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<blockquote data-quote="bombastinator" data-source="post: 23697072" data-attributes="member: 43994">Yeah, I do that often.&nbsp; Cotton wick turns to ash eventually.&nbsp; If your device still draws juice it must taste awful.&nbsp; The ability to rewick is the prime reason to use rbas in the first place.&nbsp; It’s a cleanliness and safety thing.&nbsp; There’s probably a mass of black goo in there. I don’t often do it daily, but more than once a week.&nbsp; I’ve heard of people doing it daily.&nbsp; If you can’t handle rewicking, there are coil cartridges and pods.&nbsp; The coil cartridge tosses the coil as well every time, and a pod tosses the wick, coil, and juice tank.&nbsp; Keeping those safe to use is what makes them pricier.&nbsp; You could theoretically use a pod or a cartridge forever, but they don’t stay safe for very long.&nbsp; Neither will an rba of course.&nbsp; Those “estimated times” for pods or cartridges are practically never longer than a week, and they’re pushed out as far as possible to make them seem to have lower continuing cost.&nbsp; Really it’s all the same though.&nbsp; “Expected life” is just marketing.when I change a wick I dryburn, which is helpful to release baked on stuff, after brushing off the built up cruft.&nbsp; Then I do it again and wash it.&nbsp; It gets the last of the carbon out and helps prep for a fresh wick.&nbsp; If i screw up and glow the coil orange I’ve lost the ability to accurately measure with temp control and I replace the coil.&nbsp; The point behind cotton wick is it is a fuse.&nbsp; You burn it away and the device is supposed to stop working.&nbsp; You must have a wick made out of pure carbon that for whatever reason is still working though.&nbsp; It no longer acts as a fuse, as carbon has a much higher burning point, so you may be overheating, and all the horror stuff the ads talk about might actually happen to you.&nbsp; You might&nbsp; be able to get away with it if you use temp control, as that is an arguably more accurate thing than a 451f fuse, but it’s dicey.&nbsp; I use fresh wick AND a temp control mod myself. Sort of a “belt and suspenders” approach.&nbsp; I can’t always make temp control work right and it requires more frequent changing of the coil.&nbsp; Temp control gets less and less accurate over time because of metal changes in the coil.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bombastinator, post: 23697072, member: 43994"] Yeah, I do that often. Cotton wick turns to ash eventually. If your device still draws juice it must taste awful. The ability to rewick is the prime reason to use rbas in the first place. It’s a cleanliness and safety thing. There’s probably a mass of black goo in there. I don’t often do it daily, but more than once a week. I’ve heard of people doing it daily. If you can’t handle rewicking, there are coil cartridges and pods. The coil cartridge tosses the coil as well every time, and a pod tosses the wick, coil, and juice tank. Keeping those safe to use is what makes them pricier. You could theoretically use a pod or a cartridge forever, but they don’t stay safe for very long. Neither will an rba of course. Those “estimated times” for pods or cartridges are practically never longer than a week, and they’re pushed out as far as possible to make them seem to have lower continuing cost. Really it’s all the same though. “Expected life” is just marketing. when I change a wick I dryburn, which is helpful to release baked on stuff, after brushing off the built up cruft. Then I do it again and wash it. It gets the last of the carbon out and helps prep for a fresh wick. If i screw up and glow the coil orange I’ve lost the ability to accurately measure with temp control and I replace the coil. The point behind cotton wick is it is a fuse. You burn it away and the device is supposed to stop working. You must have a wick made out of pure carbon that for whatever reason is still working though. It no longer acts as a fuse, as carbon has a much higher burning point, so you may be overheating, and all the horror stuff the ads talk about might actually happen to you. You [I]might[/I] be able to get away with it if you use temp control, as that is an arguably more accurate thing than a 451f fuse, but it’s dicey. I use fresh wick AND a temp control mod myself. Sort of a “belt and suspenders” approach. I can’t always make temp control work right and it requires more frequent changing of the coil. Temp control gets less and less accurate over time because of metal changes in the coil. [/QUOTE]

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