New Kanger enclosed Coils growing "whiskers"?

[chrisf8657]

Hey guys,

I wanted to know if anyone else who is using the newer Kanger enclosed wick coils have noticed that when you goto refill your tank,
it looks like some of the wick has come out of the little holes, almost like it grew "whiskers"?

 

[Racehorse]

are you talking about mini Naut or Naut?

There was a YouTube video showing the wicks and the guy touching them, and he had those "fibers" all over his fingers, you could see it clearly, even after he stopped touching them.......that was the point at which I said to myself: no thanks. Not gonna be vaping on those.

Around the 4:10 mark in video you see the fabric, parts of it coming off in his fingers he decribes as "gritty" like sandpaper, and I guess that is what the screen on top is for....to keep those pieces of *particles* coming off the fabric from coming thru?

At any rate, I don't like it. From a safety standpoint it does not look safe to me.
The Aspire Nautilus Mini - YouTube

 

[Ren76]

Chris said Kanger coils not Nautilus lol, I saw that on one of my wife's coils, I pushed it back in with a toothpick. Still works fine.

 

[mwjones]

I bought one pack of those coils for use in a mini pt 3 and found they didn' t feed very well at all. Had to take 2 or 3 priming puffs every hit. Go to your local store and buy them out of the old style ones, problem solved

 

[Davey59]

Sometimes, I guess it must be due to the vacuum. Seams like they are getting close to the end of their duty cycle when it happens. Odd though, don't remember it happening on the slotted ones, only the four hole.

 

[Traijan]

Yup, I just posted about this in another topic. All of my newer Kangertech coils that have the 4 holes grow whiskers in actually a very short period of time, in fact they grow whisker faster than I do.

I don't understand the whole vacuum thing with regards to this, I thought the vacuum goes the opposite way, where the liquid is sucked into the coil head itself so that is going against the direction that the coil heads grow these whiskers.

Not sure how long they last after they start to exhibit this, as I'm not overly sensitive to the flavor or vapor, so I can use a coil for many many ml of liquid before I usually just replace them because I have a new one laying around. Can't say that I've ever experienced it where it's adversely affected the vape flavor or cloud production. But I've never seen one that gets really fuzzy with whiskers, usually it's just a few strands sticking out a good 1/4" or more through probably 2 of the holes.