Hope this is the correct place for a genesis style atty. And sorry for the length.
I got a Griffin from discountvapers and built a mesh and coil with the included materials. I thought I overworked the wick and didnt have an airspace in the center. It still smoked and heated the juice sufficiently as far as I could tell. The vapor was metallic and acrid. It burned my nose and eyes and tasted just awful, no flavor of the juice at all. It was first attempt so I figured I screwed something up along the way.
Ordered some additional mesh from themeshcompany and waited for 32awg wire to come in and try it again. Made a new mesh wrapped around a paperclip so it had sufficient space in the center. Put the torch to it thrice and burned off some juice a couple times so I think its carboned up well enough. Wrapped a coil around it and removed the wick. Heated the coil a few times based on Toddecigreviews' hot spot free method. Wick slides in the coil easily it might be too loose if anything, but Ive heard that thats not necessarily a bad thing. Resistance reads at 2.3ohm on vv gripper and 2.5/2.6 on multi-meter.
The mesh seems to be wicking better than the first time around. Vapor is being produced and no hot spots that I can tell. Voltage doesnt seem to make a difference but vv gripper set at 3.0 and its all the same. Taste is still the same; metallic, acrid and zero flavor. Burns my eyes and nose.
If I take the upper cap off and expose the coil and mesh and fire it, I can smell a hint of the flavor but it is mostly the awfulness. If I put some drops directly on the coil it vapes up nice and smells like I think it should. But once that dries up its back to the same. Is it just not wicking enough maybe?
This was only my second attempt at this so maybe Im still messing up a step. Included some pics if the coil and mesh in situ.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.

I got a Griffin from discountvapers and built a mesh and coil with the included materials. I thought I overworked the wick and didnt have an airspace in the center. It still smoked and heated the juice sufficiently as far as I could tell. The vapor was metallic and acrid. It burned my nose and eyes and tasted just awful, no flavor of the juice at all. It was first attempt so I figured I screwed something up along the way.
Ordered some additional mesh from themeshcompany and waited for 32awg wire to come in and try it again. Made a new mesh wrapped around a paperclip so it had sufficient space in the center. Put the torch to it thrice and burned off some juice a couple times so I think its carboned up well enough. Wrapped a coil around it and removed the wick. Heated the coil a few times based on Toddecigreviews' hot spot free method. Wick slides in the coil easily it might be too loose if anything, but Ive heard that thats not necessarily a bad thing. Resistance reads at 2.3ohm on vv gripper and 2.5/2.6 on multi-meter.
The mesh seems to be wicking better than the first time around. Vapor is being produced and no hot spots that I can tell. Voltage doesnt seem to make a difference but vv gripper set at 3.0 and its all the same. Taste is still the same; metallic, acrid and zero flavor. Burns my eyes and nose.
If I take the upper cap off and expose the coil and mesh and fire it, I can smell a hint of the flavor but it is mostly the awfulness. If I put some drops directly on the coil it vapes up nice and smells like I think it should. But once that dries up its back to the same. Is it just not wicking enough maybe?
This was only my second attempt at this so maybe Im still messing up a step. Included some pics if the coil and mesh in situ.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
