I use micro-coils with cotton wicks. The coils last a VERY long time. Just remove the cotton wick, dry burn the coil clean and thread a new wick. The coil I am currently using is over two months old and shows no signs of giving up the ghost anytime soon.
Now that's brilliant! Well, even if everyone else already knew it, it's still brilliant to me.
I hate rebuilding coils. I just hate it. It's not that I can't do it. I just don't have the eyesight or the patience I used to have in my younger life to wrap a new coil and get it mounted without significant cursing and frustration. The work is just too small, and it's further complicated by having two coils to build in my PT3 rather than one.
BUT, if I never have to mess with removing the coils themselves within the coil body, and instead simply do what Fizzpop says - remove wicks, dry burn and thread in new cotton, I could get the effect of "recoiling" without having to do the frustrating, tiny, microscopic part of the job.
When the coils themselves need replacing, I would still just toss out the whole coil unit and replace it with a new one. Like I do now, except instead of once every 8-10 days, I'd be doing it once every 60+ days. Longer if Fizzpop is a heavier vaper than I. (I process about 3mL per day.)
So all I need to do is buy some sterile cotton (which I was going to do anyway) and wait for my flavor and/or vapor density to go funky, then just un-wick, dry burn and re-wick the coils.
I never figured less than $2 per week in coils was an unreasonable expenditure, but it'd be worth doing it for more than just the cost savings. I could "rejuvenate" my coils more often if I wanted, while still greatly extending the life of each coil unit.
Brilliant, I say. Thanks, Fizzpop. I think you just made my life a bit easier.
