Wick material?

[super_X_drifter]

KGD only. Never tried silica and have used rayon once or twice but KGD is too easy to get precisely the right density 99% of the time, I trust that it's completely pure and it works wonderfully to hold juice in the coil for vaporization.

I have never asked for long life in my wicking but then again I use unflavored nic base and it doesn't gunk or carmelize. I easily get a week out if a wick and it can stand up to however long I pull at any resistance I've tried even at 1.5mm ID coil. I've never burned one although I have vaped them fairly dry on occasion, once or twice enough to taste it and I just rewet and go. Never burned one out.

 

[TraceyS]

What is every one using for wicks lately? I have been using the same build and cotton bacon for months. That build is really awesome on my rm2 but not so much on my new cyclone. I have changed up the coil a bit and now I'm looking to change up my cotton. So what does every one like and why?

I use the ready x wick for about a year now. It lasts forever and makes you lazy building coils lol

Tracey

 

[Robinowitz]

The type of juice you will dramatically affect the coil and overall performance. If you have to change coils more often (I usually do cause weird looking dark, black wire from repeated dry burning freaks me out), then KGD, or CC would be of more practical use as you change the coil. If you're using a juice that doesn't gunk the coil, then give RxW would definitely work for the better.

Every juice I've tried seems to clog the coil after 4-6 ml. Juice wish folks would make flavored juice that will not clog coils, but that's the nature of the beast. Adding sugars, and artificial flavorings always results in caramelized wire as the coil heats and cools down.

Good point regarding how juice choice affects coil, therefore wicking material. Great to know I'm not alone with coil funking juice. But hey, I'm willing to "pay" the price for flavors I really dig?

 

[Rob.Gee]

KGD only. Never tried silica and have used rayon once or twice but KGD is too easy to get precisely the right density 99% of the time, I trust that it's completely pure and it works wonderfully to hold juice in the coil for vaporization.

I have never asked for long life in my wicking but then again I use unflavored nic base and it doesn't gunk or carmelize. I easily get a week out if a wick and it can stand up to however long I pull at any resistance I've tried even at 1.5mm ID coil. I've never burned one although I have vaped them fairly dry on occasion, once or twice enough to taste it and I just rewet and go. Never burned one out.

What no more cvs sterile cotton balls?? Lol I watched one of your old videos. Single coil small atties with a non l.p. grand and cvs cotton balls

 

[Alamedean]

RXW for over a year now. I haven't made a coil or changed my wicks in I don't know how long. Using 100% VG. Easy peasy, just the way I like it.

 

[RattlerX]

RxW 2 & 3.....Can't even remember the last time I had to change it out. Rinse & dry burn at each bottle change/refill or two. Just take a few seconds to keep it fresh and lasting forever.

 

[Rule62]

I use KGD generally. Occasionally I'll use rayon, for no other reason than I happen to pick it up first. I don't find a huge difference with either one, vape wise. Rayon takes a little more fooling around with, in order to get the density right. KGD is more cut a strip and go. Changing out a pair of KGD wicks is pretty quick, which is why I prefer it.

 

[Danrogers]

I'm also fairly new to building too, I use KGD, based on recommendations from different Reonauts. I find it easy to wick with getting the same amount consistently is a breeze for this newbie.

 

[Vaslovik]

I've never used anything but mesh. Two years into vaping I'm still happy with it.

 

[Rule62]

I've never used anything but mesh. Two years into vaping I'm still happy with it.

I was a big fan of mesh in genisis RBAs, back in my pre-Reo vaping days. I still have several gennys sitting on the shelf. I haven't picked one up in ages.

 

[ed101z]

I've never used anything but mesh. Two years into vaping I'm still happy with it.

I was a big fan of mesh in genisis RBAs, back in my pre-Reo vaping days. I still have several gennys sitting on the shelf. I haven't picked one up in ages.

I'm from the Mesh & Genesis camp as well, and still use the techniques in my coil building. Was able to make absolutely perfect wicks by using 1.5 inches x 2 inches. I have many RSST's and AGA-T2's put away. Who knows? May fire them up one day.

I've thought about trying Mesh in a Reo Grand; but however, since the Reo is fully mechanical and unregulated... it's to risky. Dealing with Hot Spots and Hot Legs was a nightmare even with regulated devices. I'd probably hard short the Reo as soon as I fired it up since it's metal on metal. I did see some guy try it on a Reo. He claimed it worked great, but I think I'll stick with CelluCotton in the Reo. Just don't want to worry about shorts every time the firing button is pressed.

 

[Vaslovik]

I'm from the Mesh & Genesis camp as well, and still use the techniques in my coil building. Was able to make absolutely perfect wicks by using 1.5 inches x 2 inches. I have many RSST's and AGA-T2's put away. Who knows? May fire them up one day.

I've thought about trying Mesh in a Reo Grand; but however, since the Reo is fully mechanical and unregulated... it's to risky. Dealing with Hot Spots and Hot Legs was a nightmare even with regulated devices. I'd probably hard short the Reo as soon as I fired it up since it's metal on metal. I did see some guy try it on a Reo. He claimed it worked great, but I think I'll stick with CelluCotton in the Reo. Just don't want to worry about shorts every time the firing button is pressed.

I use my gennies on nothing but mechs, and have never owned a regulated mod. Gennies are all I use. I find dealing with hot spots a snap, I just work them out when I put the wick in with a dental pick and I've yet to have a short two years into gennies. I think it's about build technique and procedure. Once you have that down it's duck soup and no worries.

My first genny was an AGA-T2, which I found to be a cantankerous device, so I get where you are coming from on that, but my next genny was the RSST, which I have four of, and it's just a snap to build. I adopted the Petar K method early on and it's served me very well. I find it works far better than coiling a wick already in the genny.

As long as you have that nice uniform coil made and lock down the ends good and solid you should never have to worry about a short, and of course an ohms meter will tell you that before you put the atty on a mech. You are already making perfect wicks, so pull out those gennies and give it a shot. As long as you have an ohms checker you have nothing to worry about. As for hot spots and hot legs I use a dental pick to deal with those and it works very well. Just gently nudge the coil loops up and down pulsing it until the coil is glowing nice and even on a dry wick. Works for me

 

[ed101z]

I use my gennies on nothing but mechs, and have never owned a regulated mod. Gennies are all I use. I find dealing with hot spots a snap, I just work them out when I put the wick in with a dental pick and I've yet to have a short two years into gennies. I think it's about build technique and procedure. Once you have that down it's duck soup and no worries.

My first genny was an AGA-T2, which I found to be a cantankerous device, so I get where you are coming from on that, but my next genny was the RSST, which I have four of, and it's just a snap to build. I adopted the Petar K method early on and it's served me very well. I find it works far better than coiling a wick already in the genny.

As long as you have that nice uniform coil made and lock down the ends good and solid you should never have to worry about a short, and of course an ohms meter will tell you that before you put the atty on a mech. You are already making perfect wicks, so pull out those gennies and give it a shot. As long as you have an ohms checker you have nothing to worry about. As for hot spots and hot legs I use a dental pick to deal with those and it works very well. Just gently nudge the coil loops up and down pulsing it until the coil is glowing nice and even on a dry wick. Works for me

Yep, at a time everyone was doing the 'Ugly Wrap', ...Peter K got the Microcoil started. I think he was using Mesh at the time, and his technique proved to be a much easier way to thread it.

I too started on the AGA-T2, which was indeed a temperamental little thing to deal with. The RSST was a little better because of insulation that separated the wick hole from the base. But those days are gone thanks to the Reo Grand (with RM2), and great wicking materials like CelluCotton, KGD, and RxW. Those three are a piece of cake to deal with compared to Mesh. I dry burn a little to much, and the thought of pulling the Mesh out; torching it; dry burning the coil; reinserting the Mesh, and spending time eliminating Hot Spots and Hot Legs... just doesn't agree with my stomach.

It's much easier to just pull the CelluCotton out, and thread a fresh piece through the dry burned coil. I usually change the coil every 3 days anyway because after several dry burns, the wire starts looking funky. Besides... Kanthal is too cheap to exhaust the coil. Doing so means the battery has to work that much harder.

May be wrong here, but it sounds like you've never used a Reo Grand. Man, if that's the case... then you have no idea of what you're missing. Get you a Reo Grand and RM2; throw some CelluCotton in it, and you'll be in flavor heaven.

You won't look back to the Genny's at all. You'll love that 6ml reservoir the Reo holds as well.

 

[Vaslovik]

Those three are a piece of cake to deal with compared to Mesh. I dry burn a little to much, and the thought of pulling the Mesh out; torching it; dry burning the coil; reinserting the Mesh, and spending time eliminating Hot Spots and Hot Legs... doesn't agree with my stomach.

It's much easier to just pull the CelluCotton out...


May be wrong here, but it sounds like you've never used a Reo Grand. Man, if that's the case... then you have no idea of what you're missing. Get you a Reo Grand and RM2; throw some CelluCotton in it, and you'll be in flavor heaven.

You won't look back to the Genny's at all. You'll love that 6ml reservoir the Reo holds as well.

I shall forgive you for the heresy, sacrilege, and blasphemy... this time.. and pray for your soul at Our Lady of the Immaculate Mesh after mass this Sunday. I have no interest in indulging in the heinous evils of cotton, nor do I tolerate those who put cotton in gennies. I think I've made it quite clear over the last two years on here where I stand on those matters.

 

[Rob.Gee]

I have never really understood or cared about how to use as mesh as a wick without a short every time you press the button

 

[Vaslovik]

I have never really understood or cared about how to use as mesh as a wick without a short every time you press the button

Never happened to me, not even once in the last two years. I can't speak to why it happens to you without seeing you do a build, but it has to be something you are not doing right, and something you don't understand, or care about.

 

[ed101z]

I shall forgive you for the heresy, sacrilege, and blasphemy... this time.. and pray for your soul at Our Lady of the Immaculate Mesh after mass this Sunday. I have no interest in indulging in the heinous evils of cotton, nor do I tolerate those who put cotton in gennies. I think I've made it quite clear over the last two years on here where I stand on those matters.

Whatever floats your boat.

 

[Rob.Gee]

Yeah it not that I'm doing something wrong, it's that I've never done it or read to much about it. By the time I heard about it I was already pretty happy with cotton

 

[Vaslovik]

If you have found what works for you and keeps you off the cigs stick with that. It beats going back to smoking, which amounts to suicide on the installment plan.

 

[Rule62]

I used mesh gennys for a couple years solid. I used to consider a genny with a mesh wick, the 'gold standard', by which I evaluated other types of attys and tanks, whether they were Kayfuns, Taifuns, or whatever else I briefly tried. Eventually, I began to experiment with drippers, first just as a means of sampling my various DIY concoctions. I could sample a recipe, pull the cotton, dry burn the coil, install a new wick, and try another variation, with no ghosting of the previous flavor. Lo and behold, as I got more interested in drippers, and began building them for the purpose of vaping, instead of just quick sampling, I found that drippers equalled, and sometimes exceeded, the quality of mesh wick gennys. The problem was, dripping every few puffs was not as convenient as an RBA tank. Meanwhile, I had been aware of Reos, but during the time I was using genisis set ups, the idea of a Reo was pointless. Eventually, though, a little over a year ago, after becoming proficient at building and using RDAs, I decided to get my first Reo. I haven't looked back since. Especially with the bottom feed attys out there today, Reos and bottom feed attys make vaping easy, and as good as it gets.
As a side note: it used to also drive me nuts when I'd see people putting cotton in a genny, from strictly a purist point of view.