what do you use as a wick?

[ninfreak]

I use xc-116.....I love it READYXWICK. I use it in everything I have....with my aios td, drippers and gennies. my current wick and coil in my aios(my work atty since it is near leakproof) is almost 4 months old and looks like I installed it yesterday(just dry burn it once a week)

 

[AmandaD]

I've been thinking about trying this, since I seem to have to change cotton wicks every day! Is it small enough to fit in a 1/16 coil? It's hard enough to get cotton through it! I can't find out what mm size it is

I use xc-116.....I love it READYXWICK. I use it in everything I have....with my aios td, drippers and gennies. my current wick and coil in my aios(my work atty since it is near leakproof) is almost 4 months old and looks like I installed it yesterday(just dry burn it once a week)

 

[TyCreek]

My current build is a 1/16 rene 41 coil where I threaded xc-116 into it by tightly wrapping a swatch of rolling paper on the end. It fits great!

 

[backitdown]

That READYXWICK looks nice but $8 a foot --- RBA Supplies can't even put an emaill address for contact and of course no phone number.
I can't understand suppliers that can't bother to be bothered

I read some of the reviews and one person noted it was about 3mm. - Good reviews -

 

[danny4x4]

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Cotton balls, I meant.

 

[Tugg n chase]

Cotton balls on drippers. P&C yarn in most tanks

 

[Themad]

Cotton balls, but going to try some cotton yarn on my next build.

 

[KAS129]

That READYXWICK looks nice but $8 a foot --- RBA Supplies can't even put an emaill address for contact and of course no phone number.
I can't understand suppliers that can't bother to be bothered

I read some of the reviews and one person noted it was about 3mm. - Good reviews -

Did you scroll to bottom of the main page? There are 4 e-mail addresses and a phone number on the main page.

 

[olcottkid]

Exile - Do you boil the cotton roll? Doesn't seem the rolls are boiled but seems the cotton balls users generally boil first?

 

[TyCreek]

Well that XC-116 wick lasted me a few hours in a RM2 ... now back to cotton. I didn't like the numerous cottons I tried, balls, q-tips, peaches & cream etc... then some time back CVS rolled cotton arrived at the door. The rolled cotton works so much better than anything else I've tried in dripper style atomizers. To be fair with the XC in a 1/16 coil, cotton doesn't keep up for me in those either, so I run a slightly larger 5/64 coil because I find it juices better for my use. I typically change cotton wick 2x/day in my REO.

 

[Coelli]

I use XC-116 in all of my drippers now and I'm preaching the gospel. No, you can't do tiny coils but I'm getting 1.1 - 1.2 with a 28g coil with 8 wraps compressed so that's good enough for me (on a Provari so I don't go lower). It also is much more expensive than anything else, but it lasts and lasts and doesn't need to be replaced often. Here's what I'm doing:

The coil is large enough for the wick to slide freely but still make contact. I use a 2" piece and thread it through the coil after I've built and tested it. One end gets tucked back under the coil and the other is brought across the posts to the well on the other side.

If it needs it (and it takes FOREVER before it needs it, it can go a couple of days easy and I'm a chain-vaper at home all day) I pull the wick almost all of the way through the coil so most of it is free, then light it with a torch so the excess juice burns off. Then I torch it red hot until it's perfectly clean and shiny white again. Then I dry burn the coil, pull the dirty end until it's the long end now, and torch the other side clean. It looks brand new when done. Then just tuck it back under and I'm good to go.

I seriously love this stuff. A 2" wick will probably last me a couple of months because the coil is large enough to not fray it when it's pulled through now that I've figured that part out.

I switched from silica to organic cotton because I hated the taste of burnt silica and the way it disintegrated. Cotton was better, but because I'm such a heavy dripper/vaper I had to change it out at least once a day and when it got funky, it would start to irritate my lungs. With the XC-116 I never get dry hits because the flavor just gets weaker until I can get a slight taste of the coil and ceramic, so I know it's time to add more juice. There's no residual taste from a dry burn. I have not had a "burnt" hit since I started using it. Sometimes to clear it I'll blow instead of sucking when firing, to get the last of whatever was in there out, with no worries that the wick will burn.

And in case anyone's wondering, I am not affiliated with RBA Supplies other than having given them money for the wick.

 

[Bunnykiller]

ceramic coated SS rope with a sleeve of Ekowool with a layer of mesh wrapped with flat kanthal and covered in cotton

silica tastes funny

 

[chief63]

I must be in the minority...I hate the taste of cotton. Boiled or not. But I'll give the CVS Sterile Rolled Cotton a try.

 

[TyCreek]

I must be in the minority...I hate the taste of cotton. Boiled or not. But I'll give the CVS Sterile Rolled Cotton a try.

I typed those same words at one time

 

[photon9]

I use ekowool (silica) but even 1mm is too much for my builds so I cut my length, unravel, grab the strands I need, and pull through with a bent piece of Kanthal wire.

Don't like cotton. Tried it but wasn't for me.

 

[stumpfreeman]

I use both ekowool and regular silica. 10 days of no maintenance vaping. Then just rinse and dry burn, good as new.

 

[abpigdoc]

I've been using Rayon top (Tencel) or batting (Cellulocotton) in my Rose, Cyclone AFC, Crown RDA, Aqua, and Erlkoenigen RTA for the past 2 months with exceptional results and no ill effects, apparently. I've used silica and cotton, with the results that we've all gotten, and the rayon really, really gives best results. No taste, no cleaning, better flavor, better wicking, and no need to rewick when changing flavors. It lasts longer, has a higher flash temp than cotton, cheap and available. Can NOT imagine anything better.

 

[six]

How do you thread your coils with cotton pads?

This is what I use and how I do it.

 

[cessnapix]

Can't stand the taste of cotton.

Readyxwick

I am not into torching as much as everyone else. It does degrade it faster. If that is a concern.

Rinsed in very hot tap water works just as good and doesnt turn the wick into mush.

 

[Kor 214I]

I use 100% organic cotton from Wal-greens