Apologies in advance for the short-quotes and snippets. You'll see why in a moment.
I know someone has beat me to the punch by now, but Heather's Heavenly Vapes (HHV) almost fits the bill for this, as well.
There are a few synthetic/NET blends and straight synthetics there, as well.
HHV juices generally will benefit from a steep, but I have a few favorites that don't need it (generally).
That's the thing, though- they come "tightly wound" and "loosely wound" and in just straight pieces of wire.
I'd go for the tightly wound; closest thing to a microcoil I can think of.
At least it's not burnt polyfill.
Ah, those
weren't the days...
It seems stupid simple to use the stuff, excepting the resistance created at the screw-point. If they're screwless, there's no problem.
You also wouldn't need to microcoil with ribbon, but I've seen several videos of people doing exactly that.
I'd be happy with ribbon and ReadyXwick, because it would hopefully give enough distance between the wick and coil at intervals to avoid any accelerated carbon buildup while simultaneously allowing for some kind of interwick wicking to take place.
I still really enjoy being able to clean the stuff with a blowtorch. Just, not while it's in an EVOD/PT head.
Those NR-R-NR wires; they'd be capable and practical for recoiling a dual-coil stacked like in the EVOD 2, correct?
I know standard kanthal would lead to a short in this instance (I burnt through a center post insulator and caused an instant short on cotton wick, that was
not tasty), but at least I learned how to do a double-twisted 32GA loose microcoil through crimping and torching in the process.
Now I can use this on the KFL with a 1/32 or 1/16 bit to start the wrapping.
Since I only have the one RBA, it's become painfully obvious that I need more of them for "experimentation" purposes.
Thanks for that. I'll try cellucotton or whatever you guys are calling it these days.
Cotton doesn't keep up with my chain vaping, and has a distinct funny taste when burned. Like popcorn mixed with dirty sock odor and burnt match scrapings, or something.
Maybe try stacking the coils on top of the material; sandwich it between them.
I can't handle the flavor of straight silica wicks these days, but maybe ekowool is a better candidate for this application?
I know you could torch readyXwick, but I'm not so sure about ekowool.
It supposedly has a higher maximum temperature rating, so boiling or spraying it down with scalding hot water might do the trick- I used to do this with my old kanger flavor wicks. If you're not careful, though, the wick
will shred apart rather than get squeaky clean.
However, I can't remember the last time I actually used a flavor wick.
It has to have been months, if not almost a year.
Dual-coiling might necessitate one, but I have a feeling using a drillbit in-between the coils as a "spacer" might do the trick.
Lots of tension, center post/ground fiddling/cutting, more tension, remove bit, check resistance, dry burn, insert wick material into wicks. It
may not work, but it will possibly reduce or eliminate the need for a center flavor wick.
Every HHV e-liquid I've tried has benefitted from a steep.
In certain instances it will reverse the tobacco flavor and accompanying flavoring, in others it will increase the tobacco flavor and balance out the adjunct, and still in others the tobacco will come to the forefront.
I haven't had Huntsman in a while, but I remember liking it way more than Dark Horse (grassy).
Still haven't tried Gaia.
So, a black & mild would be feasable.
Just remove that inner cardboard layer and the glued-to-the-mouthpiece part before you try and make an extract, because neither of those would likely add anything tasty to a maceration.
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Acadian Gold is, supposedly, the way Perique is blended to be sold in a blend as intended. It may not be
all perique, but is certainly a tasty and enjoyable way for perique to be blended.
I believe Burley is the adjunct.
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Sorry for not responding to Juicy's above comment. I don't want to stir things up.
What I will say is this; I think, in a way, it's a good thing.
Why is this?
Look at how many have been inspired to try their hand at mixing their own hand-crafted macerations and blends since the backlog occurred.
That is all I will say regarding this matter at the moment, however I will most definitely post in multicolored happiness when I have further updates regarding this. However, as usual, I have a back-up plan just in case that fails to materialize.
However, one can not dispute that sadness over a favorite becoming unavailable is rather disheartening.
However, this opens up a world up extracts, different vendors, and learning to us.
Let us take the downside, and turn it into an upside.
On this note, MyVapeJuice's Captain Black Royal is a
completely different beast with X-X-Extract.
Batten down the hatches for some gunking, mateys, as you will notice this quite quickly.
I would highly recommend those that do not DIY extracts to get a bottle of extract accompanying any sort of bulk-sized order.
Get your favorite flavor's extract counterpart, and adjust to the level of your liking.
Though, keep in mind; the more the % of extract, the higher the gunk ratio.
That being said, I almost want to run this one through some very fine filter paper.
I know this a complete armchair-chemist off-the-wall guess, but maybe the Rayon is wicking appropriate to the temperature output of the coils while being absorbent enough to not cause flooding? Again, just a guess, but perhaps the gunk is being absorbed into the wick's core itself rather than the coil?
Indeed, at least on a fresh wick and clean coil. After gunking occurs, even taking it up to 13-15 watts seems to make literally no difference other than to tell me "clean this coil, or your juice is going to taste like carbon build-up and go to waste".
I'm going to have to look into rayon's actual properties through practical application and study to see what's going on.
I suspect my previous guess may have some merit, but it's all speculation on my part, at any rate.
Maybe cotton is literally so absorbent and flooding-prone that it gives the wick an excess of juice, which in turn coats the coil rather than applies heat directly to the wick, which may contribute to quicker gunking and diminished flavor?
As has been said, with cotton, "less is more", so perhaps a tiny difference in wick thickness could cause a signifcant change in the end vape?
Bill's (and Jerms') following posts here are good examples of why this may be; we're beta-testers after all, and vaping is far from perfected. Remember where we were just a few years ago, compared to now- device, e-liquid, and wick-wise.
Not going to quote the whole thing, as I've posted a big enough post already.
Indeed. We used to be alpha-testers, and now we're in the beta-test phase.
I guess you could say this is all "Early access" technology, lol.
This makes pefect sense.
Unfortunately, now I'm hungry for some chicken nuggets.
Mmm....golden nuggets...
True that, and well thought out and excellent post there.
I might be overdoing it with this post, though.
I have another 10+ pages to catch up on and offer brief replies to, which is unusual for me.... not the "overdoing it, mind you", rather the catching-up bit.
On that note, I will end this massive post here.
More to follow...
