Anybody Using A Kabuki?
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The Zcarto tank was made by House of Hybrids. It used cartos but then they made an upgrade kit to use Nautilus BVC. Shortly after the upgrade kit came the Kabuki Tank.
Well, my kit came in today. I had hi hopes of having some pics and thoughts on the coil for you tonight. I quickly found before I can do anything I will need to uhh..cough...update my optics. These tired old eyes were not quite ready for this...
Sooo doing a lil Amazon shopping this morning for some head-mounted magnifying optics
Sooo doing a lil Amazon shopping this morning for some head-mounted magnifying optics
LOL!!! Join the Club. I have several pairs of Jewelers Loop along with full head sets. Makes life a lot easier when building coils, and working on watches.
Ain't Old Age a "B"?
knife
Ain't Old Age a "B"?
knife
Does it come with a coil installed or even an uninstalled one?Well, my kit came in today. I had hi hopes of having some pics and thoughts on the coil for you tonight. I quickly found before I can do anything I will need to uhh..cough...update my optics. These tired old eyes were not quite ready for this...
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Sooo doing a lil Amazon shopping this morning for some head-mounted magnifying optics
P.S. I have had great success using twisted 40g in my Kayfuns. Basically take a long strand of 40g, fold it in half, make an L shape crimp on one end to insert into a drill chuck, loop the other end around a drill bit, pen, etc. and twist until the loop breaks or it feels almost smooth. Friggin beautiful. Seriously, perfect wire for 1-2ohm vaping and easy to coil and work with.
Just an FYI for rebuilding the coil heads - FastTech has Kabuki 510 bases (SKU 3888502) for $4.11 each with free shipping - great for sitting on the Coil Master to hold the build in place ...
Soooo... Another bit of an update! It would behoove anyone using this to: instead of screwing the RBA in the base first, screw it into the chimney first. Due to the offset threading on the RBA it's a royal PITA to get it put together filled with juice only to have it screw together crooked and the glass slips, leaking juice all over your hands! (ask me how I know!)
I fought with it a little to get it screwed into the chimney at first. That offset threading is a major flaw in my opinion!
After I got it in, I then put the glass on, filled it up, and then screwed the base on! It vapes like a champ too! I think my 1.2 ohm coil is a little to hot for it though. Next time I'll put a higher ohm cool in it like the Aspire coils (1.9 ohm).
All in all its a bit of a pain, but worth it only if coils dry up in the next year or so.
Hope I helped anyone thinking of grabbing one of these up!
I would love to see how you did the wicking on this pretty please
I would love to see how you did the wicking on this pretty please
I'll rewick it in a bit and see if I can grab some photos of it. It's super small and my iPhone has trouble picking it up. But I gotcha!
So I got my Kabuki re-build coil in today, and this was the hardest thing to build I have come across. It's really tight in there and those screws really should have been socket head, and perhaps a bit larger. That said, I could not for the life of me feed the upper leg threaded through the hole in a horizontal coil orientation. First build...fail.
Second build, I wound a 29 ga. coil on a 3/32" bit, and left the legs very long. Then mounted that coil in a dripper, leaving about 3/8" or so to the posts, and pulse fired the coil till it was tuned and glowing from the center out.
Now the fun part, I had the legs 180 degrees and cut the bottom one prety short and eyeballed how far out the mounting hole was from the airhole in the deck, and made a 90 degree bend down, that is, while looking at the coil like it is going to be a BVC coil.
After some fine tuning I had that leg trimmed so if I used a shaft to align the coil with the airhole, the 90 degree bend went right into the capture hole. Next I trimmed the top leg so that it was just long enough to exit the threaded part that the hole passes through, and after three or four tries managed to get the coil into position as a BVC coil, locked it all down and checked resistance, 2.0Ω
NOW is where I took a slightly smaller drill bit, and put it into the center of the coil, and literally bent the coil with the drill bit as a lever, over to the horizontal orientation that I wanted, 90 degrees from where it originally sat. With some needle point tweezers and the drill bit still in the coil, I then muscled the legs so nothing was crossed or shorted, then moved the shaft back and forth to relieve stress in the coil, and adjusted coil height over the air hole.
First wick went well, but I got a terrible taste from the factory residue, so an Isopro 99 soak for a few hours. It took two tries to wick the now clean deck, first one was too loose and I got flooding. Second wicking I used what appeared to be slightly too much wick, trimmed it at the edge of the deck for reference and stuffed it into the respective channels. No flooding, great vapor production, awesome flavor, pretty much identical to my 91%ers, except the Kabuki has much better airflow.
This will be fun to play with, and perhaps with time the builds will come more naturally. The 29 ga. wire should hold up for months so really I should only need to build it a couple times a year.
Sorry no pics, my computer crashed a while back and I had to get it wiped and windows seven installed, so I lost my photo editor, that, and it would really be difficult to document all this with pics...
just wanted to tag @HBcorpse
Second build, I wound a 29 ga. coil on a 3/32" bit, and left the legs very long. Then mounted that coil in a dripper, leaving about 3/8" or so to the posts, and pulse fired the coil till it was tuned and glowing from the center out.
Now the fun part, I had the legs 180 degrees and cut the bottom one prety short and eyeballed how far out the mounting hole was from the airhole in the deck, and made a 90 degree bend down, that is, while looking at the coil like it is going to be a BVC coil.
After some fine tuning I had that leg trimmed so if I used a shaft to align the coil with the airhole, the 90 degree bend went right into the capture hole. Next I trimmed the top leg so that it was just long enough to exit the threaded part that the hole passes through, and after three or four tries managed to get the coil into position as a BVC coil, locked it all down and checked resistance, 2.0Ω
NOW is where I took a slightly smaller drill bit, and put it into the center of the coil, and literally bent the coil with the drill bit as a lever, over to the horizontal orientation that I wanted, 90 degrees from where it originally sat. With some needle point tweezers and the drill bit still in the coil, I then muscled the legs so nothing was crossed or shorted, then moved the shaft back and forth to relieve stress in the coil, and adjusted coil height over the air hole.
First wick went well, but I got a terrible taste from the factory residue, so an Isopro 99 soak for a few hours. It took two tries to wick the now clean deck, first one was too loose and I got flooding. Second wicking I used what appeared to be slightly too much wick, trimmed it at the edge of the deck for reference and stuffed it into the respective channels. No flooding, great vapor production, awesome flavor, pretty much identical to my 91%ers, except the Kabuki has much better airflow.
This will be fun to play with, and perhaps with time the builds will come more naturally. The 29 ga. wire should hold up for months so really I should only need to build it a couple times a year.
Sorry no pics, my computer crashed a while back and I had to get it wiped and windows seven installed, so I lost my photo editor, that, and it would really be difficult to document all this with pics...
just wanted to tag @HBcorpse
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It's Byzantium (also known as princess purple). Nice
Zen sapphire is blue
@Ocelot....how about one for your precious princess classic?
LOL!!! Join the Club. I have several pairs of Jewelers Loop along with full head sets. Makes life a lot easier when building coils, and working on watches.
Ain't Old Age a "B"?
knife
Understatement lol! I ordered some optics from Amazon and should be here shortly. Once I can see I shall try again
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