The riddle, with SS mesh, that i have encountered is this--I can build a nice coil, that looks terrific on the dry fire. Add juice, and my setup will not wick.
I like sub-ohm builds, because of their vape, and fast response time.
If i use too much mesh, the vapor production is off, with no throat hit. Too little mesh, dry hits.
There is no user manual with these devices, that suggest to the user, amount of wicking vs coil resistance. I think that this is what lead people to get fed up with gennies.
You have to be alittle OCD, and rather patient, to get the hang of gennies. This patience will pay off. I promise.
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With the huge wick hole of the TD (converted to single) I'm going to be doing some experimenting. I already knew my standard mesh squares didn't make thick enough tubes to hold the liquid in (as a dual they literally dumped the tank if laid down). A single with 75mm (I think) wide holds it back but I got to wondering if thicker walls would wick more or less, or if possibly thicker walls would simply hold more.
It just takes so long between builds experimenting takes time.
Sorry to hear about your hospital problems. I was just there and happy to be told pneumonia because I was thinking NG tube and possibly gut surgery so an hour and a half of antibiotics and going home was a relief.
If anyone would be so kind as to point me to a nice tutorial for the Kracken, I'll be happy to revive mine. I liked the taste I got out of a cotton build on it, but cotton does leak when it's on the side. I'd love to be able to get a real build on it, with mesh, but I'm a bit afraid of the shorting and hot spots I've been reading about. I would prefer one that isn't a video, since if I'm reading it I can just go back to the spot I want to reread, rather then search through a video. I'm old fashioned this way.
My Kraken took some modifying. They did good allowing you to plug the 2nd wick hole (with some clones) but not having the fill hole plugged (in mine) means it's going to leak when laid down. The hole was too big for a carto plug and too small for an RSST plug. I opened it up to take an RSST plug.
Then because I like ribbon I need more room between the wick and post to get a twist in the wire so I cut down the washers.
I had bad deck screws that wouldn't capture the negative leg so I had to make a washer for that.
And I opened the wick hole because I've learned I like bigger wick diameters.
About the only thing special to the Kraken I've found is after you get the wire trapped in the washers grab them with a pair of pliers to keep them from spinning while you tighten the screw.
I don't know of any written tutorials. A picture is worth 1000 words, a video is worth 100,000. I'd watch all the different styles of mesh building you can. That should give you enough ideas to know what to try next when something isn't working.
There's anywhere from wrap the wick and just pulse to torch and dunk and wrap over rolling papers to get a build up. Somewhere in those extremes should work.
