So I put a rayon wick into the VVTF w/ the vertical coil. Put a piece of rayon behind the coil and a piece in front. Pull them through, cut of the tails and packed it into the chamber. Looked good, what do I know.
From the side.
Made vaper when I fired it up. Still looking good.
But ... the draw was so tight I though I forgot to open the air hole on the Nauty. Nope air hole is open and juice is almost pouring out. What the heck. Tried to blow through the drip tip ... nope could even blow air through it in reverse.
"Light bulb" goes off. I probably pushed rayon under the coil when packing and clogged up the air hole. Tried to push a tooth pick through the wick and into the air hole. Yep ... definitely clogged. I Took a pin, a tiny screw driver and tried to unplug it. Seemed to work. Put it all together and tried again. Nope now it's passing air but flooding like heck. Took the head out again, took the bottom of it off to expose the air tube and pushed the toothpick through from the bottom to the top. Opps has a bunch of rayon strands down in the tube and it clogged the opening again. This time pretty tight. I messed up the coil some trying to ream it out.
So I took all the rayon out. Putzed w/ the coil to unmangle it and reworked w/ KohGenDo cotton. I though it would be easier and faster to use cotton. Had to take care and go slow getting the rayon in place.
Anyway back to trying to vape it. Well I had air flow and a lot of gurgling and flooding. I quit!
Maybe I have to pack in even more cotton to make it harder for the juice to get through the juice opening. It just above the red o-ring in this picture.
Ending: I think I took one for the team. I may try again ... but this VVTF is not for the faint of heart yet alone 69 year old eyes. I guess if the FDA came and confiscates all my decent toppers I could get this to work or not
