READYxWICK for non cotton people

[MacTechVpr]

Its all good Mac, I took a stab at trying to rebuild a few of those about a year ago and lets just say "MAJOR FAILURE" would be putting it mildly... I do love it in my micro coils though.

I just bought some 2mm. Gonna try rebuilding on my Protanks and Aerotank bases. Do you always put the extra pieces of readywick in the bases around where the coil is?

Sorry to hear that muzic. The tighter the design the more critical the build geometry must be and it's not always intuitive. It doesn't help that the consumer tank makers are constantly playin' with the pieces to my mind for the sole purpose of deterring rebuilding (protecting consumables sales). I know I'm not the only one having arrived at this suspicion witness Rip T's and others bashing of the flurry of design changes since last year. Most hide the dismal state of the circuitry.

RIMP I gave the fellow credit for encouraging me to revise the testing on channel wicks (on the Protank Cotton thread). And I use it on occasion. Basically its not a catch all, no. Leaking past the base threading I believe is inherent to the design (tolerance limitations in threading and the vacuum changes with heat variation of the tanks contents). So we all suffer the 510. It's more of a if it works use it option and expensive with Nextel (except I recycle my wicks for this). The answer to my view is to focus really well on attaining wind symmetry as you wind and assemble. By perfect I mean ditch the bad ones. Really. Don't accept anything less than perfect particularly when you spin up one of these guys in seconds and do another. Why? The more perfect the adhesion at pulsing the closer to absolute efficiency you get out of them. The better they vaporize; the less they flood. Period. The tighter that coil (and it's consistent tension not too much of it) the less likely it is to distort in assembly or to show you clearly [if you do, skew] during the process. Raking which super_X_drifter discovered of tension coils is more apt to cause a tight wind to snap back into it's originally tensioned state. So it all benefits the vape to just be carefully consistent. Be the coil I say.

We can spend a whole lot of time on fiddly with our devices, whatever they are; but if you get the basic right it cures a host of ills.

THAT MY FRIENDS IS WHY I DO WHAT I DO. I'm a lazy ...., I'm tellin' ya. Hate to struggle or see others have to.

Good luck.

 

[jrenae4]

Is this stuff still the bees knees? Sorry for not going through 89 pages (although I did read about 20 ) Someone told me the harsh sensation I could be having could be from using cotton as wick. Thought I might give this a try.

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

Well, it appears to be the bee's ankles at least.

Some swear by it, others find it mutes the flavour a tad. I got sent some by Marc411 (props, brother, props for doing that) and have had it in a dual coil setup on a RM3 for some time.

What I can tell you from personal experience:

* it's nigh indestructible. Seriously. It dry burns back to near-new and shows no signs of wearing out its welcome. I'll prolly replace the coil before it.

* it's easy to work with. I twist up a 1/16" microcoil and then twist the small diameter RxW into it. So easy that it's peasy.

* it wicks well. As in, very well.

* I wouldn't say it mutes the flavour, but it does change the profile (IMHO). I have a candied liquorice juice that I love (I answer to no one) - with cotton, it's got a strong liquorice flavour; with RxW, it's all about the candy. It's the only wicking material I've tried that does that.

 

[Raynman]

When it comes to no muss no fuss RXW is the bees knees. Roll a coil, cut the RXW at an about 30 degree angle wet it with (VG, PG, juice) and screw it in like a bolt through a nut. Then vape worry free for 6 months. The only thing you have to do after that is change juice and batteries as needed.

 

[jrenae4]

Thanks for the input guys. I'll have to try some to see if that's my issue. After using my RM2, even at a higher ohm, I have a burnt throat the next day. PG is not the issue as I use high VG and it doesn't do this in other non-rebuildable devices, so I'm thinking it's the cotton. What are most using with the RM2? 2 mm? 1 mm?

 

[supertrunker]

The 2mm is a great fit in the coils i make. I got a sample pack with 2 and 3mm, and the 3mm is just harder to use in a small atty (but it blowtorches better in the videos!)

T

 

[RattlerX]

Thanks for the input guys. I'll have to try some to see if that's my issue. After using my RM2, even at a higher ohm, I have a burnt throat the next day. PG is not the issue as I use high VG and it doesn't do this in other non-rebuildable devices, so I'm thinking it's the cotton. What are most using with the RM2? 2 mm? 1 mm?

Cotton leaves me with a sore throat as well. I have been using RxW since March and love it. I prefer a 1/16 coil and the 2mm slim 99% of the time.

 

[Filthy-Beast]

Yep 2mm in 1/16 coils here. I've got several running that are over 3 months old.

 

[pt91]

I have been using RW for several months now. Here is what I have settled on for my rm2 and cyclone. 7/64 ID with 3mm RW.
Didn't have as much success with the 2mm but I do use it in other set ups.

 

[pennysmalls]

Could someone run me through the dry burning process? Before using Reo's and building my coils I never had to dry burn and I think I may be doing it very wrong. I'm destroying my pieces of rxw. My dry burning is the only thing I can think of that would explain it, or I got a piece of rxw from a bad batch. When I take on older coil off my atty to rebuild, the rxw falls out in two pieces as I'm uncoiling and the ends that used to be connected are dry and brittle and very dark brown. The toasted ends fall apart if touched. This is the spot of the rxw that was in the center of my coil. this has happened three times now. Anyone else experiencing this?

 

[HappiVappi]

Could someone run me through the dry burning process? Before using Reo's and building my coils I never had to dry burn and I think I may be doing it very wrong. I'm destroying my pieces of rxw. My dry burning is the only thing I can think of that would explain it, or I got a piece of rxw from a bad batch. When I take on older coil off my atty to rebuild, the rxw falls out in two pieces as I'm uncoiling and the ends that used to be connected are dry and brittle and very dark brown. The toasted ends fall apart if touched. This is the spot of the rxw that was in the center of my coil. this has happened three times now. Anyone else experiencing this?

If your coil falls apart even before dry burning, you must have had some nasty dry hits long before that. If you get quite a lot dry hits for no good reason your coil is too tight around the wick. If the wick gets choked like that you're getting dry spots and those burn through over time.

Proper dry burn:

Don't get distracted during this process - so... don't dry burn while driving and so on yaddi yadda....

Hit the fire button - the coil stats sizzling. 5 seconds max.
Blow onto the coil to cool it off a bit.

Hit the fire button - the coil stats sizzling. 5 seconds max.
Blow onto the coil to cool it off a bit.

Hit the fire button - the coil should start glowing slightly orange. If it does release the fire button.
Let it cool down.

From here on you have to blow onto the coil at all times while firing up.
Do that in a pulse modulation fashion. Fire - OFF - Fire - Off - Fire ..... Don't forget to blow on it at all times. If you run out of air - STOP firing the coil....

Until the coil is shiny and the wick has turned white then you are all good.

HTH.

Cheers.

 

[pennysmalls]

Thanks Happy! I didn't discover my rxw falling apart until after I had been vaping it for at least a week and went to take it out of the old coil. No dry hits.

From here on you have to blow onto the coil at all times while firing up.
Do that in a pulse modulation fashion. Fire - OFF - Fire - Off - Fire ..... Don't forget to blow on it at all times. If you run out of air - STOP firing the coil....

Until the coil is shiny and the wick has turned white then you are all good.

This part I have not been doing, I was doing just the first part until my coil was shiny. I hope this solves my problem. Thanks again!

 

[muzichead]

If you are changing coils you need to put in a new piece of RxW each time. It will fall apart if you try to uncoil and reuse... Dry burning the coil and cleaning it up is where RxW really shines compared to other wicking media. Dry burn it in bursts and it cleans itself and the coil... Some of us have gotten 6mos.+ out of a coil using it...

 

[pennysmalls]

I'm hoping to get to where I can use it for 6 months. Maybe I should try dry burning it more often, I've been db about once a week.

 

[muzichead]

I'm hoping to get to where I can use it for 6 months. Maybe I should try dry burning it more often, I've been db about once a week.

I dry burn mine like every other day... Once a week would stress out the wick too much for me...

 

[pennysmalls]

Thanks muzichead, I'm learning.

 

[jifjifjif]

I've had small flames when dry burning my coil. Just burning the juice, I think. I just blow it out, but good to know that you can start a campfire if you have no lighter or matches.

 

[pwheeler]

When mine catches fire, that's when it seems my wick turns the whitest, just like new.

 

[Spydro]

Was going to buy/try some ReadyX way back when. But the cotton in the never ending new forms works just fine for me, is easy to rewick and dirt cheap, so I never took the plunge. Might be missing out on something, but don't feel like it, so doubt I'll ever take the plunge.

 

[pt91]

I usually rinse mine with hot water before I dry burn. If I don't, it tends to flame up.