Rebuildables: Beginners experiences

[Peejayuu]

You mean a butler for the butler don't you

Oohhhh....your really getting into it now, would one like a foot rub, or perhaps a belly button de fluff

 

[Purplefowler]

Ok, my first awful wick. Or at least I think it is. It might be a thicker juice but it just ain't wicking well. I'm having to wait quite a while between tokes or I'm getting very dry and unpleasant hits. Thr wick moved in the coil quite freely so I know it isn't strangling it. I'm going to let it sit to see if the wick just needs breaking in, if not back to the drawing board tomorrow

 

[Mark]

My limited experience has been if its a bad wick it's a bad coil and won't break in to something better. I'd change it. Go on. Hang the extra expense of another few inches of string n wire.

 

[KulrMeStoopid]

safety pins are your friends! poke the wick a few times

 

[Purplefowler]

I'll be back!!!

 

[Purplefowler]

Right back again! Re did it and really took care this time. I went back to yesterday's method of having I thick main wick and 2 small wicks to go into the 3rd hole and...it still tastes like shit so I think I'll be flushing it out tomorrow. I think it's just too thick. In fairness though it was one that always burnt in my ce2s but I thought I'd try it in my rta. If anything it is wicking slightly better which just makes it burn faster! Thank god I got so much wire and wick before I started

 

[KulrMeStoopid]

could it be the juice or did you all ready say that?! I seem to be missing things left and right today!

 

[Purplefowler]

Yep blamed the juice. It was my own nutella mix. I don't get on with diying chocolate stuff so I think I'll give it a miss in future. How well do these things usually cope with thicker juices?

 

[Mark]

Having acquired the Gripper I have once again (since I sold my Darwin) something I can measure the resistance of my coils with. I have just tested my current RDA coil and it's reading 1.6 which works fine with the voltage set to 3.7.

 

[Purplefowler]

Wow that was a nightmare. I went to try and make a higher resistance coil. No problem! I've settled on a 2mm main wick with a 1mm wick to go into the 3rd tank hole and that's been working pretty well. So I attached the coil and threaded through the main wick, then got on with threading through the smaller one. It wouldn't go it so I used my spiky thing to push it through. It started to go in so I kept slowly pushing it bit by bit, then disaster! The wick split and was stuck inside the tank with no way of getting hold of it!!! I tried to flush it through-not a chance, so I got my needle and tried to get hold of it-still not a chance!!! Then I had a brainwave-kanthal! I made a fishing hook and spent the last 15 minutes trying to catch each strand. It took bloody ages but I managed to fish every strand out! Now I've gone back to making a loop of wick which sits just under the coil as it is a lot easier to thread through the hole on the plus side the coil is reading at 2.3 so at least I got that right!