What wire to buy?

[Blazr]

Oh my, this thread went interesting lolol. I luvs a good debate!

To answer your question, I picked up some SS 28awg and I believe it to be the same size as the Tobeco coil head wire. Everywhere I have read says they use Kanthal and OC. So at least I think I know what to buy now.

I don't think I wasted my money on the SS because I'm just going to stock up on various wire for the future coil building : )

I've got reels and reels of wire, maybe a mile or two, i dunno. Most of them i don't even use anymore. Wire's cheap so........

coils tend to be too "fragile" for repeated re-wicking from about 30-31g upwards. Thinnest wire i use, in fact is my go to, is 29g kanthal. It's perfect !, stays rigid so is ideal for re-wicking, has a reasonably high resistance.

In your post you said : "I would love to learn how to rebuild the Tobeco coil heads. I know the gage is smaller than 26g and they use a parallel build. Many wraps".

What do you mean smaller ?. D'you mean thinner ?, or do you mean 25g, 24g etc ?.

If the coils you are trying to copy have many wraps then the wire would be quite thick, so in actual fact you mean a lower resistance than 26g when you say "smaller". A lower resistance wire to 26g would be 25g, lower than that would be 24g and so on.

Get yourself some 25g and some 24g and start with the 25g.

A dual coil arrangement of two 3mm inner diameter coils made with 25g kanthal with 10/11 wraps each would have a total resistance of 0.6ohm.

 

[suprtrkr]

FWIW, I feel I get the best flavor from Stainless wire.

 

[Blazr]

Ewe, I tried lamb once at a restaurant and it was gross! I'll stick with pork thank you!

I've read and been told that my ADHD doesn't define me. The HELL I say!!! I like my brain better with out Addies, but I would never sleep if I didn't take it... Oh and I also over sleep too. ......

So I think maybe there will be a definite learning curve to wicking the Stargate. Although for whatever reason one of the coils wasn't heating up like the other,, so I just took apart, washed and put away for now.

I have been having a blast with Hunter RDA. I've tried almost every juice I have, wicking sometimes a couple times a day switching flavors. Good practice right?

So tonight I thought okayyy, lets try the cotton that came with my coilmaster kit. I wicked it like cotton is supposed to be wicked, took a few hits without inhaling. When I finally did, my tummy turned and it made me nauseous. Same taste, same tummy thing as I get with most stock coilheads Smok, NRG, cleito 120. So disgusting!

So I made myself keep vaping for about 5 mins hoping it would clear, nope. So I pulled the cotton and rewicked with rayon and boom! The world was right again.

This was the first time using this juice on the RDA. It tasted like it was supposed to and the same as if I had used it in my Tobeco Super Tank.

I can't explain why cotton tastes so putrid to me. I just know my issue real and will only be using Rayon for awhile.

I do appreciate all the insight and suggestions every one has had for me. I need all the help I can get.

#Sarcasm It gets me through lol.

 

[Letitia]

Wanna vape with a lamb, try pulling some of this stuff on the left. It sorta looks like a lamb. I dare you to get it to work.

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Organic Egyptian cotton. Works ok after a lot of playing around with it, but I’ll stick with Egyptian cotton for my sheets from now on.

Poor Eskie. At the mercy of a non vaper buying your supplies.

 

[ScottP]

Ewe, I tried lamb once at a restaurant and it was gross! I'll stick with pork thank you!

Trying something once at a single place does not mean that all dishes of the same thing at all places is "gross". I love fried alligator for instance, but I have had it at a couple of places that if I had tried it there first I could have easily been turned off to it. As far as lamb goes, I love lamb cooked with Greek seasonings, shaved and eaten in gyros.

EDIT: Just for those not familiar with gyros (pronounced like "euro") let me tell you about this amazing dish. It is the aforementioned shaved lamb meat served in a warm pita with tzatziki sauce (cucumber, Greek yogurt, and seasonings), sliced tomatoes, sliced onions, and topped with feta cheese crumbles. They are soooooo good.

 

[Blazr]

Okay, it' tasted gamey to me. I will say I do prefer smaller frog legs than the larger plump ones. Again, gross. I prefer my venison hamburger meat 1/2 n 1/2 then cooked beyond dead with lots of seasonings and sauces. Where as regular beef, rare to med rare,, mooo!

 

[ScottP]

Okay, it' tasted gamey to me. I will say I do prefer smaller frog legs than the larger plump ones. Again, gross. I prefer my venison hamburger meat 1/2 n 1/2 then cooked beyond dead with lots of seasonings and sauces. Where as regular beef, rare to med rare,, mooo!

Not sure why, but I always cook ground meat of any kind thoroughly, but eat steak style red meats rare to med rare as well.

 

[Coastal Cowboy]

 

[Blazr]

Well I do not suggest to anyone buying a multi coil pack if you just don't know about exotic? coils. Unless you want a crash course in what never to use again without having backup batteries and lots of juice at the ready.

I chose either .5 or .85 for single and dual coil builds. Talk about cloud production and severe loss of juice and battery life! Wowzers

Flavor was best on a single coil a little warmer and slightly higher wattage than I'm used to, but was the best fit. I've learned to drip thru driptip to avoid juice under RDA and I think what to look for in future RDAs.

LOL saw a video on a Demon Killer rda/mod kit this morning. Looks real simple in comparison to their coil multipacks ; |

Wonder what squonker it would look good on?