tilting survey

[pdib]

The way I had the cotton set up, before I got into this braided ceramic rope, I would just pinch it out, dab some e-liquid on the tips of a new one and twist it in. It took about one minute. (Also, I would glow the coils while they were empty.) Anymore, tho, I'm just doing the Nextel. I do think that that's the one big trade off with cotton, frequent re-wicking.

 

[EDO]

Pdib....I did some experimenting this weekend. After the cotton I tried a short wick ss mesh....that didn't work well at all. Experienced too many dry hits with it and surprisingly the liquid kept getting darker.....so it was a failed experiment. I also tried a hybrid wick (ss mesh and cotton combined). Again the wick made the juice darker and it just didn't vape as good as the silica in terms of vapor and taste. Also the cotton gunked up way too much.

Anyway, the silica is by far the best performer and has absolutely no quirks. It is very easy to maintain/clean and the performance after a week seems like day one. The wick itself has held up perfect. Surprisingly, the coil has held up very well as well. Usually with ss mesh wicks I feel I have set up a new coil every week but this set up is just performing way too good for me too recoil.

For others who are reading this....I think the key is to make the perfect coil using a drill bit (petark type coil where the coils are almost touching each other) and then thread the silica/nextel through the coil. Also don't choke the wick hole....the tail section of the wick should go through the wick hole rather easily.

Pdib...I noticed that you had tried out ceramic wicks as well.....how does your Nextel set up compare with the ceramic? I just can't imagine that any thing could perform better than silica except for nextel. I think that silica/nextel wicks actually wick while the other materials don't really.

 

[pdib]

I'm doing only nextel braided ceramic rope (xc-116) in all of my atties now. I love the stuff. I was never too into silica. I'd used it here and there; but, meh. So, I'm not the person to compare nextel to silica. You, EDO, are the one; the burden falls upon you. . . . . . . . . .





. . . . . . . I could send you some.

 

[StaircaseWit]

As much as I am aesthetically attached to the beautiful Genisis design; I'm more into an excellent vape. So I'm thinking in terms of separating the "wick" function from the "coil/atomizer reservoir" function. Any ideas? Would love to group brainstorm along these lines.

Have you seen the design of the MISTer hybrid atty? Igetcha Scott has a review up. I really want an atty like that, where the coil is isolated from the wick and the wick is only used as a conduit to bring juice to the coil -- from two sides as well. Should work well with silica, cotton or hemp; anything that wicks well enough to bring juice up to the coil. Scott was pretty impressed and he's reviewed a metric ton of RBAs.

I did a cotton build yesterday....I have gone trough about 5 ml of liquid already with the set up. Initially it performed great but now the cotton wick is too gunked up. I rinsed for about a minute under the faucet but it is still a little funky. It seems to me I can rinse away the gunk far easier with silica and I can always do dry burns with silica. My week old silica wick is cleaner than my day old cotton wick. It would be too inconvenient for me to change the cotton wick every day....any suggestions?

Have you worked with hemp? I set up my AGA-T2 with a hemp U-wick and while it works pretty well, it's finicky and not easy to set up. I know it would be a lot easier to set up in this "tilt dripper" mode because you wouldn't have to worry about getting 4+ strands of hemp into wick holes; you could likely get away with one or none in the tank. Hemp is a lot more resilient than cotton and a lot more tolerant of the occasional dry hit without burning and retaining that burnt flavor that cotton likes to do.

 

[pdib]

Does hemp hold liquid well? Meaning, if I tilt, will it wick it up and retain it in it's coil-filler section? (I've been looking for the words; maybe "torso" and "tail") I had imagined that something as "woody" as hemp may not be as absorbent as, say, cotton.

 

[StaircaseWit]

Does hemp hold liquid well? Meaning, if I tilt, will it wick it up and retain it in it's coil-filler section? (I've been looking for the words; maybe "torso" and "tail") I had imagined that something as "woody" as hemp may not be as absorbent as, say, cotton.

It does. It's relatively slow-wicking, but it holds liquid quite well once it's soaked. I'm using it in my IGO-L at the moment -- three strands of 1mm doubled over at the coil at 1.2ohms. Unfortunately the ebay vendor doesn't have the best stuff at the moment, 12-strand 2mm hemp twine, so I'm stuck using multiple strands of 6-strand 1mm.

(boil it if you get some. it increases the wicking/retention quite a bit).

 

[pdib]

I'm just watching the mister silica video. How is this different from you trying silica u-wicks in your Genny?

 

[pdib]

Gonna try the hemp. Who knows if nextel will be available. + george washington vaped with hemp (through his hemp teeth)

edit: . . . . . on his hemp couch, beside his hemp wife (he called her "Marfa", because of the teeth)

 

[EDO]

@pdib...thank you for your generous offer but I wouldn't want you to go to any trouble. From all the praise for nextel and your recommendation I plan on buying some next time they are available.

@staircasewit...I have never tried hemp. That is another wick material I have been meaning to try. You should try out the hemp with the way Pdib sets up his nextel (it really works great). Let us know how it works out if you do.

 

[StaircaseWit]

I'm just watching the mister silica video. How is this different from you trying silica u-wicks in your Genny?

It's bottom-feed, with the wicks always saturated at the bottom of the tank, with a juice control exposing more or less of the wick as you adjust. And bottom air feed directly on the coil through a large hole, which is how bottom-coil cartos get their warmer vape. It's one downfall of gennies that we have an airhole that really only directs air to one part of the coil.

@staircasewit...I have never tried hemp. That is another wick material I have been meaning to try. You should try out the hemp with the way Pdib sets up his nextel (it really works great). Let us know how it works out if you do.

I will try it as soon as I need to rebuild my RSST. I haven't been using it lately but it's set up perfectly with SS mesh at the moment for weekend 'adult beverage' vaping.

 

[DSmooch]

Hey, you too, huh? Well good! The cotton setup looks like this

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The wire is simply there to, as WattWick the snake charmer put it, break the surface tension of the liquid at the wick hole. I'm not 100% sure its really necessary; but I think it helps. It really sort of draws the liquid up a little faster than "round" liquid trying to get through a round hole. (?)

buddy, let me tell you that I'm learning a great deal with your posts. refreshing really.
I've just made one of those and wow; never thought i'd use that cotton and I was wrong!

 

[mainevaper]

OK. NO peeking. What color socks do you have on right now?

Skin colored.... I'm wearing flip flops

 

[pdib]

Skin colored.... I'm wearing flip flops

computer malfunction? or deja-vu "all over again"?