Well, have mastered the Russian months ago, and have perfected my iV-twin build on the Russian. Currently running a 0.40 ohm build on the Russian, vertical mounted inverted V micro coil, with wick thread between the /\ coils and wrapped around the out side with rayon fiber, pushing it at 5.5 volts, and must say, vaping Damn Fine.
I pre-wet my wick with juice, and work it into the rayon, ramie, hemp,. and then form the fiber into a thick ribbon the width of the coil length. Once into my desired width and thickness, I then thread it between the coils with equal ends out each end. Then wrap each tail 420 degrees around the entire coil, fold the tails up and then secure the containment ring, tuck the tails in the juice decks fully saturate the wick with juice, assemble, fill and vape my azz off.
The reason I fold my wick tails up is so no fibers get caught up in the threads while securing the ring, not doing so can clog the juice channels and be the culprit to hit and miss wicking issues with kayfun/Russian style rba's. Least ever since I started using this trick, have never clogged up my juice channels. Just saying
I am planning on doing a more detailed write up on the iV-twin, alias the "Cross Eyed Snake Eyes Build" in the
Romulan Warp Core thread my bad, that's right, J went with Vcore or something like that. But will post it there.
Jeremy, haven't built two same rba's yet for a side by side vape off yet, maybe with the Magmas and take them below 0.2 for some 90 watt wicking trials. But so far have built both the Russian and the Rose2 with the V-twin and rayon, both exactly the same build, and also in the Aqua at 0.18 ohms. Flavor is on a par with ramie, wicking is of the magnitude I receive from ramie also.
The main difference between the two is that rayon is more cottony, where ramie is more tubular. Both have excellent wicking potential, feel rayon is more user friendly, while ramie takes understanding and attention to detail. Frak, Ramie frustrated me for months before I figured it out.
Ramie is much more durable and heat resistant. You gave me a friendly jib about experienced vapers and all, when I told you about my rayon fiber blow out through the coil. And it was a loud PoP! lol. was like it vaporized along with the final drop of juice.
But what the other people that liked your jibe didn't know, I was vaping that wick at 75 watts, and this was my first time running out of juice with this fiber. Which has a totally different warning vape before running out than any other fiber I've used, well at 75 watts, once out of juice, the wick is sucked dry quite fast, so if you ignore the first warning vape from rayon, you won't get a second. lol The main reason I posted it was as a heads up to high watt vapers when first using rayon, to be alert for very subtle warning vape.
Here's a pic of Ramie after 2 months of solid vaping at 0.2 ohm's.
I think that's a tri twisted 28 coil I had. As you can see there is slight scoring dead center, but no real scorching. Probably from the occasional tank dry, totally dry hits it had, since it's at the center. Ramie is very heart resistant, very durable. The ramie is in good enough condition was tempted to re-use it.
Hopefully will have time to do a rebuild on the Magma's, but they are vaping so well and only have a month on the builds so far, kind of a shame to end their life prematurely, oh well, all in the interest of science. lmao. Will report back when I have gained more experience
