Quick question about buying wick for kanger mini protank!

[jennybee]

i'm going to try rebuilding my kanger mini protank coil (nervous) and am wondering what wick I should be buying? i'm ordering from jugheads tonight (yay!), and my choices are thin, medium, or thick cotton wicking.
thanks!

 

[Jake6731]

Pretty sure you would need Thin for the Kanger heads.

 

[Dakota Jim]

as far as silica is concerned I use either 1mm with 4 strands or 2mm doubled over in 2 strands using a 3/48 machine screw

 

[RubyRoo]

When I was using silica to rebuild my Kanger heads, I used 3mm silica. Some folks use 2mm and 2.5 mm in their rebuilds. Hope this helps.

 

[melodiousThunk]

How did it go? I'm working on the same thing for the first time, so I wondered what you chose. I feel like a spendthrift every time I toss out a head & just this morning I disassembled one to see what I'll be doing.

Hope it worked out... I'd like to read about your project and the results.

 

[RubyRoo]

Personally I rebuild my heads with 32 gauge kanthal, 5 wraps around a 1/16th drill bit, and thread through a small strand of organic cotton ball, with a teeny tiny cotton flavor wick over the top of the coiled wick. There are 1001 ways to rebuild them, and I hope you find what works for you!

 

[melodiousThunk]

Huh. The rebuilding gods must have been watching this thread. Thanks for the info, y'all. You must literally have been typing your responses as I was posing my question. Cool.

 

[jennybee]

i will for sure let you know how it goes. as someone fairly new to all of this, I still find it confusing navigating the terms and merchandise everyone seems so familiar with!

 

[Crawl]

I am about to do the same thing on my mini ..I wached riptrippers video on YouTube..28gauge 12 wraps on a 5/64 drill bit..with cotton 1.8 ohm..

 

[vaperature]

I use 2mm silica for the coil and 1mm silica for the flavor wick. If you're using cotton you can just go to the CVS and get a bag of sterile cotton balls for about 3 bucks that will last you a lifetime.

 

[cope]

i just finished my pt micro coil rebuild 10 wraps on a 1/16th drill bit pretorched wire squeezed coil between twesers and torched again
tested 3.0 ohm cotton wicked and it really works well no flavor wick is needed also
i used 32g wire

 

[jennybee]

i just finished my pt micro coil rebuild 10 wraps on a 1/16th drill bit pretorched wire squeezed coil between twesers and torched again
tested 3.0 ohm cotton wicked and it really works well no flavor wick is needed also
i used 32g wire

there's a torch involved??

 

[Crawl]

I use 2mm silica for the coil and 1mm silica for the flavor wick. If you're using cotton you can just go to the CVS and get a bag of sterile cotton balls for about 3 bucks that will last you a lifetime.

That's exactly what I did(bag of sterile cotton)

 

[Spazmelda]

If I'm using silica I use 2mm silica for the coil wick, and two strands of 1 mm for the flavor wicks.

Here's an easy re-wick to try if you are not ready to dive in all the way (uses a stock coil, but new wick). Get some cotton balls (I use regular and boil then dry them). Take your protank head and pull the chimney off. Remove the flavor wicks and use some tweezers to gently remove the coil wick (probably easiest if the wick is dry). Put the head back on the battery and fire the battery a few times till the coil glows evenly. Take the head off and rinse any burnt residue off. Pull a wisp of cotton off the ball and use a doubled piece of wire or a needle threader to pull the bit of cotton through the coil. Use a needle or some pointy thing to adjust the coils if they've gotten wonky. Add another wisp of cotton for the flavor wick. Prime the new wick with some juice and put the chimney back on. This gives you nice clean coils and a fresh cotton wick and all you really need to buy is some cotton balls. I don't know that you'd really need to even check for shorts, since you'd be using a pre-made coil.

 

[cope]

i dont think you actually need torch just a lighter to pre burn the wire but to tweeze the coil and torch dose