Silica

[ginge7289]

Im curious to find out peoples opinions on silica as a wick.

I did a lot of reading yesterday on various safety issues with vaping and it is clear that there is an opinion out there that silica is not the SAFEST wick to be using. This does concern me some what as I normally use silica in my kayfuns which are generally my ADV.

I also saw a company refuse to stock a new atty as it used silica wick? When I started vaping, cotton was not really the wick of choice and all the tank atomisers were using silica as the wick.

Its hard to google this subject without reading pages and pages of American forums of people arguing with each other.

What's the general consensus from this community? Perpetua are you still using the miles and miles of silica you have stocked up?

[decoy]

i like cotton balls as they seem to give more flavor and work better than most things ive used

[Deleted]

I am Japanese cotton only these days. I never had any problem with silica back in the day when we wound a coil around it. I switched to cotton when the fad for micro coils took off and have stuck with it even for spaced coils. I find it so much easier to wind a perfect coil on a coil master and then feed a cotton wick through it rather than winding a hit and miss coil of varying tightness around silica. Then there is the ease of whipping out the old cotton, dry burning and rewicking with cotton. As a heavy smoker for over 40 years, I have never worried too much about the health risk of anything vaping related.

[ginge7289]

Sept 6, 2015 6:59:51 GMT @yinyang said:

 As a heavy smoker for over 40 years, I have never worried too much about the health risk of anything vaping related.

I had the same chain of thought, I'm not sure why I started to look into it yesterday?

[Pepperty]

I still use silica in a few of my attys? I prefer a looped wick in my spheroids (although I do include a cotton wool sandwich) I also do silica in my ebaron drippers. There are advantages to silica in drippers, in that I can burn off the old flavours and change over without rewicking.

I do now use cotton in my GG penelopes and atmistique diver v2's but my v1 uses silica - I dont worry about any of the minor issues to do with vaping, silica issue, diketones etc as its still a health improvement on smoking 30 a day

[Perpetua]

Sept 6, 2015 6:40:05 GMT ginge7289 said:

 Perpetua are you still using the miles and miles of silica you have stocked up?

I am indeedy ginge7289 . . . . and have every intention of continuing to, along with any eliquids/flavourings that contain Acetoin & Acetyl Propionyl.

I shall also continue to drink and scoff chocolate to excess on occasions when it suits me.


It's a personal decision as with all things in this life is my thinking.