prevent the juice from going back in the tank and provide for an easier wrap (even hot wrap).
no idea how it would taste...
got some on the way

I put a few strands of Nextel under the coil and wrapped, it is working well, flavor is pretty good, i'm about a week with this setup

 

[PEneoark]

I put a few strands of Nextel under the coil and wrapped, it is working well, flavor is pretty good, i'm about a week with this setup

Could you post some pics of this? I'm curious to see what this looks like.

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[cyberr8der]

Can you link me to this video? I'm not a big fan of hot wrapping either.

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[Stoneface]

Can you link me to this video? I'm not a big fan of hot wrapping either.

Hello World developed the technique, Vapdivrr posted the video (wrap technique starts 5+ minutes in):

 

[zygote]

Could you post some pics of this? I'm curious to see what this looks like.

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I'll get them up later, my wife knows how to do this stuff

 

[PEneoark]

I'll get them up later, my wife knows how to do this stuff

Thanks dude

 

[Equality 7-2521]

Yeah it was me. Boden sent me some wicks to test, and I decided to reall torch one for a hot wrap.The wick won't melt until the temp gets pretty high alumina grit sinters or begins to melt a bit over 3000 degrees f. the wicks don't so much melt as weaken.Eveyone of those wicks in the pictures were heated, and then had force put on them to cant them over like that, it wasn't heat alone.I really don't think you could make a U wick, the material is just to brittle.

I'm pretty sure Boden did that after someone else posted that theirs had "melted." He hadn't done it before then. I would pose a question if someone wants to make a U wick out of a straight wick...what happens to the spaces in the wick that create the wicking after the material is melted and then bent?

 

[vapdivrr]

Whoever decided to post a video of electro annealing the coils on the mod before wrapping is freaking awesome. I did that with my 1/8 non-slotted wick and I am amazed. 5/6 wrap of 28 gauge was 1.2 ohms. I honestly hated hot wrapping with a torch. This is my new gold lol

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thank you. although I did the video on it because it works so well, more credit has to go to helloworld.

 

[MikeE3]

So I finally got around to trying a slotted FC2000. I got to say the only advantage I see so far is I can put my fill screw back in. I can't say it wicks better, but the juice really flows along the canals in the wick. It was actually flooding my coil with too much juice. It still doesn't wick well vertically but with the fill screw in and giving it the genny tilt it works well enough. At full horizontal I can run the Provari 'till it cuts off with back-to-back cycles without glowing the coil. I can't get a full 15 second burn with it at an angle less than horizontal though, but long enough for me to get a good vape. Maybe it'll do better when it breaks in some more.

I did this in an AGA-T2 with a .120" (3mm) wick hole, 30g Kanthal (Elias Hot Wrap) @ 1.6Ωs. This particular wick must be a tad undersize and slipped right through the hole. The 1st 2 wicks I tried wouldn't fit at all.