Hello all.
So I posted previously about rebuilding the kanker tech vertical OCC coils. That process has been working out very well for me where I just fire the coil and wick it again. A head generally lasts me maybe three days. After repeating the process for each coil many times, I noticed they're starting to get a bit fragile and it's time to replace them.
These are the coils with the red grommet on the bottom that kanger identifies as stainless steel. I bought 28, 26, and finally 24 gauge ss wire. The factory coils have nine wraps 3.5 mm diameter and somewhere around 30 mm total leg length and it comes out to be .57 ohms and I believe they are 26 gauge. The only way I can get the .57 ohms with everything else the same is the with the 24 gauge wire which is a bear to work with to make the pigtail at the bottom and the 90° bend at the top.
The steam engine site verifies the actual results I got with all three wires.
All of this empirical data suggest to me that the factory wire is not stainless steel at all. This morning, I was again in the steam engine site trying to work backwards from the .57 ohms and titanium1 at 26 gauge was the only material that perfectly matched. One thing I did not mention is that the factory coils are ferrous the stainless was not and titanium isn't either. In either event, I just ordered A roll of 26 gauge titanium.
147 days ago I was a 36 year smoker and now I am not so I'm trying to forgive myself for being obsessively compulsively in this but I would love to hear from someone more experienced in this and I thank you sincerely for your time.
So I posted previously about rebuilding the kanker tech vertical OCC coils. That process has been working out very well for me where I just fire the coil and wick it again. A head generally lasts me maybe three days. After repeating the process for each coil many times, I noticed they're starting to get a bit fragile and it's time to replace them.
These are the coils with the red grommet on the bottom that kanger identifies as stainless steel. I bought 28, 26, and finally 24 gauge ss wire. The factory coils have nine wraps 3.5 mm diameter and somewhere around 30 mm total leg length and it comes out to be .57 ohms and I believe they are 26 gauge. The only way I can get the .57 ohms with everything else the same is the with the 24 gauge wire which is a bear to work with to make the pigtail at the bottom and the 90° bend at the top.
The steam engine site verifies the actual results I got with all three wires.
All of this empirical data suggest to me that the factory wire is not stainless steel at all. This morning, I was again in the steam engine site trying to work backwards from the .57 ohms and titanium1 at 26 gauge was the only material that perfectly matched. One thing I did not mention is that the factory coils are ferrous the stainless was not and titanium isn't either. In either event, I just ordered A roll of 26 gauge titanium.
147 days ago I was a 36 year smoker and now I am not so I'm trying to forgive myself for being obsessively compulsively in this but I would love to hear from someone more experienced in this and I thank you sincerely for your time.
