I am looking at how to rewick (and also rebuild a coil for) the PT2 atomizer units. I got a few good links for doing these, which I'll post here for the sake of some other newbie like myself:
entertaining and useful video on rebuilding the PT2 coil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrvwOf13U-s
photo tutorial on rewicking with cotton:
Stop throwing away your protank coils – ITCVapes coils
I have yet to try either because a) I haven't assembled all needed materials, b) haven't run out of pre-made atomizer units and c) am frankly feeling a little under-confident. But the sooner I get to this the better, so I went looking for cotton balls at the local pharmacia. It seems that--surprise!--cotton balls are no longer made of cotton. I've visited all possible local vendors and can't find any actual cotton. I am sure I could order these online, and will be looking into that, but in the meantime, a neighbor of mine has a small Ceiba tree which produces a fluffy substance that looks very much like cotton. I know it has been used for filling stuff in the past - flotation devices, dolls, mattresses, etc. I haven't found much online about its absorptive properties and even if I had, I wouldn't know how to evaluate that information in terms of deciding whether it would make an appropriate material for wicking in a vape tank.
So, this is a weird question, but hopefully I'll get cut some slack for being a newb: does anyone have experience with this material--it's called kapok or sometimes "java cotton"-- or could make an educated guess about how it might work for this purpose? I imagine the worst that could happen is that it would simply be either too absorptive or not-absorptive-enough.
Thoughts anyone?
entertaining and useful video on rebuilding the PT2 coil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrvwOf13U-s
photo tutorial on rewicking with cotton:
Stop throwing away your protank coils – ITCVapes coils
I have yet to try either because a) I haven't assembled all needed materials, b) haven't run out of pre-made atomizer units and c) am frankly feeling a little under-confident. But the sooner I get to this the better, so I went looking for cotton balls at the local pharmacia. It seems that--surprise!--cotton balls are no longer made of cotton. I've visited all possible local vendors and can't find any actual cotton. I am sure I could order these online, and will be looking into that, but in the meantime, a neighbor of mine has a small Ceiba tree which produces a fluffy substance that looks very much like cotton. I know it has been used for filling stuff in the past - flotation devices, dolls, mattresses, etc. I haven't found much online about its absorptive properties and even if I had, I wouldn't know how to evaluate that information in terms of deciding whether it would make an appropriate material for wicking in a vape tank.
So, this is a weird question, but hopefully I'll get cut some slack for being a newb: does anyone have experience with this material--it's called kapok or sometimes "java cotton"-- or could make an educated guess about how it might work for this purpose? I imagine the worst that could happen is that it would simply be either too absorptive or not-absorptive-enough.
Thoughts anyone?
