Someone please explain RBA/tanks ?

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Depends what you mean by 'snug'. You can have a coil digging into or compressing a cotton or silica wick (although it isn't optimal).

I've found if a fresh coil is resting against a fresh SS wick in any more than the slightest way it'll short. Which means that most of it isn't going to be touching it at all, even if it looks like it is to the naked eye.
 

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Depends what you mean by 'snug'. You can have a coil digging into or compressing a cotton or silica wick (although it isn't optimal).

I've found if a fresh coil is resting against a fresh SS wick in any more than the slightest way it'll short. Which means that most of it isn't going to be touching it at all, even if it looks like it is to the naked eye.

I've found that on my cotton wicks, they are better tasting and wick much better if I leave them "thick" when threading through the coil. I've seen tips that the cotton should easily slide in and out of the coil as it will swell when it wicks juice. Now that I'm making them snug, I'm getting even better flavor and consistency. This is on microcoils if that helps. Not sure if this is even truly related to what you're saying but it's my $.02 anyway :)
 

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I'm relatively new to cotton, so hard to say - but I've certainly found it needs to be consistent. You can't have a 'choke point'.

I think Thrasher and I are probably just debating the terminology, more than the coils. What constitutes 'snug'? I know I tried to do them far too tight when I first started, because by comparison you can, or indeed should, on non-conductive materials.
 
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