Aga T2 - Poor vaping

[Vapingmonkey]

Did you flame enough e-juice onto the mesh after rolling. Get a good layer of carbon on there, then try not to scratch it off when loading it.

I just torch it. I've never seen torching it with eliquid on it. Doesnt it caramelize the liquid onto the wick?

 

[RicModMaker]

How do you get around it shorting on the wick hole?

Ive never had a problem with shorting. I just burn it a little with a lighter.

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[Vapingmonkey]

Ive never had a problem with shorting. I just burn it a little with a lighter.

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Ok i'll keep trying, cheers

 

[Chegs]

I use a drill bit the same diameter as the wick hole as a former to wind the coil on,make a coil free of the atty and heat/pinch/heat/pinch until the coil is very neat and all the turns are touching.Then I mount the coil on the atty still with the drill bit through it so the coil is right over the wick hole.Then I make a ss mesh wick by cutting a square the same depth as the coil+atty so its a millimetre or so off the bottom of the tank,flame it on a gas cooker/torch or with a lighter,roll it round a needle/screwdriver so it has a hole down the middle,then carefully roll the mesh between finger/thumb to tighten it until its a good fit in the coil/tank(don't force it down the coil/wick hole)it should slide in and if its a little loose,then a small screwdriver inserted in the hole through the wick to rotate it in-place usually makes the wick unravel and tighten up against the coil.Once this is done,pulse the coil a few times watching for any coils that glow red before the rest and a little tap with a screwdriver point often is all that's needed to get the coil to ignite red from the middle of the "tube" towards the ends.Don't just hit fire and watch the coil glow red in its entirety straight away as this often causes the top (+tve)end winding to start to glow first and will often burn the juice,ruining the flavour.

 

[remnant]

+1 for steel rope. I'm using 2mm 7x19 SS rope, with a single layer of mesh around the top half, then torched. Coiled with about 4-5 wraps of 0.4mm Kanthal ribbon wire, gives about 1.4ohms. You WILL need some pretty beefy wire cutters, or a cutting wheel on a dremel to cut your rope to length. 40mm is about right for the Aga-T2. I haven't drilled either the air hole nor the wick hole at this point. I may drill out the air hole a bit in future, once I have another genny tank to fall back on if I ruin it.

 

[Reevo]

That actually sounds a good idea. It would have to be a tiny rope though wouldn't it? The wick hole is only like 3mm.

Is there any benefit of doing both ss rope and ekowool other than to insulate?

The sleeve only goes on the top part, where the coils are. The ekowool adds to the wicking aswell.

 

[Vapingmonkey]

The sleeve only goes on the top part, where the coils are. The ekowool adds to the wicking aswell.

Ah that makes sense, I was doing something similar with cotton, but the SS mesh kept touching the base of the wick hole and shorting, so I moved it down and then I had the problem of not enough juice getting up to the coil

 

[Mawsley]

@Mawsley Afraid not, but thanks anyway. I might brave the dremmel drill when i'm ready to batter the AGA T2 with a sledgehammer in frustration

You're going to need a high rpm, my dremelalike only goes to 18,000rpm and that didn't cut the mustard. I had to break out the big drills in the manshed.

Also, when you do, remember to use lube

 

[Vapingmonkey]

You're going to need a high rpm, my dremelalike only goes to 18,000rpm and that didn't cut the mustard. I had to break out the big drills in the manshed.

Also, when you do, remember to use lube

Should imagine the task is quite painful without the lube

 

[Vapingmonkey]

I use a drill bit the same diameter as the wick hole as a former to wind the coil on,make a coil free of the atty and heat/pinch/heat/pinch until the coil is very neat and all the turns are touching.Then I mount the coil on the atty still with the drill bit through it so the coil is right over the wick hole.Then I make a ss mesh wick by cutting a square the same depth as the coil+atty so its a millimetre or so off the bottom of the tank,flame it on a gas cooker/torch or with a lighter,roll it round a needle/screwdriver so it has a hole down the middle,then carefully roll the mesh between finger/thumb to tighten it until its a good fit in the coil/tank(don't force it down the coil/wick hole)it should slide in and if its a little loose,then a small screwdriver inserted in the hole through the wick to rotate it in-place usually makes the wick unravel and tighten up against the coil.Once this is done,pulse the coil a few times watching for any coils that glow red before the rest and a little tap with a screwdriver point often is all that's needed to get the coil to ignite red from the middle of the "tube" towards the ends.Don't just hit fire and watch the coil glow red in its entirety straight away as this often causes the top (+tve)end winding to start to glow first and will often burn the juice,ruining the flavour.View attachment 15744View attachment 15745

Thanks for that, and for the pic. Thats similar to the PetaK Method on youtube, I tried something similar but just couldn't get it to work. I think it was because of the ss mesh touching the sides of the wick hole, does yours touch? it's the only thing I can think of that is causing the problem