You have to wonder if the following article was funded by the cotton growers' association.
Toxic Fibers and Fabrics
It's not without its serious warnings, even for fabrics we wear.
Okay to use regular cotton?
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You have to wonder if the following article was funded by the cotton growers' association.
Toxic Fibers and Fabrics
It's not without its serious warnings, even for fabrics we wear.
I love COTN threads. Picked some up cheap in a combo deal. So quick and easy if you're like me and prefer 3mm coils. I get two wicks from each. If I come across them on sale I'll buy more. Very efficient at wicking high vg and no combing is necessary, last a bit longer than KGD but not enough to negate cost.Then there's that new stuff several YT reviewers are usung that comes all fluffed up and with a shoelace aglet on the end to get it to slide through the coil. A pack of 20 is something like $5. Looks pretty but $0.25 each piece
Have I mentioned how much I hate being bothered with wicking?I find it so hard to understand why someone would pay extra just to avoid a few seconds of twisting up the end of a piece of cotton.
In all seriousness I wouldn’t hesitate to order more COTN if I had more vape money at my disposal. Worth every penny to me.
Sally Beauty Supply. 10 ft of Beauty coil for $2. Cotton or rayon. The one by my house usually just has cotton. They have the big boxes for $13 and the unnecessary box for $18.
Everything I've read about rayon states that it is the best wicking material on earth... To be fair, most of my reading is on the rayon thread. If it's awful for me, I'm not sure I want to know (I do have plenty of unbleached cotton pads around) but the washing and cleaning is somewhat comforting, so I'm not sure I'll be reading further.
Given you can clean wounds with hydrogen peroxide and also ingest it as a vomiting agent, I'd have a bit of a hard time taking that terribly seriously, health wise. I mean, yeah yeah, I know about like, things in the lungs being different but I'd probably have an easier time with it than bleach.
Then there is the "used several years with no problems" but, and while I TRY to like, not place undue weight on my own lived experience, that is hard at times, so that would be another factor.
Although I will say it's not like unbleached cotton of various sorts is crazy expensive so unless you are going with familiarity and convenience mode, I'm going to guess it would also be fine for you to start using some dedicated for vaping cotton, it couldn't hurt.
Also I mean rayon's been around a fair amount of time for vaping, too? Haven't heard of any issues, and then there is my question: just how much issues can wick give you if it's not drenched in hemlock, etc. I'd say some of the impurities are going to be on a fairly low scale, period.
But again, I am speculating so everyone should just do what they are comfortable with, I guess. I don't want to return to the path of leaky wick that has to be rewicked every 10 minutes, so I freely admit I am biased in this area.
Also, yes, as a long term (reformed, now that my hair is platinum sliver!) dye-er, you'd be surprised at how easily hair can be killed off, etc. Bleach happens to be particularly bad, I might not use bleached ANYTHING, unless it went through some sort of purity process (I don't think boiling it would be enough, but again, Opinion, etc.)
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Given you can clean wounds with hydrogen peroxide and also ingest it as a vomiting agent, I'd have a bit of a hard time taking that terribly seriously, health wise. I mean, yeah yeah, I know about like, things in the lungs being different but I'd probably have an easier time with it than bleach.
Then there is the "used several years with no problems" but, and while I TRY to like, not place undue weight on my own lived experience, that is hard at times, so that would be another factor.
Although I will say it's not like unbleached cotton of various sorts is crazy expensive so unless you are going with familiarity and convenience mode, I'm going to guess it would also be fine for you to start using some dedicated for vaping cotton, it couldn't hurt.
Also I mean rayon's been around a fair amount of time for vaping, too? Haven't heard of any issues, and then there is my question: just how much issues can wick give you if it's not drenched in hemlock, etc. I'd say some of the impurities are going to be on a fairly low scale, period.
But again, I am speculating so everyone should just do what they are comfortable with, I guess. I don't want to return to the path of leaky wick that has to be rewicked every 10 minutes, so I freely admit I am biased in this area.
Also, yes, as a long term (reformed, now that my hair is platinum sliver!) dye-er, you'd be surprised at how easily hair can be killed off, etc. Bleach happens to be particularly bad, I might not use bleached ANYTHING, unless it went through some sort of purity process (I don't think boiling it would be enough, but again, Opinion, etc.)
Anna
Then there's that new stuff several YT reviewers are using that comes all fluffed up and with a shoelace aglet on the end to get it to slide through the coil. A pack of 20 is something like $5. Looks pretty but $0.25 each piece
I find it so hard to understand why someone would pay extra just to avoid a few seconds of twisting up the end of a piece of cotton.
A lot of people are willing to pay more money for convenience. One of the main reasons I stopped building on my rebuildables is I grew tired of having to re-wick every 3 - 4 days. Yeah, I'm that lazy.Have I mentioned how much I hate being bothered with wicking?
I find it much more convenient to drop in a new factory-made coil into my favorite clearomizer and I'm GOOD for almost a month. I just top of my juices. Now if they come out with a tank that refills the juice itself...
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Have I mentioned how much I hate being bothered with wicking?
In all seriousness I wouldn’t hesitate to order more COTN if I had more vape money at my disposal. Worth every penny to me.
You are a primo candidate for RxW and strain winding. Rinse and dry [pulse] every few days. Set it and forget it. Best flavor bar none (not my opinion, I was stubborn). And can I tell ya, easy as sh!!t to install. Every time.
Good luck.
Can see myself trying the wick, tension coils not so much.You are a primo candidate for RxW and strain winding. Rinse and dry [pulse] every few days. Set it and forget it. Best flavor bar none (not my opinion, I was stubborn). And can I tell ya, easy as sh!!t to install. Every time.
Good luck.
RxD works with any build that closely matches it's diameter. It can go awful hot if it don't. It will retain heat not sufficient for adequate vaporization and cook juice very well. Common reason some don't like it. Too much power for too little contact, too much diffusion and you get an awful vape. So little we discuss the importance of wetted contact surface. But I'd say try it, you'll like it. The most neutral surface we cook on is ceramic for a reason.
Using hand-wound mechanical strain is the simplest surest method for just about anyone to obtain electrically pulsed optimized alumina surface deposition with Kanthal. Or to build a predetermined rigidity into any wire. It's sorta like gravity. It's there all the time. It's a choice whether to make best use of it. Another example would be tires. Sure there's pressure and we use it. But you could have better gas milage if you control for it. Not criticizing the not for me but I should concede I had no idea how well it worked myself. People I've taught showed me through the outstanding results they obtained. Although I can't argue with the reasoning, hands down tampons and amorphous cotton it would seem are much sexier given all the public adulation.
BTW, in the interest of full disclosure, like you I never gave up on cotton until really the last couple of years. Got it to work for me first (silica was impossible). And we all tend to favor what got us over. It's like our first experience. We never forget it. I still use cotton extensively for certain combinations. I always will. That's what we do.
Good luck.
Thanks for the ack. Did I mention? I love to cook with both ceramic and cast iron pans.
No limits.
Good luck.
No limits.
Good luck.
Cast iron and cast aluminum are my go to pans.Thanks for the ack. Did I mention? I love to cook with both ceramic and cast iron pans.
No limits.
Good luck.
Since I generally stick with 3mm id coils size wouldn't be a concern, just keeping up with the maintenance.
Rayon just works for me. I've used all sorts of exotic cottons, but Rayon won me over. It's easy to wick and produces repeatable results. It doesn't stain or burn like cotton and wicks like nobody's business.
I have a pretty good stock of plain old cotton, cotton balls, Koh Gen Do, Egyptian cotton, and Sally's cotton sitting in a cabinet in case one day I run out of Sally's Rayon.
I sometimes wonder what the next latest and greatest wicking material will be. Judging from my own experience it won't be SS mesh. That was an experiment that resulted in disappointment for me, but that was years ago when it was cool to vape mesh.
I have a pretty good stock of plain old cotton, cotton balls, Koh Gen Do, Egyptian cotton, and Sally's cotton sitting in a cabinet in case one day I run out of Sally's Rayon.
I sometimes wonder what the next latest and greatest wicking material will be. Judging from my own experience it won't be SS mesh. That was an experiment that resulted in disappointment for me, but that was years ago when it was cool to vape mesh.
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I loved mesh, mesh over SS cable and EkoWool over mesh as wicking material in my gennys. Mesh provided a pure flavor that is hard to replicate these days and the wicks would last for months and months.
Shhh, I don’t need any ideas to toy with.I loved mesh, mesh over SS cable and EkoWool over mesh as wicking material in my gennys. Mesh provided a pure flavor that is hard to replicate these days and the wicks would last for months and months.
Maybe I should try rayon one of these days. But then what will I do with the huge stock of KGD pads I have?
Seriously, I started with KGD, have never really tried anything else. As mentioned, even at like $12 for a bag of pads, that bag will last a VERY long time for most folks. I've been working on my current bag for almost a year and probably have half of it left. I rewick my toppers once/week. I have two more bags in the vape closet, as well as a bag of 'Puffs' cotton that got good reviews from vapers on Amazon. Haven't tried it yet.
I've just always gotten good results from KGD, never felt the need to try anything else.
Seriously, I started with KGD, have never really tried anything else. As mentioned, even at like $12 for a bag of pads, that bag will last a VERY long time for most folks. I've been working on my current bag for almost a year and probably have half of it left. I rewick my toppers once/week. I have two more bags in the vape closet, as well as a bag of 'Puffs' cotton that got good reviews from vapers on Amazon. Haven't tried it yet.
I've just always gotten good results from KGD, never felt the need to try anything else.
I wouldn't lose any sleep worrying about trying Rayon then. You found something that works for you and you have a huge supply. Don't sweat the small stuff.
UNLESS you have some Kotex tampons lying around in your bathroom closet.
You just have to skin and gut them.
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It's not worth the bother these days, fun to dig out the old gear and spend a half hour working out hot spots...
I always wanted a Blackwood so I could try my hand at a quad mesh build.
Keeping the skills of that lost art finely honed.
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