cheersm8
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Hi folks
I've been limiting may vaping, for the past couple of weeks, to exclusive use of the Russian 91%, as I really wanted to get to grips with all of it's foibles, with view to gaining the confidence to take it out and about as my 'daily vape' (mainly because it holds enough juice to easily see me through a day away from home and top up supplies). I have been very careful, and mindful, about the position of the wicks, with regard to restricting the juice channels, because, all of the youtube tutorials told me to. And yes, the Russian performed very well both with silica and cotton wicking and with microcoils and bog standard wraps. Since those early days of fastidious carefulness, my confidence with the Russian has increased and, recently, my build methods have changed. No longer do I care,or even think, about 'juice channels'. The past few 'just for the sake of trying' builds have been very quick and rough shod. Slap the microcoil on, shove a decent length of cotton ball through, shove it up the chimney, trim off the excess, poke the remainder back down the chimney, regardless of where it lies, fill with juice, and vape with carefree abandonment. No leaking, excellent juice delivery. with the whole kit and caboodle solid as a rock.
Purely confidence with the unit, or is the advocated precision an over rated burden on our, already, cluttered and befuddled, vaper brains? My gut feeling is that it's all down to the juice channels and if they are clean and clear, with no bad machining swarf and burr remnants, the Russian (and also the KF) will wick and vape like a good 'un regardless, as long as there's some wicking on and near the deck to soak up the juice.
ps. Something else that I've 'learned' by continuous use of the Russian is that, for me anyway, a simple hand wrapped, but tight and tidy, coil over a doubled bit of 2mm silica is the best vape I can get, superior to cotton, and, I suspect, going by what others have found, that swapping the silica for a bit of ekowool or voodo will be even better.
I've been limiting may vaping, for the past couple of weeks, to exclusive use of the Russian 91%, as I really wanted to get to grips with all of it's foibles, with view to gaining the confidence to take it out and about as my 'daily vape' (mainly because it holds enough juice to easily see me through a day away from home and top up supplies). I have been very careful, and mindful, about the position of the wicks, with regard to restricting the juice channels, because, all of the youtube tutorials told me to. And yes, the Russian performed very well both with silica and cotton wicking and with microcoils and bog standard wraps. Since those early days of fastidious carefulness, my confidence with the Russian has increased and, recently, my build methods have changed. No longer do I care,or even think, about 'juice channels'. The past few 'just for the sake of trying' builds have been very quick and rough shod. Slap the microcoil on, shove a decent length of cotton ball through, shove it up the chimney, trim off the excess, poke the remainder back down the chimney, regardless of where it lies, fill with juice, and vape with carefree abandonment. No leaking, excellent juice delivery. with the whole kit and caboodle solid as a rock.
Purely confidence with the unit, or is the advocated precision an over rated burden on our, already, cluttered and befuddled, vaper brains? My gut feeling is that it's all down to the juice channels and if they are clean and clear, with no bad machining swarf and burr remnants, the Russian (and also the KF) will wick and vape like a good 'un regardless, as long as there's some wicking on and near the deck to soak up the juice.
ps. Something else that I've 'learned' by continuous use of the Russian is that, for me anyway, a simple hand wrapped, but tight and tidy, coil over a doubled bit of 2mm silica is the best vape I can get, superior to cotton, and, I suspect, going by what others have found, that swapping the silica for a bit of ekowool or voodo will be even better.
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