The KFL doesn't come with an o-ring for the fill port like the KFL+ does.
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The KFL doesn't come with an o-ring for the fill port like the KFL+ does.
I'd get some mothers mag polish, and a terry cloth towel, and rub it really, really firmly. Rub off the polish with a clean part of the towel, and see how it looks then...may be just good enough...won't know until you try...
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L....The green scotch brite is for general household cleaning and I believe a little more abrasive than even the burgandy we use in the shop...The grey is what we use for a satin finish generally...We use the gold for a little lighter shade of satin...
Whatever the grit of the green SB would determine the grit of the sandpaper....I use 3M Wet or Dry and usually start with 400 grit then 1000, 2000,3000 polish...I always soak my paper in water...I add a couple drops of Dawn dish soap...It's gonna take a good while to get a high shine....Akdare said jump on it with the polish and that's what I also suggest...When we polish we also start with more cut{abrasiveness}. So you could start with Brasso and finish with Mothers...Just make sure to wash everything in hot soapy water before reassembly....
Whatever the grit of the green SB would determine the grit of the sandpaper....I use 3M Wet or Dry and usually start with 400 grit then 1000, 2000,3000 polish...I always soak my paper in water...I add a couple drops of Dawn dish soap...It's gonna take a good while to get a high shine....Akdare said jump on it with the polish and that's what I also suggest...When we polish we also start with more cut{abrasiveness}. So you could start with Brasso and finish with Mothers...Just make sure to wash everything in hot soapy water before reassembly....
Lol thanks for the polish lesson. I originally just got the green scotchbrite cause it was the only thing I could find at the hardware store to brush off the satin silver off my Russian 91. I'm guessing to get the polished stainless steel look I'm gonna have to try the mothers wax if not used the sand paper in water with level going up, correct? I'm happy with the brush I did for the Russian 91 but to get it more looking like a kayfun color should I just apply the wax on that or get the Grey or old scotchbrite (at the time people were saying any scotchbrite would do and no one made it specific) or will just waxing it clean it up to what I want...to be specific I don't want my r91 to have a shiny polished look but a nice clean stainless steel look.
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Brushed stainlesssteel finish on the outside of r91 and polished just for the chimney to be more specific
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Plumber's tape has worked for me. So much so that I even put some on my KFL+ fillscrew just to be safe. Hell, I even put some on my Nemesis' positive battery contact pin/screw because it keep twisting up every time I changed batteries . And then I put some more on the switch isolator screw/sleeve of my Atomo because it was loose and kept auto-firing after a batt-swap.
Question for all the kayfunners. I recently got a tobeco clone for a new vaper friend. And my legit one is newly filled. Trying to trouble shoot the leaking on the clone. When you screw on the chimney part, does the fill hole get covered at all? The clone one gets overlapped and I think it's causing pressure issues because the fill hole screw is too short to meet the inner deck. That's the only thing I can think of at the moment. All the usual checks have been done and I can't figure out why it leaks on the bottom and when turned upside down.
Woody, I only have the real deal, and my chimney part DOES overlap the fill hole by a tiny bit. My fill screw sits below the deck about a half a mm. I wonder if the fill screw is a little too long on yours, and is touching the chimney before the o-ring can make a proper seal. I would disassemble it, and put in the fill screw tightly (without the chimney) and see where it ends up. It should be just below the deck...
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I can only assume my fill screw is too short. It's in there a good bit when tightened down. I just can't figure out why it's leaking so badly.
Do you have an extra screw to try? Or an extra o-ring? Also, compare the screw length to your real KFL. Lemme know if you need me to measure mine.
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Yeah I have a few from my real one. I will try to swap them later. Going out for a few. Thanks!
Ok the clone screw is a few mm's shorter. I used the original kayfun screw, and even that one leaves like 3 mm of empty space down the fill port. You think that could cause it to leak everywhere?
I emailed the vendor. He said there was 2 out of 100 with this problem and will replace it. Awesome.
Went to Walmart and bought the mother mag polish and Terry towels and I'd like to say THANKS. After a few coats of polish and rubbing the chimney was just as new and even shinier! It even helped put the finalize shine of stainless steel to my refinish work on my Russian 91. Fantastic.
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Wrapped my KFL fill screw with some Teflon tape. I'll see today if that's the fix I needed.
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