Silica Wick and Cotton Combination in an RDA?

[Toxu]

Hello everyone! So, I just recently built my first dual coil rda, and it works like a charm. I'm loving it. It's a Nimbus RDA clone, with the airholes drilled out much larger, and 32g kanthal with 2mm silica wick. Each wick is about 2 inches long, with each of the ends wrapped around the posts in an odd figure 8 pattern. (It's hard to describe without taking photos, which I don't have time to take.)

Now, my only issue is this: the well of the Nimbus RDA is pretty deep. I'd estimate there's a 4mm deep juice-well. If I don't use it for a while, some of the juice will begin to seep down into it. This desaturates the wicks, and then I had an idea.

There's probably 20% of the well that isn't covered by wick. I have tons of organic cotton, I've gotten a lot of it, but I generally prefer silica wick for almost all of my rebuilding. So if I were to place a decent amount of cotton in those bare spots, enough to make the entire well level, I'm thinking that it would not only keep my wick saturated longer, so I wouldn't need to redrip as often. Not only that, but when I'm not using it for a while, the cotton could absorb any liquid that seeps down from the wicks.

Has anyone ever used both wick and cotton in an RBA/RDA or any other atomizer rebuild? I'm sort of an intermediate rebuilder, so I'm not sure, and I would love any input from anyone else who could give me a bit more info on this. Thanks so much!

 

[Toxu]

So I'm starting to realize that I'm asking an extremely simple question. If someone can just tell me yes or no, if cotton can be used with silica wick, that would pretty much answer my question completely. Thanks again.

 

[Tbev]

Yeah, it will be fine, your looking to just add cotton as a resivor, no problem, the Nimbus has a large volume of space under the cap and by adding cotton, your also reducing the total chamber volume this creating a little better flavor.

On another note, if you are good at realizing when you are out of juice and need to drip, give a cotton wick a shot, you'll prolly like it, any cotton balls will do no need to boil just go for it.

 

[milescadre]

I actually use a combo in my tobh 26650 since its so huge. I have silica on the coil, then wrap cotton around the silica and snake it around, kinda like a zippo.

Holds about 1 ml of juice and never goes dry. Worked surprisingly well ^^

 

[Bunnykiller]

the theory sounds plausible.... I do something similar but in reverse on my RSST... the silica feeds the cotton...

 

[Tbev]

You guys sound check out the rayon thread, ask someone for a sample they week and you a bunch of it for free, it's great stuff. Can't dry burn like eco/silica but it's life cotton but better in every way possible.