Just wondering if anyone has tried this? Did some searches and didn't pull up much. Saw a few people with the idea, but nobody follow through.
I am using the cotton off of a q tip as a wick in my ce5 clearomizer right now...and I gotta say...It is working surprisingly well. I'd use cotton yarn...my mom just doesn't have any un-dyed yarn right now.
I ran out of good coils, It's too late to go to a shop, and really felt like vaping (of course). My buddy happened to have a good coil head with coil intact that he had pulled the wick out of for use in something he was tinkering with...so I just boiled a q tip, dried it, pulled off the cotton, and twisted up a nice wick. I just twisted it while pulling it through the coil to kind of make it skinnier, then let it fluff up in the coil.
Tasted a little funny at first, but I was using a pretty weak juice that had an interesting taste to begin with. Put some Lush Vapors - Belly Dancer (jolly rancher) and WHOAA HO! this thing is hitting nice now...Much better than your typical silica wick that comes in it. I might start doing this to some new coils if this keeps working like it is. Still waiting on some kanthal, ekowool, and silica wick so I can just rebuild heads while I'm waiting for a big order of goodies including a K100 and 24k gold Trident RDA from Fasttech ...Darn Christmas screwing up shipping times.
I suppose you could just use cotton balls and pull the fibers apart to twist up some wicks...a bag of them is like 99 cents at Walmart, and would probably last you a REALLY long time. I only had cotton swabs available at the moment.
Anyways, let me know what y'all think. Interested in what people have to say about this. If it's as viable an option as I think it is, then you could really save some money over the typical wicks you can buy. I'll keep vaping this through tomorrow (even after I go buy a few coils and some cotton yarn) and post a follow up as well...I have only been using it for about 45 minutes....