Tried an experiemnt with the flavor wick on a PTII head

[Garemlin]

Ok I haven't yet tried rebuilding. Soon though. But I wanted to play around a little. Baby steps. So I cracked a new bottle of vitamins yesterday and saved the cotton inside the bottle and put it in a zip-lok bag. So what I did is take the top off my PTII head and removed the flavor wick. Took a small strand of the cotton and used it as a replacement flavor wick. Put the head back together and let it soak for a bit. What I noticed is the vapor is much more prominent, but the flavor is now kind of muted. Did I really achieve anything by dong this or did I hurt the performance. Also I noticed I can't crank up the voltage as high as I could before without getting a burnt taste.

I will add that flavor was fine before I did this. I just was curious to see what would happen.

 

[AlexanderJ]

I've noticed that the cotton does a better job in stopping gurgling and leaking. I'd pull the silica from the coil as well and thread a thin piece through.

 

[Garemlin]

I'm wondering if cotton is not for me. I took the flavor wick out thinking it may be too big. Put a much smaller strand in there and the flavor is still not there. In fact I am still getting an almost burnt taste. Not getting any gurgling or flooding, and the vapor production is incredible. Just the flavor is not there.

Any thoughts??? Is cotton not for everyone????

 

[Gonzi]

In my opinion, the "flavor wick" actually reduces flavor. It's really there to make the wick thicker, and in theory, to help saturate the coil, but it ends up muting the flavor. I rebuild my coils for my PT2 and for my wife's evods, and all I use is cotton through the coil. We get great vapor production and great flavor, and we can crank up the volts no problem. I'm currently running a 1.8ohm at 10.5 watts, no burning, great flavor and vapor.

You can pull the wick off the stock coils and replace it with just cotton if you want to test it out, no need to rebuild if you don't want to.

 

[Gonzi]

Forgot to add, cotton is not for everyone, it works for many many vapers, but some people can taste it or get throat irritation from it, like Dimitri aka Vaping Greek.

 

[Garemlin]

Forgot to add, cotton is not for everyone, it works for many many vapers, but some people can taste it or get throat irritation from it, like Dimitri aka Vaping Greek.

I did notice a little throat irritation. Which in a year of vaping I have never had before.

 

[coalyard]

I personally have found rebuilt PT2 heads wicked with cotton to have more flavor and vapor production than wicked with silica. I have also found that the flavor improves greatly over a couple of hours when using cotton. I cannot say if boiling it helps, I haven't boiled cotton for my wicks. I would suggest wrapping a 1/16"id micro coil, try 9 wraps of 30ga. Should work out to about 2ohm. Wick it with cotton, using enough to feel a little resistance as you pull it through the coil. Don't compress it too much either. Use a little as a flavor wick, or just try it without; you can easily add it later if needed. Wet the wicks well before putting it all back together.

I don't know. You said in another thread that you didn't want to use cotton, but it wouldn't hurt to give it a shot. I haven't used silica on rebuilt coils in the PT, but I have used them in my KFL+, as well as my dripper and found cotton to be more problem free and better tasting to me. YMMV.

 

[AlexanderJ]

I should say, the cotton from the bottle of vitamins is probably absorbing some of the flavor from the bottle and from being in there with the vitamins. Grab some sterile cotton balls and try that.

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[PaulBHC]

On my builds, not PTs, it usually takes a few puffs before the cotton gets saturated and the bad taste goes away. If the flavor is still muted after 10 or so good puffs, you may have too much cotton. It can get squished and pinched, blocking juice flow.

 

[AlexanderJ]

On my builds, not PTs, it usually takes a few puffs before the cotton gets saturated and the bad taste goes away. If the flavor is still muted after 10 or so good puffs, you may have too much cotton. It can get squished and pinched, blocking juice flow.

I also found this to be true with organic cotton, but not with sterile cotton balls, which start off clean from the start...just throwing that out there.

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