tutorial for coiling a silica wick ?

[Joshinthecity]

sxmx,
you're cotton wick tutorials are amazing.
I followed your instructions and made my first coil without too much panic.
Thank you.

My next coil, I'd like to try some of the silica wick I bought from Rob.
Can someone recommend a video for me ?

 

[feldwin]

reomizer 2.0 - YouTube

This should be helpful. Gratz on the new toy.

 

[jwat82]

What size silica?

I've found 1mm fits perfectly in microcoils made around a 1/16 drill bit (~1.6mm). It's not as easy to thread as cotton imo, but when you get it in, it's the perfect amount of wick.

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[Raynman]

I don't think you can get a better tutorial than the mod Master himself.

 

[ancient puffer]

I've done it the way Robert shows in his video and it's excellent. I've also wrapped a micro, separated the silica threads and pulled 3 of them through the micro coil with a floss threader (you can just use a doubled over piece of wire to thread it through). Both are outstanding!

 

[Filthy-Beast]

What size silica?

I've found 1mm fits perfectly in microcoils made around a 1/16 drill bit (~1.6mm). It's not as easy to thread as cotton imo, but when you get it in, it's the perfect amount of wick.

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Same here. I heat it white hot with a torch and a little juice on the end makes easier to thread in 1/16" ID coil.

 

[super_X_drifter]

Sorry bro, I've never even tried silica . The closest I came was Nextel but I quickly rebounded to the cotton

Robs video makes silica look easy though

 

[TastyKakes]

Sorry bro, I've never even tried silica . The closest I came was Nextel but I quickly rebounded to the cotton

Robs video makes silica look easy though

No-go on the Nextel xc-116? I've been looking forward to getting my hands on some to try out. Does it just not hold a lot of juice or...? You've got my curiosity piqued.

 

[super_X_drifter]

^ I found several niggles with it:

First, I'm a "build a coil then make / insert wick to match the coil inside diameter" kinda guy. I had no luck doing that with the skinny Nextel.

Second, I found it to produce a wetter feeling vape than I was accustomed to.

Lastly, I just couldn't get psychologically comfortable with vaping it cause its made with some nasty stuff applied to it during fabrication. I know it's supposedly "kiln treated'" but who knows if it's done properly.

That said and as awesome and readily available (not to mention how inexpensive) as cotton is, I begged her forgiveness and crawled back to her. I'm not the least bit disappointed and have not even a curiosity to do anything to my setup except screw around with wire gauges

Glad you asked

 

[TastyKakes]

^ I found several niggles with it:
...
Glad you asked

"Wetter" vape, huh? I've heard saturated and dense, but wetter just doesn't sound that appealing.
I guess my main curiosity is in how much juice it can hold when fully saturated. I'd believe it was treated properly if purchases from a reputable dealer, but I guess I'm just the "trusting" type.
I've always been interested in its wicking ability to utilize in tank situations, but guess that doesn't really matter much when dripping since everything's already right there.
I'm with you though: I love cotton in every application I've tried so far. Ideally, I would like all the benefits of cotton in a medium that doesn't burn so easily.

 

[Matthee]

Josh - I unravel two threads from my 3mm silica and using Kanthal wire pull it doubled through the micro coil like in the pictures below. I believe each thread is 0.5mm, so end up with a 2mm wick.

 

[custom-classic]

Great tutorial Matthee!!!
I've tried this a few times and I keep going back to organic cotton. With the darker tobacco juices, I find myself changing my cotton at least three times a day. With silica I don't have to change it nearly as often but the vapor and flavor are just not the same. I'm thinking of trying the hemp silver in the near future.

 

[Jazzi Mike]

Personally, I don't like cotton. What I do to build my Reomizer is wrap a coil around 1.5mm Ekowool with very little space in between wraps. I then push them close together until they are touching. If some won't get right into place, I torch the coil and move the wraps with a screwdriver. So I get the effect of a microcoil with Ekowool. Heh, it's a macro coil!

I can't get down with trying to thread a wick through a micro coil. It is probably something I could work on, but I am very very happy with this method.

 

[jwat82]

Personally, I don't like cotton. What I do to build my Reomizer is wrap a coil around 1.5mm Ekowool with very little space in between wraps. I then push them close together until they are touching. If some won't get right into place, I torch the coil and move the wraps with a screwdriver. So I get the effect of a microcoil with Ekowool. Heh, it's a macro coil!

I can't get down with trying to thread a wick through a micro coil. It is probably something I could work on, but I am very very happy with this method.

When I first got my rm2 I tried this with some 3mm ekowool I had, talk about a macrocoil...

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[supertrunker]

I use very fat 3mm+ silica and it's stiff enough to just wrap straight onto with kanthal wire.

If i use R41 wire then i have to blowtorch and wind that on a 1/8" drill bit and then screw the wick into it.


Here's a blurry pic of it from my phone. I found blowtorching the wick helped too by preventing the strands from coming apart. I don't have a spare RM2 to fit this into just now, but that coil will be about 1.8Ω.

My usual daily builds are dual coil 32g kanthal wrapped on the same wick at about 1Ω. i got lucky here!


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