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It's a forum, a community, we're here to help each other. Why send @Scott a message like this instead of directing him to the thread or explaining what the issue is?
Not everyone follows all the threads and happenings on here.
Be cool guy.
Perhaps Scott should have asked first before he posted what he did. His post did seem like a negative comment directed to a specific vendor which is not cool.
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Yeah, but this forum is about educating and helping people. If we don't help and direct them to existing threads, were doing neither.
New people are joining all the time. They'll ask questions that have been asked 100 times before in 100 different threads. So what. We were no better at one point. People helped us and we know now. Showing @Scott that it isn't the vendors fault and why is better than replying with a comment on how this has been discussed in 5 different threads before.
Sorry for derailing the thread.
To get back on topic... When trying builds and wicking styles, what do you do when your exo, insider, etc isn't wicking well or leaking? What's your preferred method of sorting it out? I use a syringe to get my guide out. Clean the Boro and atty, rebuild/rewick and put the juice back. I found the exocet is very easy to build and wick, but the insider has more my kind of airflow, but is harder to get wicking right.
I'll keep eye out for it thanks @Petrus
I don't disagree with you and will always try and help. That is why I commented and said it is not the Vendor. However Scott is not really a newbie any longer and made a rather strong statement before doing any research. Look at it this way, if you are uninformed or a new person to a forum would you make such a statement specifically with his last sentence regarding the size of the Vendor without checking your facts first? But yeah back to topic. I am looking forward to my second BB.
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Thanks Spiv I appreciate your attitude. I have been on the forum since May this year and to be rated "experienced" is a joke. As a forum I honestly believed everyone was entitled to a degree of freedom of speech.
I really feel for newbies after seeing that reaction from @Petrus. Why would you dare ask anything or express an opinion because God forbid you didn't research first! And @ OnePowerfulCorsa you did the cause of vendors no good by showing that any comment that may be broadly interpreted as negative will lead to a backlash.
I have made some very good friends on the forum and will communicate privately elsewhere sadly the opposite exceeds the former.
Freedom of speech is non-existent and ignorance of an issue is attacked not corrected in a civilized fashion.
Goodbye ECIGSSA.
@Scott, I am sorry you feel that way, it all started with a silly dislike. Like you said "freedom of speech" I do apologise, but still dislike your original post and suggest that you PM the vendor and arrange payment methods.
Anyone ever have any wicking issues on the Exocet? Sounds ridiculous, I know - because it's laughably easy to wick. But I've been getting some dry hits on occasion. When I then puff on it (without pressing the fire button), I can see bubbles rising from the wick. That to me indicates that it's not wicking properly to keep up with the vaping (even if it's just 1 semi-long pull).
Which I found rather strange. I lowered the coil a bit so that the cotton runs in a straight line all the way through the Exocet, and it's pretty well fluffed. I think it's a 2.5mm ID coil.
Doesn't happen super often, but does on occasion.
Which I found rather strange. I lowered the coil a bit so that the cotton runs in a straight line all the way through the Exocet, and it's pretty well fluffed. I think it's a 2.5mm ID coil.
Doesn't happen super often, but does on occasion.
Play around with your wick, it could be that you are using to much and the juice cant make it all the way to the center of the coil. Worth a try
@aktorsyl, your ohms aren't jumping around?
Nope, not at all.
This is only thing that irritates the crap out of me.
Yes the contacts must be cleaned but Damn it's inconvenient.
Every time I think of having a puff on it I must give it a test fire once or twice so the ohms stabilise then I can vape
Works on my bladdy nerves
Mine stopped jumping around after I refastened the bottom pin of the Exocet (the one that tightens/loosens the positive post).
Ohms are rock steady now, but the dry hits are real. Suspect wicking is the issue, I'll have another look at it tonight maybe.
I found the Scottish Roll method works best , nice and toight through the coil and fluffed at the ends ..... creates like a funnel for liquid to travel through ...
I'll try the Scottish Roll again on CBv2. Last time I tried, it looked like something that came out the wrong end of a hamster.
I assume you don't comb out the tails to thin them if you use the roll?
Not in the exocet. But in the goon a little, very little
Trick is to get it as thin and as even as possible.
I'll post some pics when I do it again, I'll do it tonight, got to show off my mad skillllz
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I actually use a combined method of the Scottish Roll and the Bowtie. So Scottish Roll and then into Bowtie the ends , cut off 1/4 on top.....
I wick it with a eyeballed strip of CBV2, the wick goes through to coil with very little resistance, then I pull back and forth of the wick tails to get em nice and even. I trim off the twisted end only, and fluff the hell out of the wicks with my finger tip by flicking it back and forth. You'll know you doing it right when you get a lot of small fibers of cotton breaking away from the actual wick and making snow on the 521 tab. once thats done I pinch into a bowtie, slide the chimney on, flick to fluff to cover the juice holes, not much on the top side of the wick but more towards the lower end closer to the deck, then I take those really deadly looking shears I got and in one swift movement I trim the wick just off the chimney about a mm or 2. i then blow directly onto the fluffy end of the wick tail sticking out of the assembled chimney and it sort of flowers open against the outside of the chimney. Then I assemble and fill the boro and leave this whole thing to sit on my desk for a while to see if there's any leaks. If not, into the BB it goes and all is good and well. My coil is a custom mini alien 32/40 with KA1 core at 2.0 ID coming in at 0.75 ohm made by @smilelykumeenit, vaping at 25-28W depending on the juice.
In my oh so expert opinion, this boy nailed it with the exocet and the skyline. I'm already going for my second order of the above mentioned coils because I've tried plenty and this guy wins for me. There are other masters who have other specialty coils, but for exo and skyline... @smilelykumeenit is boss.
In my oh so expert opinion, this boy nailed it with the exocet and the skyline. I'm already going for my second order of the above mentioned coils because I've tried plenty and this guy wins for me. There are other masters who have other specialty coils, but for exo and skyline... @smilelykumeenit is boss.
Thanks, what a great explanation. I suspect my wick was too thick inside the coil. As for the rest we pretty much do it the same way (I just prime my wick a bit before putting it into the Boro)
It's always a good idea to prime but my tank sits so long on the sideline that it kinda primes itself so I don't bother too much. That's what I like with the BB, its very accommodating and simple. the more you fuss and faff with it the less awesome it becomes. Just pop the wick in, slide the chimney on, trim and fluff... That's the KISS method (Keep It Simple Stupid)
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Thanks Andre, watched the 1st two but didn't get it right trying to emulate what the reviewers did. :/
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