Readyxwick is performing like garbage

[Tony Spectacular]

I know that there's a long thread about this 'wonderwick', but my search efforts didn't yield my answers, and I just don't have the time to read the whole thing. In my experience, neither size yields good results. The flavor is terrible. Whether I torch it first or not, it has this awful chemical taste. Also, very strangely, after releasing the button after a normal hit I get a really long sizzle that actually seems to increase in volume before tapering off. I wick the same coil with cotton and have no such result. The flavor and vapor production is fine with cotton, but if I go back and rewick with RxW it's the same terrible result. I want to love this stuff, and figure that it's something that I'm doing wrong since so many of you sing its praises. I'm using regular micros, 'screwing' the RxW in, soaking it thoroughly before hitting it, and still it's horrible. Any suggestions?

 

[Chowderhead1972]

The sizzle afterwards points to dry wick. Are you pre-forming your coil (like a micro wrapped around a drill bit) or are you ugly coiling it (wrapping the coil directly around the wick)? I have never used ready wick but I do use stuffed 2mm ekowool (2mm sleeve with 1mm silica in the center threaded through a pre-formed micro type coil.

Thanks for the 28 and 10mg btw.

I tried cotton the first day I had my reo (Monday) and while it wicked great it tasted like cockroach spray for the first two hours. Any solutions for that?

 

[Filthy-Beast]

Posta pic of your coil, I've found it performs better with spaced coils like this one I've been running for over 7 weeks now.

 

[BlueSnake]

I know that there's a long thread about this 'wonderwick', but my search efforts didn't yield my answers, and I just don't have the time to read the whole thing. In my experience, neither size yields good results. The flavor is terrible. Whether I torch it first or not, it has this awful chemical taste. Also, very strangely, after releasing the button after a normal hit I get a really long sizzle that actually seems to increase in volume before tapering off. I wick the same coil with cotton and have no such result. The flavor and vapor production is fine with cotton, but if I go back and rewick with RxW it's the same terrible result. I want to love this stuff, and figure that it's something that I'm doing wrong since so many of you sing its praises. I'm using regular micros, 'screwing' the RxW in, soaking it thoroughly before hitting it, and still it's horrible. Any suggestions?

The wick is being choked off. If rxw does not have sufficient room to wick it will be terrible. I'm having no problems wrapping tension coils on the 1.5mm mandril with the wire gizmo. I then install the coil on the atty. Then I screw the 2mm rxw into the coil. Juice and burn a couple of times and then it's ready to go. No bad taste, no problems wicking and lasts and lasts with dry burns every couple days. I'm no coil expert by any means so it's baffling to me why some are having so much difficulty with this wick.

 

[Coelli]

Sounds like it's getting choked off to me too (I don't use anything except ReadyxWick in my drippers, rebuildable cartomizers, and Kraken). If the wick is compressed, it won't conform. If I "ugly" coil (haha, thanks Chowderhead) I slide a thick-gauge needle inside before wrapping, and if I microcoil, I make the microcoils just big enough for the wick to slide into.

I can vape my Kraken tank dry without getting a burnt hit.

As for the chemical taste, boil it for an hour before you use it. You don't have to, but it helps. When it's new it can have a funny taste for the first few hits.

 

[Tony Spectacular]

I'll take a pic later if you think it'll help, but it's just a normal 1/16 ID micro with 2mm RxW threaded through. I guess I'll try a bigger ID coil and and report back.

 

[BlueSnake]

I'll take a pic later if you think it'll help, but it's just a normal 1/16 ID micro with 2mm RxW threaded through. I guess I'll try a bigger ID coil and and report back.

Seeing a pic would help a lot.

 

[Big Hitter]

That sizzle after letting off is the tell tale sign .... as others have said the coil is too tight chocking off the wick.

It happened to me on my first build ....

I do ugly coils (though very nice looking ones) and my first try I just wrapped over the wick ....

Not good.

Now I insert a large paper clip in the wick then wrap and remove the clip .... that provides enough space for juice to soak up.

This stuff hold juice like not other and it need expansion room to do so.

Good luck .... Don't give up.

 

[rudy4653]

I'll take a pic later if you think it'll help, but it's just a normal 1/16 ID micro with 2mm RxW threaded through. I guess I'll try a bigger ID coil and and report back.

A 16 gauge needle is perfect size. Slightly larger than 1/16" but makes a big difference. Easier to thread and no choking yet not too loose as that will effect as well.
Good Luck!

 

[muzichead]

I wrapped my micro coil on a 1/16" drill bit and have had no choking of the wick. I had to thread it into the coil as many have, but once it clears the other side of the coil it slips easily back and forth through the coil... Vapes like a beast...

 

[ltrainer]

I've noticed that RxW gives you more warning when you are getting low on the juice in the wick better than cotton does. That might be because it holds more juice. As the wick is drying its a gradual decline thats easy to detect. I think a few time I heard my wick say "Feed me."
Well maybe that was a movie I saw. Life gets blurry sometimes. Anyway I find it gives me more warning. A few times cottom didn't and my throat said "Water, water."

 

[jifjifjif]

Tony,

I have had many similar experiences with the ReadyXWick and the only thing that has worked for me so far is this:

Using 3mm ReadyXwick,

Cut one of the ends off of a Q-Tip. Wrap a coil around the shaft of the Q-Tip.
Cut one end of the 3mm RXW at an angle and screw it in.
Slide a paperclip or toothpick into the wick to open up the inner diameter.
Juice it up well and wait a few minutes.
Vape.

This is the only way I have gotten that wick to work for me. It seems to be a bit finnicky.

 

[Anubuk]

I just started using readywick this past week and it is working well for me. My first wick was stuffed too much and I had similar problems (poor taste) and I kept trying less wick until it worked . The wick should slide easily back and forth but not so much that it slides out if you were to shake it or just tap on the wicks end. Do a test run to ensure that their aren't any hot spots and I also agree that building the coil on a drill bit (or something similar) is best. More uniform coils.The 3mm wick is a bit big for my protank coil rebuilds (but great for my RDAs) so I am ordering some 2mm but so far I have been happy with this wick. Just keep working with it. I also soak mine in alcohol for about half a day prior to use. It seems to get rid of silicas new wick flavor so I do it for everything else now.

 

[Filthy-Beast]

I posted this in the other thread and thought I'd add it here, try opening up the middle of the wick.

I just added a new step to the build process that really kicks it up a notch in performance, think I saw it mentioned in here, try it, you'll like it.

So I made my usual coil on the 2nd to the smallest mandrel(1/16 ish) of the Coil Gizmo. Then threaded the 2mm wick in as normal. I added the step of running the smallest mandrel through it as the last part. really opened up the wick I can see through it.

 

[brickfollett]

Filthy beast, what gauge wire is that? 24 or 26?

 

[Filthy-Beast]

It's 28 or 29, forgot which I used.

 

[MacDiver]

I like my ReadyxWick. I've made two coils with it. Evidently, to not get any nasty taste you have to dry burn the coil and wick. The first one I just dry burned on a vv passthrough after assembled. I didn't like the taste but it improved in a couple hours. The second one I burned the coil and wick individually with one of those long lighters used to light candles or such. I then dry burned the coil on the passthrough and burned again about five times until there was no smoke at all (there was a little juice left on the ceramic so that may be why it smoked some). All I taste is juice now. Before with cotton and silica I always got some bad taste.

Hope this helps.

 

[rudy4653]

I posted this in the other thread and thought I'd add it here, try opening up the middle of the wick.

Hi FB,
Have you found a performance/flavor improvement with the spaced out wraps vs. tight touching coils?

 

[Filthy-Beast]

When I was just inserting the wick and going I noticed improved flavor and wicking with the spaced coils, down side being it's harder to get a consistent coil wrapped.

I'm now testing the tight micro coil and inserting the pin through the center after wicking, flavor seems good, I think I get a little poorer wicking, so more squonks needed but I still get more hits per squonk than other wicks.

The real test will be when I switch back to spaced to see if I notice better flavor and wicking again.

 

[Tony Spectacular]

I'm done with it. I've tried all of the techniques, and no boiling, pretorching, inserting tools to keep the hole open, micro vs 'ugly' coiling, or any other techniques can keep this accursed stuff wet long enough that it can withstand even one hit, no matter how saturated I get it. It always...ALWAYS either tastes like the nasty chem taste or like gross coil burn. I give up. Cotton4lyfe.