Stainless Steel rusting?

[Zyed]

Anyone notice when you glow ss too much it begins to give a reddish/orange tint to the cotton?

I'm using clear juice and its not like gunk from use, it comes from just priming it and within the first 20 hits its got a real big area of red in it and the coil is the culprit. New wick new juice and it happens with any juice I use.

I notice if I'm really careful when dry firing the SS coil this doesn't happen for a long time. But if I accidentally make it glow kinda bright then it starts to happen pretty soon afterwards.

The throat hit isn't increased per se, but my throat feels scratchy and dry after I use this coil. This has been experienced multiple times with different ss coils I've experienced this "rusting" with over a period of time so getting sick isn't the problem.

 

[The Cromwell]

SS should just be heated enough to burn off any impurities.
If you see it glow in normal room lighting you are too hot.
A SS coil that I vape at 25 watts I burn in at 12 watts.

 

[Zyed]

SS should just be heated enough to burn off any impurities.
If you see it glow in normal room lighting you are too hot.
A SS coil that I vape at 25 watts I burn in at 12 watts.

How do you get hotspots out then?

edit- in a dark room?

 

[The Cromwell]

How do you get hotspots out then?

edit- in a dark room?

Yep low light room and slow low wattage pulsing.
I only use spaced roundwire SS builds so hotspots not so much an issue.
And why I will not use clapton, etc SS coils.

 

[JuicyLucy]

How do you get hotspots out then?

edit- in a dark room?

Strumming and light pulsing only

 

[zephyr]

Over-oxidation from overheating - it can happen with other metals, too, but nichrome and kanthal can take more heat before it happens

 

[Zyed]

The input is much appreciated! I'll use this in my future builds and hopefully not have to reply back in this thread

 

[Zohmbiebuilds]

There are heating color charts. Those colors are from stages in heating. Basically I find I just turn my light of, pinch and pull a tiny bit and I'm good. When I wick, the coils for the most part have most of the color from pulsing low, or fast.

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