I recently mentioned a problem with curling wicks off centering the MP. Well, I looked up Wick curling here on CS the other day, and saw an older post where someone said that if you can see the ^ where it's braided, the wick curls in that direction, as opposed to the v shape on the other side. I tried and tired again to find it earlier, but I couldn't for the life of me. So I decided to just give it a go without rereading it.
I did it with two bare wicks and it was accurate. So I placed some wicks I'm testing out in jars a bit off center from the direction the ^ is facing, in hops to correct the centering if the melt pool. Crossing my fingers.
This might be common knowledge, but I was so frustrated with curling, and essentially finding that most wicks are made to curl. Except for zinc (still wondering about cotton core) . Please correct me if I'm wrong, or if anyone knows of others that aren't designed to curl. But now that I know that it's part of the deal, and how to look for it in Ecos at least, it gives me a little hope for my jars. Premieres, I can't tell the direction of the curl (see the v's) at all in advance, so probably won't use in these. I'm hoping the ecos do ok. If not, trying CDs/CDNs.
I'm basing my wick choices on C3 because, although it's a different wax, C6 is not closer to a plain coconut, I thought I'd need to wick down during my last tests, and ended up pretty underwicked. It's got soy, and palm additives (probably), and I'm suspicious that it burns somewhat similarly.