Success! And it tastes and works just as great. Dont ask me why... Im stubborn, esp when i get irritated ...
Rewicked and recoiled phoenix BC!
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Lol i thought i was being slow on the uptake on this, figured everyone else had already done it. Ill have to do it later i have to finish my final paper for history.
I have been waiting on materials and they have finally arrived. The Phoenix 3ml will be my first attempt at a re-wick and re-coil. I did not find much on ECF about re-wicking and re-coiling the Phoenix BC but I did find a good step by step on another site. I like to see as much on a particular subject as I can find. Everyone does things a little different.
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You must have the patience of a saint and the fingers of a 10 year old. Recoiling the Phoenix XLs was one of the most frustrating and back ache inducing experiences of my life.
I think my wife would say stubborn as a mule and swears like a sailer would be more apt. And i have needle nose tweezers...
tweezers would have been a huge help, what did you use to dig the glue out of the holes in the cup?
I used the needle nose tweezers to gouge out the holes so they were big enough for the wire. I ended up having to double up the ends of the wire so they wouldn't heat up.
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short description....... see the bottom if you don't want to read all this
I took the BC apart completely to clean it. I saw the wick was fray a bit and started to remove the fraying wick...then got a bit over zealous and removed too much of it... Ended up pulling most of the wick out and swearing a bit... ok, a lot.
I pulled the post out of the bottom and remembered this was the little *(&% that shorted my Reo spring and saw that I hadnt clipped enough of the wire sticking out of the bottom. Then it dawned on me that if I can see the wires then maybe its like the stardusts and I could rebuild it. not.
A beer and more swearing later as I attempted to thread a wick into the coil, without putting the bottom battery post or the rubber seal back in, the cup and coil just fell out of the metal enclosure, more swearing, by this time my wife was getting mad at me cause she thought I was gonna wake up our daughter (17m).
I looked at the cup and realized I would have to pull the wire completely out and start fresh, so I tried to pull the wire out only realizing once I got to the no resist wire that it was no resist wire and was thicker than the coil wire... I still got it out but once I got it out I realized the holes the wire went through are TINY. I used my needle nose tweezers to gouge out the holes till they were big enough to fit the wires back in smoothly.
I made a new coil and wick using my vivi nova wick i messed up kinda along the same process as this BC (need to figure out how to rewick that thing...) and the coil from this BC minus the no resist wire, i kinda pulled the no resist wire off yanking on the stupid thing.
I pushed the wire back through the holes, placed it back into the metal enclosure, made sure the wires reached the other side of the metal enclosure. I put one wire on the side and the other wire in the middle but had to make sure they both reached the lip where the rubber seal sits. I put the rubber seal in, got my trusty swiss army multi tool scissors and clipped the excess off the outside (only the outside) wire. I put the post back in and clipped the center wire so neither wire stuck out below the center battery post. Tried it out... and promptly took it all apart again cause it was burning the rubber grommet. Got a new coil recoiled it went through the whole process but made sure the wire stuck way past the bottom of the enclosure. I carefully measured the wires by eyeballing them and clipped them shorter and doubled up the legs and put it back together.
Don't forget this is all for a inexpensive clearo. I only did this because I got ...... because the same dang thing happened to my vivi not a couple of minutes before. I really need to leave the wicks alone...
See above if you didn't read all of that! lol j/k
I took the BC apart completely to clean it. I saw the wick was fray a bit and started to remove the fraying wick...then got a bit over zealous and removed too much of it... Ended up pulling most of the wick out and swearing a bit... ok, a lot.
I pulled the post out of the bottom and remembered this was the little *(&% that shorted my Reo spring and saw that I hadnt clipped enough of the wire sticking out of the bottom. Then it dawned on me that if I can see the wires then maybe its like the stardusts and I could rebuild it. not.
A beer and more swearing later as I attempted to thread a wick into the coil, without putting the bottom battery post or the rubber seal back in, the cup and coil just fell out of the metal enclosure, more swearing, by this time my wife was getting mad at me cause she thought I was gonna wake up our daughter (17m).
I looked at the cup and realized I would have to pull the wire completely out and start fresh, so I tried to pull the wire out only realizing once I got to the no resist wire that it was no resist wire and was thicker than the coil wire... I still got it out but once I got it out I realized the holes the wire went through are TINY. I used my needle nose tweezers to gouge out the holes till they were big enough to fit the wires back in smoothly.
I made a new coil and wick using my vivi nova wick i messed up kinda along the same process as this BC (need to figure out how to rewick that thing...) and the coil from this BC minus the no resist wire, i kinda pulled the no resist wire off yanking on the stupid thing.
I pushed the wire back through the holes, placed it back into the metal enclosure, made sure the wires reached the other side of the metal enclosure. I put one wire on the side and the other wire in the middle but had to make sure they both reached the lip where the rubber seal sits. I put the rubber seal in, got my trusty swiss army multi tool scissors and clipped the excess off the outside (only the outside) wire. I put the post back in and clipped the center wire so neither wire stuck out below the center battery post. Tried it out... and promptly took it all apart again cause it was burning the rubber grommet. Got a new coil recoiled it went through the whole process but made sure the wire stuck way past the bottom of the enclosure. I carefully measured the wires by eyeballing them and clipped them shorter and doubled up the legs and put it back together.
Don't forget this is all for a inexpensive clearo. I only did this because I got ...... because the same dang thing happened to my vivi not a couple of minutes before. I really need to leave the wicks alone...
See above if you didn't read all of that! lol j/k
link isn't workin hon....."An error occurred during validation"
Or is it just me and my browser
Keela....
I used a straight fine point pick tool. I pushed it in the existing hole on one side and then the other a few times. Opened the hole up just enough to make the wire insertion a little easier.
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