My First Rebuildable: DID Clone

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So I got a DID and a Cobra clone last week but I've been too intimidated to break them out. After picking up a torch at the local smoke shop, reading all the posts I could find and watching a zillion YouTube videos, I thought I'd give it a try. Oxidized the mesh, rolled the wick and wrapped my first coil. Nowhere near as good as all those videos, but it looked passable. My Vamo told me it was 1.5 ohms. Got some juice in her and started vaping. First hit was amazing!! The second tasted like somebody replaced my beloved ejuice with burnt ... hair. I took the top off and it appeared I had (I'm assuming, such a noob could be wrong) some hot spots, so I jimmy'd with the coils and got as nice and even a glow as I could. It still didn't taste quite right so I played with the voltage a bit. After about an hour and a half I had great vapor production decent taste with the occasional burnt hit I couldn't get rid of. Needless to say not very impressed with the results versus effort put out. But not one to give up easily I kept hitting it and after about another hour I got a beautiful full flavor hit. And they kept coming. Not sure what to attribute it too, but now I get what all the fuss was about. Purest flavor hit IMO. Anyone else rocking a DID? Thoughts? Advice?
 

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I started with a did clone and it's not the easiest thing to get going imo. What gauge wire are you using? To start off.. 30g is much easier to work with than the thicker 28g. I suspect your problem is loose coils. Inspect your coils very closely. if there is even a very tiny part of the coil that's not touching the wick, it'll give a burnt/metallic flavor. Extreme tilting will help (gets the coils really wet) but unless you keep tilting (like drinking a beer) the burnt taste will keep coming back.

My problem with the did clones is the flimsy silicon insulators at the top and bottom, they're easy to get pushed up into the 510 connection (when screwing/tightening onto a mod) and short the atty. Invest in a rsst, it's cheap, has a large "working" space and an insulated wick hole which makes it super easy to set up.
 
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