evod re-wicking malarky

[booblay]

tell you what, i love my evod clearomisers. but re-wicking and coiling the little beggers is giving me right gyp. and i dont understand why, since its so simple. i always used to re-wick my vivis and stardusts, which works in exactly the same way, and these were always fine. but with the evods, im only getting a 40% success rate. even when ive done everything right and the coils look perfect. its driving me nuts. i often get this rank taste. sometimes i can vape through it and it goes away, other times it doesnt. ive tried boiling my silica, incase theres some sort of manky residue on that, but nowt. pain in the nethers, it is.

anyone else experiencing this?

(please excuse lack of capitals and apostrophes. using a phone to type this and good grammar seems too much like hard work).

[mart166]

I found when I went from silica to cotton wool wicks everything went more smoothly, still get a few failures but it's getting better over time and practise.

MP

[meeee]

What size silica are you using? Also it could be you are wrapping them to tightly, I wrap mine with a needle along the length of the silica which always works for me.

[OneDay]

I've started buying my wicks ready coiled from Fastech. Under a fiver for 50 pre-made wicks.

www.fasttech.com/products/0/10004596/1464502-replacement-wicks-and-wires-for-rebuildable

[giles]

I doubt its the evods - I'd have thought a bad evod would be bad 100% of the time.

You are burning the silica? If so I don't know if boiling as well will do much good.

If it is a burnt sort of taste then maybe you are not getting enough juice in? Which can come from winding the coils too tight, or having too much wick in there and crushing it down too much.

What build are you using? I have 3mm ecowool, and don't use a flavour wick with it; or sometimes I use a microcoil with very little cotton and the ecowool on top as a flavour wick.

You could try cotton wool as mart166 suggests. At least you'd know it wasn't the silica, and cotton wool is a bit better at getting juice to the coil.

[booblay]

cheers everyone but i've just gone and ordered some pre-rolled from fast tech. a hundred of the suckers. less hassle!

[dreamylittledream]

FWIW I'm completely inept at recoiling - I admit this now - but I used the FT premade coils in a few evod and PT heads and clearly you can fcuk them up too as they all tasted revolting - that fresh burnt coil taste - y'all know the one.

So not fool proof.

[poochops]

Microcoil and cotton wool booblay, you'll never look back honestly. Mrs poo uses evods and Protanks, I was coiling half a dozen heads a week and it was becoming a proper ball ache! Now I just take off the chimney and get the old cotton out, dry burn, fresh cotton, job done! They vape much more consistently too

[booblay]

i ended up buying loads of pre-coiled wicks from fast tech. 100% success rate so far!