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A) Not quenching wicks after spinning has no effect on the wick life. Smoking is not an indication of further wick damage. It is an unproven urban legend spread by weak minded, unscientific firespinners who preach without evidence.
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Luv 'n' Lemons
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A) Not quenching wicks after spinning has no effect on the wick life. Smoking is not an indication of further wick damage. It is an unproven urban legend spread by weak minded, unscientific firespinners who preach without evidence.
I guess I am a weak minded, unscientific firespinner but I do have evidence
as a manufacturer of fire tools oh and by the way I have several thousand wicks under my belt. I have found people who use kero or paraffin and DO NOT dunk their wicks will experience premature wick failure.Kero and parifaffin burns at such a lower temp it still burns when their are no flames hence the smoke what that does is burn out the non kevlar blends in your wick leaving you with that nasty white piece of burnt kevlar or glass. again leaving you with less material to absorb fuel.causing shorter burn times and smaller flames
I think were the confusion comes in is with people who use colemans or white gas
it wont burn at such a low temp so when the flames go out it doesnt burn the non kevlar blends of the wicking . so they dont need to be dunked.I have wicks that have only seen white gas and have never been dunked in thier life that look better than dunked kero wick half their age.
what is scary though is when the kero people spin with us(we all use colemans).
and they come over and try to dunk thier wicks.so far we have had no one blow them selves up yet.
I think what does the most damage to any wick with any fuel is spinning them until the flame goes out all you are doing is forcing air onto a hot surface. blow on a coal
and watch what happens you will see it gets hotter with more O2 being forced on it.
if your looking to get the max out of your wicks smoother them out when they burn down.then dunk them if your using kero or paraffinn
as for just picking up someones fire tool and using it that is just flat out rudeI have been cursed with the imagination to envision it all
This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
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