Rebuildable tanks and 100% VG

[mccawley]

Sorry if this goes through twice, I posted but it never showed.
Either I forgot how to use ECF or my chemo brain is getting the better of me.

Like all of you here, I've been through numerous mods, carts, dripping, tanks, etc...
I came to the conclusion that since I like my voltage set at about 4.2 with 100% VG (not by preference)
I will forgo the cost and pain of yet another electrical failure and use a nice mechanical mod with frequent battery swaps.

I have been using the Vivi Nova's, they work really good. But not to pleasant to look at. (Opinions vary)

I have a rebuild-able tank/atty (A8) and have tried with much failure to get it to wick well. Silica, SS Mesh, etc...
I did however get a nice coil built from 32AWG Kanthal. Vape's great for about three hits, then it needs to sit for 30 minutes.

With silica I can get the coil over the vent hole, with the SS mesh it is off to the side.
Either way it wicks like pudding through a coffee stirrer.

Am I wasting my time trying to get VG to wick up this thing? I was thinking a bottom coil might work, the Terminator to be precise.
Has anyone used 100% VG in the Terminator/odysseus with success?

 

[rolygate]

Sounds to me as if you are using undiluted glycerine?

You can get VG base in two forms, thick and viscous (original grade), or diluted with distilled water to the correct viscosity for vaping. So Intellicig's Krystal VG base is already diluted with DW to almost the same viscosity as PG and is ready to vape. RTS Vapes VG comes thick and gloopy and needs diluting first with 10% to 20% DW (or thin flavours, maybe PG-based, it's probably the same thing).

As far as I am aware you can't vape the original viscous glycerine (at least it has never worked for me, maybe there is someone who knows how to do this, it won't work in an RTA, atty or carto anyway). It takes about 20% dilution before it's vapable, so you can do 10% DW and 10% flavour, or whatever.

If someone is telling you that you can vape undiluted glycerine base (with like 5% of flavour) in an RTA then ask for a demo. Film it as I'd like to see it too. It may help if the 5% flavour is ethanol-based as that might be the equivalent of double the amount of water-based flavour, alcohol is a powerful solvent. I've seen some weird analyses of vapour with high percentages of alcohol, so maybe this is what happens with some flavours (assuming it wasn't an alcohol solvent wash used in the GC-MS process).

80-20 VG-DW works fine in an RTA with an SS wick. I don't know why 100% VG would be used.

Also, I guess it needs to be added here, I can't find any difference in flavour or vapour or anything else by dripping 100% gloopy VG, 90-10 VG-water, or 80-20 VG-water (all plus some flavour) on to an atty. They all vape the same. If you add 20% water to high-viscosity glycerine it vapes the same as if it is pure glycerine. It's just that with gloopy orig VG you have to wait between draws, and there doesn't seem to be any benefit to using 100% glycerine over 80-20 glycerine-water. Plus you save 20% glycerine cost by using water off your freezer wall

Another thing - if you use 100% orig (thick) glycerine, and a 0.8 ohm coil, on an RTA on a mechanical or basic electrical APV - then welcome to 20 watt, dry-burn, acrolein fumes country.

That will be some nice TH there dude