Where Do You Buy Your Wick?
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Sorry for being a little off topic, but have you considered trying cotton wick? It's super cheap and less of a health concern than silica. You can pick up #4 white cotton yarn from any fabric store (or somewhere like walmart), cut off a few feet and boil it for a few minutes, dry it off and install.
But if you are set on silica, I'm sure someone will chime in with a recommendation. I couldn't find a good source for it either.
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But if you are set on silica, I'm sure someone will chime in with a recommendation. I couldn't find a good source for it either.
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Make your own from cotton balls or cotton gause from pharmacy,cheaper and healthier.
Cotton balls or gauze are probably a safer bet than yarn, which can contain dyes, bleach, and God only knows what else.
Boil the yarn first for a few minutes to get out any unwanted stuff that may be in it. too.
I heard bambo yarn is the safest and make sure too get organic cotton.
READ THIS :
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/modding-forum/284030-wick-materials-safe-vs-dangerous.html
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maybe i should make a new post i didn't even know this was possible i can really use cotton yarn? it wont burn? so #4 white yearn boiled? its really that easy?
It will only burn when you do a cleaning by ""dry burning"" your coil,other wise it"s ok too use cotton or bamboo yarn.
So if you can't dry burn coils with cotton wicks, how do you clean them?
Do you just use them until they get gunked up, and then re-wick the coils?
Or do you just toss them altogether when they get a little gunked up, and build another one fresh?
Do you just use them until they get gunked up, and then re-wick the coils?
Or do you just toss them altogether when they get a little gunked up, and build another one fresh?
Build a fresh one,cost nothing,the wire is dirt cheap and so is the bambo or cotton,they dont last as long as silca before cleaning,but thats the trade off, a little more labour,but well worth it
You can, but its easier and less tangly if you do a few feet at a time.
As for the burning, yes they burn easily then the taste is horrible. But its easy to keep them juiced up at all times so its not really a problem. Just rewick fresh when they get gunked up or you change flavors. Dry burn your coil when the wick is pulled out, then thread in the new one.
I use a T3, and #4 yarn has 4 threads twisted together. 2 of the threads go through the coil and the full 4 go on top as the flavor wick. This may be different depending on what clearo you have, but there are plenty of guides online to help. Just remember that the yarn will expand once it gets saturated, so whatever goes through the coil should fit just so, such that it can slide freely.
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If you are going to use yarn, you want to look for weight 4, medium yarn. You also want to make sure it is 100% cotton (no synthetics at all!), and preferably non dyed. The Sugar'n Cream 100% cotton yarns are great, and fit the bill nicely. Something I noticed right off the bat comparing the Sugar'n Cream yarn to other cotton yarns at a local craft store was that every other brand seemed to smell. It wasn't a foul odor per se, but certainly not something you want to taste every time you puff your ecig... The Sugar'n Cream yarn had a very neutral smell, virtually no odor at all. That seemed like an important factor in my opinion, as you don't want the wick to alter the flavor of your juice. Now, all that said, I ultimately went with #1/0 square braid cotton candle wick. It seemed closer to the actual size of the silica braid used in the wicks that were used during manufacture. I simply used 4 strands, wrapped 5 tight coils of kanthal wire around the middle, and rebuilt the atty using methods readily available on YouTube. Like others have said, do not try to dry burn a cotton wick, it will burn up on you. The cotton yarn and kanthal wire are so cheap, there is no reason to not wrap a new one every time you get gunked up. You'll get a fresh flavor every time! Just make a few extra pre-assembled wick/coil assemblies and you'll always have a few spares handy when you need to change one out.
One suggestion I would make, if you're going to start wrapping your own coils, you may want to invest in a VV PV. We're only human, and there is no way we're going to hand wrap a coil that is exactly the same every time. Each one of our hand wrapped wick/coil assemblies is going to have a different resistance. With a VV mod you will be able to compensate for the inconsistencies in your hand wrapped coil resistance values in ohms. You'll want a multimeter handy (Or a PV with a built in ohm meter, although these usually aren't as accurate as a true multimeter) to measure the resistance of your newly assembled coil. Then simply use Ohm's/Joules law to find the voltage you want to vape the new coil at. I have found I like to vape my clearo's at around 6.5W of power...
So... If I were to make a hand wrapped wick/coil that had a value of 2.34 Ohm's, and I know I like to vape at 6.5W, using some simple math I know I want to set my voltage to 3.9. I use a simple calculator found at ohmslawcalculator.com to do the math for me
Or, just get a mod with adjustable wattage, set it at what you like, and it uses its built in ohm meter to find the right voltage based on the power (Watts) you set. I'm not that high tech just yet I haven't been vaping long enough to justify that cost, though the Vamo is pretty reasonably priced.
Just stuff to consider if you're going to be making your own wick/coil assemblies by hand Good luck!
One suggestion I would make, if you're going to start wrapping your own coils, you may want to invest in a VV PV. We're only human, and there is no way we're going to hand wrap a coil that is exactly the same every time. Each one of our hand wrapped wick/coil assemblies is going to have a different resistance. With a VV mod you will be able to compensate for the inconsistencies in your hand wrapped coil resistance values in ohms. You'll want a multimeter handy (Or a PV with a built in ohm meter, although these usually aren't as accurate as a true multimeter) to measure the resistance of your newly assembled coil. Then simply use Ohm's/Joules law to find the voltage you want to vape the new coil at. I have found I like to vape my clearo's at around 6.5W of power...
So... If I were to make a hand wrapped wick/coil that had a value of 2.34 Ohm's, and I know I like to vape at 6.5W, using some simple math I know I want to set my voltage to 3.9. I use a simple calculator found at ohmslawcalculator.com to do the math for me
Or, just get a mod with adjustable wattage, set it at what you like, and it uses its built in ohm meter to find the right voltage based on the power (Watts) you set. I'm not that high tech just yet
I haven't been vaping long enough to justify that cost, though the Vamo is pretty reasonably priced. Just stuff to consider if you're going to be making your own wick/coil assemblies by hand
Good luck!
If you are going to use yarn, you want to look for weight 4, medium yarn. You also want to make sure it is 100% cotton (no synthetics at all!), and preferably non dyed. The Sugar'n Cream 100% cotton yarns are great, and fit the bill nicely. Something I noticed right off the bat comparing the Sugar'n Cream yarn to other cotton yarns at a local craft store was that every other brand seemed to smell. It wasn't a foul odor per se, but certainly not something you want to taste every time you puff your ecig... The Sugar'n Cream yarn had a very neutral smell, virtually no odor at all. That seemed like an important factor in my opinion, as you don't want the wick to alter the flavor of your juice. Now, all that said, I ultimately went with #1/0 square braid cotton candle wick. It seemed closer to the actual size of the silica braid used in the wicks that were used during manufacture. I simply used 4 strands, wrapped 5 tight coils of kanthal wire around the middle, and rebuilt the atty using methods readily available on YouTube. Like others have said, do not try to dry burn a cotton wick, it will burn up on you. The cotton yarn and kanthal wire are so cheap, there is no reason to not wrap a new one every time you get gunked up. You'll get a fresh flavor every time! Just make a few extra pre-assembled wick/coil assemblies and you'll always have a few spares handy when you need to change one out.
One suggestion I would make, if you're going to start wrapping your own coils, you may want to invest in a VV PV. We're only human, and there is no way we're going to hand wrap a coil that is exactly the same every time. Each one of our hand wrapped wick/coil assemblies is going to have a different resistance. With a VV mod you will be able to compensate for the inconsistencies in your hand wrapped coil resistance values in ohms. You'll want a multimeter handy (Or a PV with a built in ohm meter, although these usually aren't as accurate as a true multimeter) to measure the resistance of your newly assembled coil. Then simply use Ohm's/Joules law to find the voltage you want to vape the new coil at. I have found I like to vape my clearo's at around 6.5W of power...
So... If I were to make a hand wrapped wick/coil that had a value of 2.34 Ohm's, and I know I like to vape at 6.5W, using some simple math I know I want to set my voltage to 3.9. I use a simple calculator found at ohmslawcalculator.com to do the math for me
Or, just get a mod with adjustable wattage, set it at what you like, and it uses its built in ohm meter to find the right voltage based on the power (Watts) you set. I'm not that high tech just yet
Just stuff to consider if you're going to be making your own wick/coil assemblies by hand
i havent been vaping for long at all so getting a VV is just way out of my price range and im a broke college kid trying to afford an apartment with me and my girlfriend both on part time jobs haha moneys pretty tight which is why im gonna be trying to rebuild these things rather then re-buying them, and i like the satisfaction of saving money by being tech savy XD if anything i will probably just grab a Voltage meter from the hardware store... if i remember correctly those have a setting to measure Ohms http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-202565780/h_d2/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&keyword=multimeter&storeId=10051#.UOCiaG_7L3Q <- like that one which i would have no problem buying because theres tons of other things i could use it on too and if its not in the ohm range i would like it to be rather then having a VV i could always just re wrap it ... i ordered 100 feet of the wire already for 8 bucks lmao
is there any flaws in that plan or anything i should do differently?
wow. i just looked it up there's a sugars'n cream yarn store like 7 miles from me, what are the chances of that lol.
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silica wick is about 70ish cents a foot and yarn is less then 1 cent a foot. i didnt know you could use yarn so im gonna give that a try .. how can you not its almost free =P
and the wire i bought was only 8 cents a foot. the way it looks to me you'd be crazy not to rebuild these things its so easy to do too
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