NR wire from a cartomizer?

[occultangle]

I'm playing around with rebuilding a Vivi Nova v2.5. I don't really have any materials, but I do have several used cartomizers lying around. What I'm presuming is that inside a Boge carto, which has a vertical style coil, the black insulated lead wire that runs up and then back down to the actual heating coil would have to be non-resistant, correct? Presuming it is, if I stripped off the insulation then I would have a bunch of free NR wire.

 

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I've seen some guys post that they just double the resistance wire for the legs and twist it together. I haven't tried it but they say it lowers the resistance enough that the legs don't glow. The wires you speak i always thought were stranded and would be a pain to join by twisting with the resistance wire. I bought some 28ga silver wire at HobbyLobby in the jewelry making section.

 

[ratpack7]

I just posted how I fixed the problem. I just pulled a single strand out of the cord of an old power cord I had lying around.

 

[occultangle]

I've seen some guys post that they just double the resistance wire for the legs and twist it together. I haven't tried it but they say it lowers the resistance enough that the legs don't glow. The wires you speak i always thought were stranded and would be a pain to join by twisting with the resistance wire. I bought some 28ga silver wire at HobbyLobby in the jewelry making section.

I don't think the wires are stranded, though I'm not entirely sure what that means. It's not several wires wound together or anything; if you strip off the insulation it's just a single silver colored wire that's a little thicker than the more copper colored coil. But it has been difficult trying to twist it to the other wire, and not turn out a giant twisted monstrosity. I'll try HobbyLobby, but this wire is already pretty thin and soft, i think it's just hard trying to twist it and keep it small enough for the Vivi head.