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Phoenix/Chalice Vertical Cotton Wick Setup
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The Mesh Company, they are located in Europe
They have all sizes of SS mesh
They ship real fast
#500 and #400 A4 & A5 - Two 210mm x 297mm sheets for $17.46 USD Shipped
The Mesh Company (Warrington) Ltd #400 Super Fine Filtration Mesh - 25 Micron
They have all sizes of SS mesh
They ship real fast
#500 and #400 A4 & A5 - Two 210mm x 297mm sheets for $17.46 USD Shipped
The Mesh Company (Warrington) Ltd #400 Super Fine Filtration Mesh - 25 Micron
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I wrap my coils at about 5-7 wraps. Seems to just work better at about 2.2-2.7 ohms
Have to say thanks again. Received my wire today & just built my first coil. 34ga nichrome, 7 wraps, vertical coil with 3 pieces of cotton string. Works great and is great practice for rebuilding my vivi novas
many thanks for the effort put into this tutorial,will be trying this out on my "junk piled for now" srt
Still using this method on my phoenix clone. Got it at 7.4 volts with a 3 ohm wrap on roughstack, opened the airhole, It is my best experienced vapers mod. Vapor production is unbelievable, throat hit is tolerable but full and very warm. That is a little over 18 watts. I did not think I would like such a high voltage vape, but this one performs awesome. If you have the ability, I definately recommend giving this a shot. Much more power than 6volts on the gripper.
I still use this method at it's core for making my coils on my Phoenix, but I made one change. Instead of a drill bit, I use a threaded shaft I bought at Lowes. Wrap the wire into the threads and you get a really nice tight coil. Then mount, then you just unscrew the shaft from the coil. Squeeze a little with some tweezers or pliers to tighten up the spacing a little and boom! I get around 2.0 all the time, and still use cheesecloth wicks, I twist the wicks as I am putting them in, seems to help get them to go down, then I really pack it into the juice well area ... easily get 15 drops of juice every time.
Very nice work-----When i first got mine i opened the hole a-bit-----and put in a cotton wick(#10 cotton square wick)--a bigger o-ring so i could line up the air hole with the wick---and it worked pretty good--but it gumed up alot,so i put in a 3mm silica wick(easier to clean)
I was wondering--how many vaps you were getting with your set-up?-----I took the #10 cotton wick and put some in the cover right above the air hole---just coiled it to the sides of the cover---then i took another piece about 1" and bent it in half and put it in the well vertically--just stood it up between the 3mm wick and the side of the well---i get about 40 vaps before i need to add more juice..
I'm burning through a ton of juice, cuz I'm running at 7.4 volts at 3ohm, 18.25 watts. I got tons of DIY juice though, so it does'nt matter to me. This is probably the best set up I have currently. This one would bring a smoker to their knees!
Juice ....., Hildicat you da man!
Great tutorial! I've got almost everything needed, so I'm going to try today. I've got 1/0 braided cotton wicking that I'll use for now. Quick question: I'd like to open the air hole a bit as well. The smallest bit I've got is 1/16th. it looks like it would work. What are y'all using?
Update: I tried this with 1/0 cotton wicking and hit a problem: when I use the 1/32 drill bit, the coil's too small to insert the wicking through. However, i went up to the 1/8 drill bit and that one works! Unfortunately, that was as far as I got, because I can't see the hole I'm supposed to insert the wire into, much less actually thread it (an unfortunate side-effect of getting older, lol). As soon as I can get some magnification, I'll make it work!
Excellent tutorial and pictures! This is a great idea. I'm definitely trying it on my next recoil on my phoenix clone. Personally I've been using this unbleached 100% muslin cotton I got from a local fabric shop. Was like $2 for half a yard and I've gone through maybe a 3 inch square cut off it, it'll last a life time since most of that was used on trial and error in vivi nova heads and what not. It's a little tedious pulling the threads apart but once it gets going it's not too bad. Using about 80 threads in my wicks and no issues at all.
Fabulous tutorial and very good photos!!! Thank-you so much, I too, am going to use this method to do a rebuild and may use it full-time if all goes well as I suspect it will. I have only ever built one coil and wick assembly in my life lol. This looks realistically doable for me..
Ok so been vaping on a vertical coil in my phoenix clone all day now and absolutely love it. Got the cotton wick going up to the bottom of the drip tip and it's solved all my leaking issues and the problem of juice pooling on the sides. I found it easier to just wrap my coil/wick and fit it in, couldn't get the drill bit thing working right. Probably due to the fact I'm using threads of cotton instead of a braided wick. This'll be my setup from now on without a doubt.
My only problem with this is that the screw in the taller post on my Phoenix doesn't screw in completely, so I haven't figured out how to connect the coil to it.
Darkly...there are a few things you can try....
1 - the simplest is to just wrap your wire a few times around the upper screw for connection....I believe the Line works that way
2 - the most risky is to cut down the screw so it is the right length...cuttin is prob not a hard thing, but doin it so you dont bugger up the threads is where the risk is...
1 - the simplest is to just wrap your wire a few times around the upper screw for connection....I believe the Line works that way
2 - the most risky is to cut down the screw so it is the right length...cuttin is prob not a hard thing, but doin it so you dont bugger up the threads is where the risk is...
Mine doesn't screw down all the way either, I just do a wrap around the top of the screw then loop it through the hole and tighten it. Making sure it's nice and tight and has contact all the way down.
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