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Experiment! That was for an orion w/o isolators btw.Jack Frost cut his 30mm wide, oxidized both sides and then rolled it. Pay close attention to the edges when torching them.. No quenching.
on edit...using your mesh, yes.
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Just when I thought I was out! I'm honored, but I'm in Toronto in someone else's ride and he's going back tomoorrow. But thank you. Much appreciated.
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tierrataz posted this earlier:
JACKFROST original posting~
Wasn't sure whether to start different thread for this but since it was done for an orion V2.....
Its funny how you think you've got something nailed, try something else and realise just how wrong you were. Well the other day I made my best wick yet and had a desire to share the love . Thing is I had started to think (fairly rare, I grant you) about what was going on with the oxidisation of the stainless steel in a genesis wick.
Now I know that its a topic that has had a lot of posts/videos etc already but I was still having trouble. Heating and quenching many times, even to the point of having the wick start to break up, still resulted in a short when measured on the multimeter. I was beginning to try different water for the quenching when it occurred to me that the quenching wasn't likely to be doing much for the oxidisation process and was just hardening the wick.
So I cut a strip 30mm wide and attacked it with the blow torch before rolling. Didn't bother to quench it, just kept heating both sides until I got no continuity over the width. Then I rolled the wick after cutting a piece from the strip, slapped a coil round it without bothering to anneal the Kanthal (didn't even get it that tight) and fitted it.
That was it ....no shorts...no hotspots...nothing except a fog of vapour!! Incidentally I was getting some fluctuating readings until I stopped using the points of the probes and used the sides, must have been cutting through the oxide layer and getting to conductive material underneath. Anyway if this helps someone I will be overjoyed, now if anyone has any tips on how to improve the flavour of 100% VG
tierrataz posted this earlier:
JACKFROST original posting~
Wasn't sure whether to start different thread for this but since it was done for an orion V2.....
Its funny how you think you've got something nailed, try something else and realise just how wrong you were. Well the other day I made my best wick yet and had a desire to share the love . Thing is I had started to think (fairly rare, I grant you) about what was going on with the oxidisation of the stainless steel in a genesis wick.
Now I know that its a topic that has had a lot of posts/videos etc already but I was still having trouble. Heating and quenching many times, even to the point of having the wick start to break up, still resulted in a short when measured on the multimeter. I was beginning to try different water for the quenching when it occurred to me that the quenching wasn't likely to be doing much for the oxidisation process and was just hardening the wick.
So I cut a strip 30mm wide and attacked it with the blow torch before rolling. Didn't bother to quench it, just kept heating both sides until I got no continuity over the width. Then I rolled the wick after cutting a piece from the strip, slapped a coil round it without bothering to anneal the Kanthal (didn't even get it that tight) and fitted it.
That was it ....no shorts...no hotspots...nothing except a fog of vapour!! Incidentally I was getting some fluctuating readings until I stopped using the points of the probes and used the sides, must have been cutting through the oxide layer and getting to conductive material underneath. Anyway if this helps someone I will be overjoyed, now if anyone has any tips on how to improve the flavour of 100% VG
Good evening all! I'm new to the thread and anxiously awaiting my Zenesis from the last sale! Look forward to getting to know you all.
I do it as matter of course. Those cut ends can be a scourge on set up the traditional way. They say they stick out and can cause shorts hence the foldover ala Scubabatdan was born. I have had no issues with them using this method, but I do hit them a bit more just in case. ;-)
I didn't even do the fold over just rolled it up and put it in!
Welcome to the looney bin, not really but Zen is away so we play. ;-)
Here here!! I have to say, I've joined many mod/APV threads while waiting on/trying to purchase my mod/APV, but this is the first one that I've actually stuck around on for more than a week or two after receiving my APV! Going on 3 months later this month!! Thanks to Zen~ and all of my fellow Zenfidels for creating such an awesome community here!
I may have to try this..on another Gen mod I have coming as the *ASH* will be good to go! I think its good to try new methods aswell as old to find what might be to my personal liking!
Bet he's busy building & packing. Didn't he say he hoped to ship Friday?
Hmm, just checked behind the couch- he wasn't there. Looks like he was rolling wicks back there last time he was hiding out...
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