what to do with new wick and wire?

[drifter17x]

Going to attempt to build my first coil. The wick smells of some sort of primer and as for the kanthal wire I don't know if there's s process for it. Do I burn it? Rinse it in water? Anyone? Lol

 

[floatingtrem]

Just give it a quick torch and you should be good to go.

 

[r3Yr3y]

or you could boil the wicks to get rid of impurities just in case

 

[Happy2beMe]

Torch the wick till it glows white. As for the wire, you don't need to do anything to it except wrap it around the wick (you can very lightly torch it to take out some of the springiness out of it if you want). How many times you wrap it depends on the size of the wire vs. how many ohms you want for the end result. ex.: if you have 3mm silica wick and 32awg kanthal wire; you can wrap it 4-5 times and it should give you somewhere between 1.8-2.2 ohms.

 

[drifter17x]

Cool thankss. That'd exactly what I have. So I need a torch I can't just use a stove? And umm.... Blue or red flame.?

 

[floatingtrem]

Blue flame. Stove is fine.

 

[drifter17x]

So if I put it over a red flame it will just burn right?

Blue flame. Stove is fine.

 

[bmrdave]

Is this silica/cloth wick or stainless mesh? Burning a cloth wick would be no good I would think.

 

[ScottP]

I torch both my Kanthal and my silica over my gas burning stove in the blue part of the flame.

 

[bmrdave]

I torch both my Kanthal and my silica over my gas burning stove in the blue part of the flame.

good to know. Learn something everyday here!

 

[drifter17x]

Silica wick

Is this silica/cloth wick or stainless mesh? Burning a cloth wick would be no good I would think.

 

[Baditude]

Silica wick

No, don't torch that. You only need to oxidize stainless steel mesh with a flame.

A better place to ask these type of specialty questions on rebuildable devices would be the rebuildable sub-forum.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/rebuildable-atomizer-systems/

 

[spider362]

To get a nice even wrap with your wire use a 4-40 SAE or M3 (3mm) or M2.5 (2.5mm) metric machine screw. The 4-40 and M3 are the same diameter.
The 4-40 screw will give wider spacing of the coils while the M3 will give closer spacing and will allow for more wraps for the same width of coil.
The M2.5 will give a smaller coil diameter with close wraps so you can get lower resistance with the same number of wraps as with the M3 screw.