Bought a Ticket for the Kayfun Train!

[xxJollyRogerxx]

So after looking and reading and reading I decided to take the plunge and order a kayfun 3.1 clone by hcigar to see if it lives up to its reviews and the fact that I wanted something new to play with as well. Just wish i didn't have to wait for it to get here! LOL

Wooot Wooooo

 

[ILoveNorCal]

I made the jump a week ago and am now asking myself why the hell I waited so long!

It's pretty fantastic. I don't know what you're coming from, but I came from protanks and basic RDA's and I love this thing! Hope yours gets to you soon.

 

[blueGrassTubb]

That's a good choice.

Once you get the hang of wicking it, you're gonna wonder why it took so long.

 

[xxJollyRogerxx]

That is supposed be one of things with right? That it is easy to learn to setup for noobs. I have an aerotank mega now and I must say I do like it. But I Need more! LOL

 

[xxJollyRogerxx]

This finally got here. What a wait! I must say the craftsmanship on the finish is really excellent. The seams just seem to almost disappear. When I first got it and started to disassemble to put in the clear tank in it I thought they had left a piece out of it because I didn't see one of the seams! LOL I was getting so ...... then realized what was going on after I looked a few pictures online
It took me only about 2hours to get it built. I really think already having been building microcoils for my kanger heads did help out a lot. Actually I know it did since the result was no where near what I have to get for kanger coils. I start out with 32 Kanthal but just did not like the size and wraps it took to get the ohms I wanted so I switched over to 28 gauge and the first coil from that was spot on and perfect. Fiddled around trying to get it mounted. And can I just comment that all these picts online makes the deck look huge! But it is still small! Wicked it with cotton and BAM done. This first build didn't leak didn't gurgle and no dry hits ... Built it like a pro I am the man! I was watching the youtube video posted by madvapes for some pointers which was very good. The video was very long so I was just skipping to the parts I wanted to see but for a first timer it helped a lot.

So now a couple things I don't like about it.
The clear plastic tank just seems so super cheap and crappy when looking at how all the others pieces are so nice and well made. They really need up the game on that one piece to bring it up to the same look and feel as the rest of the pieces.

The airflow adjustment is really cumbersome; holding it up with the mini screwdriver in your hand and drawing on it makes impossible to do
it quickly or easily. And no tweaking it on the fly you have to stop everything go get /find your screwdriver open it adjust it blah blah ...

If you put in the adapter to use a custom drip tip it can be almost impossible to get it back out. It took me about 15 minutes to get it back off after putting different tips on. I was being very careful as I didn't want to mar it in any way so it took forever it seemed

Filling it with juice! What a PITA! I completely forgot about this part and I don't have any blunt tips or needle point bottles. I ended up top filling it. I do have normal syringes but that simply was not working either. I could use suggestions here. I did see a post about metal shavings messing with the ball valve so I am going to look into that today. What do most people use to fill this?


All in all it is a very nice clone as reported. Definitely I can see the future rebuilds on it going much faster as it easy to work on. I would recommend this for those wanting a RBA.

 

[ILoveNorCal]

This finally got here. What a wait! I must say the craftsmanship on the finish is really excellent. The seams just seem to almost disappear. When I first got it and started to disassemble to put in the clear tank in it I thought they had left a piece out of it because I didn't see one of the seams! LOL I was getting so ...... then realized what was going on after I looked a few pictures online
It took me only about 2hours to get it built. I really think already having been building microcoils for my kanger heads did help out a lot. Actually I know it did since the result was no where near what I have to get for kanger coils. I start out with 32 Kanthal but just did not like the size and wraps it took to get the ohms I wanted so I switched over to 28 gauge and the first coil from that was spot on and perfect. Fiddled around trying to get it mounted. And can I just comment that all these picts online makes the deck look huge! But it is still small! Wicked it with cotton and BAM done. This first build didn't leak didn't gurgle and no dry hits ... Built it like a pro I am the man! I was watching the youtube video posted by madvapes for some pointers which was very good. The video was very long so I was just skipping to the parts I wanted to see but for a first timer it helped a lot.

So now a couple things I don't like about it.
The clear plastic tank just seems so super cheap and crappy when looking at how all the others pieces are so nice and well made. They really need up the game on that one piece to bring it up to the same look and feel as the rest of the pieces.

The airflow adjustment is really cumbersome; holding it up with the mini screwdriver in your hand and drawing on it makes impossible to do
it quickly or easily. And no tweaking it on the fly you have to stop everything go get /find your screwdriver open it adjust it blah blah ...

If you put in the adapter to use a custom drip tip it can be almost impossible to get it back out. It took me about 15 minutes to get it back off after putting different tips on. I was being very careful as I didn't want to mar it in any way so it took forever it seemed

Filling it with juice! What a PITA! I completely forgot about this part and I don't have any blunt tips or needle point bottles. I ended up top filling it. I do have normal syringes but that simply was not working either. I could use suggestions here. I did see a post about metal shavings messing with the ball valve so I am going to look into that today. What do most people use to fill this?


All in all it is a very nice clone as reported. Definitely I can see the future rebuilds on it going much faster as it easy to work on. I would recommend this for those wanting a RBA.

filling it can be a bit of a pain. I don't have any needle tip bottles either so I always top fill.

the method that seems to work for me is: put my thumb over the air hole, fill tank, screw top cap on almost all the way, flip the tank upside down, take my thumb off the air hole and tighten the top cap the rest of the way.

 

[jaxgator]

I have an authentic R91 and I just completely removed the air flow adjustment screw.

I top fill as well like ILoveNorCal said.

 

[ILoveNorCal]

The clear plastic tank just seems so super cheap and crappy when looking at how all the others pieces are so nice and well made. They really need up the game on that one piece to bring it up to the same look and feel as the rest of the pieces.

You should check out the kayfun quarts kit

 

[Tinkiegrrl]

I typically top fill the 3.1 and use the bottom fill port on the Kayfun Lite versions. I prefer the Lite because I can get more liquid into them ultimately. Also, there are less pieces to take apart to clean when its time to change the wicking.