So, since I got my first reo this week I have a few questions. Previously with my kayfun, I would use the same coil sometimes up to a few weeks and just dry burn it and add new cotton. I read on the reos website under maintenance it's not recommended to dry burn. So, I'm wondering what everyone does. Do you just build a new coil and wick at the same time? How many refills on the same bottle will one coil/wick typically last? I want to get my method down and just know what to do. With the kayfun, I always dry burned and rewicked after 2-3 tanks so I'm unsure what frequency to do with the reo. Thanks!
question on coils and wicks
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I've never had an issue dry burning. I keep my pluses 3 - 5 second max though just to be safe
I vape unflavored nic base and a 29 ga coil easily goes a month or more between changes. I try to rewick about every 7 days
I wrap micro coils and wick them with cotton. I've got 3 RM2s. Two of them I rebuild all the time to try new builds, change up resistances to change wattage and such. One of them is my daily driver. That is a twisted 28g microcoil. It's over six months old now, and still looks and performs like new.
I rewick that RM2 and dry burn it pretty much every time I refill the bottle as a quick routine.
Here's what I do:
Take the wick out, and dry burn it a few times. After an initial dry burn I run the coil under a faucet (still attached to RM2 and Reo), dry burn the water off, then repeat that again. Insert a fresh wick and it's good to go.
Again, I repeat: that one coil has given me over six months of perfect performance.
I go through a full bottle about every other day.
Cheers.
I rewick that RM2 and dry burn it pretty much every time I refill the bottle as a quick routine.
Here's what I do:
Take the wick out, and dry burn it a few times. After an initial dry burn I run the coil under a faucet (still attached to RM2 and Reo), dry burn the water off, then repeat that again. Insert a fresh wick and it's good to go.
Again, I repeat: that one coil has given me over six months of perfect performance.
I go through a full bottle about every other day.
Cheers.
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I wonder if the warning against dry burning was because of the old button that melts? Or is it due to the collapsible spring?
I've never had a problem dry burning coils on mine. Though I do pulse the switch instead of pressing it continuously.
I've never had a problem dry burning coils on mine. Though I do pulse the switch instead of pressing it continuously.
ok so I just changed my cotton for the first time. I dry burned it. Now the new cotton doesn't taste as flavorful. Like, my juices don't taste as flavorful. So, does that typically mean I have too much or too little cotton? I think you are supposed to use less cotton on this wick correct? Just trying to figure out if I did too little or too much to get less flavor.
Never dry burn cotton. Replace the wick with loosely rolled cotton. It should move easily back and forth in the coil. Cut the tails off within 1/8" or so from each end of the coil.
just reread your post. You dry burned the coil before you put the cotton in correct?
Yes before. I'm just trying to figure out cause and effects. If my wick is too short what happens and if too long what happens. That way when something isn't right I can go back to the source. I'm not sure which is which. So, seems like I'm getting more vapor, but less taste. So, not sure if that means too much or too little wick.
Pull you cotton, dry burn, rinse with water (optional but I do this), dry burn again and re-wick. Prime and vape.
Edit: Make sure you coil is cool before trying to insert new cotton wick. Wick size looks fine but you may want to raise the coil off the deck a tad.
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Actually your wick, (to me), looks a little much... I would never recommend anyone runs an atty and coil under water, it does nothing for it. If you were going to scrub the coil with a brush, then maybe. A dry burn, (only), will properly clean the coil and is all that is needed. Put in a new wick, squonk, and vape...
A note on dry burning: Remember that when you dry burn you are creating ash on and in the coil. I alway wash the coil after dry burning. I always recoil after two tanks on the kayfun and one bottle on the REO cause after several cycles, the coil gets black and brittle and no amount of dry burning is going to revive the coil...to new coil status. I know it is metal wire but after several "uses" it becomes oxidized and less effective and can contribute to funky tasting juice.
Guess I should clarify here, I just add a drop or two out of a bottle to wash the ash off the coil after dry burning. No running the entire atty under the facet.
I dry burn and wash with water, but not under the faucet. When the coils are gunked up, I pull the wick, get the coils glowing, turn it upside down and "quench" in a shallow dish of water and repeat at least two times. When I do this, I can see the black gunk fall off into the water and the coil comes out looking great. Doing it upside down lessens the chance of water getting into the juice channels and contacts.
Every day I dry burn all three of my reos, run the whole mod under running water aimed at the RM2 (which flushes out the tube), dry, and rewick. This way I can change juices without worrying about flavor carryover (I don't use highly flavored juice).
Strange... I remove my RM2 and run it under hot water all the time, not a single problem. Running the same Mundy Magic coil now for quite a while, still going strong. Same for when I had a twisted 30 gage micro prior to that, no problems whatsoever.
If I don't wash my coil every so often after dry burning, ill start getting those black nasties as I call them, little bits of black carbon floating around in my tube/bottle and on my deck...dry burning and rinse off washes the black nasties away
Geez, I'd be recoiling twice (sometimes three times) a day!
I use the Rob endorsed "Ugly Coils" at .5 ohms and usually wrap up a new one every couple weeks.
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