As promised, here's the breakdown.
After vaping some grumpys hooch for over a week this coil was deffo dead.
I took the head and screwed it onto an old aspire viv nova type base and pulled the cap off with a pair of pliers. Came off pretty easily:
As we can see the inner head is surrounded by a gauze like fabric strip:
looking into the head we see 2 coils stacked one atop the other, the ends of the wicks just poking through the slot in the head:
gently pulling the innards from the shell we see our coils are encased in a heat resistant shell:
and here's the money shot.
Gross.
I must add that I would never subject a pre-bought head that I'd paid for to grumpys hooch. I deliberately used the cruelest juice I had to put this head through its paces.
dunno if you can see there but the legs are soldered together.
It was way too engunked to pull apart from here neatly, it just disintegrated:
So it doesn't look impossible to rebuild but I don't have the inclination to do this.
Hope that was of some interest.
Have a great day,
Paul