Pre-burning Silica wicks

[morpheusneo]

I recently got a kayfun Lite Plus and have built a couple coils on it. Right now I only have silica wick to use. both times I tried the double over method and plan on trying the S wick method. My question is about pre-burning the silica wick with a torch. The first time I didn't and I dry burned it with my SVD. I then primed it and burnt it again before putting it all back together. It was a burnt taste the whole time so I broke it apart and rebuilt it a second time but this time I pre-burnt the silica with my torch and didn't dry burn it and it ended up tasting wonderful until it went almost dry and I refilled it and at that point it started tasting burnt again. It is now apart and waiting to be rebuilt. I was just wondering if you should preburn your silica wick with a torch and/or dry burn it when building it. Thanks for any answers and responses.

 

[ForeverDiving]

Hi morpheusneo,

Last Friday I got my Kayfun 3.1 clones —3 of them as I wanted to put them in my 3 APV's and at $16.55 each with free shipping I just couldn't resist. They vape beautifully, BTW! My Nautilus and Aerotanks just can't compare and the rebuild is a breeze. I'm giving away my old Vivi Novas for sure.

First thing I did was to throw out the 2.8~3.0Ω coils over 4 lengths of 1mm silica wick in the trash can and then proceed to build some 0.20mm Kanthal coils over a 2mm screwdriver and wick them with sterile cotton which came at about 1.8Ω. They tasted great (for a while but my NET's soon cloged the coils and cotton cannot be dryburned). Thus, tonight I recoiled over a folded length of 1.5 silica twisted until it folded over itself and made a double 3mm wick.

I have previously burned coils and silica with my torch till they glow red and they do taste great from the start on a different atty but tonight I just installed and tested that the coils did fire.

The first draws were rather bad but after a minute or so the flavor came up and they started tasting great! No difference with the cotton. I already went through half of 3ml of NET DIY juice (a very dark Black Cavendish) and it's still going beautiful, so I think the torch burn is not really necessary unless you really want the assembly to start like it's been cured. I'm still experimenting tho. This set of coils all came between 1.5 & 1.6Ω which is the lowest my eVic can handle. I do have two mech pipes that can go to 1.2Ω but they go through the batteries like a hot knife on butter, so I try for something more moderate.

Next change of juices I'll recoil again and try at least one at 1.2Ω just to compare. I'll also preburn the wick before threading it on the coil and see what happens.