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DON'T FORGET to boil it! The recommended is 20-minutes of boiling... I did it for 5-minutes though (b'coz I feel 5 or 20 should do the same job!), but boil you must.

Ok, I gave it a quick try. I had some yarn which I had already boiled when I first got it. Pulling the doubled piece of yarn through a 1/16 coil was a tough pull. I've been making all of my coils 1/16. I tried the yarn in one of my coils that had cotton ball cotton in it. I didn't bother to build a new coil. I noticed that you wrapped your coil around a toothpick. I checked, and my toothpick was slightly larger than 1/16. Next time I wrap a coil, I will try either a toothpick, or a 5/64 drill bit. It should make threading the yarn through the coil a little easier. With the 1/16, the flavor I'm getting is good, but the vapor is a little thinner than I get with the cotton balls. I'm thinking the coil might be choking the wick a little.
 

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I just put blue painters tape under the cone and it closes the gap pretty well. The line between the cone and the provari is more visible though but it's better than having a gap.

I don't know why Provari just doesn't square up their top and be done with it. Wouldn't need a pro ring (which probably explains it). People use large attys on their Provaris these days as tank sizes have increased in recent times. So it would look better with a squared off top. Provari also needs to incorporate variable wattage in their mods.

If Provari isn't careful, they will appear to be behind the times and fall out of favor.
 

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That's just it.. they are not losing market share, so they are not changing anything. When folks started moving away because of version 1's limit with low amps, they upgraded their chipset to current standards (for that time!). Now they are back to basking on their laurels. Folks are still buying like crazy because of how solid and consistent it is. No reason for them to change..

Look at the thread about "what you would do with $600" which started around the time of the 10 million post. So many entries in there have the Provari on their list.

The last update happened around the time the Darwin came out. Now with the DNA20 mods starting to get more air time, perhaps it will drive another change. I hope!

*shrug* I have two and love them. Would love to see them updated with a square top and have the VW option as well with atleast a 20W limiter.
 

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Ok, I gave it a quick try. I had some yarn which I had already boiled when I first got it. Pulling the doubled piece of yarn through a 1/16 coil was a tough pull. I've been making all of my coils 1/16. I tried the yarn in one of my coils that had cotton ball cotton in it. I didn't bother to build a new coil. I noticed that you wrapped your coil around a toothpick. I checked, and my toothpick was slightly larger than 1/16. Next time I wrap a coil, I will try either a toothpick, or a 5/64 drill bit. It should make threading the yarn through the coil a little easier. With the 1/16, the flavor I'm getting is good, but the vapor is a little thinner than I get with the cotton balls. I'm thinking the coil might be choking the wick a little.

Give it a while - and it should fire-up better with time - even if you did it on a 1/16.
I use a toothpick plainly b'coz (1)I don't have a drill-bit:), (2)those toothpicks are ready at hand, easier to find AND (3)I anyway keep some toothpicks in my vape-kit for poking around the coils;), makes a lesser mess, is soft to not destroy anything, the pin-point tip is nice to clean the air-hole & all channels and can be easily tweaked to any shape (just a bite, yeah!).
 

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Give it a while - and it should fire-up better with time - even if you did it on a 1/16.
I use a toothpick plainly b'coz (1)I don't have a drill-bit:), (2)those toothpicks are ready at hand, easier to find AND (3)I anyway keep some toothpicks in my vape-kit for poking around the coils;), makes a lesser mess, is soft to not destroy anything, the pin-point tip is nice to clean the air-hole & all channels and can be easily tweaked to any shape (just a bite, yeah!).

And then you can pick your teeth with it too. :)
 

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I don't know why Provari just doesn't square up their top and be done with it. Wouldn't need a pro ring (which probably explains it). People use large attys on their Provaris these days as tank sizes have increased in recent times. So it would look better with a squared off top. Provari also needs to incorporate variable wattage in their mods.

If Provari isn't careful, they will appear to be behind the times and fall out of favor.

What is this Provari that you speak of? :)
 
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