Ekowool, ribbon wire and the rsst help.

[Roscopecotrain]

So my ekowool and ribbon wire turned up yesterday. Thought i would give the rsst a go with it as my silica attempts just could not keep up.
Have one piece of 3mm ekowool down into the tank. 4 wraps of ribbon wire giving me 1.8ohms. Now i heard good things about the wicking power of ekowool but this stuff is worse that my silica attempts. Now am i doing something really wrong somewhere or is it something to do with the ribbon wire?
I used .4 thickness of ribbon wire on the build and i have what looks like .3 or maybe .2. It was a free reel.

Help me please people.

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[Roscopecotrain]

Just had a look at it again and even though it has been sat soaking overnight the top of the wick above the coil is bone dry.
Is my coil to tight? Is this stuff getting strangled in the wick hole?

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[chuck]

I new to wrapping my own coils too but it's possible your strangling the wick. I bought Ekowool but to be honest I'm not keen on it, I find it has a taste(maybe it's just me)
Hope you get sorted rosco

[Roscopecotrain]

That is what i initially thought chuck as my first time with ekowool but all seems to be good, does seem quite a tight fit in the wick hole though so could be that. I may have to give up and just bite the bullet and get some steel rope.

[charon]

Hiya ros,
It's possible that your coil may be too tight or your tank hole a touch to small for the ecowool.
I have in the past used ecowool and found it does tend to swell slightly when damp( with juice). Th way I got around it was to prebuild a coil using a machine threaded bolt, when your happy with the number of wraps, just unscrew and thread your wick through.
A lot of folks say it's to much of a faff, but if you over size your coil slightly, everything goes together with ease.

BTW, Ecowool is normally hollow, try running a couple of lenghs of silica inside. that way wicking is improved vastly without tainting the purity of taste.

Hope this helps.

Edit : you could of course just slightly enlarge the wick hole. (but slowly slowly and clean up any Burrs.

[chykensa]

Roscopecotrain - I don't have an RSST but do have an AGA-T. I had similar problems with using 3mm Ekowool in it - it was quite a tight fit in the wick hole, and I too wound the coil a bit too tight (I was using .2 Kanthal).
If the juice isn't wicking, I thing you've either wound too tight, or the 3mm EW is too much for the hole. Might be worth trying the same build but using 2mm EW instead?

[poochops]

Do you want some steel wire mate? Pm me your address and I'll post you some wicks. Bought 3 metres but the stuff doesn't wear out so they'll be lowering my coffin into the ground with what's left

[Roscopecotrain]

Sept 21, 2013 10:10:02 GMT poochops said:

Do you want some steel wire mate? Pm me your address and I'll post you some wicks. Bought 3 metres but the stuff doesn't wear out so they'll be lowering my coffin into the ground with what's left

Thanks poochops but i dont have a blow torch yet mate. Thank you so much for the offer though.

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