Wick materials. Safe vs dangerous.

[BJ43]

Rinse hands well with either just hot water or wash with UNSCENTED soap . Soap don't taste good either .


ETA:
Hmmm, wonder if latex or nitrile gloves would impart any 'taste'?

Kinda got to liking my garlic shrimp girlfriend flavor, shame it finally burned off and back to boring tobacco menthol...

 

[kwalka]

Kinda got to liking my garlic shrimp girlfriend flavor, shame it finally burned off and back to boring tobacco menthol...

Oh but the opportunity's to attempt to recreate are endless....Shopping list 1. Girlfriend 2. Garlic 3. Shrimp 4. Misc Seasonings 5. Creativity 6. Wash Hands 7. vape

 

[kwalka]

So the strangest thing happened this morning. I went to the Drs office and when I got home I had 4 packages of sterile gauze sponges in my pocket. I have no idea how they got there, but I may as well try and use them. They look like cheesecloth and they say 12 ply. Upon initial inspection they appear quite dense. I'm thinking remove a few MMs and roll. Or maybe its dense enough, being 12 ply that it can be used as is, just cut to size.

 

[Malduk]

Its kinda funny though. I spent a week boiling different types of gauze, thinking the .... is wrong with this thing, only to figure out later that ewww taste was me having super sweaty fingers. I did try to use gloves, but it was hard to roll it right. Nowadays I prepare couple of wicks and THEN boil them.
I use gauze, and spend a lot of time actually preparing the wick (takes me much longer than with any other material), so its "perfect", and it doesn't have loose strands. Some transfer of sweat is impossible to avoid. However, once done right, cotton brings out some flavors much better than mesh, especially in a complex juices with several flavors mixed together. Mesh just kinda pushes out one mixed taste, while with cotton I actually taste all the different flavors inside. And this thread might be the only safe place to say such thing
I still love mesh - cotton dual coil the best, but that setup eats the battery way too fast.

 

[Quigsworth]

So the strangest thing happened this morning. I went to the Drs office and when I got home I had 4 packages of sterile gauze sponges in my pocket. I have no idea how they got there...

Oddly enough I got my hemostats the same way ...I was eyeballing that ear flashlighty thingy (w/ wall charger)...make a cool tube mod, but figured they'd probably miss that though

But ya, I swear medical gauze is just multiple layers of cheese cloth then cut into little squares...I like cheese cloth as much as rolled (and it's actually easier to measure and reproduce results) but all those little strands sticking out every where bugs me...

 

[L7D4N]

Oddly enough I got my hemostats the same way ...I was eyeballing that ear flashlighty thingy (w/ wall charger)...make a cool tube mod, but figured they'd probably miss that though

But ya, I swear medical gauze is just multiple layers of cheese cloth then cut into little squares...I like cheese cloth as much as rolled (and it's actually easier to measure and reproduce results) but all those little strands sticking out every where bugs me...

I was able to stop the tiny strands sticking out everywhere by taking a single layer of cheesecloth, folding it over once, then cutting the square size I need and rolling the wick up into the edge where the fold is. This creates a wick without the strands and small pieces don't fall out or get burned by the coil when vaping.

 

[Quigsworth]

There ya go...I thing I'm going to go back to the cheese cloth for a bit...if only to change it up a bit...I haven't put it in my Line yet.

 

[roadrash]

My wife's son in law came over the other day to show me his throw away E-cig he had just bought. He was sitting there puffing away on it and a little tiny vapor came out. He says Boy, is that good. I like the style, the taste and it really keeps me off the ciggies.
So as I'm sitting there vapin away on my big ... RS box boosted mod and looking at it trying to figure out. Where did I go wrong? I use to feel the same way he does. LOL

On to the cotton. Out of the 10 gauze pads I started with I still have 6.5 pads left. It seems like the more I rebuild the E-2's the less I rebuild them. I got one tank E-2 with over 60 mil gone through it and it still works fine.

One more thought. Has anyone besides me tried vapin there old crap juice with the cotton wicks to see if it tasted any better?

OK, Back to your regular scheduled programming. LOL

 

[kwalka]

Oddly enough I got my hemostats the same way ...I was eyeballing that ear flashlighty thingy (w/ wall charger)...make a cool tube mod, but figured they'd probably miss that though

But ya, I swear medical gauze is just multiple layers of cheese cloth then cut into little squares...I like cheese cloth as much as rolled (and it's actually easier to measure and reproduce results) but all those little strands sticking out every where bugs me...

So for my Ody, I just want to cut a pc long enough to span the entire length, then "roll your own". Correct? How dense am I looking for here, how tight should it be b4 going at it w coil? Is this where you all are saying use a screw to fabricate the coil, then feed the wick thru the coil? Is there a reason to use the screw in liu of just wrapping the coil? Does it just make a perfect coil every time, so shut up and do it that way?

 

[Cool_Breeze]

New Thread: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...zer-systems/309261-wick-coil-tips-tricks.html

 

[kwalka]

New Thread: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...zer-systems/309261-wick-coil-tips-tricks.html

Thats a great start but we need more experts to contribute regarding things such as whats happening in this thread. There is so much great info in this set of encyclopedias, but its so spread out its impossible to find. Hence you have the little bus riders such as myself coming in and asking specific questions such as the one I posted above.
Which, BTW, Quigs you have had plenty of time to make me a video regarding that post. Whats the hold up?

 

[Quigsworth]

So for my Ody, I just want to cut a pc long enough to span the entire length, then "roll your own". Correct? How dense am I looking for here, how tight should it be b4 going at it w coil? Is this where you all are saying use a screw to fabricate the coil, then feed the wick thru the coil? Is there a reason to use the screw in liu of just wrapping the coil? Does it just make a perfect coil every time, so shut up and do it that way?

Rolled/ball cotton or cheese cloth? (I've never put cheese cloth in my Ody, only in my V3)...for rolled, grab some batton or ball and roll it into your wick, same length as you would make silica and then twist it as tight as you can, when it's tight it should fit into the slots with about .5 mm of play, let it relax some and wrap your coil (I don't use a screw or pin or anything but take a bic lighter to he kanthal a couple 3 times to soften it up)...when you wrap your coil don't make it super tight, leave some room for wick expansion (use a pin if you want, it does help, I've done it with and without, meh...then build your Ody as per normal...

 

[supervape]

I am willing to help parse (correct word?!?!) these threads or condense them down but would like someone else to help me to know how condensed to get it?? 1500 posts is really not all that bad to go through seeing how 95% are just blabber (no offense but you get my drift)

 

[wolcen]

I am willing to help parse (correct word?!?!) these threads or condense them down but would like someone else to help me to know how condensed to get it?? 1500 posts is really not all that bad to go through seeing how 95% are just blabber (no offense but you get my drift)

Parse => Consolidate

Parse is an action of separation or delineation of parts of, which may be a precursor of, or specialized part of consolidation.

If only there were a "smart-reader" of our posts that could do this for us...what an encyclopedic reference that would make!

 

[supervape]

are you saying i may not be smart enough to do it I would be interested and will start on it later tonight when i get back from a concert in the park in lansing... hehhee and thanks for the clarification brother

 

[wolcen]

are you saying i may not be smart enough to do it I would be interested and will start on it later tonight when i get back from a concert in the park in lansing... hehhee and thanks for the clarification brother

Oh heck no! That's just how I see it (from a programming perspective). Kudo's to you for taking up the effort, that is NO small task! I truly admire people that are willing to take on such tasks; I don't have the perseverance to even approach such massive undertakings; things like that overwhelm me.

 

[kwalka]

I am willing to help parse (correct word?!?!) these threads or condense them down but would like someone else to help me to know how condensed to get it?? 1500 posts is really not all that bad to go through seeing how 95% are just blabber (no offense but you get my drift)

I have read this whole thread. Point is if it was broken down to each operation and each member who specializes in said operations it could be manageable. What do we all think about like 3 or 4 new threads, with only 1 or 2 materials per thread. Each one could contain preparation, operating procedures, and experienced results. All the above info is here, its just all over the place.

 

[Quigsworth]

I think maybe to "redact" the thread maybe the word...I don't know...so I got my Vivi Nova in the mail today and ripped the highest ohm head apart right out of the box and put rolled cotton in it...pretty cool little piece of kit...I mean it's not super high quality or tech but it does what it says and as far as rolled cotton goes it's amazingly forgiving...this is totally something I can give my buddy who is terrified of RBA's...5 mins and you're vaping on a new coil and wick, I like it...

So I thought I'd throw another little tip up to add to the congressional library of cotton wicks...when you are building a vertical wick device, Line, Orion, Zen, etc...make a good length of cotton and stuff it in there (it'll saturate and not take up a whole lot of your tank cap.)...make sure you have a 1/2" sticking up out of the wick hole so you'll have a 1/4" of folded over, doubled up cotton under your coil...when it's starting to taste "off" or the vape starts getting thin just snip your coil leads, pull up another 1/2" of fresh cotton out of the tank, snip off your old wick/coil, fold over and repeat...

 

[Stosh]

So the strangest thing happened this morning. I went to the Drs office and when I got home I had 4 packages of sterile gauze sponges in my pocket. I have no idea how they got there, but I may as well try and use them. They look like cheesecloth and they say 12 ply. Upon initial inspection they appear quite dense. I'm thinking remove a few MMs and roll. Or maybe its dense enough, being 12 ply that it can be used as is, just cut to size.

I feel better, mine was from the office first aid kit, enough for a sucking chest wound, in a place where a serious wound is a nasty paper cut...figure it's about 2 years worth of wicks.

 

[Bmays]

Apparently I need to get this "rolled cotton" rather than the cotton balls and sterile cotton galls. I'm still getting a kinda bad taste from both. Tried small wicks, bigger wicks, more wraps, less wraps, 32g wire and some a lot smaller.

Just cant seem to get a satisfactory vape and I'm not new to rebuildables. Don't really want to give up but I'm taking one step forward and two back.