So I've been getting better at recoiling my Kanger heads but what I noticed is that often times the wick is shot but the coil itself is still perfectly good, still registering the same ohms.
So here's what I did tonight and it worked like a charm. Hopefully this will help some of you get more life out of your Kanger heads for Evods, Protanks and Minis and save you a bit of kanthal wire until its absolutely needed. It will also save you the frustration of recoiling if you're not good at it and will guarantee that your ohms will be proper.
You'll need some 1mm silicon wick (or some cotton if you prefer), and some magnification (for me I just put two pairs of glasses on top of each other so they magnify good and strong), good lighting, maybe a pin or needle, a pair of tweezers, and a little pair of scissors or toenail clippers
Take off the post of your Kanger head, exposing the wick. Don't bother taking the pin or the rubber piece off the other end, the end that screws into the base of your tank. Just leave that attached. Take out any flavor wicks. Now take a pair of tweezers and simply pull the old spent wick out of the existing coil. Use a little flashlight and some magnification to look inside the now empty coil to make sure you got all the wick out. If any is still clinging to the coil, you can use a pin to poke it out of there, but make sure you don't damage the coil (just leave it in the same shape as it is).
Now dry burn the coil to make sure any gunk stuck to it is gone.
Now take a piece of 1mm silica wick and douse it with a little juice or pg or vg so that you can twist it with your fingers until the end is pointy. Make sure you twist it toward the way the fibers are wrapped or it will unwrap making it useless. It helps to use a longer piece of wick so that you can grip it better; you'll trim it anyway, so you won't be wasting any.
Once you have a pointy piece of silica, carefully poke it into the existing coil. It helps to twist it, this time in the opposite direction in which the fibers are wrapped so that it tightens instead of unwrapping. Get it in that little hole and through the old stock coil. Once it's poking out the other side pull it through and then trim it with some little scissors or a toenail clipper.
Your coil is now rewicked.
You're going to want to use flavor wicks with this baby, because the standard wick for the head is 2mm (you could try to get a 2mm wick through an existing stock coil but it may be hard), and you just used a 1mm wick, so there's a good chance it's going to flood and gurgle. I just put two additional pieces of 1mm wick on top and then put the post back on. Works like a charm.
You can also use cotton. I can't imagine why not. The cotton I bought today is giving a sort of muted, well, cottony taste, so I'm assuming I have to boil it, but cotton actually might be easier than silica to douse and then roll into a point and you might be able to get more of it through the coil since it squashes down better than silica does.
Well that's it. Simple but effective. You saved yourself two dollars by not having to buy a new head, and you saved the piece of kanthal, that you would have used to totally create a new coiled wick, for later, when the coil is actually shot.
Happy vaping.
So here's what I did tonight and it worked like a charm. Hopefully this will help some of you get more life out of your Kanger heads for Evods, Protanks and Minis and save you a bit of kanthal wire until its absolutely needed. It will also save you the frustration of recoiling if you're not good at it and will guarantee that your ohms will be proper.
You'll need some 1mm silicon wick (or some cotton if you prefer), and some magnification (for me I just put two pairs of glasses on top of each other so they magnify good and strong), good lighting, maybe a pin or needle, a pair of tweezers, and a little pair of scissors or toenail clippers
Take off the post of your Kanger head, exposing the wick. Don't bother taking the pin or the rubber piece off the other end, the end that screws into the base of your tank. Just leave that attached. Take out any flavor wicks. Now take a pair of tweezers and simply pull the old spent wick out of the existing coil. Use a little flashlight and some magnification to look inside the now empty coil to make sure you got all the wick out. If any is still clinging to the coil, you can use a pin to poke it out of there, but make sure you don't damage the coil (just leave it in the same shape as it is).
Now dry burn the coil to make sure any gunk stuck to it is gone.
Now take a piece of 1mm silica wick and douse it with a little juice or pg or vg so that you can twist it with your fingers until the end is pointy. Make sure you twist it toward the way the fibers are wrapped or it will unwrap making it useless. It helps to use a longer piece of wick so that you can grip it better; you'll trim it anyway, so you won't be wasting any.
Once you have a pointy piece of silica, carefully poke it into the existing coil. It helps to twist it, this time in the opposite direction in which the fibers are wrapped so that it tightens instead of unwrapping. Get it in that little hole and through the old stock coil. Once it's poking out the other side pull it through and then trim it with some little scissors or a toenail clipper.
Your coil is now rewicked.
You're going to want to use flavor wicks with this baby, because the standard wick for the head is 2mm (you could try to get a 2mm wick through an existing stock coil but it may be hard), and you just used a 1mm wick, so there's a good chance it's going to flood and gurgle. I just put two additional pieces of 1mm wick on top and then put the post back on. Works like a charm.
You can also use cotton. I can't imagine why not. The cotton I bought today is giving a sort of muted, well, cottony taste, so I'm assuming I have to boil it, but cotton actually might be easier than silica to douse and then roll into a point and you might be able to get more of it through the coil since it squashes down better than silica does.
Well that's it. Simple but effective. You saved yourself two dollars by not having to buy a new head, and you saved the piece of kanthal, that you would have used to totally create a new coiled wick, for later, when the coil is actually shot.
Happy vaping.
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