what do you use as a wick?

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rzil

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Hi!
I currently use peaches and cream organic cotton string as a wick.
I like it more than silica.
But a guy was telling me you can get nylon string and it works just as well and is very hard to burn.
Have any of you heard of this?

For your own health sake don't listen that guy , Nylon ? sounds like he has some kind of death wish , I've never heard of anybody using nylon
 

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Hi!
I currently use peaches and cream organic cotton string as a wick.
I like it more than silica.
But a guy was telling me you can get nylon string and it works just as well and is very hard to burn.
Have any of you heard of this?

Organic cotton balls or Ko Gen Do,untreated Japanese Organic cotton
 

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All rayon, all the time. It replaced both cotton and ss mesh for me permanently. Wicks like it has a pump built in, clean taste just like stainless steel, and at least as easy to work with as cotton. I use it in my RDAs, in my Kayfun, I've even gone back to using my genesis RBAs recently because rayon has made them as easy to set up and perform as well or better than my Kayfun. Phenomenal stuff.
 

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Koh Gen Do Japanese cotton in my drippers. I fooled around with rayon for a while. Switched back and forth between it and the KGD. I eventually decided that the KGD cotton was best, for me, although both rayon and KGD are superior to rolled cotton or cotton balls, whether organic or sterile.
For my genisis RBAs, 400 or 500 ss mesh only.
 

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I like the organic cotton balls from CVS. Not because I care whether or not they are "organic", but because I like the consistency of them better than regular cotton balls. They seem softer and easier to work with.

I wanted to try rayon, and asked my wife to pick up a box of cellucotton from Sally's, and she instead came home with a box of rolled cotton.

She said, "The cellucotton was rayon.....I didn't think you would want that". LOL
 

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I wish I had a gas spectometer...
I believe you mean a mass spectrometer.

As for the wick question, I was using CVS 100% organic cotton balls for about five months up until about a week ago until I got a beautiful shipment of unbleached undyed unmodified hemp fiber in, which absolutely blows cotton out of the water. Wicks faster, lasts longer, harder to burn, tastes better(to me, anyway).

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These aren't slacker builds I'm testing the hemp in either, the brass setup is 22g Nichrome 80 @ .15 ohms and the stainless is 24g Nichrome 80 @ .22 ohms - no burnt hit or slow wicking, even with all the empty space below the 22ga build it doesn't starve or dry hit even on 5-7 second lung hits. I'm slightly rolling and pulling the hemp fiber through the coils until it's just snug but not super tight. Kind of fiddly to work with at first but you get used to it, or at least I did.

I'm slowly converting all my devices over from cotton to hemp, it's just working better for me. 4oz of Hemp fiber was ~$10 shipped and for anyone who is keeping track 4oz will last a very long time. ( Hemp Source: http://bountifulspinweave.com/p/S-NF-H.html#.U-ajs2OTrIN ) - I'm using that straight out of the package and loving every minute!
 

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Rayon cellucotton is what I use, I only vape NETs (Which are hard on wicks and coils), and rayon wicks them much better than cotton or silica. From a flavor perspective I find rayon substantially better than silica, a little better than organic cotton but just equal to Japanese cotton IMO. I like to vape around 20 watts on a .8 ohm coil which is a bit hot for cotton, scorching it over time, but rayon handles the heat extremely well.
 
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