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So I did the cotton wick thing using a q tip. Primed it and let it sit for a bit in the protank. First couple hits were funky but it's comming around. Deff get a nic buzz, at least I hope it's not from the cotton. Is cotton safe as a wicking material? Huge clouds of vape though, also tightened up the draw a bit
I've been using cotton for at least a year now. No problems; actually, since using cotton pretty much exclusively, if I use a stock silica wick now for any length of time, it starts making me cough.
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Well she's singing like a song bird now!!!! Lots of flavor and vape, loving my protank once again
The CVS Rolled cotton is Sterile/USP, so I don't boil it. Mainly boiling is used to remove sizing from strings, yarns, candle wicks. I don't think cotton balls/q-tips require any boiling.
Always be sure that any cotton you use for wicks is 100% cotton - some cotton may have other materials incorporated into it.
Always be sure that any cotton you use for wicks is 100% cotton - some cotton may have other materials incorporated into it.
Honestly, it really depends on your coil set-up, the voltage you're using, your juice, etc... There isn't any way to tell until you use it with your set-up. I've had cotton wicks last less than a day, others last much longer. I realize my response is only marginally helpful to you, but there it is...
Pretty much what Stoneface said above.
With my DIY peppermint juice, I get anywhere from 5-10mL on a cotton wick in the Evod before I re-wick. With top-coil cartos and tanks, I've gone a couple of weeks on the same cotton wick using the same DIY peppermint juice; with those set ups it was easy to rinse and blot-dry the wick, not so easy to do with an Evod.
gotta try this on my novas. May double up the thickness on the cotton wick as well
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The nice thing about using the rolled cotton or cotton balls is that you can make the wick as thick or as thin as you want.
Just rebuilt an Evod and Kanger T3.
Recoiled with 32 ga kanthal, 7 turns on a 16 ga needle gave me 2.2 ohms. The needle fits perfectly inside the slots.
Wicked using 100% cotton butcher twine. Boiled, then separated out 7 individual strands. Put through a threading wire and doubled over. So 14 strands pulled through the coil. Trimmed and added the left over strands, doubled over (14 total) on top as "flavor wicks". The slot is nice and full. Center post compresses nicely.
Reassembled, and vaping away at 7 watts on the Vamo. Clean flavor, good vapor, no dry hits, gurgling, or leakage so far.
This may have solved the leaking/flooding issues I was having. Certainly works better than the factory setup.
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Recoiled with 32 ga kanthal, 7 turns on a 16 ga needle gave me 2.2 ohms. The needle fits perfectly inside the slots.
Wicked using 100% cotton butcher twine. Boiled, then separated out 7 individual strands. Put through a threading wire and doubled over. So 14 strands pulled through the coil. Trimmed and added the left over strands, doubled over (14 total) on top as "flavor wicks". The slot is nice and full. Center post compresses nicely.
Reassembled, and vaping away at 7 watts on the Vamo. Clean flavor, good vapor, no dry hits, gurgling, or leakage so far.
This may have solved the leaking/flooding issues I was having. Certainly works better than the factory setup.
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EVOD still leaks, but only when I'm on the airplane. Just can't seem to handle the pressure changes. Lost about .5 ml of my new fave juice, CaRnY4.
Guess I'll just have to drain the tank before I fly.
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Guess I'll just have to drain the tank before I fly.
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I love the EVOD. Only complaint is some heads can stay together like it was welded. I have cut myself a couple times trying to get the head apart. Anyone have a good technique for removing the stem form the coil head?
I leave the head in the base and use a dead Ego battery to get leverage. I grab the post with pliers and rock it back and forth, spreading the two sides of the slotted cup it sits in. This also helps to loosen the cup a bit so the really tight ones get a bit easier.
With the head on the base, a little wiggling with needle nose pliers works for me.
I also use the pliers to tighten and loosen the head on/off the base.
Not cranking it down hard but just gently. Makes it a little tighter than finger tight, no leak yet.
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