Thank You For The Advice on Cotton Wick!

[lilmrsyeti]

I had been researching the last couple of weeks about rebuilding my own heads for my Kanger tanks and Nova tanks..watched loads of videos and read all I could. Then came the research on where/who to buy the Silica Wicks and then the wire. The only reason I didn't pull trigger to just go ahead and do it, is because that Silica wick just seemed a bit high to me...even though still much cheaper than just buying heads from vendors. I don't use ebay...at all! So pretty much every place I looked, they were charging a buck or two per foot of Silica!

After all of you nice peeps on here gave great advice on Cotton Wicks..what to buy, how to do a pre wash and what not...while at Wally World yesterday I thought I'd just check on Cotton Yarn...WOW! How cheap! I bought a thing of Peaches and Cream brand 100% white cotton...120 Yards for 1.77!!! Of course I had to snatch that up!!

So this AM, I boiled a good size piece of it, let it dry and rewicked a Kanger tank...WOW!! I filled the tank up with the same juice that I have used several times before in tanks with the store bought head. The flavor is so much more now!! I can now actually taste the different flavorings that were used to make the juice...before I really couldn't do that...taste so much smoother or something...hard to explain.

My only question is this...with this Cotton Yarn being SO CHEAP...and you get SO much of it...why do people still buy Silica wicks? Does it last longer than Cotton or something?

Anyhow...THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE FOR ALL OF US!!!

 

[Flyer]

Silica can last much longer than cotton as it can be dry burned to clean. DON'T try that with cotton wicks.

 

[sgv]

I use cotton yarn also. It works great and is cheap. I guess its just a matter of preference.
Silica, mesh, ceramic..etc. I build a new coil every week or so and takes only 5 mins. So cotton
works for me.

 

[Unforeseen]

Moved to Assorted PV Topics - Rebuildable Atomizer Systems

 

[StaircaseWit]

I've tried cotton, hemp, bamboo and several varieties of silica. German silica is the best I've tried; you can wash it, dry burn it, and it just keeps going.

Cotton is nice and 'natural' in flavor, but you do have to replace wicks quite often. A silica wick in the IGO-L that I can stretch a couple weeks out of would only be 3-4 days with cotton.

Great stuff, though, and nice and cheap. You just have to rebuild often.