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emonty

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Hey 'emonty', just curious if your glass tanks are the ones you got from Terry or the new Les ones? I'm wondering what size o-rings you used if they're Terry's. I think I asked and you told me, probably on this thread, but I have forum overload now...lol

Turbo,

The tanks from Terry, same orings from Less, but a tiny bit thicker, dunno the size, bought 100 assorted orings on ebay..
The tanks from Less: use the orings that Less supplies
 

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Blew my coil at work today, and did not have a backup PV with me! Found some .15 nichrome in my bag, did a braided 4 wrap coil, wrapped it up and back in business. Spent the day trying to break it in :( but at least I was back up in 5 minutes :) Home now, and think I'll just leave this one one there as it is kicking it pretty good.
 

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Thanks 'emonty', thought that was the deal. What does your new coil ohm at 'jolly'? I may try a twisted coil on my next. Did you do anything different 'crypto' when putting the new switch in, like extra o-rings, etc?

So far I've been using the same 4/3 wrap coil since July 17th. I flush it out every night and sometimes twice a day when the juice gets dark.

I did a dry burn the other day, although my coil wasn't gunked bad (I have great juice for not gunking). Every since then I'll have some burnt tasting hits but mostly fine. I probably should have left it be, as now I'm guessing the kanthal/wick has to season again.

Anybody else notice that after dry burning/cleaning the coil?
 

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@turbo, it was 1.3Ω and TBH was just to hot for me when I got home and put a fresh batt in, and the VG was having a hard time wicking fast enough for it. No shorts though... So I upped it another wrap, 4/5 - still using .15 twisted. Now it is 1.6Ω and is perfect for me and wicking is keeping up again. I have no idea what my old coil was at, it was about 5 weeks old... but I like the twisted coil setup a lot :)

I usually put a little water in a shot glass, dry burn a sec just to get it hot, dunk just the wick in a little water. Do this a few times, and coil & wick are clean. Refill tank and go. Current wick/coil, I get no darkening of the liquid through a whole tank - with GJ or BB. Go figure. Used to be a big problem. But it does gunk the wick coil up fairly quick. The AVE Havanna gold, 555, flue cured, bees knees & Blend 4 don't darken in the tank or gunk the wick coil at all. The HG is a mello tobac vape that I really like. Yes, I like AVE :)
 

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use some 200 mesh, wicking will be fine.
@turbo, it was 1.3Ω and TBH was just to hot for me when I got home and put a fresh batt in, and the VG was having a hard time wicking fast enough for it. No shorts though... So I upped it another wrap, 4/5 - still using .15 twisted. Now it is 1.6Ω and is perfect for me and wicking is keeping up again. I have no idea what my old coil was at, it was about 5 weeks old... but I like the twisted coil setup a lot :)

I usually put a little water in a shot glass, dry burn a sec just to get it hot, dunk just the wick in a little water. Do this a few times, and coil & wick are clean. Refill tank and go. Current wick/coil, I get no darkening of the liquid through a whole tank - with GJ or BB. Go figure. Used to be a big problem. But it does gunk the wick coil up fairly quick. The AVE Havanna gold, 555, flue cured, bees knees & Blend 4 don't darken in the tank or gunk the wick coil at all. The HG is a mello tobac vape that I really like. Yes, I like AVE :)
 

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@muddstar, yes I should, as I have been running some 200 in my hellfire and it keeps up great. But this setup is good for now and vaping good, will switch over to 200 & 3/4 twisted coils when I replace this wick. I just tried running a big 325 in a ZAG without the isolator, couldn't get to stop shorting and gave up for now on that. Switched it back to a skinny w/ isolator. Usually I don't have problems :blink: enough playing for one night, I wanna vape :)
 
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