steel wool wick efficiency

[sixstring]

I made I minor discovery today when I decided to try my spare atomizer.

My 901 from puresmoker continues to vape VERY well with it's original atomizer, but when I tried the spare, I got semi-good smoke with almost no throat hit (and this is with 36mg juice in the cart). WTF?

Then I decided to look closely at the two from the cart end. The "good" one has a nice arc in the steel wool, and the wool is more "bridge" like and thinner across the arc than the spare. the spare looked wider and more flattened down.

So... I took a pair of tweezers (carefully) into the spare and squeezed & ever so slightly pulled the spare's wool into the shape of the good one. Now it vapes very closely to the original. I also tried this on my njoy penstyle whose wool looked all "balled up" by comparison. It now smokes much better than before too.

I suspect that the denser wool coming in closer contact with the cart is the reason. I'm happy again!

Sorry if some of you already know this, but I thought it was cool...

 

[Tumbleweed4829]

I'll give it a try since I get no hit what so ever with my 901. Thanks for the tip!

 

[CaSHMeRe]

very nice sixstring!

 

[phylo]

When the steel wool makes better contact with the filling in the cartridge it will help wick more liquid onto the heating element which will produce more vapor..

Phil

 

[Fedor]

wooow....don't think i'd ever dare do something like that but it'll be good to have pictures to see..

cos u never know what we'd do when desperate..