Using Cotton as a wick?

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CloudZ

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Just buy some white or natural color pure cotton yarn. Cut off a few feet and boil it for about 20 minutes to remove impurities, then dry. Wrap your coil around something like a nail, then thread the wick through. Never fire your coil unless saturated in juice, or it will burn. That's about it.


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You can use 1 tooth pick or go get a needle set from walmart that has different sizes. The brand or yarn I used was surgars and cream or berries and cream something like that from walmart. It's 100% cotton. What I found worked best for me was 2-4 wicks of the yarn. The yarn has 4 strands that is twisted. You can twist it even smaller just use your nail and twist from one and to the other. This makes its a lot easier to thread too. This was you can fit 2-4 wicks in the same coil. When I used 1 wick I did not get as good flavor and vapor as multiple wicks.
 

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also used "peaches and cream " yarn from wallymart,after boiling and drying cut in 2 or 3 feet pieces and put some glue on the one end only about 3/4 inch and massaged that into a point till dry
prewound the coil on a drillbit installed that and fired a couple of times till just red.
now feed the yarn from the bottom throw hole pull extra slack through and leave a little longer continue to feed though coil and other hole back into tank. I had 4 holes available so I done this again . so ended up with 4 coils installed with ( 2 through the coil )
remember also the cotton yarn will swell a bit.
it worked great vicking was great and flavor to never had a dry hit . pre wet and let all soack a wile ...I am happi with cotton rolf
 
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