Howto: Griffin atomizer (DID clone) wicking for clean vapes

[rotohammer]

My coil is 8 turns NiCr 80 wrapped around a 6d finishing nail.

I then install the coil with the nail still through it for stability.

The wick is a piece of cotton ball rolled and threaded through coil into well hole, then folded and threaded into fill hole. Since this worked so well, I drilled my fill hole to 3/32 to match the other wick hole. Screw that little screw!

My coil is 5 ohms, vaping at 5.5 to 6 volts on my Vmax, super!

I almost burned my lungs out trying every which way with a stainless wick.

I'm also using a plastic tip instead of the stainless one. Too metalic tasting.

I may unwrap a turn or two from my coil to get a little more heat out of it. I was playing it safe with a high resistance coil to start as the Vmax typically over powers everything, but not this so far!

I've been chain vaping all morning with no burnt hits.

 

[TomCatt]

Hey roto. I've had my Chid (Chinese DiD ) for about a week. I've been playing with SS mesh wicks, but was planning on switching over to cotton on the next rebuild, or maybe try out the bamboo crochet thread.

 

[rotohammer]

Hey roto. I've had my Chid (Chinese DiD ) for about a week. I've been playing with SS mesh wicks, but was planning on switching over to cotton on the next rebuild, or maybe try out the bamboo crochet thread.

Cool! One thing Ive noted, you need a wick thats loose enough to wick and stay saturated all the while staying right against the coils. If any of the coil is in the air it can become a hot spot and cause slightly harsh vapes. Cotton ball works well because you can roll it to the right diameter, pre-wet it with drops of juice to roll it a little tighter to pass through the coil and well holes, but then reverse spin it to fluff it so it expands against the coil. Don't forget to saturate the exposed wick well before firing it up. The new coil/wick taste goes away after about 2ml of vaping.

No hot spots, no varying ohms, works first and every time.

If you look at that pic I posted you can see the air gap between some coils and the wick. I must have manhandled it too much.

My current coil is 3" of NiCr 80 wrapped much neater, 4.0 ohms. Vapes nice on the Vmax at 3.4 volts.

As soon as you detect a change in the vape, you know you're out of fluid. After a day of chain vaping, my cotton still looks great!

Funny side note: I ordered some extra 100mg PG nicuid from vz and because it was such a good price, I ordered 1000ml, not realizing how f'ing much that is, I'm set for the next 4 lifetimes!

All of my tests with rolled cotton threads (20 or so) resulted it the wick shearing off under the coil. It couldn't keep up a rate of wicking to match my draws.

 

[A17kawboy]

Funny side note: I ordered some extra 100mg PG nicuid from vz and because it was such a good price, I ordered 1000ml, not realizing how f'ing much that is, I'm set for the next 4 lifetimes!

Bring on the zombies!!

 

[rotohammer]

Update: I've been playing with wicks and tried a piece of old medical gauze. Not the new stretchy loose stuff, but a fine non-stretch mesh. I cut a 2cm wide strip and rolled it and inserted both ends into the well as stated in my op. After counting the threads, my guess is that its equivelant to 90# cheese cloth, so I ordered some off Amazon and I'll test with that next week.

The gauze seems to respond differently than the cotton ball material in that when it hits a sweet spot after break in, it generates huge volumes of white fluffy vapor, unlike anything I've ever tried.

Regarding cotton in general, if your vapes taste cottony, you're using too much. Try 1/2 the amount and test again.

 

[TomCatt]

Cottoned my ChiD just now, roto "Rolled" Cotton (cotton batting). Got tired of messing with shorting SS mesh wicks. Had been vaping on my cotton-wicked CE2 clearomizer while trying to get the $#!@#!! SS mesh wick to work in the ChiD since this morning, then said enough is enough!