I Quit

[ian]

I'm keeping my genesis attys in the hope that someone comes up with a better alternative wick.I'm sure it will happen some day soon and it would be Sod's law that if i sold my gennies a new breakthrough would be made.

[robby]

Feb 12, 2013 23:53:44 GMT nelson996 said:

Don't want to be the bearer of possibly bad news, but if you haven't already seen it, have a read.

www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/modding-forum/362608-stainless-steel-mesh-oxide-discussion.html

That thread is a bit scary

Not feeling so bad now about getting pished off with SS wicks and more or less giving up on them

[Roger]

It has been answered, but the clue was in the OP. Don't make your wicks black, it can make them too brittle and cracks the layer. No need to flame before rolling or quench. Heat to a cherry red and you wick should be a blue/grey colour, that is perfect. Going postal with blowtorches is half the problem.

[Super-Shiny]

Feb 12, 2013 3:33:18 GMT ChillerVapes said:

or a coil which goes pop.

Pop, do you mean snap? if so that happened to me so i oxidized the coil before using it and it didn't snap anymore

[Roger]

Feb 13, 2013 14:29:12 GMT Super-Shiny said:

Feb 12, 2013 3:33:18 GMT ChillerVapes said:

or a coil which goes pop.

Pop, do you mean snap? if so that happened to me so i oxidized the coil before using it and it didn't snap anymore

Heating (with a lighter) the wire before coiling is a good idea, but technically if you oxidized it, it could not conduct electricity and would not work (that's why you oxidize the wick)

[Super-Shiny]

Feb 13, 2013 14:38:08 GMT Roger said:

Feb 13, 2013 14:29:12 GMT Super-Shiny said:

Pop, do you mean snap? if so that happened to me so i oxidized the coil before using it and it didn't snap anymore

Heating (with a lighter) the wire before coiling is a good idea, but technically if you oxidized it, it could not conduct electricity and would not work (that's why you oxidize the wick)

Dunno why but it worked for me

I must have electricity running through my body..... I feel a Marvell movie coming soon to a cinema near you!!

[Deleted]

I heard that rizla method from a guy who knows about these things. All you need do to the mesh is carbonize it so it doesn't make a short

Must try....must try...maybe not....have spent too much lately

[robby]

Feb 13, 2013 15:16:07 GMT Super-Shiny said:

Feb 13, 2013 14:38:08 GMT Roger said:

Heating (with a lighter) the wire before coiling is a good idea, but technically if you oxidized it, it could not conduct electricity and would not work (that's why you oxidize the wick)

Dunno why but it worked for me

I must have electricity running through my body..... I feel a Marvell movie coming soon to a cinema near you!!

When you heat the wire, the oxidation will come off where the screw tightens down on it at point of contact. IMO it is a good idea to heat the wire, it gives you a bit more insulation at the points of contact on the wick 

[maccafan]

Heating the coil wire does nothing for insulation. It's for annealing it and takes the springiness out of the wire..Makes it easier to give it the form of a spring..

[Deleted]

Ok, I realise i'm ignorant in these things, but aside from genesis style attys, what other kinds of attys use rebuildable wicks that are safe? When i say rebuildable, i dont refer to vivi's or semi rebuildables.

[Roger]

Feb 13, 2013 17:01:01 GMT maccafan said:

Heating the coil wire does nothing for insulation. It's for annealing it and takes the springiness out of the wire..Makes it easier to give it the form of a spring..

Thank you Macca. Feels like your banging your head against a brick wall sometimes.

[womble]

Feb 13, 2013 17:05:58 GMT @mp2012 said:

Ok, I realise i'm ignorant in these things, but aside from genesis style attys, what other kinds of attys use rebuildable wicks that are safe? When i say rebuildable, i dont refer to vivi's or semi rebuildables.

I think most if not all of the rebuildable attys should take all rebuildable wicks. I use the Pheonix, also called the A7 I think, after Roger showed me his.

And I also got to see his pheonix

[punisher]

womble
i have one of these on the way and i did see a post youtube vid on a u shape mesh wick but cant find it again was realy interested in it might be ordering some mesh

[womble]

I have 2 now and the quality of the silica wick and coil which comes with it seems to be shocking. It's vapes very badly.

I've only done one mesh wick and just bent it slowly using a technique I saw on utube, just turning it constantly with your fingers and slowly bending the middle.

Before that I had a terrible time getting SS wicks to work on a genesis.

Now I've got a wick that works, I've stuck with it LOL and I've been using this one since early Dec 2012, recoiling often though. About every 3 or 4 days I've come down to now. To get the best from it, I think I should do it after 2 days hard vaping.

Next time I make a new wick, I'm going to look up on utube how it's supposed to be done, I think you cut the mesh at an angle.

I have to say (and I know I've said it often) the pheonix (A7) with a mesh wick is amazing, it beats anything else I've tied for flavour and reliability.

[punisher]

yes ive seen the cut mesh across the angle works much beter aparently easyer to curve would love to see a pic of the wich in the atty if you get chance nearly order the a7 but cant remember why i didnt i think it was the airy draw watched so many reviews i forget