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It sure looks like a cool design. Without reading 57 pages, are people having good success rebuilding these? I have quite a few tanks (including a couple that were expen$ive at the time) from using cartos, and this might just be the thing to give them renewed life and make a good "pocket friendly" RBA.
I've been loving mine. It can be used as a dripper, or on a bottom feed mod.
But it shines in a good tank.
The actual rebuild is pretty simple, to me. It working well in the 1ohm range (last coil was about 1.7, this one's 1.2).
I build with 32g kanthal, silver NR legs (crimped, not twisted). For wick I use cotton yarn, and I stick a little fluff of sera wool under the ceramic cup.
As someone who'd never used carto tanks, I ended up buying quite a few. I'm finding fill port-types easiest (you can't use a slap-yo-mama type tool because the Killer is thick in the middle. And pulling up top caps to fill SUCKS!). But it works fine and dandy in my Phiniac as well.
The only leaking I've ever seen is when I flood the damn thing... And I had to really TRY to do that. Other than that it's a solid little performer, and probably my favorite at the moment (but don't tell my other RBAs).
This thing looks awesome but my knowledge of silica style rebuildables is well non existent. I jumped from cartos to SS mesh. How do you connect the resistance wire to the NR wires. Seems like a PITA to me. Yeah I know people say the same thing about gennys. I may have to get one of these though as much as I love my gennys they're not pocket friendly enough for the work I do so I've had to revert back to my more pocket friendly carto tanks.
Oh BTW I saw people saying that they've signed up for a notify me list brut for the life of me can't find one on the site.
Oh BTW I saw people saying that they've signed up for a notify me list brut for the life of me can't find one on the site.
You just twist the ends of the NR & R wires about 5 twists and then wrap the twisted wires with the NR wire a few times so they don't come apart. I hope I explained that good enough.
Thanks for the detailed response. Are the NR legs absolutely necessary? I really don't want to get into NR if I don't have to -- I don't have anything else that requires it.
I remember probably 9 months ago people started talking about rebuildable attys for use in carto tanks, but this is the first example I've seen of people actually having success, so I'm glad it finally happened. Leave it to the Greeks...
I've read that you need NR wire on each end of the resistant wire but I didn't know that when I made my first setup and just used NR on one end. I tucked the resistant end under the ceramic cup and the NR on the threads and it worked.
I think the point of NR legs is so that the heat (on the legs) doesn't kill the insulators, usually a silicone or rubber type of compound. Don't quote me on that, could be 100% wrong.
On the other hand, I built a 1.8ohm coil in a CE5 (Stardust style) clearomizer for my friend's ego-T and that was over a month ago. It's still vaping well and all I used was 32ga Kanthal-A1, zero NR wire.
On the other hand, I built a 1.8ohm coil in a CE5 (Stardust style) clearomizer for my friend's ego-T and that was over a month ago. It's still vaping well and all I used was 32ga Kanthal-A1, zero NR wire.
Yes it's for the heat to stay at the coils and your resistance is based on the length of the coil wrap and not the entire length of the wire from terminal to terminal. Its also to avoid hot lines to the posts as well.
Incidentally it also protects the insulators.
I wouldn't rebuild a ViVi or vision without Nr due to the heat loss from that long travel distance for the wires
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Incidentally it also protects the insulators.
I wouldn't rebuild a ViVi or vision without Nr due to the heat loss from that long travel distance for the wires
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I've found killers, and replacement ceramics. Just ordered one and ten ceramics, plus a neat drip tip to turn a A7 dripper into a Spheriod type clone. They have decent prices and shipping wast bad. Just ordered this am so we'll see how it goes.
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Should've ordered some juices as well, their juices and the House of Liquid range are the bees knees.
Thanks to all those who tried the AGR with the Killer, I've just received it today and it works great! A little finicky getting the juice control open or closed, but it's rare enough I'll have to do it, so...
Not looking forward to filling it when drunk.
Thanks to all those who tried the AGR with the Killer, I've just received it today and it works great! A little finicky getting the juice control open or closed, but it's rare enough I'll have to do it, so...
Not looking forward to filling it when drunk.
4 wraps, with both legs NR.
I connect them with sterling silver crimping beads. No twisting required.
And I don't think the notify lists work.. I put myself on a notify list and never got notified!
I use the crimping beads also !! So easy right ?!
I also just connect them at one end and wrap the ends together - fold over and wrap again and do that to the other side also .
Esmokesireland had this but it's not cheap 65 euro plus shipping is over 100$
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I also just connect them at one end and wrap the ends together - fold over and wrap again and do that to the other side also .
Esmokesireland had this but it's not cheap 65 euro plus shipping is over 100$
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Hmmm - crimping beads?
One end gets NR right? And that's the wire that runs down the threads? The other wire gets tucked into the bottom of the ceramic - or am I wrong? Lord knows I'm wrong plenty
One end gets NR right? And that's the wire that runs down the threads? The other wire gets tucked into the bottom of the ceramic - or am I wrong? Lord knows I'm wrong plenty
Hmmm - crimping beads?
One end gets NR right? And that's the wire that runs down the threads? The other wire gets tucked into the bottom of the ceramic - or am I wrong? Lord knows I'm wrong plenty
I do both legs NR .. keeps your heat actually at your coil, and keeps your ohms low.
The silver does conduct, it's just super low resistance wire, not technically NR. The silver crimp beads don't add any extra resistance, despite being thicker than the silver wire.
It helps you to make the same ohm coil every time too, if you know your ohms/inch of your R wire, just cut your wire, crimp one side, and measure for where to crimp the other side. I don't do that, I just eyeball it, and get close enough every time.
Easy as pie.
I got them here:
Rio Grande jewelry making supplies, jewelry tools and jewellery supply
You need to make an account to see the price, but here they are:
$4.28 per box of 100 beads if you buy 1 or 2
$3.71 each for 3-4 boxes
$3.20 each for 5-9 boxes
$2.88 each for 10-19 boxes
Don't know how many to order? You need 2 beads per coil. Expect to lose a few during the learning process... if you crimp too hard you could snap your wire (just like tightening down a post too far).
I picked up the 1mm beads with the .025" hole. Works very well. It would still work with 30g silver and 30g kanthal/nichrome. (about .005" left of space with those wires. With 32g kanthal/nichrome there is .007" empty space in the hole. PLENTY of space!)
I also picked up this tiny crimper. Works wonderfully.
Rio Grande jewelry making supplies, jewelry tools and jewellery supply
They also sell 30g silver wire for a fair price and you can pick however many feet you want.
Adeline you are a fallen angel of ecigs. I was actually using my nieces 1mm crimping beads from her jewelry set and im running out . This is perfect and so much better than twisting wire together .
I do the same as you - once you know your length you can cut the wire out by eye and pretty much be dead on every time. I've been using Nr silver wire from OKCvapes. Little bit more expensive
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I do the same as you - once you know your length you can cut the wire out by eye and pretty much be dead on every time. I've been using Nr silver wire from OKCvapes. Little bit more expensive
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It was still cheapet than the classifieds and instock. Plus I found a 10% coupon.
Thank you Adeline! For the wire, should I get sterling or .999? Dead soft right?
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