Ss rope wick

[Tim26]

Just fitted a ss rope wick to my eRoll , boy does it vape well now

 

[patkin]

what is an "ss rope?"

 

[Mortificant]

what is an "ss rope?"

a rope made out of stainless steel

 

[LukeTheDuke]

please tell us more, i have some ss rope but cant find a way to cut it,

do youse oxidize the sswick at all? if so your method?

pictures?

please more deets on this

 

[Tim26]

Will put some pics on when I do the next one
cut a small piece of ss mesh about 6mm x 10mm and wrap this around the end of the rope as tight as you can . Check that it fits in the hole easily , you don't want it too tight . The mesh is just there to hold the strands together when you cut it . Push the rope and mesh into the hole to the right depth so that it is just above the coil and cut the rope to length . I just cut it straight ,not at an angle like on the tube it sits in . And that's all there is too it . Without the mesh the rope starts to unravel due to the finished length only being about 6mm

 

[Tim26]

Forgot to say that the rope was flamed just to remove any oil or manufacturing residue , no need to oxidise it

 

[Tim26]

This is what I use to cut the rope , works really well up to 3mm. Aviation snips

 

[FACE MEAT]

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/rebuildable-atomizer-systems/375999-wire-rope-wick.html

 

[Tim26]

Try it , it wicks better than mesh or silica and definitely better than ceramic

 

[EricDykstra]

I might have to try that. What about the taste, with mesh I always notice a little metal flavor, do you get that with the rope?

 

[Tim26]

I might have to try that. What about the taste, with mesh I always notice a little metal flavor, do you get that with the rope?

To be honest I can't tell , my taste buds are so bad
what I do know is I'm getting more flavour with the ss wick than with the standard silica one

 

[patkin]

Would you indulge someone who is unfamiliar with (re)building atties? Is silica the cloth-like cord I can see on, for instance, the octopus? Or like a candle's wick? And, therefore, it absorbs the liquid and once saturated to capacity, it drips off the wick onto the coil in an eroll (unlike when the coil is actually wrapped around the wick)? So, in the case of ss rope/mesh, is it like a dripping atty bridge where it drips off the metal, never getting absorbed, and so no flavoring could be held in the cloth to never reach the coil? I am so confused. Some wicks run inside the coil and some just hang above it? I've tried to read up but with our new search engine key words don't work like they used to and everything I've found the folks talking know so much about it that they talk a language I don't know.

Edit: still thinking about this: What about juice usage? Are you going through more/less juice faster/slower using an ss rope?

 

[Tim26]

Yes silica is the cloth like stuff , I'm no expert but the way I see it if you are using silica is ss rope or mesh either above so it drips or through the coil they all work on the same principle of capillary action and the fact that the coil gets hot helps to thin the liquid and draw it towards the coil . Hope that makes sense

 

[Tim26]

Yes silica is the cloth like stuff , I'm no expert but the way I see it if you are using silica or ss rope or mesh either above so it drips or through the coil they all work on the same principle of capillary action and the fact that the coil gets hot helps to thin the liquid and draw it towards the coil . Hope that makes sense

 

[Tim26]

Getting through more juice . Ss rope wicks better

 

[Nate M.]

I've been experimenting a bit with mine and my wife's eRoll atty's.

My best result (best vapor, flavor, longevity) has been a hybrid silica wick (twisted together) then wrapped with one layer of 400 SS mesh. I then cut the ends so that the silica is flush with the SS, and burn the end sitting on the atty of course.

Hope this helps!