Taifun GT Discusion!

[ccwaters]

From my use I see two benefits, one being as you mentioned, it picks up any surplus of liquid that may make it into the bottom of the chamber. But more importantly, the way this works it does not rely upon getting just the right amount of cotton in the slots, to much and dry hits, not enough, and you end up flooding the chamber. With the wick shoulders up against the wick holes you've eliminated any possibility of the wick material creating choke points. Similar to how the wicking works in the GS II or, even the FEV, the cotton only absorbs so much liquid. After it reaches the saturation point it will no longer flow.

Granted, if you have the proper amount in the slots it will work just about the same, but blocking it with the shoulders, rather then running it through the holes seems to be much more forgiving. I've yet to have flooding or dry hits.

 

[roxynoodle]

From my use I see two benefits, one being as you mentioned, it picks up any surplus of liquid that may make it into the bottom of the chamber. But more importantly, the way this works it does not rely upon getting just the right amount of cotton in the slots, to much and dry hits, not enough, and you end up flooding the chamber. With the wick shoulders up against the wick holes you've eliminated any possibility of the wick material creating choke points. Similar to how the wicking works in the GS II or, even the FEV, the cotton only absorbs so much liquid. After it reaches the saturation point it will no longer flow.

Granted, if you have the proper amount in the slots it will work just about the same, but blocking it with the shoulders, rather then running it through the holes seems to be much more forgiving. I've yet to have flooding or dry hits.

Ohhh, so you're just putting it up against the slots? I thought you meant put it through and then fold it and run it back inside.

 

[ccwaters]

Yes, run it through the coil leave the tails long, grab the end of the tail, push it down into the chamber, Leaving them longer allows the shoulder to stay high, lightly fluff, and push the shoulder up against the wick slot,juice it up, and reassemble.

The only negative I can think of with doing it this way is if you pull to hard you might suck the cotton away from the wick slot, I've never had it happen, but have seen mention of it happening to people wicking it through the hole.

This is the same way I wick my Taifun GT/GT II

 

[sedge]

I'll have to give that a try. Also on the Spheroid v4.

 

[ccwaters]

Also use this same method on the KS, and the Penelope V4, Going to get me one of those Spheroid V4'!

 

[roxynoodle]

Kind of like wicking the Eviva-t (similar concept). I push my front wick tail up against the slot.

My Taifun GT1 always wicked perfectly with the same method I used tonight on the Hurricane. Maybe the slots were bigger.

 

[roxynoodle]

Ok, cc, just did your wick and I'm getting bigger bubbles so I'm hopeful .

 

[roxynoodle]

This is definitely better . Thanks, cc.

 

[jhelliwell]

I got a nice Bellvape tank for my TGT-II. I like the look

 

[anavidfan]

I did a "Bad" thing

 

[TheotherSteveS]

I did a "Bad" thing

Now what is bad about that. Its gorgeous and the pic is, again, stunning!!

 

[petemoss]

Finally got my Hotcig Taifun GS2-22 from GearBest and it's a beauty! Very smooth threads, good o-rings and a pretty box. It came with PTFE tubes, which I didn't expect. Most importantly, it vapes like a dream! Here it is next to a FeV3. I'm going to order a case from coffeebum for it. Nice and short, so it won't press against my belly.

 

[petemoss]

Ah, my REO Grand vape case fits perfectly!

 

[TrollDragon]

Very Nice!
One person shouldn't be allowed to own that many SX Mini's...
Tell me that's not a Sunbox E7 on the far left?

 

[petemoss]

Very Nice!
One person shouldn't be allowed to own that many SX Mini's...
Tell me that's not a Sunbox E7 on the far left?

Right you are, TD! That's a Sunbox E7 with Thai Burl panels but only a DNA30. I'm not entirely sold on Temp Control but wanted to try some on squonkers. Don't really need TC on my tanks.

 

[TrollDragon]

A very nice collection good sir!

One of these days I'd like to get a Squonk box of some sort, not any from that level but something. Fatdaddy Vapes now has squonk parts so I might just have to build one down the road.

 

[ccwaters]

This is definitely better . Thanks, cc.

Glad its working for you!

 

[skin_e1]

I received my Taifun GSL and was so excited I decided to put in those PTFE wicks in it. Big Mistake! I vaped for about 2 minutes and dumped the rest of my juice on my hand. I was like oh no!. I then took some more time with it and rolled up two pieces of 400 mesh a little smaller than the holes to the smallest I could roll with my Drum Tobacco rolling fingers, cut it to length and Whamo! The flavor on it is outstanding. I left it overnight and not one leak either. I run it at 17 watts for max flavor but can vape it up to 24 watts with no dry hits and that's just with 400 mesh I think I could get it way higher if I needed to with with 300 Mesh and even higher than that with 200. I bought the 3 ring optional ring and don't need it thus far due to my flavor chasing. I'm so glad I choose the Taifun GSL instead of the Flash E-Vapor. The reason is the airflow options are almost infinite and multiple wicking options. Tho I can't seem to get the PTFE wicks to work I'm sure I could get cotton to work. The amount of juice it holds is perfect for me as well I see it lasting me a day at 12MG and I can change out my wick. Oh yeah I'm using a 3mm coil running it at 1.59 with Koh Gen DO. It's a superb vape and well worth the money WINNING!

 

[jhelliwell]

I received my Taifun GSL and was so excited I decided to put in those PTFE wicks in it. Big Mistake! I vaped for about 2 minutes and dumped the rest of my juice on my hand.

LOL - that exact thing happened to me too. So I went to the official manual and thought I'd try the cotton pad method, which is to cut a circular pad of cotton with a hole in it for the chimney, press it into the underside of the top cap, and saturate it with eliquid and ensure the coil-wick is in contact with it. I must say I'm impressed with the saturation of the vape. I know for sure this thing ain't gonna flood, and it wicks like a charm. I am fairly impressed with the gravity-fed wicking on the GSL. I get the impression that my cotton is always as saturated as it possibly could be, resulting in an outstanding vape, which seems much nicer and satisfying than other pressure-fed systems in other atomisers. I'm running this build with every single airflow hole wide open and it's fantastic. The flavour is really pronounced. Loving the GSL

 

[skin_e1]

LOL - that exact thing happened to me too. So I went to the official manual and thought I'd try the cotton pad method, which is to cut a circular pad of cotton with a hole in it for the chimney, press it into the underside of the top cap, and saturate it with eliquid and ensure the coil-wick is in contact with it. I must say I'm impressed with the saturation of the vape. I know for sure this thing ain't gonna flood, and it wicks like a charm. I am fairly impressed with the gravity-fed wicking on the GSL. I get the impression that my cotton is always as saturated as it possibly could be, resulting in an outstanding vape, which seems much nicer and satisfying than other pressure-fed systems in other atomisers. I'm running this build with every single airflow hole wide open and it's fantastic. The flavour is really pronounced. Loving the GSL

Thanks for the manual I admit I was looking for it but gave up. I didn't even know there was a circular pad method Thus far with the mesh. I'm getting an incredible vape. I just cut it to size and like you said " I'm impressed with the saturation of the vape. I know for sure this thing ain't gonna flood, and it wicks like a charm." With that being said, the circular pad method is good to know I will probably try it in the future tho. Thanks again for the heads up! I'm super impressed by everything with this little beauty. It has a slight learning cure but well worth the money. Smokerstore really outdid themselves with this one