Steel Cable wick, promising :)

[womble]

I've wondered for a while if the coil touching the wick all around is a good idea, I've noticed it seems to work better when there is a tiny gap with some of the coils, the juice seems to fill these gaps nicely.

This could be perfect. Good analogy on the blotting paper. Sounds really good from what you and Todd are saying, as I said, can't wait to get mine now.

I haven't tried the flat kanthal yet either, nor the ribbon, so many things to try, so little time

[robby]

May 18, 2013 21:19:57 GMT @ashmal said:

May 18, 2013 21:18:16 GMT robby said:

Will it drill out at all @ashmal? There seems to be a fair bit of space around the 2 mm stuff in my AGA S

Interesting ... my 2mm in my AGA-S is perfectly snug ...

 Got a fair gap there @ashmal

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womble ... this isn't a game changer for me, as I said before, once you cut your wicks, it's convenience IMHO. Flat kanthal ... that changed my SS experience more. I will give these wires a couple of goes and see how they progress. I am quite happy with me ss wicks as well though. Since using flat, 400 solid mesh hasn't let me down no matter which juice I use.

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May 18, 2013 21:24:41 GMT robby said:

May 18, 2013 21:19:57 GMT @ashmal said:

Interesting ... my 2mm in my AGA-S is perfectly snug ...

 Got a fair gap there @ashmal

Hard to tell on mine but looks snugger ... ff you want to drill go ahead ... I'll be quite happy with the 2mm to be honest. the 3mm is only 99p ... you could always swap it with the brake cables you are planning to half inch ...

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d'oh ... I have mesh around mine ... that's why there is less gap ...

[womble]

May 18, 2013 21:17:02 GMT denis9t9 said:

Hi all,
Just thought I would put your minds at rest, the difference in the wire is the what they call the lay, 7/7 & 7/19 is one is constructed of 7 sets of 7 strands the other has 7 sets of 19 strands the more strands the more flexible the cable, it also if you look at the cross section there is more space between the sets of strands which may help with wicking on the 7/7 variety.
Also if you notice they wrap the 7 wires opposite way to the 7 strands to make up the cable to stop twisting similar to normal rope.

That's right, I looked at the cross sections and worked it out, but it could mean the spaces in the 7/7, or 7/19, are better placed to provide capillary action. It will be interesting to try both, but I've just ordered the 7/7 for the moment, I think the 7/19 only comes in larger lengths.

[robby]

Well there are two holes on this, so I will have a play around with the other one I think. I cant see any advantage in doing a U wick on this, I cant fault it really as it is.

[robby]

I`s a job to know whether smaller gaps leads to better capillary action or not, it maybe depends on the viscosity of the liquid womble.

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May 18, 2013 21:36:20 GMT robby said:

I`s a job to know whether smaller gaps leads to better capillary action or not, it maybe depends on the viscosity of the liquid womble.

smaller gaps might lead to less fraying i suppose when cutting

[womble]

May 18, 2013 21:36:20 GMT robby said:

I`s a job to know whether smaller gaps leads to better capillary action or not, it maybe depends on the viscosity of the liquid womble.

That's a very good point and one I had overlooked.

No maybe about it.

Most of the juice I use is about the same pg/vg percentage, so I should be ok when I find something that works for me.

[robby]

May 18, 2013 21:39:22 GMT @ashmal said:

May 18, 2013 21:36:20 GMT robby said:

I`s a job to know whether smaller gaps leads to better capillary action or not, it maybe depends on the viscosity of the liquid womble.

smaller gaps might lead to less fraying i suppose when cutting

I did mine slowly with a cutting disk on the dremel and also rounded the top and bottom off a bit, not sure it really made any difference but certainly went into the hole a lot easier.

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May 18, 2013 21:51:50 GMT robby said:

May 18, 2013 21:39:22 GMT @ashmal said:

smaller gaps might lead to less fraying i suppose when cutting

I did mine slowly with a cutting disk on the dremel and also rounded the top and bottom off a bit, not sure it really made any difference but certainly went into the hole a lot easier.

yeah with dremel no problem ... was thinking of cutter/clipper people

[denis9t9]

May 18, 2013 21:51:50 GMT robby said:

May 18, 2013 21:39:22 GMT @ashmal said:

smaller gaps might lead to less fraying i suppose when cutting

I did mine slowly with a cutting disk on the dremel and also rounded the top and bottom off a bit, not sure it really made any difference but certainly went into the hole a lot easier.

robby just one thing to remember when we cut stainless steel at work you need special discs as ordinary ones cause rusting through contamination from the cutters/grinding wheels plus proper discs make a quicker cleaner cut.

[Andy Thatcher]

Have been playing with this for about 2 months and yep wicks very well.

In fact too well for me. I use mainly VG liquids and too much tilting leads to gurgles. Can't be doing with the gurgles so have gone back to mesh.

[scs]

May 19, 2013 2:30:18 GMT Andy Thatcher said:

Have been playing with this for about 2 months and yep wicks very well.

In fact too well for me. I use mainly VG liquids and too much tilting leads to gurgles. Can't be doing with the gurgles so have gone back to mesh.

Hi Andy,

Did you use ribbon kanthal, if so, what size?

Cheers.