ReadyXWick - Round 2
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I was trying at one time to mix my own liquids and found sugars or sweeteners just gunked real bad and that coupled with not getting the actual flavors I wanted is why I stopped. I now buy my Dekang Menthol from Health Cabin and mix it 50/50 with straight VG. I was using straight VG from Wizard labs that for some reason would gunk up really bad and since switched to MFS and have no gunking at all now. They are both 99.7% USP grade, but vape differently.
I still haven't ordered the pin vise.Been busy paying out the ying-yang for bills, and other stuff. I plan on getting one and mastering your technique of hand winding. I did try to imitate it though by taping some Kanthal to 3/32 precision screw driver, and winding it. Worked pretty good, but know I could do it better with the correct tool.
Good tool to have in the repertoire. Old faithful.
Best way I can describe it.
G'luck ed.
FB could it rightly be we're all sayin' the same thing in different ways?
Maybe today's not a day for nuance?
(Raisin' the hand.)
Gluck all.
I should've really said the juice directly dictates how much you dry burn... which in turn, dictates how the coil will look after all the mass dry burning. I have dry burned 3x in 16hrs of vaping, so at 4 days... we're looking at about 12 dry burns. Whereas, I have NOT dry burned the Unflavored Nic Base ONE time in 2 weeks. This is probably why the wire is wearing out. I'll have to put some pictures up to show it.
And yes, you're right. I'm gonna have to start looking why I'm working more on changing coils... than actual vaping. When dry burning outweighs vaping... then it's time to abort that particular juice, and find another sweet, tobacco flavor. I hear H1N1 is it. I've delayed ordering it long enough. Time to try it out.
Ed, maybe its the water your using to rinse the coils. I would venture to guess any kanthal would rust or oxidize from water, any water at all. This is why I strongly object to rinsing coils to start with. I have a setup of 26g w RxW in my Nuppin' that has been there since Nov 1st when I received it. I dry burn, (only), every 3-4 days. Sure, the coils look a little old but it is still vaping like day 1 I put them in there...
I used spring water from a store. Never used tap. It all boils down to the juice you use, and how it's made (pg/vg ratio; sugar ratio; artificial flavors; extracts from tobacco; etc.) They don't list Sugar on most labels, but you can tell it's there due to how sweet it is. I can vape Unflavored Nic Base forever; but put in Black Cavendish from NET.com, and it's just miserable (use in a dripper btw - not a Reo) If I could loose weight doing dry burns, I'd weigh 25lbs. LoL.
Spring water still has a lot of total dissolved solids in it. They just might be different than those from a tap. My tap is pretty good at 327 ppm, when I run it through an RO filter I get 5ppm and when I run it through full RO/DI zero ppm using a TDS meter.
Just a fancy way of saying spring water vs. tap only difference is taste from the solids. If you want to keep using water switch to distilled.
Just a fancy way of saying spring water vs. tap only difference is taste from the solids. If you want to keep using water switch to distilled.
I was Not saying that Micros where Not possible But as You said it is a question of How Tight is Tight...
When Too Tight No matter what I did I could Not torch the wick Clean, and the wick broke at the Coil...
If I am Wrong to Say Dont Wrap Too Tight, So be It...from My Experience My wick and coils last Longer when I do Not Wrap too Tight.
That Said I prefer to have a lil Bit Of space between wraps...and Have been Using Thinner wire Higher Ohms Lower amps Longer Battery, Quick Flair up...
When Too Tight No matter what I did I could Not torch the wick Clean, and the wick broke at the Coil...
If I am Wrong to Say Dont Wrap Too Tight, So be It...from My Experience My wick and coils last Longer when I do Not Wrap too Tight.
That Said I prefer to have a lil Bit Of space between wraps...and Have been Using Thinner wire Higher Ohms Lower amps Longer Battery, Quick Flair up...
I have Only Used the 3mm and just got a Combo Pack, since Vapebash a Foot Goes a Long way
To Address the "micro" Point It is Very Possible to Do them, but as said Before You do not want to Choke the wick, and Most of my Mistakes have been Forgetting that.
The Real Glory of this stuff is The ease of Use After you have a Good set up For You..
To Be honest I have Never Used Cotton Willingly...Messed up a Wick at a meet and Did not have any Wick with me, But Quickly Found that Cotton is Not forgiving to "1 more Toot" and That Flavors did not Go away after grabbing another Bottle...
Mac is Spot on with all he is saying I was only hoping to add, what works for Me....
To Address the "micro" Point It is Very Possible to Do them, but as said Before You do not want to Choke the wick, and Most of my Mistakes have been Forgetting that.
The Real Glory of this stuff is The ease of Use After you have a Good set up For You..
To Be honest I have Never Used Cotton Willingly...Messed up a Wick at a meet and Did not have any Wick with me, But Quickly Found that Cotton is Not forgiving to "1 more Toot" and That Flavors did not Go away after grabbing another Bottle...
Mac is Spot on with all he is saying I was only hoping to add, what works for Me....
I have Only Used the 3mm and just got a Combo Pack, since Vapebash a Foot Goes a Long way
To Address the "micro" Point It is Very Possible to Do them, but as said Before You do not want to Choke the wick, and Most of my Mistakes have been Forgetting that.
The Real Glory of this stuff is The ease of Use After you have a Good set up For You..
To Be honest I have Never Used Cotton Willingly...Messed up a Wick at a meet and Did not have any Wick with me, But Quickly Found that Cotton is Not forgiving to "1 more Toot" and That Flavors did not Go away after grabbing another Bottle...
Mac is Spot on with all he is saying I was only hoping to add, what works for Me....
We get that now, ahhh, duh. A little slow on the uptake for me yesterday.
Not everyone can thread any synthetic easily, I should be well aware. It's true enough some find it more difficult to threat into an m.c. I find the opposite to be the case and open winds more difficult. In fact both can be hard if you're a bulldog like me at times insisting on putting things like 3mm Eko into 2.2 tight. And yeah that can choke it as you were sayin' about NexT which I encourage folks to try regardless of how deployed.
I just find NexT fascinating since I first read about and saw pictures of it used as a wick Spring of 2013. The rigidity is just about as good as it can get for a wicking material. A little more would certainly help, rightly...if it didn't fray. And I recommend not wetting it because moisture travels well up the fibers and if left there will swell the wick a great deal. As it dries and vacates those channels that end may become extremely dry, brittle and impossible to handle or wick. No way to cure this but cut it off. Explained this before but bears repeating. If you gotta wet, cut what you need.
Kilning ceramic at the correct temperature, for the correct time optimizes the handling characteristics of NexT exactly as proscribed by 3M's process. Constantly looking over the horizon for any possible alternative process and/or material that might improve upon this. But Shope I still use Eko, silica and yes open spaced winds as I need them. Just don't talk about my personal pref's that often. One thing I can attest to is that t.m.c.'s and NexT just work. Based on my own expansive testing and alongside the rebuilding and testing by a great many others. The evidence so quickly mounted in 2013 that I realized for a great many new vapers and rebuilders this was gonna make it happen for them…because it is so easily threaded into appropriate diameters for it. Not necessarily some of the applications I've subjected it to…18-turns in a Protank, come on!
Well that's my story and I'm stickin' to it. But the real story is more about strain and what it does for a circuit than simply a microcoil or a spaced wind. I've got a bunch of these coilers on the way to test the contrarian principle and see what potential they might have to induce strain in an open wind. I'm a big fan of multi-wire builds and any tool that can help with that is huge.
You take care shope and thanks for gettin' it.
G'luck.
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Just opened mail and what do I find?? Some 3mm gifted to me by a sweetie! (thank you Alamedean) Now I have a dilemma - I use to using the 2mm with tension coils on the next to the smallest coil jig rod. Dual coils coming out to .6ohm...
Guess I asking how do I get there from here now with the 3mm RxW?
thanks!
OH - I have 30g and 28g kanthal if it matters
Guess I asking how do I get there from here now with the 3mm RxW?
thanks!
OH - I have 30g and 28g kanthal if it matters
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On the ones I have built, I chuck up a 3/32" drill bit in a drill and put tension on the wire as I spin the drill. I come out with some really tight tensioned coils this way. I have never had any come close to it wrapping by hand...
Yep, thats what I did...drill bit - 28g 6wrap dual came out .6...
This 3mm is SO different than 2mm! Such a huge change in vapor too - maybe from more juice in the wicking? Anyway, maybe it just me with a new toy? Lovin it none the less
This 3mm is SO different than 2mm! Such a huge change in vapor too - maybe from more juice in the wicking? Anyway, maybe it just me with a new toy? Lovin it none the less
Yep, thats what I did...drill bit - 28g 6wrap dual came out .6...
This 3mm is SO different than 2mm! Such a huge change in vapor too - maybe from more juice in the wicking? Anyway, maybe it just me with a new toy? Lovin it none the less
Same for me, but single coil with 6 wrap / 28g / 3/32bit / 1.2 ohm. Getting sick flavor and taste with 3mm. Blows the 2mm out of the water. I cut the 3mm so that it touches the side of the RM2 top cap. It absorbs juice from the deck and inner walls of the top cap more efficiently. I'm finding less juice consumption as well with 3mm. Overall performance is much better. Definitely gonna order a few feet.
Yup...I'm also finally on the bandwagon for the 3mm...love it!
All my various juices are so dang tasty now! And I find I'm vaping less because of it!!!! I vape a couple of dark juices so I can't get the wicks pristine white , but I should be receiving a jewelers small butane torch within a few days and then I can get them white again!
All my various juices are so dang tasty now! And I find I'm vaping less because of it!!!! I vape a couple of dark juices so I can't get the wicks pristine white , but I should be receiving a jewelers small butane torch within a few days and then I can get them white again!
Yeahhh baby!
G'luck and enjoy the vape.
All this new vaping gear is all your fault I want you to know!
First a pin vice, now a small butane lighter,tensioned coils....
you've helped create a vaping monster
All this new vaping gear is all your fault I want you to know!
First a pin vice, now a small butane lighter,tensioned coils....
you've helped create a vaping monster
Wonderful! I admire conspicuous…but discriminating…consumerism.
Have a blast. I am.
G'luck.
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