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PNW Rider

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I've always wrapped my micro coils with 28g kanthal and did around 10wraps on a 16g blunt tip needle which came out to about 1.2 ohms. If I use something with a bigger diameter to wrap my coils in will the vape be warmer or cooler?
on 29awg my result was a hotter vape with 5/64 drill bit. that is the only reason i switched to 1/16 for micros. after lots of trial and error with both sizes i equate the added heat of the larger coil to added material to conduct heat. a big wick is going to stay hot for longer than a small wick. also consider the amount of wick that is resting on the deck.
remember, the deck conducts heats. juice socked wick conducts heat AND insulates well.
 

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My KFL+ was in the box today...Washed, dried, 16 gauge BTN, 28 gauge wire, 12 micro wraps, 1.5 ohms, CVS sterile cotton ball wick...I played with the wick and set it as precisely as possible...I went through a few wicks though the first was likely as good as the last...Wet it and vaped through the chimney and all was well...Promptly overfilled it through the top and it leaked quiet a bit of juice through the air hole...I figured I got a siphon effect there for a while...A 45* tilt reveals juice in the window with no leak...Draw was much easier than what I'd been getting so I ran the screw in a bit...It's producing effortless clouds and great flavor....

I'd seen complaints on the draw and loose fit of the drip tip...I see no issue with either...I'm more than pleased with the overall quality of the KFL+ and the SvoeMesto ring...All is well in my world and I'm more than happy I didn't pull the trigger on a clone...That's just not how I roll...

Special thanks to everyone for the helpful tips...Wharf Rat and Vapdivrr I salute you two!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did I mention the effortless clouds and great flavor????????
 

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Did I mention the effortless clouds and great flavor????????

The Kayfun's are easily the best rebuildables on the market... they're the only attys besides a few drippers I like that I would consider ordering multiples. :)

I am looking at the Kayfun Mini 2.1 at the moment... I just don't understand why the mini is $165 and the lite is $99. Does the (admittedly nifty) fill valve from the 3.1 really cost 67 bucks to add on?
 

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Another kudos to Warf on this thing! He told me about these a few months ago, but I tried and tried to make the genies work! I finally bit the bullet and bought a clone (poor white trash, sorry!) and after playing with one for two days I ordered another! These are everything a carto tank could be, but better! Adjustable draw, easy to rebuild, great flavor, yada, yada, yada..............
Go ahead, rub it in now!
 

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Good to see you buddy !!!

Yeah, good to see you, and me as well! Been an "interesting" couple of months! I need to give you a ring some time next week or so, and see if we can get Issac's tanks back on track! I think/hope he and I have all the rough stuff behind us for a while?
But anyway, I can't believe how good these things are! Like I said, it's everything you want out of a carto tank and more!
 

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Well, recently left the clearomizer club, born again vaper ;)

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The Kayfun's are easily the best rebuildables on the market... they're the only attys besides a few drippers I like that I would consider ordering multiples. :)

I am looking at the Kayfun Mini 2.1 at the moment... I just don't understand why the mini is $165 and the lite is $99. Does the (admittedly nifty) fill valve from the 3.1 really cost 67 bucks to add on?

I thought the mini was 140... where do you see it for 165?
 

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A few weeks ago a bought a EH Pro kfl clone from madvapes. I paid a little less than $70 for it. I cleaned it and set it up. Before I did this, I noticed that the air hole was super tiny compared to the air holes of my real ones. That concerned me. Once it was set up that draw was really tight..yep, the tiny air hole. I tried to take it apart but the screw that makes up the 510 connection just wouldn't unscrew and come out. I didn't try too hard because I was afraid of messing something up. Set up like it came from the store, it was pretty much unvapeable. So I took a drill to the air hole, chucking the bit up enough to not go too far inside. I was able to get the hole large enough so that it's now vapeable. It's still a bit tighter than my real ones but it's acceptable.

It's a beast to get apart.. that bottom ss section just doesn't want to unscrew from the base. I can get it apart but it's not easy. Fortunately, I can easily rewick it with that section on so it's not that big a deal. I managed to get it off this morning but had to use some force to get it screwed back on.

All in all, with it's tight threads and the modded air hole, it vapes and preforms like my real ones and I do (now) like it. But if this was someone's first kfl and they didn't know how what the real one was like.. it might not go over too well. I read over and over about how china clones are just as good as the real devices and maybe that's true in some instances. In my experience it hasn't been (other than the RSST). I read over and over about how this or that clone works well if it's modded in some way or another.

I can't really say that I wish I had spent a little more and just gotten another real kfl because if I had, I wouldn't have had the experience of seeing the eh pro model and seeing the differences and what it took to get it to work for me. I guess it was worth $30 having the take 10 or so minutes to drill it out. I don't know if I'll buy another kfl.. I've got enough but if I do, I don't think I'll buy another clone. I'm not against clones but from what I've experienced and read, it's a crap shoot.. you might get a good one..you might not.

Glad you got it working good after a few problems.
I have one original Kayfun Lite and two of the Tebeco clones. I think I got lucky with my clones. My clone's threads were ok, but one of them had a hanging sliver of metal at the inside end of the air flow passage way. I was able to remove it by just pushing a paper clip through the hole. The other one of the clones had a bit of gunk(machining oil??) and some very small metal chips inside the hole in the hollow positive post that I had to remove. After those two minor issues they work just as good as the real one. If I were to buy another one of the clones I would for sure take it fully apart to inspect and clean. The real Kayfun Lite was spotless when I took it apart before the first build.
One thing I find interesting and a little bit of a question is that the air hole in the two Tebeco clones is slightly smaller(just a little bit) than the original one's air hole. However there is no difference in the tightness of the draw when I open the air flow adjustment four or five turns out on the clones. I guess the air hole size on the Tobeco clones is large enough to provide the amount of flow that the internal passageway will flow.
 

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The Kayfun's are easily the best rebuildables on the market... they're the only attys besides a few drippers I like that I would consider ordering multiples. :)

I am looking at the Kayfun Mini 2.1 at the moment... I just don't understand why the mini is $165 and the lite is $99. Does the (admittedly nifty) fill valve from the 3.1 really cost 67 bucks to add on?

From what I understand, the mini is the full kit which comes with an extra, longer chimney giving you the ability to us it in extended length mode for 5ish ml capacity. Would look good on a pipe.

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From what I understand, the mini is the full kit which comes with an extra, longer chimney giving you the ability to us it in extended length mode for 5ish ml capacity. Would look good on a pipe.

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3 ml in short, 5 ml in long
 

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Yesterdays Vapemail brought a KFL+, and my first rebuildable tank although I do rebuild my Mini Protank and Evod llB heads as well as various simple drippers.

I cleaned all the parts with a 91% IPA bath and got to work.

6/7 wrap 30ga coil on a 5/64 drill bit (couldn't find my 1/16) giving a 1.9 ohm load. Hemp wick.

Finished the build and here's the weird part: I tried a fill with 3ml PG just for a leak / draw test using the fill hole. Some leaked from the drip tip, a little bit in the tank but no sign of the rest. Huh?

Tried a top fill and that worked fine so I'm not sure what I did wrong with the bottom attempt.

Flavor is similar to my IGo-L same Juice. Got to try tweaking all the variables... Vaping NEMP on Hemp.

Is this coil too high?
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