Firstly a thanks to the forum - not been on much in ages, and wasn't on that much before, but when I got my Mesh 24 this morning and had my first go at wicking it up, I knew I either had a dud or needed to harness others' experiences, so here I came and, it solved my issues by the 3rd wick - CHEERS!
I wanted to post in the thread I'd been reading but my humble and meagre permissions denied me access, so here I am!
Having seen the size of the drip tip, and read reviews of VV's mesh dripper, I must say at first I was horrified by how tight the draw was on this thing! I'd done it up with a tight sausage of Japanese cotton pad as per my fat dripper coils, and had the overall diameter of coil and wick overinflated, top too tall, and cwick *way* too hard for this unit, as it turned out, so for the 2nd time the whole lot came out, and after my final vitis here, I set to again for the 3rd time.
Here's wot I done wot wurked:
This time I grabbed some odd bits of cotton batton I had left, cut a few short strips and wadded them together keeping all fibres vertical, trimmed the bottom end and tried it for fit in the well, pulled a few strands off, and plopped it in, with one end of the mesh already secured.
I pushed the cotton and gently compacted it away from the remaining post to keep it out the clamp, then gently fed the end of the mesh through, closing the loop enough so it was *just* under the diameter of the juice well, then making sure I had it straight and the wick held down into the well with gentle pressure, I tightened the second end of the mesh, trimmed the top to just below the tops of the posts, fluffed out into all corners of the mesh/posts and down into the juice well using a long pin, then at the top I pushed the fibres out from the centre slightly to make a little well, lightly trimmed off some of the overhang, pre-wet the wick and coil, test fired and reassembled with the liquid still in the glass from the last build still, and behold it worked like a dream!
It's still a waaaay tighter draw than I'm used to, or indeed than the tank I got the other day as part of my Reuleaux RX Gen3 kit that throws huge free breathing clouds as well as my Buddha V3 did, but now I got the airlow maximised and balanced with the shape and diameter of the wick and coil, and have a fairly loose, springy wick with straight fibres nicely fluffed out, it just *works*!
To summarise, it wasn't what I expected, wasn't what I wanted, but I am not about to give it up now I bloody well have it, and I haven't even tested it on TC mode yet.
Cheers me dears!
',;~}~
DV
I wanted to post in the thread I'd been reading but my humble and meagre permissions denied me access, so here I am!
Having seen the size of the drip tip, and read reviews of VV's mesh dripper, I must say at first I was horrified by how tight the draw was on this thing! I'd done it up with a tight sausage of Japanese cotton pad as per my fat dripper coils, and had the overall diameter of coil and wick overinflated, top too tall, and cwick *way* too hard for this unit, as it turned out, so for the 2nd time the whole lot came out, and after my final vitis here, I set to again for the 3rd time.
Here's wot I done wot wurked:
This time I grabbed some odd bits of cotton batton I had left, cut a few short strips and wadded them together keeping all fibres vertical, trimmed the bottom end and tried it for fit in the well, pulled a few strands off, and plopped it in, with one end of the mesh already secured.
I pushed the cotton and gently compacted it away from the remaining post to keep it out the clamp, then gently fed the end of the mesh through, closing the loop enough so it was *just* under the diameter of the juice well, then making sure I had it straight and the wick held down into the well with gentle pressure, I tightened the second end of the mesh, trimmed the top to just below the tops of the posts, fluffed out into all corners of the mesh/posts and down into the juice well using a long pin, then at the top I pushed the fibres out from the centre slightly to make a little well, lightly trimmed off some of the overhang, pre-wet the wick and coil, test fired and reassembled with the liquid still in the glass from the last build still, and behold it worked like a dream!
It's still a waaaay tighter draw than I'm used to, or indeed than the tank I got the other day as part of my Reuleaux RX Gen3 kit that throws huge free breathing clouds as well as my Buddha V3 did, but now I got the airlow maximised and balanced with the shape and diameter of the wick and coil, and have a fairly loose, springy wick with straight fibres nicely fluffed out, it just *works*!
To summarise, it wasn't what I expected, wasn't what I wanted, but I am not about to give it up now I bloody well have it, and I haven't even tested it on TC mode yet.
Cheers me dears!
',;~}~
DV
