Phoenix Cotton/Silica Hybrid Mod - Great for VG!

[timb]

I was having some trouble getting my Phoenix with a Silica wick to properly feed Boba's Bounty short of actually filling the base up with liquid, which of course presented leaking problems. I thought it might be my wick configuration so I tried several variations; short, long, high atomizer, low atomizer. In the end I decided to convert to cotton, but was worried it would easily burn (since this is a dripping atomizer). I finally came up with a fix this morning.

Wind a standard Silica wick with the excess looped down and resting on the bottom of the base. Then screw the atomizer down tight and low as seen in the picture. Take a small balled up piece of cotton (I used CVS USP Rolled Cotton) and stick it into the base with tweezers. The cotton should be a few MM under the coil when dry. (It will expand when wet and sit just under coil, feeding it juice.)

Now I'm getting consistent hits, with no hot spots, using a 100% VG liquid! This setup seems to hold quite a bit of liquid, with zero leaking or weeping.

Next time, I think I'll try stretching some cotton out and weaving a wick out of that, then coiling it so it's 100% cotton. With this method it should be able to consistently hold enough to juice to not worry about burning.

 

[timb]

Just wanted to add a little update!

I went to the movies tonight with my fiancé, before I left I fully soaked the cotton and wick with Boba's Blend. Between driving and the moivie I was out three and a half hours --I vaped the whole time, a good hit every few minutes-- and the cotton is still wet. If I had a CE4 with me, it would be down to 1/3 left. (A CE2 would have been completely emptied.)

This is literally like having a rebuildable cartomizer. Seriously, if you haven't tried stuffing your juice well with cotton and then filling it, you're missing out!

 

[BJ43]

Been using my A7 with a 28g oval coil, Lydia's bamboo thru coil and wrapped around the posts. After replacing cap I fill each side with cotton. Gives me a couple of hours of great vaping. Re inventing the carto..

 

[VaporMizer]

Been using my A7 with a 28g oval coil, Lydia's bamboo thru coil and wrapped around the posts. After replacing cap I fill each side with cotton. Gives me a couple of hours of great vaping. Re inventing the carto..

Great idea! Reinventing the carto was just what I had in mind. I just now set mine up like you have pictured except I used round coiled 30g and cotton yarn, then with the cotton stuffed in the sides. So far so good...holds lots of juice with no leaking...tastes pretty cottony, but I hope that will pass.

Thanks for passing on all these great tips!

 

[VaporMizer]

After some experimenting I'm having much better results using just a cotton ball, rather than cotton yarn with pieces of cotton ball for batting.

I just use a small piece of cotton ball and roll one end into a wick and let the rest flair out looser - kind of like a cone. The wick end gets threaded through the coil and the looser part gets wrapped around the post...so no need for additional batting. This has less cotton taste (maybe because the cotton balls are sterilized?) and it wicks and vapes much better.

 

[BJ43]

Still using my first 28g oval coil on the A 7, now with 1mm hemp cord easy to replace wick and dry burn in between wicks, monster vaper.

 

[bapgood]

lol....BJ is there anything you haven't tried and have setup laying around to share your knowledge of

 

[BJ43]

lol....BJ is there anything you haven't tried and have setup laying around to share your knowledge of

Heres a few of the hundreds of SS wick I have made

The next two work good on an A 7