Question about rebuilding and rewicking T3 heads

[Garemlin]

So yesterday when doing a cleaning on my older T3 heads I decided to take the air tube out. Well while soaking a few of the top wicks completely disintegrated. So now I have a decision to make. Do I attempt to make new wicks for them or toss them. Or sell them cheap to people more skillful in this sort of thing. But does rewicking them alone bring fresh life back to them or is it also rebuilding the coil. I just don't know if I wanna bother with any of it.

 

[ktazz]

I've tried rebuilding t3s. while it is not that hard, all my rebuilds had a burnt taste don't know what's wrong with what I'm doing. I've read that it has something to do with "hot legs" but don't know how to eliminate that and it seems like the original coils are soldered with no resistance at the end of the wires so it only heats up the wire touching the wick

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[BiXLL]

I tried and had a bunch of different problems. Bad draw, bad taste, occasional flooding, etc. I decided for $3.00, I will replace them.

 

[CatLady007]

I've got some 2mm silica wick coming (yay! my liquid supplier now carries it), and will try dry-burning the existing coils to remove build-up, and laying on new flavor wicks. For less than $2 in wicking, I certainly don't mind giving it a try.
$3 for a replacement head is doable, but they go out of stock too regularly for my peace of mind.

 

[WorksForMe]

Rebuilding coils really doesn’t save a lot of money unless you’re using a juice that gunks them up really fast. Replacing the loose wicks and dryburning are pretty easy, but just not worth the trouble for me. I hope that S.I. comes out with a clearo with real cheap replacement coils like the eVod (about $6 for a 5-pack of coils). I just ordered a Vision V-Tox. It’s supposed to be just like the eVod except that it has four juice viewing windows instead of two.

J.R.

 

[djezewski]

So yesterday when doing a cleaning on my older T3 heads I decided to take the air tube out. Well while soaking a few of the top wicks completely disintegrated. So now I have a decision to make. Do I attempt to make new wicks for them or toss them. Or sell them cheap to people more skillful in this sort of thing. But does rewicking them alone bring fresh life back to them or is it also rebuilding the coil. I just don't know if I wanna bother with any of it.

I have just sit a new top wick on top after I dry burn. Since they only lay in you don't need more than about an inch before you trim. It probably will give you a couple weeks more. I am going to try rebuilding on some old wicks when I need to with ekowool. I found some for a darn good price and since they are supposed to be better tatsing(so they say) I will give it a go.

 

[Garemlin]

Well sounds like it may not be worth the hassle for me. I'd rather just stock up on heads and let them roll good with a few cleanings. The ones I am referring to just cleaning have been cleaned many times. I still have three good ones, 4 back-ups and just received 5 barely used heads from a fellow member so I should be good for a while. Think there is market for these used heads that need to be rebuilt??? For people that know what they are going. I'd let them go real cheap just so I don't have to throw them away. seems a waste. I may just try taking a few that have lost the top wicks and combine two wicks from one and see how that works first.

As far as the coils I don't really use juices that gunk them up. Mostly 60/40 or 70/30 nutty and tobacco flavors.

 

[djezewski]

Sure especially if someone loses the plastic gromets.