Not to detract from your conclusions at all but you must have developed a skill of repetition that most of us elude. A deftness and dexterity of digits which is beyond me, a lifetime guitarist. Not doubting you, commending you. Many I correspond with here and abroad, new and experienced vapers, confirm the difficulties of matching the density of cotton to any type of wicking system. Particularly a wind so irregular as one done by hand. You have indeed accomplished a laudable and enviable ideal on two fronts winding and wicking!
Mac,
I appreciate extremely your many invaluable skills and teachings on the arts of microcoil winding. I have followed your posts and learned a wealth of great information and will continue doing so with great interest. They're all great reads imho. But I also see without any doubt that you're pretty darn good at sarcasm too. Which if read between the lines is pure genius so please don't take that the wrong way. You're an asset to this community and I am not.
I never said anything about winding by hand around the wicking. I'm talking about doing it exactly as described in the first post of this thread. A simple standard coil, built on a 1/16" mandrel with a wisp of cotton pulled through after assembly. The only difference I have from the op is that I prewet the cotton after insertion and let it swell a bit before snipping off the tails. With the standard coil the cotton fit is much less critical imho since there is space for the inconsistancies between coils and thus much less chance for the wick to be choked off by being too compacted. No need to "fret" about all the wick fit and hot leg problems associated micros here where the simple standard coil w/cotton (to me anyway ymmv) handles the kanger task admirably compared to the stock silica & flavor wick trash. Also no flooding or gurgling since going this route btw
Then again reading between the lines your sarcastic retort instead of answering my original question, which I'll reword for you below, may have already answered the question by pointing out how difficult it truely is to build (repeatedly and consistantly) a microcoil that performs well in these little heads.
Why does this simple to make standard coil wicked with cotton shown in post one produce such great flavor ?
Now I think I might have answered the above question too, and sorry you felt I was attacking your microcoil skills at all. Perhaps the better question here should be is microcoil building on a kanger really worth all the troubles for the
slight improvement it
may offer over a cotton wicked coil built like the op showed us ?
Simplicity has merits too...vape on
...Then I will be one rebuilding .... today with fresh cotton heads a blazing.
