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i'm still trying... i just can't seem to keep it together long enough to find that flavor and vapor that everybody raves about just yet. i'll get there... i've got plenty of mesh and kanthal, and i'm hellbent on figuring this out!
thanks for all the advice and encouragement, everybody. it means a lot.
funky metalic taste is definitely hotspot/hotlegs. there is big difference with dry wick hit and dry hit from hotspot/hotlegs. if your coil that's touching wick isnt glowing when your wick is wet, check the legs (coil connecting to the post part) sometimes they are nasty too. hotlegs normally caused by too much distance between your wick to the post,over tighten coil, or shorts
Yeah. After close to a month of failing, succeeding, failing again (wash, rinse, repeat)... I finally got it.
Try doing a silica build. It is far more forgiving, and tastes just as good as a well-wrapped mesh wick.
I've been using my drippers all day at work, and they are all silica
Give me a few mins and i'll wrap up a silica setup for my RM and post a pic or 2 for you.
Try doing a silica build. It is far more forgiving, and tastes just as good as a well-wrapped mesh wick.
I've been using my drippers all day at work, and they are all silica
Give me a few mins and i'll wrap up a silica setup for my RM and post a pic or 2 for you.
I glad I saw this,I will try it
Did you use the 2 post for the coil?
The one with the hole in it ?
Nope. Used the normal posts. It can be done either way really.
Edit: the wick material is 2mm silica with 4 strands at the coil. I just did it like a standard bowtie like I would on my drippers, then feed the tail into the wick hole. Adding a drop of juice to the tail will keep it stuck together while you try to insert it.
Edit: the wick material is 2mm silica with 4 strands at the coil. I just did it like a standard bowtie like I would on my drippers, then feed the tail into the wick hole. Adding a drop of juice to the tail will keep it stuck together while you try to insert it.
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Hey it works
A little hard to draw but I only had 3 mil
I found if you wrap the tip of the wick with mesh it goes in real easy
Thanks
A little hard to draw but I only had 3 mil
I found if you wrap the tip of the wick with mesh it goes in real easy
Thanks
Last night after a couple hours of tinkering I finally got my z-atty clone firing pretty well. Not quite as good as the you tubes but pretty close. This morning after breakfast knocked it over on the table and broke the crap glass tube. So now I just ordered one of these Rich man's. I want to try a wire rope wick when it gets here. What thickness should I order or what is the diameter of the wick hole?
PS Xobe that looks pretty sweet might have to try that too!
PS Xobe that looks pretty sweet might have to try that too!
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Wick hole on RM is 2.5mm (3/32"). 2mm silica works great. I just tore out the silica from those pics and did a solid mesh. I should have unrolled and taken the measurement of the mesh for you guys.
A silica/mesh hybrid works great too. Just sleeve some 2mm silica in about 2 layers of mesh and it's perfect. Ot is a bit harder to coil since the wick is much softer than a solid. Make sure you dont dig the coils into the wick.
A silica/mesh hybrid works great too. Just sleeve some 2mm silica in about 2 layers of mesh and it's perfect. Ot is a bit harder to coil since the wick is much softer than a solid. Make sure you dont dig the coils into the wick.
RDA is an option. Just have a few more project to work on. Then I could work on a RDA as well.
Not that I've seen posted. I'm sure it'll work just fine so long as you set it up right.
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