Eleaf GS Air Fan : Part 2

[IMRs]

I haven't yet IMRs. This weekend I will. I get a 3 day because of the weather. I have tanks to UC and coils to build.

Or just maybe, by chance it might be the coil??

 

[LynnNC]

Or just maybe, by chance it might be the coil??

Coil is newly rebuilt and I checked it in another tank. That wasn't it. This may be the tank I dropped though.

 

[FranC]

Evening,airheads

 

[LynnNC]

Evening Fran

 

[LostVapeMonster]

What's up, fellow Airheads?
Been steadily snowing here since about 10 this morning. Not to worry; I'm charging all my iSticks and other mods just in case we lose power. I've got my priorities straight!

 

[Cheechako]

Preparation is the key to success!

 

[LostVapeMonster]

Preparation is the key to success!

Well I don't know that I'm prepared for the power outage; just prepared for vaping! Seriously, though, I hope I don't lose power. I don't have a generator and my heat is electric - along with everything else in my house.

 

[Cheechako]

As long as you can vape, everything else will be okay.

 

[LostVapeMonster]

As long as you can vape, everything else will be okay.

Well, without heat, my hands may be too cold to push the firing button.

 

[Cheechako]

Well, without heat, my hands may be too cold to push the firing button.

I bet they won't be.
Be careful of chattering teeth around the drip tip!
I don't think it will come to that.

 

[LostVapeMonster]

I bet they won't be.
Be careful of chattering teeth around the drip tip!
I don't think it will come to that.

Well, the snow is supposed to turn into rain and ice and it's supposed to get pretty windy, so it might.

 

[Cheechako]

I'm sure your brilliance and resourcefulness will bring about a positive outcome to any eventuality!
You're one sharp cookie LVM, I don't think you'd sit there and be miserably cold!

 

[LostVapeMonster]

I'm sure your brilliance and resourcefulness will bring about a positive outcome to any eventuality!
You're one sharp cookie LVM, I don't think you'd sit there and be miserably cold!

Aren't you a sweetie!

 

[Cheechako]

Aren't you a sweetie!

Don't let it get around...

 

[Leopards]

Yes you can, but I don't fire and squash anymore. After wrapping the coil on the needle, I create tension by tightening the coil and pushing it together.
Haven't had the issue with hot spots since I starting doing it this way.

I have a pair of tweezers that will fit in the base through the two openings that I used to use to squash the coil once upon a time.
And, yes I did use my mod to heat up the kanthal in the Air base. Hard to imagine creating the coil in one base and transferring it
to another.
I know you are supposed to create tensioned coils with either precise spacing or all touching without hotspots, and I will never dispute
the technique works, but I'm a lazy coiler and have found no difference between what I do now and when I used to agonize over
creating perfect coils.
When I recoil the Airs, I do 30 to 40 at a time to get it out of the way. And this is the easiest and most efficient way to do it for me.

I applaud your vertical coils! I did several when I was first trying to figure out the best way to redo the GS Air coils. They worked, but it was too much trouble
to me for the performance. Took twice as long as a horizontal coil without that much benefit it seemed to me.

I know there are a lot of folks that would love to see pictures and/or video of how you do it as well as the TC coils!

This is all my opinion and how I do it, what works for other folks is great. You are way ahead of me in your recoiling! I haven't tried recoiling any TC and probably
won't for the foreseeable future, But I sure love hearing about it!

The GS-Tank TC coils have no interior casing and oval juice slots, so you can go three different ways with them, a 2mm round coil and leave a bit on the outside to fluff out, an oval coil wound on a smoothed cable tie that fits the holes better and the wicking material then also conforms to the slots better, or a vertical coils with your cotton wrapped tightly around it, which is finicky to get to go back in the casing, but seems to work quite well. The coils that I have that are built like the GS Air coils are the one for the Aspire K1 tank, they have the outer casing, a wrapped inner casing and are slotted down to the level the coils should sit at. they come with vertical 2mm kanthal coils enclosed in two shaped hard pellets of cotton, and the inner casing is wrapped in some kind of non-woven cotton cloth, so your instructions for the GS Air coils works a charm for them! So far I have been rebuilding all the coils in either .4mm Ti or 30 Ga tempered Nickel, since I didn't have nay Kanthal wire on hand, that changes in a few days and I will go ahead and build some (I Hope) 1.5 ohm coils so I can still use my iStick 20W with the K1 tanks.

 

[LostVapeMonster]

Don't let it get around...

Um, I think it's a little too late for that.

 

[Cheechako]

The GS-Tank TC coils have no interior casing and oval juice slots, so you can go three different ways with them, a 2mm round coil and leave a bit on the outside to fluff out, an oval coil wound on a smoothed cable tie that fits the holes better and the wicking material then also conforms to the slots better, or a vertical coils with your cotton wrapped tightly around it, which is finicky to get to go back in the casing, but seems to work quite well. The coils that I have that are built like the GS Air coils are the one for the Aspire K1 tank, they have the outer casing, a wrapped inner casing and are slotted down to the level the coils should sit at. they come with vertical 2mm kanthal coils enclosed in two shaped hard pellets of cotton, and the inner casing is wrapped in some kind of non-woven cotton cloth, so your instructions for the GS Air coils works a charm for them! So far I have been rebuilding all the coils in either .4mm Ti or 30 Ga tempered Nickel, since I didn't have nay Kanthal wire on hand, that changes in a few days and I will go ahead and build some (I Hope) 1.5 ohm coils so I can still use my iStick 20W with the K1 tanks.

Very cool!

 

[Cheechako]

Um, I think it's a little too late for that.

Sweet of you!

 

[Cheechako]

The GS-Tank TC coils have no interior casing and oval juice slots, so you can go three different ways with them, a 2mm round coil and leave a bit on the outside to fluff out, an oval coil wound on a smoothed cable tie that fits the holes better and the wicking material then also conforms to the slots better, or a vertical coils with your cotton wrapped tightly around it, which is finicky to get to go back in the casing, but seems to work quite well. The coils that I have that are built like the GS Air coils are the one for the Aspire K1 tank, they have the outer casing, a wrapped inner casing and are slotted down to the level the coils should sit at. they come with vertical 2mm kanthal coils enclosed in two shaped hard pellets of cotton, and the inner casing is wrapped in some kind of non-woven cotton cloth, so your instructions for the GS Air coils works a charm for them! So far I have been rebuilding all the coils in either .4mm Ti or 30 Ga tempered Nickel, since I didn't have nay Kanthal wire on hand, that changes in a few days and I will go ahead and build some (I Hope) 1.5 ohm coils so I can still use my iStick 20W with the K1 tanks.

I looked up the Aspire K1 tank, I rebuilt some for a friend. You are right, they are almost exactly like a smaller
GS Air standard coil. I recoiled it to a horizontal coil just like the Air. The recipient of the coil wasn't too crazy
about them as they felt it was too warm of a vape. I found the vertical coil in that one to be a bit of a pain too.

 

[Leopards]

Or just maybe, by chance it might be the coil??

I only have experience with the TC coils for GS-Tank, That said I find that blowing a short sharp puff into the mouth piece will get rid of the excess juice, you have to remember you are vaping through a 2.5mm hole in the top of the coil, so more mouth to lung than straight lung hit anyhow! Change the coil if blowing through it doesn't work!