The first time I tried to rebuild this tank I did not have fun. There were no how-tos, and I never actually rebuilt my VVN heads. But I did watch the pbusardo video on rebuilding them. Once I realized that's what I had to do, it was pretty easy. But I know there's at least one person out there who wants to see the insides.. So here goes. Please forgive image quality and my never-been-filed fingernails.
Here are all the pieces taken apart: Top cap, tank, and the atty caddy, ceramic cup, rubber gromet and center post thing
Make your coil with TWO pieces of wick, so you have two ends of wick on each side coming out of the coil. Place your wick/coil in the ceramic cup, with the wicks coming out of the slits in the side.
The annoying part is feeding the wire through the tiny holes in the cup.
Cup slips into the atty caddy.
Feed one wire through the rubber grommet, and smash the other down. Then smash it all down with the center post thing.
Trim the excess wires (of course). Now feed your wicks through the four holes on top.
Trim any excess wick.. Here's a bird's eye of your atty caddy.
Attach to the tank. My wicks are in for a good, long soak.
Fully assembled.
Hope this helps!
In closing, I love this little tank.. I came from Vivi Novas, and I feel this tank blows them out of the water. I can't make this leak (I've tried!), it doesn't flood, and the coil gunk does not get back into my juice. It's cheap, and really easy to disassemble and reassemble. If you're coming from high-end RBAs, you might not like this. It has its quirks, and it's not the greatest quality. But it's EASY and fun.
I'm still a rebuilding noob. The wick and coil were not my greatest. This was a cotton ball wick.. Nichrome 34, 5/6 coil measuring around 2.9ohms right now.
Here are all the pieces taken apart: Top cap, tank, and the atty caddy, ceramic cup, rubber gromet and center post thing
Make your coil with TWO pieces of wick, so you have two ends of wick on each side coming out of the coil. Place your wick/coil in the ceramic cup, with the wicks coming out of the slits in the side.
The annoying part is feeding the wire through the tiny holes in the cup.
Cup slips into the atty caddy.
Feed one wire through the rubber grommet, and smash the other down. Then smash it all down with the center post thing.
Trim the excess wires (of course). Now feed your wicks through the four holes on top.
Trim any excess wick.. Here's a bird's eye of your atty caddy.
Attach to the tank. My wicks are in for a good, long soak.
Fully assembled.
Hope this helps!
In closing, I love this little tank.. I came from Vivi Novas, and I feel this tank blows them out of the water. I can't make this leak (I've tried!), it doesn't flood, and the coil gunk does not get back into my juice. It's cheap, and really easy to disassemble and reassemble. If you're coming from high-end RBAs, you might not like this. It has its quirks, and it's not the greatest quality. But it's EASY and fun.
I'm still a rebuilding noob. The wick and coil were not my greatest. This was a cotton ball wick.. Nichrome 34, 5/6 coil measuring around 2.9ohms right now.
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