Readyxwick question for reonauts

[Stacy1]

I've been using 2mm slim readyxwick in my Rm2 since I got my grand. All two weeks of it lol. After a couple of days of use, I rinsed my rm2 w/ wick in hot water, then did a few dry burns. The wick cleaned up great where it was close to coil, but was black looking on the ends. So, I removed the wick, and holding with tweezers, I fired up the mini torch and went over the wick until it was glowing orange. Wick looked new when I was done. Problem was, when I went to thread it back up, it crumbled. Turned to almost powder on me. Now after seeing that, I know I got it too hot for too long. I have a new wick now, and have cleaned it by just doing a rinse in warm water and dry burns since then. It still is dark in color on the ends but I haven't noticed a change in flavor so I can live with it. My question is, how often can you dry burn this wick before it goes bad? I usually dry burn every time I change flavors, or when the coil gets gunked up. Once a day or every other day. I've read this wick can last months, but I don't want it to turn to powder while I'm doing an inhale. Does anyone remove their wick and soak in alcohol, then put it back, or am I doing it correctly by just doing the dry burn? I hate being new and not knowing what I'm doing. I just need to know what's the best way to maintain and get the best out of my set up. Oh and I don't have what I would consider to be long tails. I do run the tails to the end of the deck but that's not a long ways on a rm2. Probably less than 1/8 inch on the short side and 1/4 on the long

 

[Filthy-Beast]

I leave it alone once installed and don't pull it out or push and pull on it. I only rinse and dry burn, how often depends on the liquid. with unflavored once a week or so with dark juices every few days. Some of my wicks get a bit of color on the ends and I just leave it.

Before rinse and burn

After

EDIT: This several months old and the 29ka will die I feel before the wick will

 

[rudy4653]

Don't remove.
Just dry burn. You really don't need to rinse especially if you dry burn daily or every other day.
Sometimes to really whiten and get all the dark out of the wick I just hold a little butane pipe lighter and torch the whole thing coil& wick!

 

[jifjifjif]

I also do not remove the wick. I dry burn every week or so and although the ends stay discolored, I just deal with it.

 

[bushmaster]

Do you have to pull the coil or just do it in the atty?(referring to rudys use of the butane torch)

 

[rudy4653]

Do you have to pull the coil or just do it in the atty?

If that was directed to me regarding torching I just leave it on the atty. With the RM2 I'm careful not to point the flame towards the ceramic base. No harm to the posts. I just point level across the wick/coil short bursts until the wick gets nice and white and coil nice & clean.

 

[pennysmalls]

I use coil gunking juices so end up rinsing and dry burning every 24-48 hours depending on how heavy I used it. For me rinsing is a must and it really helps clean the wick up good. I've had rxw fall apart on me as well but that was before I knew how often to dry burn it and I was only dry burning it once like every 10 days or more. It's lasting much longer now that I'm keeping a closer eye on it. I do think it lasts much longer with juices that don't gunk up as much.

 

[pennysmalls]

I leave it alone once installed and don't pull it out or push and pull on it. I only rinse and dry burn, how often depends on the liquid. with unflavored once a week or so with dark juices every few days. Some of my wicks get a bit of color on the ends and I just leave it.

Before rinse and burn

After

EDIT: This several months old and the 29ka will die I feel before the wick will

I keep wishing my coils would last as long as the rxw. And it seems like the tighter wrapped microcoils are much harder on the rxw, but that could just be me.

 

[HgA1C]

Well, since I have been researching Ready-x-wick and I am probably going to order some. I thought I would chime in with technical data. Bulk Nextel is not recommended to have the temperature rise more than 540F per hour. Additionally when Nextel tape was dip tested 10 times in sequence with liquid Nitrogen it lost 11-19% of its strength.

To me this adds up to a great wick, that does not take extreme thermal shock. I will be using the rinse and dry burn technique to minimize damage to the wick.

Link to recommended Nextel (Ready-x-wick) product guide
http://www.3m.com/market/industrial/ceramics/pdfs/Nextel_Tech_Notebook_11.04.pdf

 

[Big Hitter]

I leave mine wick right in the coil and the atty right on my grand and do this ....

rinse with hot water

dry burn with short pulses

rinse again

dry burn with even shorter pulses while smelling to make sure I get no burnt smell
I stop with it still damp and vape through the last moisture.

If I dry burn it right till dry I can get a burnt taste for a bit .... I'd rather deal with light vapor and flavor from a damp wick than any burnt taste.

I have used the hair dryer a couple times as well to dry .... that works but not needed.

I only use the 3mm though and from what I've seen on threads its much more robust than the 2mm as far as breaking down.

With my darkest juice I rinse every 15ml or so ..........

When vaping unflavored I can go 60 - 80 ml before things taste off.

Thats at 1.1 to 1.3 ohms with a spaced coil.

 

[Big Hitter]

If that was directed to me regarding torching I just leave it on the atty. With the RM2 I'm careful not to point the flame towards the ceramic base. No harm to the posts. I just point level across the wick/coil short bursts until the wick gets nice and white and coil nice & clean.

I have not tried that .... do you get any burnt or odd taste at first when you start back up ??

I ask because RxW seems backwards to me .... with any other wick (except cotton) the dry hit tastes nasty but I can juice it again and vape right through it.

With RxW the dry hit doesn't taste too terrible but the flavor from the next 20 hits after re-juicing is terrible. So bad that now if I get a bad dry hit I just put that REO down until I can rinse the wick.

 

[rudy4653]

I have not tried that .... do you get any burnt or odd taste at first when you start back up ??

I ask because RxW seems backwards to me .... with any other wick (except cotton) the dry hit tastes nasty but I can juice it again and vape right through it.

With RxW the dry hit doesn't taste too terrible but the flavor from the next 20 hits after re-juicing is terrible. So bad that now if I get a bad dry hit I just put that REO down until I can rinse the wick.

I don't get any "repulsive" burnt taste. Dry at first until well saturated then fine. I use unflavored juice so I don't really have the issues that some of you are experiencing. My coil very rarely gets "gunked" up as the juice is clear and clean. Regarding dry hits, once I see the vapor volume diminish and the richness of the juice fade even a little I re- squonk right away usually about every 3 hits or so. The nice thing about the RM2 is the drainage is excellent so I never worry about over squonking knowing the excess juice drains right back. With my Hornet it does not drain as well and find if I oversquonk the vapor is off as it gets semi-flooded with the extra juice that did not drain.
The rinse method sounds effective. I guess I just don't have the patience to go thru the drying process! Plus when I saw a demo of RXW dipped in old motor oil they torched it until it came completely white!!! No rinsing. I think the "torching" and "heat" cleans any impurities on the wick more effective than "water". That's just my opinion but would seem to make sense.