Thanks, MacTechVpr, for passing on the results of your research, and for putting together a 1.8Ω wrap just for me! So, what is the difference between a 30 gauge 6/7x wrap on a 3/43 (~1.75mm) jeweler's screw driver and a 32 gauge 5x wrap on a 1/16" drill bit ?
No worries. I don't even know what XC is, and had no plans yet to try it. Below is a description of my less than favorable results with cotton.Magic, good evening. I wanted to hop on this thread to apologize to you for a misleading error in my advice to you. To correct the facts for the record here.
In my build recommendations I suggested a coil configuration complementing Metalhed's great writeup on assembling Kanger heads. Unfortunately, I was laboring under a misunderstanding myself due to my oversight.
In my description to you, and elsewhere in several posts, I specified the Nextel product XC-116. That is incorrect. That product code has absolutely nothing to do with the material size. I was in fact using the product XC-132 which is nominally just under 2mm in cross section. And XC-116 is considerably thicker, upwards of 1/4". I received the product from a vendor now defunct and the product was not properly labeled. I made an apparently common consumer mistake with this product and associated the product model number for the size.
My apologies for any confusion or inconvenience.
FWIW, I built 3 more tonight using a shorter wrap: 6 wraps on a 1/16' drill bit- makes for about 1.75Ω, and I am going a tad lighter on the cotton. It's a little better, I think. Not getting any bad flavor, but still not getting what I'm used to on a good stock 1.8Ω silica coil. I am pleased with the beautiful coils I'm making, and getting great vapor, but if I'm not getting the flavor, it really doesn't matter. I'm open to any suggestions, but if I can't figure it out, I'm gonna start rebuilding on silica.
I won't be trying that. The silica I have ordered is 2mm, so I'll be wrapping it with 32 gauge instead of stuffing it into a micro coil.If you do decide to try silica buy high quality silica rated at higher temp's. And do us a favor once you figure it out — let us know how you got the 1.5 mm silica into 1/16".
If, by the time my silica arrives, I'm not making progress with cotton, I'm gonna try that 6/5 factory wrap with the space- may even try it with cotton.
LOL, ok, maybe a good laugh on me.
Maybe I'm gonna have to re-try that 6/5 factory wrap. Been a long time.
(You know the one with the little separation in the middle).
For context.
Who was that masked stranger with the muted juice?
You'all just move along now; nothin' to see here.
:bye:
Cheers! Off to wrap another coil....
One of the major benefits of vaping is supposed to be that we're not inhaling smoke from burning tobacco. Well, you know, cotton burns, and while it may not be actually flaming inside that red hot coil, even if it's well saturated with juice, some of those fibers have got to be at least slowly burning, and we're inhaling it. Got to wonder if that's a good idea?
I'm almost an old man, so I have to figure out how to do things the old man way. Couple of tips that work for me.
First is any video I've seen rebuilding Kanger's show people pulling out the rubber insulator after removing the bottom pin. No need to do that and stretch/ruin the insulator. You are removing it because you are replacing the coil, so pull the bottom pin, if you can see the wire bent from the center over the insulator bend it to the middle, then with the chimney removed pull the old coil out. Then take a small screw or what ever fits and PUSH the rubber insulator out instead of pulling/ripping on it. Those rubber insulators are very important and not easy to find replacements for and even if I do find them it's one less thing to buy.
I use a 2mm machine screw to rap my coils, you can find them at any Hobby shop that sells electric train hardware, while there get a track/wire snips, they are like an electricians side cutters (dykes) but much smaller and will give a real close cut to the coil wires. Once I rap the coil how many raps I want I just spin it off the screw, makes a perfect fit coil.
When I go to put the coil in I use a turkey scewer/trusser, they are stainless and fit nicely into the coil. It aligns the coil nicely while I put a small ball of cotton on top and then put the chimney softly in place, not smashing it, just enough to help hold everything in place.
After this I pretty much do everything the same, except removing the chimney and cotton and then rewicking with cotton. Took awhile to figure out how much cotton to use for the wick, it takes much less than one would think initially.
Happy vaping to all!
Nice thread I will be trying this, just got my pro2 and very glad I came across this. Thank you all for all the tips
I may just try to find a coil size that will accommodate 2ml silica. I've given up on cotton for now because of the drop in flavor, and have been wrapping silica with variable results. It's challenging or frustrating, depending on mood.Once you're wicking in place with cotton, or Eko,Nextel...any braid...you're life is made so much easier. You can reburn/reuse bare coil assemblies all night and day and rewicking is ridiculously easy once you know it's gonna fit. You designed it that way.