Ok, this might be a ridiculous question, but hey - the only stupid question is the one you never ask, right?
So I noticed that one of my EVODs was putting off some rather funky flavours today. Being a bit of a QC mook and a tinkerer, I couldn't help but pull the atomizer unit apart, and discovered that the coil was covered in a nasty black...crust (I blame the questionable Cola liquid I sampled...more like caramel and cinnamon; at least I didn't craze my tank). Turning to the net (ok, this site...), I found a few how-to's on dry-burning the Kanger double-wick unit. Looks pretty straight-forward, especially since I already figured out the difficult part (removing the "chimney").
But then I got to thinking. The videos I watched were all guys cleaning out their known to be legitimate Kanger coils with the wicks still in; which in the Kanger, if I am not mistaken, are silica based and can take the heat. I however, cannot confirm whether mine are indeed Kanger - the batteries and tanks are most certainly not. Which then led me to wonder whether the manufacturer of my units conformed to the Kanger specs, of if "Random E-Cigarette Factory Worker A" simply took his pocket knife to a shoe-lace, stuffed it in (and on-top of, my units are already pre-loaded with an extra bit of wicking material to alleviate flooding) the coil and called it a day.
So, is there a way to discern what material was used in the fabrication of a wick short of destroying it? I'd rather not get into rebuilding them quite yet...although I'm quite sure that's coming, right now I simply want to focus on using these to get off the nails rather than the hobby aspect; however curiosity has the best of me at the moment...
So I noticed that one of my EVODs was putting off some rather funky flavours today. Being a bit of a QC mook and a tinkerer, I couldn't help but pull the atomizer unit apart, and discovered that the coil was covered in a nasty black...crust (I blame the questionable Cola liquid I sampled...more like caramel and cinnamon; at least I didn't craze my tank). Turning to the net (ok, this site...), I found a few how-to's on dry-burning the Kanger double-wick unit. Looks pretty straight-forward, especially since I already figured out the difficult part (removing the "chimney").
But then I got to thinking. The videos I watched were all guys cleaning out their known to be legitimate Kanger coils with the wicks still in; which in the Kanger, if I am not mistaken, are silica based and can take the heat. I however, cannot confirm whether mine are indeed Kanger - the batteries and tanks are most certainly not. Which then led me to wonder whether the manufacturer of my units conformed to the Kanger specs, of if "Random E-Cigarette Factory Worker A" simply took his pocket knife to a shoe-lace, stuffed it in (and on-top of, my units are already pre-loaded with an extra bit of wicking material to alleviate flooding) the coil and called it a day.
So, is there a way to discern what material was used in the fabrication of a wick short of destroying it? I'd rather not get into rebuilding them quite yet...although I'm quite sure that's coming, right now I simply want to focus on using these to get off the nails rather than the hobby aspect; however curiosity has the best of me at the moment...
