striking out with stainless

[DanG]

I am rebuilding my coils with stainless mesh. I keep getting this horrible metallic taste. I did everything correct I believe but it still tastes like garbage. I burnt the wire till orange 3-5 times heated the stainless twice unrolled. Twice rolled and heated and dipped in water 4 times. There was a hot side so I wiggled the coil around now one side heats up faster, but it evens out relatively quickly. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
DanG

 

[dice57]

Welcome to the genesis learning curve. Sounds like you are getting hot spots to me, Got to keep pulsing the coil and adjust the loops, till everything heats up nice and even. Just when you get it right, getting the excellent flavor that can be had from SS mesh, you set it down, then take another vape later, and you get the nasty metallic hot kind of starting to burn vape. It's jiggly wiggiley timey whimey. or something like that. Keep play with the coil loops, till you get a nice even glow, take a vape and it's good, then look at what you have done, take a mental picture and try to produce that wrap the next time, so you have to play with it less. Tension of wire has to be just right, spacing of loops even as possible through out...... probably the hardest build to master. I haven't been playing with my I-atty much, been caught up in micro build with the Russian, and the genesis just kind of lies there lonesome like. Good Luck Dan.

 

[DanG]

Thanks again for your help. I don't have it yet, but it is better.

 

[Ryedan]

Yup, SS mesh has a definite learning curve to it, but it is very good once you get it down. You're getting shorts. eHuman has a great tutorial on how to work with it here.

I've been using a AGA-T with SS for months now and I love it. It's not as quick to setup as my IGO-L with cotton wicks, but it really is not that hard to master and I'm glad I did it. I do it pretty much the same as eHuman does. I don't oxidize my wicks anymore, preferring to just pulse the shorts out. Whichever way you do it, do not pass the pulsing stage without having a completely stable, non-shorting coil. Lately I've started moving the coil slightly after I've got it done and then pulsing out any shorts that appear again. I find this gives me more stability over time so the coil doesn't short as easily later. If I get a short after I put juice in the tank, I syringe out the tank and pulse until the short is gone again. Doesn't happen to me much any more.

I find thicker Kanthal noticeably easier to work with than thinner. You will get lower resistance for the same length wire though.

I also wrap my coil on a drill bit pushed into the wick hole. The drill is the largest I can get into the hole. I make the wick thick enough so it goes into the coil easily. I then can take the wick out for cleaning (wash in hot water), dry burn just the coil and put the wick back in.

HTH a bit.

 

[RudeBoy007]

I found this method, and have been building my SS wicks using variations of this method ever since. You won't have to spend so much time working out the hot spots with this method. You make the SS wick like a soda straw, and have the top part wrapped with a cotton string. I have also used the stainless steel cord with the top part stuffed inside of a short length of ekowool, just enough to fit beneath the coil. I also usually setup my genny with a flat ribbon wire coil, seems to work well. Check out this link and see if you think this might be something worth trying:
SS Mesh/Cotton hybrid wick - YouTube

Props to this guy Quigsworth, once agian...