To be clear - I am not imagining that no-one has done this, but it was a first for me, and it came out rather nicely.
This build was inspired by the vertical coils on my Atlantis, and the 'Dragon' builds I saw some people do. I am not saying it is a Dragon coil - just got some wicking ideas from it.
This is done on an Orchid, which suits this kind of experiment very well. The build comes to 0.7Ohm (2 * 1.5) and was done with 28g kanthal around a 2mm screwdriver (10 wraps). I chose 2mm because that is the size of the holes on this deck.
Please excuse the background (flowery). I live with a woman..
Some pics:
The basic idea was to put two vertical coils above the air holes. Please excuse the coil neatness of the coils. They were ok until i had to shape them to this configuration..
from above, just to show that the coils are aligned with the holes
important thing here was to make sure they were off the deck and was going to leave enough space for the wicking. The orchid has a really right chamber. Also - how sexy is that Mini Dragon!
When doing the wicking, I found it best to put the screw driver back through the coil and into the air hole. Kept everything in place better. I used one piece of cotton. Please excuse the photo quality - it was 1 in the morning in dodgy light. But the basic idea is that it wraps around the outside of the coil (need to leave the center open for the air flow), then goes between the posts and around the second coil. Then wet and tuck in. The wick goes down all the way to the deck, so as to form a tunnel for the wick. This idea is from the dragon wick, which closes off the one end. Also - as I wicked around, I pried little pieces of cotton into the channels (not too much and not too little - bit of a feel thing, but found this sorts the leaking issue very nicely).
This is her, all nice and juiced up. What I ended up with here is a little nest of wick, with the two coils right above the holes. And then I hoped like all hell it would work.
And it did! I like a really open draw. The Orchid tends to be a little tight, but this gives me everything she has, and what is more, forces all the air through the little tunnel. The end result is huge flavour and pretty nice cloud. Nice throat hit too. Also - even with fairly urgent tooting, haven't had any dry hits.
and that is that.
This build was inspired by the vertical coils on my Atlantis, and the 'Dragon' builds I saw some people do. I am not saying it is a Dragon coil - just got some wicking ideas from it.
This is done on an Orchid, which suits this kind of experiment very well. The build comes to 0.7Ohm (2 * 1.5) and was done with 28g kanthal around a 2mm screwdriver (10 wraps). I chose 2mm because that is the size of the holes on this deck.
Please excuse the background (flowery). I live with a woman..
Some pics:
The basic idea was to put two vertical coils above the air holes. Please excuse the coil neatness of the coils. They were ok until i had to shape them to this configuration..
from above, just to show that the coils are aligned with the holes
important thing here was to make sure they were off the deck and was going to leave enough space for the wicking. The orchid has a really right chamber. Also - how sexy is that Mini Dragon!
When doing the wicking, I found it best to put the screw driver back through the coil and into the air hole. Kept everything in place better. I used one piece of cotton. Please excuse the photo quality - it was 1 in the morning in dodgy light. But the basic idea is that it wraps around the outside of the coil (need to leave the center open for the air flow), then goes between the posts and around the second coil. Then wet and tuck in. The wick goes down all the way to the deck, so as to form a tunnel for the wick. This idea is from the dragon wick, which closes off the one end. Also - as I wicked around, I pried little pieces of cotton into the channels (not too much and not too little - bit of a feel thing, but found this sorts the leaking issue very nicely).
This is her, all nice and juiced up. What I ended up with here is a little nest of wick, with the two coils right above the holes. And then I hoped like all hell it would work
.And it did! I like a really open draw. The Orchid tends to be a little tight, but this gives me everything she has, and what is more, forces all the air through the little tunnel. The end result is huge flavour and pretty nice cloud. Nice throat hit too. Also - even with fairly urgent tooting, haven't had any dry hits.
and that is that.
