wire wool?

[surbitonPete]

Ok so today I have swopped the stuffing in one of my carts to steel wire wool because I am convinced that tiny strands of the polyester type fibre gets melted onto my atomizer's coils and is the main reason I don't have much luck with atomizer's (perhaps I suck harder than most people do.lol) .....all I can say is that so far the wire wool is working great but time will tell.

UPDATE: ....the wire wool didn't work.....and I would say to any one else Please don't try it!....very Tiny bits of wire do break off the wool and it would be very dangerous to inhale those.

 

[Kate]

I hope you've got stainless steel wire wool Pete, I don't want to hear that you've poisoned yourself.

I tried this in my I-Inhale, it was the only source I could find for stainless steel wool:

Pot scourers. It's a bit rough, I don't know if it would be fine enough for a cartridge. Send me your address if you want me to send you some

 

[surbitonPete]

Hi Kate...Unfortunately I couldn't get any 'stainless' steel wire wool and you are quite right that it would be much safer to have stainless ..but I think those pot scourers are probably a bit too course to use as a cart material........ my theory is that the juice contains enough 'oil' to prevent the steel from rusting (fingers crossed).......but I am certainly going to keep my eye and my microscope on it! Other than that it's worked perfectly o'k all day. Thanks for the offer of the scourers though....

 

[Kate]

Ok, if you change your mind let me know

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/tips-tricks/3760-stainless-steel-mesh-cartridge-medium.html

 

[Sun Vaporer]

Ok so today I have swopped the stuffing in one of my carts to steel wire wool because I am convinced that tiny strands of the polyester type fibre gets melted onto my atomizer's coils and is the main reason I don't have much luck with atomizer's (perhaps I suck harder than most people do.lol) .....all I can say is that so far the wire wool is working great but time will tell.

You may want to take a look at the mesh in old penstyle atomizers. The atomizers come apart very easily and the metal mesh was specifically designed for wicking without hazard. There is a lot of mesh in each 801/RN4072 atomizers that will no longer fire as well as other models. Would be the perfect mesh to use once you have enough collected from a few old atomizers hanging around--Sun

 

[surbitonPete]

Ok, if you change your mind let me know

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/tips-tricks/3760-stainless-steel-mesh-cartridge-medium.html

Aww kate thanks for the offer and thanks for that link......I really should slap myself ....I must do more thread searching before I embark on my own ideas.

 

[surbitonPete]

You may want to take a look at the mesh in old penstyle atomizers. The atomizers come apart very easily and the metal mesh was specifically designed for wicking without hazard. There is a lot of mesh in each 801/RN4072 atomizers that will no longer fire as well as other models. Would be the perfect mesh to use once you have enough collected from a few old atomizers hanging around--Sun

ha ha.....I haven't got that many messed up atomizers yet sun, I am trying hard to find a way not to..lol

 

[surbitonPete]

It's a shame really because all they need to do is design the metal mesh they put over the atomizer to fit snugly into the cart so that it ensures that no cart material could possible be drawn out of the cart.

 

[Sun Vaporer]

ha ha.....I haven't got that many messed up atomizers yet sun, I am trying hard to find a way not to..lol

Pete --I have about 15 and the mesh is a very strange type of screening that I have never scene before--but as we all know it does not burn and wicks very well. It is worth a try in the I-Inhale if that is going to be the only device left to buy---I have a pile of it here and it sqeezes into a nice ball--Just a thought that may come in handy if some rainy day comes upon us---Sun

 

[surbitonPete]

Pete --I have about 15 and the mesh is a very strange type of screening that I have never scene before--but as we all know it does not burn and wicks very well. It is worth a try in the I-Inhale if that is going to be the only device left to buy---I have a pile of it here and it sqeezes into a nice ball--Just a thought that may come in handy if some rainy day comes upon us---Sun

I see you are certainly planning ahead sun.

 

[CandyGirl]

---I have a pile of it here and it sqeezes into a nice ball--

"he who writes on forum walls - rolls his wick into little balls - whomever reads these words of wit - vapes those little balls of wick”

lol

 

[Sun Vaporer]

I see you are certainly planning ahead sun.

Pete--what the yeck else can we do? Stockpile? Already did that--but we are still waiting to see a sure fire method of holding flavor in with that I-Inhale-maybe that might be something viable? The mesh coming out of these atomizers is not something we can find to buy in bulk, but it does not seem to break down, so maybe that would be enough to give a try with the I-Inhale? Maybe Kate will give it a go--Kate?--would be nice to solve the issue ---Sun

 

[Kate]

That's great Candy

I tried steel wool in the I-Inhale briefly Sun but it didn't solve the flavour problem completely unfortunately. I need to give it a proper try but I'm too lazy to be bothered at the moment. I bet I find something effective if eliquid gets banned.

 

[Sun Vaporer]

I tried steel wool in the I-Inhale briefly Sun but it didn't solve the flavour problem completely unfortunately. I need to give it a proper try but I'm too lazy to be bothered at the moment. I bet I find something effective if eliquid gets banned.

Kate --worth a try someday to see if in fact the I-Inhale will hold the flavor--one thing we noted with the mesh in the atomizers is that it does not heat as high as steelwool--it has some sort of resistance factor--that is why trying to rebuild a atomizer does not work with other materials--the mesh in the atomizer is a very strange metal---Sun

 

[Kate]

I'll save all my dead atomisers from now on so I can try out the mesh

 

[trog100]

cart material isnt drawn out of the cart anyways.. air does not pass thru the cart wool in any way shape or form.....

air enters from the battery side of the antomizer.. it passes up thru the wire wool whcih surrounds the atomizer heater pot.. it moves up past the heater coil collecting vapour on the way and towards the mouthpiece.. it then passes out thru the side flutes on the outside of the cart filling plastic and into the mouth..

basically air is moving in the opposite direction than you think it is.. it dosnt move from the cart wool towards the atomizer.. it moves the other way...

but on the plus side if the wire wool thats already around the atomizer dosnt go rusty there is no chance your wire wool cart filling fill... greasy old e liquid makes a pretty good rust preventative..

trog

 

[exogenesis]

The atomizer mesh is steel of some sort (it's magnetic),

I wondered about the formation of it, cos it's got a strange
'spikey' appearance to it if you look with a magnifying glass.
I assume this is a deliberate 'large pore & easy flow' design.

I still want a Kate Bar, would never have found Bertrand's original post.

 

[Kate]

Ha, any time you want a KateSearch, just ask Exo

 

[surbitonPete]

cart material isnt drawn out of the cart anyways.. air does not pass thru the cart wool in any way shape or form.....

air enters from the battery side of the antomizer.. it passes up thru the wire wool whcih surrounds the atomizer heater pot.. it moves up past the heater coil collecting vapour on the way and towards the mouthpiece.. it then passes out thru the side flutes on the outside of the cart filling plastic and into the mouth..

basically air is moving in the opposite direction than you think it is.. it dosnt move from the cart wool towards the atomizer.. it moves the other way...

but on the plus side if the wire wool thats already around the atomizer dosnt go rusty there is no chance your wire wool cart filling fill... greasy old e liquid makes a pretty good rust preventative..


trog

Personally I think the way the air flows it actually creates a suction on the cart material which 'can' pull it into the atomizer coil. It's the only explanation for why the coil is often covered in 'lumpy' black burnt plastic looking material.......the carbon build up should be an almost perfectly 'even' deposit if it was only being sprayed or covered with liquid.

 

[exogenesis]

Is that you in the picture Kate ?

Actually I gotta try this metal mesh in cart idea...