AGA-T with a huge wick hole

[quackster]

Hey everyone,
I just opened up the wick hole on one of my AGA-T's this afternoon and I figured I's share my results. I posted 3 videos on youtube showing how well it's working. The hole ended up being 3/16" or 4.7mm. I'm using 150mm of 400, 4 winds on the coil and I can't run this dry. If anyone else has done this, please let me know how it's been working for you & what you did for your setup.

The last video is of a 100mm wick, same exact setup. 400 mesh, 28g Kanthal A-1, 4 winds on the coil at .8.or .9 ohms.

Forgot to mention in my original post that with the 100mm wick, the heating is much quicker and flavor is still spot on. Less metal to heat does make a big difference. In the past I thought the differences would have been negligible. I was wrong. There is about 1 to 1-1/2mm of space around the wick so with the wick not being tight to the wick hole I think that is helping the capillary action a lot.

[Skwoddy]

Thanks for sharing this Quackster, That's some serious wicking at those heats, Seems I have a new project at the weekend, Thanks man and take good care!

[quackster]

Forgot to mention in my original post that with the 100mm wick, the heating is much quicker and flavor is still spot on. Less metal to heat does make a big difference. In the past I thought the differences would have been negligible. I was wrong. There is about 1 to 1-1/2mm of space around the wick so with the wick not being tight to the wick hole I think that is helping the capillary action a lot.

[bomberharris]

wow thats vaping like a steam train, looks like your starting off a new trend .

[Skwoddy]

Can i ask if your wicks are Straw type or solid Quackster?

[quackster]

Jan 17, 2013 18:07:01 GMT bomberharris said:

wow thats vaping like a steam train, looks like your starting off a new trend .

No, I doubt it. I'm always behind the curve with things like this. I'm sure some one else must have done this and I've missed their posts or info. As I said on another forum the increase in vapor is fair but for me it's about the quest for the best flavor over vapor production. Throat hit is noticeably better too.

[quackster]

Jan 17, 2013 18:08:14 GMT Skwoddy said:

Can i ask if your wicks are Straw type or solid Quackster?

Skwoddy it's rolled fairly tight with about 3/4 to 1mm hole. Pic attached. (Hope I'm doing this right)

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[maccafan]

Great tip and makes perfect sense to do this..

Will drill mine out tomorrow with a 5mm bit and try..

[Skwoddy]

Jan 17, 2013 18:33:43 GMT quackster said:

Jan 17, 2013 18:08:14 GMT Skwoddy said:

Can i ask if your wicks are Straw type or solid Quackster?

Skwoddy it's rolled fairly tight with about 3/4 to 1mm hole. Pic attached. (Hope I'm doing this right)

Thanks again Quackster, I wonder if it might be worth making a straw type thereby moving the gap round the edge of the wick to the middle of the wick, hopefully reducing spil chance and improving capillary action through the centre of the wick. (not that it needs help though).

Good stuff Quackster, Thanks again.

[quackster]

Jan 17, 2013 19:22:52 GMT maccafan said:

Great tip and makes perfect sense to do this..

Will drill mine out tomorrow with a 5mm bit and try..

Keep a lot of pressure inward towards the positive post, otherwise you may drill into the threaded area. Best approach is to clamp it down in a drill press. I was going to go that route but my garage isn't heated & it's too damned cold here to be out there.

[scaffman69]

Brilliant m8, a great job done well.

[quackster]

Jan 17, 2013 19:54:24 GMT Skwoddy said:

Jan 17, 2013 18:33:43 GMT quackster said:

Skwoddy it's rolled fairly tight with about 3/4 to 1mm hole. Pic attached. (Hope I'm doing this right)

Thanks again Quackster, I wonder if it might be worth making a straw type thereby moving the gap round the edge of the wick to the middle of the wick, hopefully reducing spil chance and improving capillary action through the centre of the wick. (not that it needs help though).

Good stuff Quackster, Thanks again.

I intentionally kept my wick considerably smaller than the wick hole to help with wicking. From everything I've read especially over at ecf, there's been a lot of discussion how having the wick tight to the wick wall creates too much surface tension which seems to inhibit the capillary action of the wick. I can really only say that with my experiments I can take the same wick I had tight to the wall out, tighten it up so it's a smaller diameter in there and it does wick better. My opinion, not a scientific fact is that having some space between the wick & the wall helps a lot.

[Skwoddy]

Ah good, two minds are better than one , aint that why were here, it does make sense though, probably the added bonus of more air getting into the tank and helping push the juice up the mesh. Good times ahead!

[lazydog]

Take care how big you do go enlarging the wick hole check underneath the center pin hole is quite large

[Bluefish]

vapour city quackster, damm no drill facilities for me, looks good though