Well been vaping on the same 0.3 ohm build for a couple months now, and is time to re-wick and dry burn the coil. Have recently gone to Ramie Fiber for my wicking needs, so once I dry vaped the Aqua, decided to do some maintenance, it was past due. lol
Here's a pic after taking the wick out, very nasty and coil ends gunked over.
Here she is after dry burn, used some twisted wire pieces to open up the clogged coils and cleaned up fairly nice!! While cleaning was thinking of a way to brush file and clear out the air passages, and saw some end trimmings of twisted wire combos, and though, hmm, looks like a rasp or file, worked great for cleaning the coil carbon after dry burn, and clearing/cleaning down the coil center and airways too. Just another reason to try twisted wire folks!!! lol.
This is the stand of Ramie Fiber I'll be using to wick the Aqua. Love working with this stuff, so long and silky, and compresses nicely and makes wicking the coil a pleasure. Great flow capacity and heat tolerant, more so than cotton or hemp.
Here's a pic of the same fiber strand, saturated with juice, compressed, fuzzies trimmed and flattened out, aligning all the fibers nice, straight and neat for maximum juice flow!!
Have the coil all wicked, wrapped and tails tucked into the juice channels, ready for assembly and trim. On the ohm meter is a small piece I had to strip off for just the right coil coverage. Very easy to do. I then cut the stand in half to make my 2 wick strands.
Now have chimney screwed down and all the tails straight, uniform and down tight awaiting trim.
All trimmed up and ready for assembly!!!
Nothing like a fresh Cut and a Dry Burn to freshen up ones vape. Still have that "Aqua Love" here. Damn fine vape. Really, really, liking the way of Ramie. My new wick of choice. Took a bit to understand each other, but once I took care to keep all the fibers straight and neat, it's been wicking incredibly well, and when you crack open the JC it like turning on a fire hose, offering great juice supply. Takes about a day of vaping, or so, for the fiber cell walls to get fully saturated and expanded, but once fully broke in can leave the jc at your current vape level, and if you crank up the watts, an easy 1/4-1/2 turn allows for instant increase of juice. Just like any other pressurized fluid control system. Fraking awesome fiber. Just thought I'd share my bi-monthly maintenance and Aqua review. lol
Vape long and prosper!!!
P.S.: the cat bites!