iatty Wick and Wire bought

[AdamAnd]

Well I went on ebay today and ordered:

1/2 oz(100') .999 US fine silver 30 gage round DS wire. "For the No Resistance wire"

Resistance heating wire, kanthal A-1 32 awg 75ft "For the resistance wire"

and from the wickstore.com The wick

Have I forgot anything or have I messed anything in terms of size or type? Please help I hope to make a few before my iatty arrives can't wait to see how it works and to start saving money on atties that i seem to burn through really fast. If it can keep up with my chain vaping then i will be very very impressed. Thanks imeo

 

[imeothanasis]

I thank you too Adam my friend. I think you are ok, you bought everything you need for a long time vaping

ps..... the 32 awg is 0,16mm or o,13 mm? Maybe its bigger? Is it 20mm as I made a check with google?

 

[thedudeabides]

I bought the same setup except I went with the ceramic wick instead of the one from wickstore.

 

[AdamAnd]

As far as I can tell 32awg in mm is 0.202mm Is this still OK Thanks imeo Hey any info on the ceramic wick ? Is it better than the fiberglass? I guess these things are an on going experiment and there will always be new products available I hope the GG4S will blow my mind I have to get my wife to quit smoking and the SS GGTS with UFS she says its to big to carry around so I am still thinking Thanks again.

 

[Dream]

Imeo, check out this Wire Gauge Reference Table

AdamAnd, 32AWG seems thick.

 

[mwa102464]

Has any of you guys used SS 400 Mesh for your wicks yet, this is better than any rope ;-)

 

[AdamAnd]

No but it sounds interesting I guess there is alot of testing to be done?

 

[Valsacar]

I'm still trying to figure out what I want to order... I'll go with fine silver for the NR, but what are the advantages for the others? I generally go for HV vaping, and flavor is very important... any suggestions?

 

[Dream]

i believe a thinner kanthal or nichrome wire like 36 AWG (~0.13mm) would be better for HV.

 

[mwa102464]

No but it sounds interesting I guess there is alot of testing to be done?

It blows away any rope wick by far ! flavor is way better too, there is no choice, this is the way Im using my iAtty

 

[ainako]

care to share your method for using ss400 mwa?

 

[Para]

I'm still trying to figure out what I want to order... I'll go with fine silver for the NR, but what are the advantages for the others? I generally go for HV vaping, and flavor is very important... any suggestions?

Just received my silver wire and I'm using .10mm kanthal in my current setup. I like it a lot

 

[JollyRogers]

Has anyone tried suture wire for the no-resistance wire? I was looking around for something to use, and ran across this...

Amazon.com: BABCOCK Suture Wire Stainless Steel (B"S gauge 30), diameter .010" (.25 mm),1 ounce (28 G) spools: Health & Personal Care

I have no idea if SS wire will have any resistance or not.

 

[imeothanasis]

SS wire has so big resistance that you will not be able to vape Rogers. My first wire was SS and it had a resistance at 1,8 ohms per 10cm. It was like a resistance wire

Yours is thinner than mine, it has the half of width, so imagine how big resistance it will have

 

[JollyRogers]

OK thanks Imeo. Won't be ordering any to try then.

 

[wfarrar33]

Imeo, check out this Wire Gauge Reference Table

AdamAnd, 32AWG seems thick.

So is the 32 gonna be fine or is there a better option? Hope it's good because I have 75ft en route

 

[Ace6607]

Currently using 32gauge Kanthal(Resistance) with 30gauge Silver .999(Non Resistance) without a problem....

I will note that I tried to wrap together less than 10mm of the resistance to non resistance and it burned into the plastic piece..... I now do about 15mm just to make sure there is enough length to insure a) its long enough b) so that it has very little resistance in that area.

Now time to find a wick that brings me a fuller flavor!!!

 

[Dream]

So is the 32 gonna be fine or is there a better option? Hope it's good because I have 75ft en route

You should be fine..
We're all looking for the better option, eh?

(i'm trying to be reassuring... is it working? haha)

 

[Valsacar]

Having a hard time finding stuff locally (Korea), which would be much preferred.

Best I've found for NR is 0.3mm (around 28.5awg) 92.5% pure silver from a homemade jewelry supply store. It's a little thicker than what others had recommended (30awg, 0.255mm), anyone know (or educated guess) if that will work?

For R I can't find Kanthal locally yet (going to try some hobby stores that sell model rocket stuff), but nicrome I have found. Issue being I can't find anything thin enough, most is around 0.5mm (way too thick) and one place has 0.23mm. Imeo said 0.16mm, so pretty sure even that won't work well for me.

Wife (Korean) is trying to see if she can find stuff, but she's not so good with the searching thing (she just went to Korean version of google and ebay, looked at that and said nope... but that's what I can do with my level of Korean). Trying to get her to search hobby/review/blog sites for references to physical stores that might have it. She has a friend that makes her own jewelry, so hopefully she might know a place for the NR.

Alibaba is the next step, I generally get things from China in 2-3 days.