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DD said:
Is it possible to use cotton in rebuildables or do you have to use mesh/wire/silica?
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I don't know why not. Maybe it won't have the rigidity to stand itself up? Would have to do some research into that.

misenplace101 said:
I have not had a problem with re wicking the cotton. I like as I can change out the cotton every night and it's like new.
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That is nice to do I agree but too much time in my opinion. I want to do as little work as possible.
 
DD said:
Is it possible to use cotton in rebuildables or do you have to use mesh/wire/silica?
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In a tank/genesis style you have to use mesh or cable. For dripping then you can use cotton. I used cotton in a kanger protank.

Steve... Switching out the cotton takes a minute. Pull out the old one dry fire the coil to clean and re wick.
 
misenplace101 said:
In a tank/genesis style you have to use mesh or cable. For dripping then you can use cotton. I used cotton in a kanger protank.

Steve... Switching out the cotton takes a minute. Pull out the old one dry fire the coil to clean and re wick.
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Where do you get the cable from? Freecigs?
 
steveo9043 said:
How long does a wick and coil usually last you?
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with the wire and cable coil i'm going on 10+ days and to clean it all i do is dry burn after 2 to 3 tanks or when i switch out flavors. the cable and ribbon last a lot longer than silica and 28gauge kanthal.

when i use cotton I do a micro coil, actually a micro is 1/16th diameter I go smaller in diameter (about half the size of a qtip handle) and all my rebuilds I'm at sub ohms.... around .8 to 1.0 ohms. I get nervous anything less than that. FYI... if you are planning on doing sub ohms make sure your battery is protected or it can explode...IMR batteries are protected and that's what I use.
 
only draw back with using ribbon that I see, it takes a little longer for it to heat up...not much though. Oh, the cable wicks the juice more consistent than mesh. Juice wicking on mesh all depends on how you wrap your wire... too tight will choke it and too loos will flood. Cable is more rigid and the wicking is from the strands and no way of choking it.
 
what do you use for cotton? i was going to get cotton yarn, but i seen you can use cotton balls.

Also i ordered some pyrex nova's from ebay (i got 4 for 25 bucks) to vape that marsachino cherry. And may i say yuck, definitely too sweet, im going to have to cut it down with so pg. Richard i see what you mean about the gurgling. my first tank was a mini nova 3.5ml tank and there was no gurgle.
 
skunkmere said:
what do you use for cotton? i was going to get cotton yarn, but i seen you can use cotton balls.

Also i ordered some pyrex nova's from ebay (i got 4 for 25 bucks) to vape that marsachino cherry. And may i say yuck, definitely too sweet, im going to have to cut it down with so pg.
Richard i see what you mean about the gurgling. my first tank was a mini nova 3.5ml tank and there was no gurgle.
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I use organic cotton balls from whole foods. They are bleached with peroxide rather than bleach like the regular cotton balls. I also have used q-tips for there cotton when I first started.

I'm not sure why it gurgles since it a top coil. I'm really liking the rba genesis style with the cable wick. Still not sure in the ribbon wire yet.
 
misenplace101 said:
I use organic cotton balls from whole foods. They are bleached with peroxide rather than bleach like the regular cotton balls. I also have used q-tips for there cotton when I first started.

I'm not sure why it gurgles since it a top coil. I'm really liking the rba genesis style with the cable wick. Still not sure in the ribbon wire yet.
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What are the pros/cons to using ribbon wire over the regular?

Note: I know nothing about rebuildables lol!
 
The nova tanks are EHHHHHH I'd give them a 7/10

for a top coil I fancy the iclear's Dual coils! Never leaked on me or gurgled. It lasted about 4 months before the whole tank started falling apart. But for the price of them it's worth it.

I'm still not sure how I am liking the rebuild-able. at first I was getting a hot spot and the throat hit was crazy with no vapor production. Now that is all worked out I still feel the vapor production is low. Same juice in an evod is producing more vapor.

I probably just have to adjust it somehow but I dont know how!
 
DD said:
What are the pros/cons to using ribbon wire over the regular?

Note: I know nothing about rebuildables lol!
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Ribbon...
Pro last longer, larger heating surface easier to clean
Con little harder to wrap the first few times. Take a bit to hit up.

Kanthal...
Pro heats up faster, easier to wrap and work out hot spots. Easier to do micro coils.

Con don't last as long.
 
so I had to tighten my coil last night. I ended up making the wick too tight so I cut it down and then my coil wasn't touching the wick.

I pulled the coil tight around the wick and took off about 1/2in of kanthol. Yet I still am reading 2.2 ohms.... That doesn't make sense to me.

Flavor and vapor production has increased tho.
 
maidia said:
Steve, you need to make it 5-6 time circle around the wick then may become more ohm...
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Mai, it is 6 coils already. But the total length of the kanthol should determine the resistance should it not? Cutting off 1/2in of kanthol and the resistance not changing makes me think something is wrong.
 
When I did mine 5-6 then the ohm is 2.5 - 2.6. Can you buy the already built coil and see the ohm read?
 
maidia said:
When I did mine 5-6 then the ohm is 2.5 - 2.6. Can you buy the already built coil and see the ohm read?
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I think I am going to try and build a new coil tonight and when I take the old coil out i am going to test it on a voltmeter for an ohms readout.

I didn't know you had a rebuild-able.
 
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