I’ve tried getting the Tidi Balls but to no avail. Seems like you have to know someone in Germany
Rayon Wick - Better Flow, Flavor, Longevity, and Nic Hit!! - Pt.2
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Enter the following in a search engine @Heartsdelight.
tidi non sterile rayon balls
That'll get you the basic results which you may well need to tweak a little.
tidi non sterile rayon balls
That'll get you the basic results which you may well need to tweak a little.
They're available on Amazon. No idea if the price is good. Seems high to me.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DJBE606/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A37C30DXZ4UX4F&psc=1
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DJBE606/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A37C30DXZ4UX4F&psc=1
Yeah, now that I've seen the prices for smaller quantities, it seems perfectly reasonable.
Yikes! Expensive to me too! I haven’t looked lately but when I did look Amazon didn’t have it at that time.
Those are the Medium sized ones. I've only ever used Large. I'm skeptical about the medium sized ones. I wonder if they would yield sufficient material to fill a coil when they're unrolled. I guess it would depend on the ID of a person's coil.
I got 1000 Large over six years ago and I'm sure they will last me a lifetime, despite having given away quite a few baggies full early on.
Medium sized Tidi balls from Delasco (they no longer carry them) was the 1st Rayon I used way back when rayon was becoming popular. I make 2.5mm id coils and if I separated/split a section of the unrolled ball carefully I could get two wicks from that piece.
Hmm... I make 2.0mm coils (actually 5/64") and I use about 2/3 of an unrolled Large Tidi ball.
Perhaps I like my Rayon stuffed more tightly in my coils than you do?
PM me your mailing address and I'll send you a bag of dm Viskose balls, they are not Tidi but very good compared to Sally's.
Those who have tried both the Sally and medium Tidi, how would you say they compare, as far as amount of material available for wick width?
I like mine snug enough that when pulling through the coil, any more rayon would be too much and distort the coil. It should be just tights enough that is doesn't easily slide back an forth on the coil.
That said, I've over stuffed enough coils that the coils pretty much totally collapsed on itself. The I have to spend a bit of time/care to separate the wraps of the coil so they're not touching. To/for me a really tightly packed coil takes longer to break in and give a tasteful vape.
It'a a fine line between just right and too much. I tend to err on the too much side a lot because not enough is NO GOOD.
Reminds me of school. A lot of the time early on my parents had me in this wacky type of school where to learn to knit you had to start by carding wool.... it stinks and has burrs in it.... To hand spinning it, also not easy.... Basket weaving class? Yup. It's on my transcript and I can proudly say "A" about that but we had to venture into the forest and collect our own vines and stuff.
I am not unrolling 4K balls, thank you very much. I know me, and when enough it 'Good enough" for me...
IDK about silica I always just wanted to try hemp rope but I hear it sucks.
Anna
I am not unrolling 4K balls, thank you very much. I know me, and when enough it 'Good enough" for me...
IDK about silica I always just wanted to try hemp rope but I hear it sucks.
Anna
IDK, I see it as a "break this bundle of sticks" problem, as in, one at a time and it's easy. As for hemp, I hear it's only good on tobacco flavors. Silica I've tried in the boulder rock. There is a certain "brightness" it brings out in flavors, fruits were good.
In the good old days silica wicks were common. Not so much now.
I used them all the time with Greek made atomizers.
I think they wicked flavor very well.
Not sure if they were as safe. But, it's also hard to know what is, and whether it really matters.
I used them all the time with Greek made atomizers.
I think they wicked flavor very well.
Not sure if they were as safe. But, it's also hard to know what is, and whether it really matters.
@newyork13, silica fiber isn't the same a silica particulate. So it's reasonably safe to use.
Most of the information on conditions caused by silica involves fine particulates in a dry environment. Such as mining, quarrying and working with stone.
Not long fibres in a wet environment.
Most of the information on conditions caused by silica involves fine particulates in a dry environment. Such as mining, quarrying and working with stone.
Not long fibres in a wet environment.
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