Rebuilding coil and wicks?

Mgriff

Hi everyone!

So im a newbie to coil rebuilding and would appriciate your words of wisdom! So I have been vaping now for a few months using ce4's, kanger t2's, t3's and aspire bdc's.... I seem to go through a clearomiser very quickly.. couple of days at most. Maybe its the way I vape, I dunnobut its working out pretty expensive so I would like to try rebuild my own coils first and move on to some type of RBA at a later stage...

So heres where I am at the moment. Ive bought 2 kanger t5 clearomisers, some 2mm silica wick and some 0.3 awg 28 kanthal from esmokeireland. I plan to use both t5's and then attempt to recoil them when they gunk up.

Can someone please advise me on what is the best method to do this? How much wick? How many coil wraps and any other important details I need to know so I dont blow my hand off or worse!! I have a standard non variable ego 1100mah battery I got from healthier smoker.

Where do I go from here?

Thanks!!

masonchat

I have never used those tanks , but on most tanks you can just buy replacement atomizers screw out old and screw in new also have you tried just rewicking , by rewicking you can just take out the old wick, dry burn the gunk off the coil and stick in a brand new cotton wick you can keep doing this untill coil dies on most tanks anyway.

Like i said i have no experience on the tanks you use, protanks and evods are a breeze to rewick and rebuild the aspire et-s bdc i cannot manage to do at all.

The best thing is to watch videos on youtube and come back with any questions you might have

dePeatrick

See if you can pick up a resistance meter or one of those made specifically for checking coils.....very easy to learn how to use them to check your resistance.

Mgriff

@masonchat. Just tried that with an old T2 coil I had.. worked a charm thanks! Not liking the T5 at the moment.. nowhere near as good as the T2.. burny, vapourless, flavourless.. maybe ill stick with the T2. Thanks!


@depeatrick. I have a fluke multimeter and thought that would do but have just tried belling out a coil with it and dont think its accurate enough..

masonchat

Glad to hear it Mgriff, dry burn the coils using short pusles so as not to blow the coil

Mgriff

masonchat wrote: »

Glad to hear it Mgriff, dry burn the coils using short pusles so as not to blow the coil

Ok thanks ill keep that in mind.. the flavour doesnt seem as strong as the original coil was? Does it need time to settle in after a new wick fitted?

masonchat

Not that i have noticed

Mgriff

Ok thanks..

dePeatrick

Mgriff wrote: »

@depeatrick. I have a fluke multimeter and thought that would do but have just tried belling out a coil with it and dont think its accurate enough..

It should be ok, just make sure to check what it reads when you connect the two leads together with nothing in between....the multimeter and leads can have a resistance reading that you have to subtract from the final reading....

Mine gives a reading of 0.4 so I have to subtract that from whatever I measure........I've checked it against some low ohm resistors I had lying around and it is accurate as long as I subtract the meter resistance....

Allan45121

I know there are a thousand videos and talk throughs out there, but I have a rebuilding question... I'm looking to rebuild an exact copy of the kanger evod 1.8ohm coil. In my arsenal I have 3mm ekowool (to big I know) and .2mm kanthal. Been messing around with it for a while and alls I can get is 3 turns and that doesn't give enough coverage. The stock 1.8 has 5/6 coils, so i was wondering what wire and wick I should buy to recreate this. Other option is just buy more coils, tbs was out of stock when I first looked into rebuilding, but has them in stock again...
Edit. Sorry for hijacking your thread!

glicster

I cant advise on your build but you should try micro coils with cotton.seriously better if your goimg to rebuild your own

M00lers

glicster wrote: »

I cant advise on your build but you should try micro coils with cotton.seriously better if your goimg to rebuild your own

+1

Allan45121

Aw man, my heads totally bamboozled with all this..

glicster

Nano Micro Coil build for Kanger Protank 2: http://youtu.be/cIoH-mOXKsc

M00lers

Allan45121 wrote: »

Aw man, my heads totally bamboozled with all this..

I find microcoils and cotton so much easier than using silica, could never get a neat wrap with silica.

Allan45121

moolers2000 wrote: »

I find microcoils and cotton so much easier than using silica, could never get a neat wrap with silica.

Aw man again, just wrapped 3 coils with cotton, that was piss easy, got 2ohm from wrapping round a drill bit 6 times. They're not the same as your man in the video has, but they're coils none the less! Get a nice bit of vapour at 4v on my vv ego
I used 100% cotton wool balls unrolled, it worked, but do you guys do it different?

grindle

Wrap around drill bit/mini screwdriver as tightly as possibly, light the coils red hot and compress with tweezers, place in head, thread a bit of cotton in (not too tight but not so loose that there's a cpil wothout cotton toiching it) and that's that.
RipTripper (presuming that was his video up there) generally uses thicker wire, more wraps and high power devices with low nic juices and he lung inhales, so your naturally going to get less vapour than himself.

grindle

Wrap around drill bit/mini screwdriver as tightly as possibly, light the coils red hot and compress with tweezers, place in head, thread a bit of cotton in (not too tight but not so loose that there's a cpil wothout cotton toiching it) and that's that.
RipTripper (presuming that was his video up there) generally uses thicker wire, more wraps and high power devices with low nic juices and he lung inhales, so your naturally going to get less vapour than himself.

Allan45121

What cotton do you use?

glicster

Allan45121 wrote: »

What cotton do you use?

I use tesco cotton balls,boiled n dryed,but i think ive read here somewhere before it doesnt neccesseraly have to be boiled.someone might confirm this later

dePeatrick

glicster wrote: »

I use tesco cotton balls,boiled n dryed,but i think ive read here somewhere before it doesnt neccesseraly have to be boiled.someone might confirm this later

I have used both boiled and unboiled and am coming to the conclusion that boiled may well be better, seems to change the structure of the cotton when you boil it and makes it more absorbent (fluffy) albeit a little more difficult to handle....

glicster

I boiled only 5 balls and their gonna last me a very long time even though i change wick often.i use a couple of strands of sillica on top of the coil to fill the gap in protank heads and find wicks last me a little longer than if i use more cotton

dePeatrick

A Hybrid Silica/Cotton wick....food for thought there....I would like to try hemp too, any idea if it can be got here?

jousting with chairs

Andrewvids has a video on YT with a Silica/Cotton wick, looks good.

Can't post a link or my posts get delayed.

dePeatrick

jousting with chairs wrote: »

Andrewvids has a video on YT with a Silica/Cotton wick, looks good.

Can't post a link or my posts get delayed.

Sure enough he has....

dePeatrick

But do you end up with the disadvantages of both and none of the advantages...?

Can't dry burn, can't replace in a few sec. Silica awkward to pull through.....worth it if there is an improvement in taste....

glicster

Think id stick with his cotton only build. Looks like too much hassle when just cotton does the trick

Engine No.9

Sorry to hijack the thread, but in relation to coils and wicking, soon as my 3D clone arrives I'll be starting to rebuild myself and that's ideally set up for dual coils, but can you set up any of those tank atty's with only 1 negative post as a dual coil or would you run the risk of creating shorts?

Mr. Chrome

pajopearl wrote: »

Sorry to hijack the thread, but in relation to coils and wicking, soon as my 3D clone arrives I'll be starting to rebuild myself and that's ideally set up for dual coils, but can you set up any of those tank atty's with only 1 negative post as a dual coil or would you run the risk of creating shorts?

Yeah but you don't want the legs coming off the coil to be too long unless you are using NR/R/NR wire.

Oh yeah. .air holes, you need an air hole for each coil unless you make one of those weird side by side dual coil thingies.

grindle

Mr. Chrome wrote: »

...one of those weird side by side dual coil thingies.

They should be the norm! Having to make sure my dripper has both holes facing to the side is another pain in the hoop.
Pain.
In.
The.
Hoop.

Mr. Chrome

I tried to do one in the patriot but made a balls of it, I still haven't gotten around to drilling a second hole in it. I've never had much joy with drippers tbh.