@JMak642 I agree with @Kinnikinnick. You may be surprised to find out many of us use rayon. I find it superior and have little problems with scorching and I use Ti coils and DNA200 mods. Don’t be put off by our bewilderment …we’re not getting it. His question was a scientific one. Rayon is just cellulose from trees, so it should be pretty much as close to cotton as it gets, if not chemically the same.
I previously thought Rayon was some kind of polyester or synthetic fiber. His point was only that they make different kinds of the stuff for beauty shop supply. Since the package is gone it may be impossible for you to find the part number, but this has actually already been a discussion on ELR …and the one thing we all know is there are different types.
Personally I Change cotton weekly or every other week. Normally two weeks. I try to mix week one, and build week 2. And I rotate back and forth.
My workhorse the aromamizer supreme weekly since that’s more my daily 10 hour work tank.
My rda’s every two weeks unless I vaped custard. If I vaped custard everday or my other fav cocoa FA it would be swapped ever 60mls.
I use the Pima supreme cotton from eciggity. It does require a break in period of 8mls. But after that it holds really really well. Just like a lot of other folks have said…my ss316L coils need a cleaning before the cotton is dead.
I normally have 2 tanks running all the time (and a Theorem with “something” in it) one tank (a 22mm Griffin) only uses fruits, the other tank (25mm Griffin) only uses “creams” (Bust A Nut, Moon Butter, and the like). I very rarely will clean a tank, if I’m going to be vaping a different juice in one of the tanks, I’ll just fill the tank about a third of the way with the new flavor then vape that almost dry, then add the new flavor to the tank.
While we’re on the topic of rewicking… I vape strictly tobacco blends and find that even though taste might hang in there for as long as a week, the coils gunk pretty damn fast. And depending on recipe, taste goes off pretty quick too. Is this normal with tobacco mixes? I’m on Kayfun Mini V3. I dry burn the crap off and rewick almost daily as of now.
This pic is after 2 days or so of ADVing. Normal or nah?
I find rayon not only better in the taste department, but much more forgiving concerning dry hits. A dry hit with cotton, and it was necessary to change the wick. The burnt taste would linger for the life of the wick. With rayon, it’s pretty much a non event. I just set it aside for a few minutes and let the wick catch up, and move on. Like Jim, when it’s time for a change, it’s always due to the coils being gunked up. Usually the rayon wick is still fine.
I’m low power, tobacco only, and depending on the juice, two days or so, and I’m ready for a dry burn & re-wick. If I’ve added some NET to the mix, I’m only good for the day, before the coil is gunked. My first indication is when the flavor starts falling off and becomes muted.
Yup. I’m in the same boat as you, @d_fabes and a host of other tobacco flavor Vapers. I rarely go above 30 watts with a tobacco mix or any mix to be exact; pretty much a tobacco chain vaper as well. So, I’m just resigned to the fact that frequent wick changes and coil burns is what’s needed to appease my senses. It may be a slight pain in the butt, however, the flavor factor out weighs the trouble factor.
Every few days, I have 4 main tanks I use in rotation. All rebuildable, The Avocado 24, The Cleito RTA, The Bellus and the Velocity RBA. I have the Herakles RTA 2 and the Mage RTA on the way, so I’ll probably get a little lazier about re-wicking them all. But I’ll certainly re-wick the most used every couple of days or so. Can’t beat fresh wick, just makes everything taste better.
What type of rayon should I try, is there an exact brand or website to check out? I don’t know a thing about it.
With Japanese cotton that I use, any dry hit I’ve ever gotten was a result of me forgetting to open the juice flow control again after refilling the tank.
Low wattage vaper here too. 1ish ohm coils 10-13 watts. Occasionally, I go up to a whooping 20 watts or so just to see if it changes the flavor of the juice. On my 75 watt device, I’ve never made it past 30 and that was me “living on the edge”. @Kinnikinnick
I’m beginning to think I need a research assistant hahaha. Between synthetic tobaccos, NETs, FDA tyranny, tanks, batteries and builds and now wicks… I’m never able to say I have nothing to read about on the interwebs. I used an ego c twist, tank that requires premade coils and B&M house juice for 3 years up until a few months ago when I got fed up with spending too much money. It was a simpler time then
I bought some vaping outlaws rayon and it is actually incredibly good, the strands are almost perfectly straight which means the liquid flows very direct, you just have to let it soak for a bit before vaping.
It seems to disperse the liquid quite quickly during vaping and chain vaping can sometimes yield a dry hit but no disgusting taste or anything.
It’s my birthday today so I’m a little drunk, I apologise if this makes no sense lol
