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how do you dip your wick?

gords1001

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This is actually an idea pinched from fasttech forums that we have at the other place I linger.

Its a thread for anyone to contribute to, basically, if you do a build, snap a few pictures, give a few details if you wish, device, wire, wick, if you want to share your inspiration video thats cool too.

I'll try and copy my posts over, I kind of like it as I can see if I've improved over time.

Have fun guys and girls and thanks for reading.

Here's the original thread link if you fancy a read. You can see how the fledgling forum grows over time
http://www.thevapingforum.com/Thread-How-do-you-dip-yer-wick
 
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Good idea for a thread :)

For a moment there, by the thread title, thought I'd ventured into an unknown section of POTV :eeek:
 
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Igo-w .7 ohm micro coils with cotton wool wicks. Vaping aniseed eliquid.

Works real well
 
No problem @dr puff. I'm just copying and pasting through the thread, I'll shove the link into the op incase anyones interested.
 
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Rsst, *.25 kanthal 6 wraps around a 3mm screwdriver shaft then pinched and flamed to make a micro coil, cotton wool wick, running at 7watts on a vamo with vanilla 6mg eliquid (dont know the pg/vg ratio) it does this

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Finally. *I've had some success with the rsst.

I'd watched both rip trippers and grimgreen coil and wick genesis atomisers using micro coils and cotton wool in a method called "the auto dripper".

The idea is you have a very short tail of cotton just protruding past the top deck into the tank. The other end is left bushy as a store of e liquid. All you do is tilt the tank to soak the wick, lean it back down with the air hole and thus the wick to the top to prevent flooding the wick and vape away. As the wick dries, *tilt it again and off you go - auto dripping.


Anyway, *I had a little time today so I gave it a go. I wound a 2 ohm .25mm kanthal micro coil, seven wraps around a 2.5mm is jewelers screwdriver, I pinched it up with my nails then fitted to the rsst. I then pulsed it to hot with the rsst on a vamo set to 14watts, everything glowing evenly. Once I'd pulsed it a few times, *I got me needle point tweezers and reheated thrn carefully pinch, reheated then pinched, reheated then pinched to form up a micro coil, sometimes using the screwdriver shaft to maintain the shape and location.*

After I was happy, I rolled a little cotton wool into a spear point and fed it into the coil from the top, setting ots location and trimming off the excess.*

Here's the results.
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Note the little lump of wick just visible in the tank.

It works awesome, *but I still had a muted flavour. In a fit of desperation, *I pulled the stainless rsst ming drip tip and fitted a silver anodised aluminium ming tip......bang, flavour, warmth, vapour, all from changing the tip lol. I'm now happy with this set up.
 
Ok. So here's a photographic step by step. Its on a trident clone, came out at 1ohm. I did 12 wraps of .1x.5mm kanthal ribbon around a 2mm screw driver.

















Note I leave the tails long till everything is buttoned up, *and get the cotton in before trimming and tucking it under the coils, this gives reasonable capacity for a dripper and a nice vape, the trident though is a 20ish mm device, if it was a real small (sub 17mm) dripper, *this would be a hot vape. It also has pretty open dual holes which again helps cool the vape. If your airholes are below 1mm, , I'd be reaching for a drill and a 1.5 - 2 mm bit pretty fast.
 
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Seen this method of coil build, looks interesting :)

From about 7.00 mins into the vid
 
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Been playing with tiger coils tonight. I'll say one thing, they end up looking dammed scruffy, but they work, my god do they work. I used .25 kanthal and .5x.1 kanthal ribbon, lined it up, twisted both ends. I then trapped on end in my hobby vice, the other in the chuck of my battery drill and then slowly used the drill to twist the two together.*

The victims in this experiment were my trusty drilled out igo w, that ended up with a single .9 ohm three mm 7 wrap coil.



If you look carefully, *you can see the coil is lifted off the bed of cotton, only a couple of mm, but it made a dramatic difference to vapour production, *I'm getting the same or greater vapour out of this now than I used to get out of .8 ohm dual micro coils, *the difference is warm up time is instantaneous. *This was my second victim......the first was my prometheus. I originally coiled and wicked it with 1.3ohm dual micro coils, made with .25 kanthal.*

The problem was, due to the airflow, it was a cold vape, this thing needs to sub ohm, it really comes alive.*



What we have here is 8 wraps per side, 2mm diameter. After a lot of pulsing and pinching and moving them about to avoid any shorts and line up with the wick holes, the resistance had risen from .5ohm to .6ohm, something I'm happier about given battery safety, your average pull is far above the pulse time quoted for the limits on most cells, taking that .1ohm step up drops the current to 6a worst case scenario, in the real world, when you account for voltage sag, that drops to a more sane level that I'm quite happy to subject my panasonic pd cells to.

The finished result, ready to vape, looks like this.



The result, is impressive, flavour is up there, easily as good as my kayfun. The vape is now warm and the clouds are 'kin huge:cool:*couple that with such an easy build, and that is why I love my prometheus. I looks great and works great on the private v2, *a mod that is imo vastly underrated.*



And again, the warm up time is instantaneous, *no more holding the button as you raise the mod, the chambers full by that point.*

Gords is extremely happy and will be spending the night seriously denting his eliquid supplies:D
 
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