Rayon Wick - Better Flow, Flavor, Longevity, and Nic Hit!! - Pt.2

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Katdarling

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Welp, the kompetitive part of me wants to play....... :D

But I'm certainly doubtful.

On the other hand, I have NEVER (even in my wildest dreams) filled a tank well over 50 times. It's sensational and surreal.
 

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Welp, the kompetitive part of me wants to play....... :D

But I'm certainly doubtful.

On the other hand, I have NEVER (even in my wildest dreams) filled a tank well over 50 times. It's sensational and surreal.
Keep trying!

The juice that gets me into the 200 range is 5% Pineapple (TFA) 2% Marshmallow (TFA) 70 VG 4mg.

It vapes very clean.
 

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Hey Kat, I pushed a rayon build in a Fogger V6 to just short of 400ml before I gave in and rebuilt it. It was more a problem with coil gunk than a problem with the wick and you'll find that to be true. The wick will rinse back to clean, white, if you check before taking it apart.

I normally rebuild at about 200ml now so my rayon consumption has gone up. I'm still on the original box of Graham from Sally's, but it is, noticeably, getting empty. I have probably given away at least 100 feet, if not 200 feet, though. Buying the bulk boxes from Sally's, if you have one locally, is still the most economical solution and insures an almost lifetime supply.
 

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Hey Kat, I pushed a rayon build in a Fogger V6 to just short of 400ml before I gave in and rebuilt it. It was more a problem with coil gunk than a problem with the wick and you'll find that to be true. The wick will rinse back to clean, white, if you check before taking it apart.

That could be a record. I re-wick every 120 - 150ml which is 4 - 6 weeks for me with 4 toppers in daily rotation and the wick is always quite white, it's the coils that need the cleaning (and I use very little, usually no, sweetener (I only use stevia in some recipes, no more sucralose).
 

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All of my liquids are tobaccoish but most have some ethyl maltol in them, and a few have caramel, which promotes the gunking. My estimate of 400ml is based on time rather than tracking each refill and it kind of happened by "accident" rather than trying to see how far it would go. I will admit the flavor was not up to snuff towards the end when I decided to push it.

My wife, a tottle puffer, routinely goes 150-200ml in Fogger V4.1s. She refills them daily and I rebuild them on a, more or less, monthly basis.
 

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I don't keep track but I do know when I was using Japanese Organic cotton I had to rewick every 1 1/2-2 weeks. Now it seems to last forever! :thumbs:
When I do re wick, boy I guess it was time cos sometimes the rayon will just break off rather than having to cut & pull out.
 

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I don't keep track but I do know when I was using Japanese Organic cotton I had to rewick every 1 1/2-2 weeks. Now it seems to last forever! :thumbs:
When I do re wick, boy I guess it was time cos sometimes the rayon will just break off rather than having to cut & pull out.
This happened on my boreas I just changed. I normally tug on one end then decide to cut off an end to get it out. This time I tugged and it ripped in the center but the ss clapton coil was gunkier than I have had in a very long time.
 

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TWO-hundred?????????????????????? OMG. :lol:

I'll keep tracking but I won't believe it til my spreadsheet tells me so!

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I am vaping mostly unflavored these days. I find I can rinse the wick white again under a drible of water. What forces me to rewick is when the coil gets gunked up and I have to pull the wick to clean the coil. The wick almost always outlasts the coil.
 

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Thanks Fozzy. That one is still pretty huge but if that's the smallest I can get then I'll get it. I didn't want to buy a lot of it in case it doesn't work for me. Eh it's only $10 so I'm gonna check it out.
that is what I did and I am hooked on it now and sorta wish I had bought the monster box from sally's since it doesn't cost much more but I don't know what I would have done with 3 pounds of the stuff if I didn't like it so no big deal. I probably still have 20 - 30 feet left in my box after 6 months using it on 5 different dual coil decks in daily rotation.

If you are in the states I bet someone here with the 3lb box would probably mail you a few feet to try.
 

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Two packs of smokes cost more than the box of Sally's most places or close to it. I did that day after day for years and nothing but a can of butts. I'm not afraid of wasting $20-30 on vape stuff to save me from cigs.
I live in VA, a damn tobacco state, and I was amazed at the supermarket the other day, $55 a carton. And to think I used to go through a carton+ a week. Aint no way I have spent $3k a year since I started vaping. So yeah, I have bought a lot of stuff that I either PIFd or threw away, and I am still ahead of the game.
 
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Mrs & I smoked about $300/month/each here in Taxachusetts. It would be hard for us to spend that much on vaping though I wouldn't be surprised if some do.

She gets a couple of weeks per Nautilus BVC coil @ 1.5ml/day :)
I vape 15-20ml/day and usually rewick my Aromamizers from 30-60ml

I like my DIY sweet but I just tried a few dark juices that got about a tank before getting too dark. FW Yellow Cake, FW Reindeer Poop & FW Bananas Foster are all losers.
It's not that they gunk the coils as much as they fill the wick with dark solids.

Left is 60ml of DIY MBV Blue Moo - right is 10ml of FW Yellow Cake
The yellow cake coils are pretty clean. The wick OTOH....
It'll wash pure white with typical mild burnage under the coil.
I pour flavors that are gross and PIF what tastes good but I don't want.
Foster, Poop & Yellow Cake all hit the road instead of the drain.
total loss = 2 days worth of smoking or a 30ml bottle of hype juice from a B&M.
No problem mon.

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