Wick materials. Safe vs dangerous.

[meatsneakers]

I know most of you aren't using natural wicks like this, but here is a picture of SS+natural wick after around 15ml, 1.9 ohm@4.9v:

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this is the bamboo thread from Michaels, 4 strands + 1 wrap of stainless on the outside. No degradation so far, looks better than silica after the same amount of juice. It's easier to see when I need to give the atty a top off as well - silica goes from wet to dry hit without warning - with this wick there is an obvious taste when you need to top off.

 

[Digital-Dragon]

That's great meetsneakers! How is the th compared to silica?

 

[meatsneakers]

It's the same for me - the stainless is still doing most of the 'atomizing', the thread just get the juice to the coil. It absolutely wicks better than silica though. As long as there is juice somewhere on the wick, it will reach the stainless quickly. I would have the issue with silica where it would have to catch up if it was close to dry.

 

[EvilGrym]

I made a Taco-Motako device last night.

Allows to make a Taco-type coil more easily.

 

[EvilGrym]

continued taco-motako

 

[asdaq]

Pretty cool Grym, that is just about exactly how I saw nico making them. I love that you name your tools and jigs.

Meatsneakers, any chance we could see more of this triple tube mod?

 

[EvilGrym]

Update for Tako-motako project. Auto coil bending.

 

[GWG73]

Subscribing....great ideas here.

 

[EvilGrym]

New record reported - bamboo yarn wick uptime was 3 weeks! (6-8 ml/day, Halo liquid).

 

[kosliev]

bandage, do I need to boil for a few minutes, then wait for it to dry/dry it with the hair drier and then its good to go?
I read on russian forums about "cooking" after boiling, whats that about?

Something about it tasting like wet rag

 

[EvilGrym]

bandage, do I need to boil for a few minutes, then wait for it to dry/dry it with the hair drier and then its good to go?
I read on russian forums about "cooking" after boiling, whats that about?

Something about it tasting like wet rag

Have you used google to translate from russian? Never use it. Especially for russian forums. (try http://www.translate.ru/)

You can dry it in natural way on air or by hairdryer, or with a paper towel or just squeeze it and use wet.
As I tested bandages by myself , I can tell you that there could be a taste of rug. It depends on bandage. Some of bandages give that taste, some not.

Cotton yarn can give a rug taste until boiled well. Bamboo yarn has no rug taste, even "out of the skein" without any additional processing ( but I recommend to boil it anyway).

 

[kosliev]

Have you used google to translate from russian? Never use it. Especially for russian forums. (try http://www.translate.ru/)

You can dry it in natural way on air or by hairdryer, or with a paper towel or just squeeze it and use wet.
As I tested bandages by myself , I can tell you that there could be a taste of rug. It depends on bandage. Some of bandages give that taste, some not.

Cotton yarn can give a rug taste until boiled well. Bamboo yarn has no rug taste, even "out of the skein" without any additional processing ( but I recommend to boil it anyway).

But I can't read russian and theres too much good info to skip
Alright, I'll boil them and dry them, and get bamboo yarn whenever I find it.

 

[Vapor2112]

Anyone have any insight on this one? Thought I'd try a local hobby shop for nichrome.
They have this, but no reference to gauge of the wire... Any thoughts??

SubTerrain Lightweight Layout System® - Woodland Scenics - Model Layouts, Scenery, Buildings and Figures

 

[Charlz]

all the wire you'll ever need. PnJ Resources, LLC : Nichrome 80

 

[Vapor2112]

Thanks for the link. I have some on order, was just looking for something local to use this weekend and a local shop has the previous in stock.
Did a deeper search and it looks like steeljan had used is successfully.

 

[EvilGrym]

New method of burning a coil with organic wick.

When you assemble a coil with silica wick you powered on coil with a dry wick and all fat burns out. Organic wick do not allow you to do so.

User umzd from ecigtalk.ru reported this metod: he poured e-liquid over a coil with wick inside and set it on fire. Then extinguished it before bamboo wick start burning. All fat burn down and bamboo wick remained intact.

 

[asdaq]

Grym, that sounds tricky to get the timing and thoroughness as the liquid burns first and the gunk after. I would pull the wick and dry burn the coil and reinsert new wick. No I wouldn't, not enough vengeance there. I would dry burn to ash, rinse and insert a fresh wick

How many meters of this stuff you got and how expensive was it?

 

[SammyT]

I know most of you aren't using natural wicks like this, but here is a picture of SS+natural wick after around 15ml, 1.9 ohm@4.9v:

edit-
this is the bamboo thread from Michaels, 4 strands + 1 wrap of stainless on the outside. No degradation so far, looks better than silica after the same amount of juice. It's easier to see when I need to give the atty a top off as well - silica goes from wet to dry hit without warning - with this wick there is an obvious taste when you need to top off.

Meat, I am curious how you did that. Did you wrap the mesh in a tube shape and thread the bamboo through after oxidization?


-Sam

 

[roadrash]

I have to say that, I thought there was no way using 100% cotton gauze pads for a wick was gonna work.

After having spent a couple years of trying different materials, fiberglass stove rope/ Fiber glass stove rope with inbedded graphite/ candle wicks/ Zippo wicks/ manila rope/ Kevlar wick/ hemp/ silica wick and now ss. Nope, this isn't gonna work.

Boy was I wrong. The gauze pads are d-nutz for wicking material.

I rewired a E-2 this morning with the gauze pad wick. 2.2 ohm 36 gauge NiCrA-C Single 18650 bat.

Ummm boy this is good. Nice vapor and TH right out of the gate. Flavor is almost as good as when I first started vaping. The best so far and No wick taste what so ever.

After 4 hours vaping about 4 mil, still just as nice and clean. Wicking action is superior to any other i have tried. Not one dry hit.
Every body should try this one time. For me it's the Holy grail of wicks, Cheap, Readily accessible, Easy to use, (quick boil rinse and dry. Roll and cut and use. Did I mention cheep, A dollar for a box of em at the local discount store.

EvilGrym You da man. Thanks

 

[Cool_Breeze]

I don't know if it is just me... The past couple of days I've been having trouble with images here on ECF...like the two attached above.

I suppose I could have made some change to IE9 to have caused this.

Is anyone else having a similar difficulty?

edit: seems to show the same on another browser