[Green Hornet]

Must try that then. Janey Mac, this stuff would drive you barmy trying to get it perfect.

Still though, I remember my first vape with the RDA a couple of weeks ago. No comparison to carto's and tanks or clearo's.

Noticed my last coil/wick looked a bit on the hairy side and was spitting a bit so made up yet another one.......read some stuff about shards today and it worried me a bit just in case it was spitting off little shards.

Wonder could you put a little bit of cotton wool in the drip tip just in case? Probably just trap vapour though and get wet I'd imagine.

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

well with the stuff from andrei you dont have to really worry about the hairs in the vape, the group buy stuff Id be worried about alright but even then it's not even a definite that it will happen with that stuff and as yous aid once the wick is properly wet it becomes even more unlikely

you could try a mesh wick I guess or a hybrid mesh/silica/fibreglass wick

[Green Hornet]

Ha ha......hard enough to get this right without getting into mesh wick. In fairness to the RDA it's easy enough to learn on though.

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

yeah, it's the definition of easy to learn hard to master

I wish i'd just gotten an RDA back last year instead of a lavatube, if I'd never known about variable voltage vaping I'd have stuck away trying to get this working perfectly on a fixed voltage ego.. throwing different voltages into the mix is a headache in itself
testing some diy's atm.. and its hard to know if it's the rda, the juice, the voltage or all three that's helping/hurting each juice
the fact that I'm some high wattage loving freak doesn't help either, currently vaping a 1.6ohm coil at five volts and loving it

[Green Hornet]

Yeah, it's handy to be able to tailor the resistance alright. If you go too low even on an eGo though, wicking becomes a problem. Better to learn on this than the RTA though. I'd crack up if I had to learn all this on that. The RDA is esy to open up and throw a new coil and wick onto. The RTA looks a bit more difficult!

I spent a fortune on hardware over the last few months but this thing allows me to go through dozens of set ups very cheaply. My spending has plummeted. About time too. Vaping was costing a fortune and the juices were the cheapest part.

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

heh yeah, im getting more wick and wire from andrei than i'd care to admit but even then it's like.. 15 euro a month if even and im narrowing in on my perfect vape
even when its not perfect it kicks the **** out of cartomisers, those weeks when my RDA was off with clockworks being repaired were pretty hard.. used to be a boge evangelist but once I got that RDA it was just night and day in terms of a great vape.

[Green Hornet]

I heated the Kanthal over a flame today prior to building a new coil. I 'think' the taste is gone and the wire seemed easier to use.

I do find with Andrei's wick that I need 3 strands at 5 turns or it will dry too quickly and give the burnt taste and I'm only using an eGo. Don't have a multimeter on me but it should be around 1.8 ohms.

Very happy with this one actually. Spent a bit of time on it.

As you well know though, I'll probably decide I could make it better later and rip it all apart again!!!

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

i didnt have any trouble with the wick being too dry when i was using two strands of andreis wick at ego voltages.. thats weird

maybe you're coiling too tight... or not tight enough

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

decided to take a more scientific approach to this

made a 9 turn coil with 4 strands, came to 1.9 ohms. great flavour abovce 5 volts but not much below that, even though it's producing the vapour. my guess is too many turns, taking too long to heat that much wire at the lower volts. my next 9 turn coil I'll do with 3 strands and then 2 to see if there's any difference. I seem to remember doing a similar coil ages ago with 2 strands and it gave great flavour so maybe the amount of juice held in the 4 strands of wick is cooling the coil down too much over its entire surface area.

shame todays a bank holiday, found a chunk of the wick andrei had before so i wont run out any time soon but I dont know if its enough to warrant further experimentation.. might run the risk of going a bit mad and running out before wednesday

[derra]

Originally Posted by Green Hornet

Does either Kanthal or the fibreglass wick have a taste? I'm struggling to create the same clean flavour as I got with the nichrome wire and group buy wick. There's always a king of background taste that I can't seem to get rid of.

I didn't use a lighter on the wire cos I don't have one - must buy one - but does that affect the taste?

Also the background taste I get is very like the taste I got with the iMist I think.

The different wicks have a taste alright, i got a taste off the stuff Andrei has now which i did'nt like. The stuff he first had was better imo so i got 20 metres of that which will last me a long time.

Originally Posted by Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

heh yeah, im getting more wick and wire from andrei than i'd care to admit but even then it's like.. 15 euro a month if even and im narrowing in on my perfect vape
.

One ya have the set up right you won't be buying 10 metres a month
That's a lot of wick your using, just dry it and use the other end to put the coil on. After a few days use it won't be as good, but your only testing so it fine to use again.


Done a repair earlier, 4 strands of wick, 6 turns .20 Nichrome, coil in centre of the wick as i think it's wicking better this way. Seems to be a dry spot on the end close to the coil the other way.
I put the coil on the same side as the solder tag.

Seems to be much better.

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

coil on the same side as the solder?
you changing stufff for the sake of it or was there some reason

also 4 strands on both sides... would that not take like.. half a metre of wick?

[derra]

Originally Posted by Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

coil on the same side as the solder?
you changing stufff for the sake of it or was there some reason

also 4 strands on both sides... would that not take like.. half a metre of wick?

Always did on the same side as the solder, just thought it better for the wick sitting on the base.

It be around 20 cms of wick, will do one with tails next time still keeping the coil in the centre.

Will give it a few more days and see how i get on.
Feels like the vape is too clean or something, a bit too smooth for my liking.
I prefer the bite out of the eGo vision at the moment, tight draw but will do what Green Hornet suggested about that.

[Green Hornet]

I've done a few with the coil at one end and I think they've all been dry pretty quickly at the short side. Going to keep it centred from now on.

Did any of you ever try the other wick linked on Clockworks website?

[Bubba9]

Originally Posted by Green Hornet

Did any of you ever try the other wick linked on Clockworks website?

I've been mainly using Heaven's Gift wick and it's grand. Used Bulli and Andrei's too without any problems.

[Green Hornet]

For some reason I get a taste off Andrei's wick. Then again, I hated the carto taste when I used cartos too. Maybe I'm just sensitive to taste!

Might try some of the HG stuff then.