"Turned out"
Nice lathe pun! Even if it was unintentional, I got a nice chuckle out of it.
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"Turned out"
Nice lathe pun! Even if it was unintentional, I got a nice chuckle out of it.
Idk either....haven't tried it
But I do know that a real TGT is like magic. I would also recommend trying BJ's latest hemp find, the taste isn't as pure AO but it's not bad and taste wise and has a lot of other things going for it.
Yes, BJ's vertical wick with hemp filler looks intriguing, albeit a bit familiar and conceptually "last year". Is it just me, or is he going for replicating a carto-tank inside the Fogger? Quite apart from that, I'm not a big fan of hemp. AO totally spoiled me for any other type of wick - I've become one of those annoying totally pure flavor snobs
; even without sporting the latest ZAP on a customized Provari.
Yes, BJ's vertical wick with hemp filler looks intriguing, albeit a bit familiar and conceptually "last year". Is it just me, or is he going for replicating a carto-tank inside the Fogger? Quite apart from that, I'm not a big fan of hemp. AO totally spoiled me for any other type of wick - I've become one of those annoying totally pure flavor snobs
I agree with you on AO, and was skeptical about the hemp for my previous hemp trials. I haven't tried the vertical hollow wick, just micro coil and hemp thru the center. The flavor is there, it's just a little subdued or darker. I like it better than cotton, and it's not as finicky as AO.
I'm not giving up on AO, but the hemp has replaced cotton for me.
Alumina Oxide....aka Ceramic
A bunch of us over in the http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/modding-forum/362182-next-big-thing-porous-ceramic-wicks.html Have been using 60 grit tile rubbing stone to make our wicks. The AO wicks can be a little temperamental to get set up, the coil needs to be as tight to the wick as possible. But once everything is setup and working its really hard to beat.
I was there looking but didn't see it but that was my first guess, thanks
Hepl pls!
I have a Fogger V2. I love the flavor production. It makes any juice I throw at it taste a million times better than the Protank II or Davide I have. Here's the sticking point for me. For reasons I don't quite understand the Fogger at 1.5 Ohms is somehow not producing anywhere near the vapor of the BCC's at 1.8 Ohms. I'm wondering if I'm somehow failing to grasp some minor detail in the building process that would allow the Ohms to be ~1.5 on the Fogger without also killing the vapor production. Here's what I'm doing:
Taking some ecowool and pulling a doubled over strand of silica through it and then wrapping the coil around that. I then skip the o-ring, leave the chimney a little loose to let the juice flow, and vape away after some soak time.
From my own experiences anything bellow 1.5 results in burning flavors, but now I wonder if that's got less to do with the juice and more to do with my crappy wicks and coils at the time. I like the flavor I get currently. I just don't like that it feels like my protank is able to perform better with the same juice and would just like to know if there is some thing I'm missing. Micro coils don't really appeal since I can't actually see stuff that small in good enough detail to know if it's right or not. I have a hard enough time with what I'm doing currently. Yay astigmatism! I also wonder if maybe just doubling the ecowool is going to produce a better wick than what I'm currently doing.
I have a Fogger V2. I love the flavor production. It makes any juice I throw at it taste a million times better than the Protank II or Davide I have. Here's the sticking point for me. For reasons I don't quite understand the Fogger at 1.5 Ohms is somehow not producing anywhere near the vapor of the BCC's at 1.8 Ohms. I'm wondering if I'm somehow failing to grasp some minor detail in the building process that would allow the Ohms to be ~1.5 on the Fogger without also killing the vapor production. Here's what I'm doing:
Taking some ecowool and pulling a doubled over strand of silica through it and then wrapping the coil around that. I then skip the o-ring, leave the chimney a little loose to let the juice flow, and vape away after some soak time.
From my own experiences anything bellow 1.5 results in burning flavors, but now I wonder if that's got less to do with the juice and more to do with my crappy wicks and coils at the time. I like the flavor I get currently. I just don't like that it feels like my protank is able to perform better with the same juice and would just like to know if there is some thing I'm missing. Micro coils don't really appeal since I can't actually see stuff that small in good enough detail to know if it's right or not. I have a hard enough time with what I'm doing currently. Yay astigmatism! I also wonder if maybe just doubling the ecowool is going to produce a better wick than what I'm currently doing.
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My current build is 10 wraps of 32g around a 1/16" drill bit, using rolled cotton as the wick, cut VERY flush with the housing. (nothing touching the glass)
I'm also running it with a Kick 2 so I can dial in the vape better. It's still not perfect, but better than any other build I've had in it so far. The 32g is producing a bit more treble in the flavor, if that makes any sense.
I tried getting a micro coil in my Fogger. It came apart as I was tightening the capture points. I tried firing it and squeezing it with tweezers but I wound up with a lot of overlapping coils. It Ohm'd out to 2.8 so I said screw it, and threaded some fluffy cotton through it anyway, primed it, and fired it. Of course it took a good 5 seconds for it to do ANYthing, and the vapor production was laughably weak.
Then it occurred to me to just throw it on my SVD. It's working great at 11 watts, vapor production and flavor are Good+. Just wish I could make a decent micro coil with something smaller than 28 gauge kanthal. That stuff is just too big for the capture screws. Que someone coming in here and telling me it CAN be done. (I hope that's what happens.)
Looks good on the SVD, I think.
Then it occurred to me to just throw it on my SVD. It's working great at 11 watts, vapor production and flavor are Good+. Just wish I could make a decent micro coil with something smaller than 28 gauge kanthal. That stuff is just too big for the capture screws. Que someone coming in here and telling me it CAN be done. (I hope that's what happens.)
Looks good on the SVD, I think.
I tried getting a micro coil in my Fogger. It came apart as I was tightening the capture points. I tried firing it and squeezing it with tweezers but I wound up with a lot of overlapping coils. It Ohm'd out to 2.8 so I said screw it, and threaded some fluffy cotton through it anyway, primed it, and fired it. Of course it took a good 5 seconds for it to do ANYthing, and the vapor production was laughably weak.
Then it occurred to me to just throw it on my SVD. It's working great at 11 watts, vapor production and flavor are Good+. Just wish I could make a decent micro coil with something smaller than 28 gauge kanthal. That stuff is just too big for the capture screws. Que someone coming in here and telling me it CAN be done. (I hope that's what happens.)
Looks good on the SVD, I think.
I just did a 6-wrap not-what-I-would-call microcoil with 28awg Kanthal. But it's my 4th one today, so I've got a bit of practice. Now if I could just find that not-too-tight-not-too-loose sweet spot for the cotton yarn or puff balls I might actually use this thing again.
threading the wick, the cotton should be loose through the coil, the tails need to protrude just slightly through the channels. re-assemble the chimney and place the o-ring making sure the tails have not receded from the channels, replace the tank without the tank cap, close the air hole cover, fill replace tank cap and cover then open air holes to your liking, and wait a few for the juice to flow to the wick. It shouldn't leak or dry burn.
It seems better to err on the side of using less, as long as there is complete contact with the coil.
I used.....man I don't even kow how to describe how little I used.
But it DID leak like a sieve just after I filled it. I let the whole thing sit upside down in a plastic
cup overnight. Drained about .5ml of juice. After that, it's been smooth sailing.
I used.....man I don't even kow how to describe how little I used.
But it DID leak like a sieve just after I filled it. I let the whole thing sit upside down in a plastic
cup overnight. Drained about .5ml of juice. After that, it's been smooth sailing.
Yarn or balls? I have both. It must be that I'm using too much and not trimming the ends enough. Today's wick number 8 is doing just what 1-7 did and that is: vape excellently mouth-wateringly until the initial soak dries out and then it's all gross hot nastiness.
Using hemp fiber exclusively now, but when I used cotton, I used everything from Q-Tips to cotton balls to rolled cotton. I always boiled the cotton before using it (better taste right off the bat). I find the more fibrous the wick, the better the vape, so I always pulled/shredded the cotton then rolled it into a thin wick.
Re-wicked, this time with the thinnest bit of cotton ball fluff I could mentally handle. I see tiny bubbles!........waiting for maximal soakage now.
Thanks for the advice, Bob. I saw some Hemp fiber strands in the craft section of my local giant meglo-mart last night, but it seemed far to stiff and dry. I'll have to try some if I can find a supply that would seem better suited to the world of vape. As for the cotton, I always boil my balls and strands before putting them to work. My wife finds it odd to see me standing in a darkened kitchen late at night hawkishly minding a simmering pot of what looks like bleached brains. But I tell her, "you never know what's really in this stuff, best to boil out the dookie".
Good stuff, glad I could help, for the hemp fiber:
https://www.hemptraders.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=F-DG1
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It can certainly be done, thick wire on the fogger. I am using 26awg kanthal, that's prob as thick as one can go though!
Do you have the tails up or down in the deck in your build? You'll find a way for it anyhow
It can certainly be done, thick wire on the fogger. I am using 26awg kanthal, that's prob as thick as one can go though!
Do you have the tails up or down in the deck in your build? You'll find a way for it anyhow
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