Regarding a center channel in a mesh wick...

[Quoiyaien]

Hey guys,

I recently got a ChID and have been practicing getting my coil and wick set up... No problems, but it isnt wicking very well...

Everywhere i have seen, there is a central void in the wick, due to wrapping it around something... I am rather dexterous and figured I wouldnt have a problem freehanding it... however, I didnt leave any central channel open.. It is a solid mesh wick through and through.

Is this central channel necessary for wicking? I really want to be able to vape it upright (or close to) without having to resort to tipping it...

As an aside, its alway kinda bothered be when someone holds their PV nearly inverted, and because juice is building up at the wicks end while firing, they say its wicking nicely.. to me that isnt wicking, that is just being gravity fed.. to me, wicking is the action of pulling up of a liquid against gravity... IMO a wick should do just that, wick... It seems to defeat the purpose of having a wick, if you had to tip it to get the juice up there... but i digress...

Would it actually be beneficial to wicking to roll the wick around something, say a paper clip?

Cheers!

 

[namuch]

I was having a lot of trouble getting decent wicking out of mine (which was especially irritating after finally figuring out how to build a coil with no shorts). I picked up a tip in another thread about filling the inside of your oxidized wick with a smaller non oxidized wick, and that has been working like a champ for me.

So, I basically just make my wick as normal (hollow, obviously), then I take a smaller piece of Ss mesh (not oxidized), and roll it up super tight so it slides into the oxidized main wick....


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[Quoiyaien]

That makes me wonder if unoxidized mesh actually wicks better... If thats the case, leaving part of the wick unoxidized would actually benefit wicking action. (the part in the juice obviously)

 

[IMWylde]

Knowing absolutely nothing about it, I would hazard a guess that oxidized wick wicks better simply because of the tiny molecules of rust that the oxidation causes. By that same train of thought I would assume the center channel is important to proper wicking.

 

[vapdivrr]

i have heard the same thing about the wick in a wick, and people have said it works great, i have not tried it yet. to me it sounds the same as rolling a very tight wick with no hole in the middle.

 

[Maconi]

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ore-you-sell-your-genesis-style-rba-read.html

I wasn't happy with the commonly filmed coil technique. If anyone new to this is having trouble with shorts and hotspots give this a try. I recommend 500 ss mesh but any mesh will give you good results.

Hubble's GenTech

*Make and oxidize a tight dense wick per the http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/modding-forum/330407-500-ss-mesh.html thread technique (no center hole, as tight as it can be. almost the size of your wick hole). Don't go overboard with oxidizing, you will do more later.

*Insert wick into dry tank to check size and trim bottom of wick at an angle to help wicking.

*Eye where you want your coil to go on your wick. I wet a little 4mm wide piece of paper the length and position of my future coil to the wick as a pattern. This will burn off later.

*Take your wick out of the tank, tightly & evenly coil your wire how you want it. Wrap coil on top of your paper pattern. Leave both tails on the same side when finished.

*Trim tails to about a half inch.

*Hold tails in needle nose pliers close to wick.

*Torch wick and coils to red and quench 2-3 times.

*Put down pliers and drip juice all over coils. Light to flame. Do this 2-3 times. Don't quench. (hold bottom of wick with pliers)

*Put wick back into tank

*Screw in top positive lead first, making sure coils and wick touch nothing.

*With fingers or pliers (I use pliers), GENTLY pull bottom lead towards you to pull all the coils close to the wick.

*While holding wire with gentle tension, pull bottom lead under negative screw and screw down. (I have the tank on a mod between my knees at this point)


This tech breaks in your coil and wick before it even touches a battery. It also "trains" your coil to stay a tight coil and will not expand away from your wick ever again. Zero hotspots and zero shorts. Enjoy and I hope this helps that guy (or kickass girl) about to throw a Genesis out the window

 

[Quoiyaien]

Given those findings, I would be curious to try the 625 mesh I have seen available...

 

[Escapereality]

The DUD hole is so small...you can't really fit a lot in there.

 

[jhjohnson123]

I have tried a no hole wick and a large hole wick. Neither wicked as well as I had hoped for. I finally used the smallest paper clip I could find and rolled as tight as possible and made it as big as possible. It wicks like a champ as long as I have the screw loose in the fill hole. It seems like a straw that can handle all the heat you can put to it. Tons of vapor!!!

 

[Harrygrowth]

I was having a lot of trouble getting decent wicking out of mine (which was especially irritating after finally figuring out how to build a coil with no shorts). I picked up a tip in another thread about filling the inside of your oxidized wick with a smaller non oxidized wick, and that has been working like a champ for me.

So, I basically just make my wick as normal (hollow, obviously), then I take a smaller piece of Ss mesh (not oxidized), and roll it up super tight so it slides into the oxidized main wick....


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I'm might to try this idea. My wick just seems to flood when I invert to vape. The hole is not super huge, but the juice actually makes the air hole gurgle. Or I'll try a wick with smaller hole first.

 

[PhreakySTS9]

The general consensus(including my own experience) seems to be that a wick with no center channel at all works best. I always roll it as tight as can be with no center hole and it always wicks great.

 

[MattBott]

Also, make sure you don't have the wick super tight into the wick hole. Just think, if juice is coming out of the tank, air needs to go in to displace it. With a small gap, you shouldn't have any leaking.

This is why some say "if you are having wicking problems, remove the fill hole screw." The downside to the ChiD is that the wick hole is so small, meaning an even smaller wick. Someone have drilled it out, but I'm too chicken to try.

So make your wick, make sure it has a little room to breath and you should be good.