Now to wait and see if it would attempt to leak or misbehave after a couple fills. Build was surprisingly easy and mesh filled the juice slots perfectly.
Pics added down the line V V V
Pics added down the line V V V
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What are we looking at in the third picture?
More info would be awesome. Is it hollow? Any shorting? How's it wicking? How's the flavor? Is your wick touching the deck just above the channels?
As you can see, I'm definitely interested, I think I'm going to go try this...
Well I gave it a shot. Pulled out my cotton and fed a mesh wick through the coil, the ohms were jumping around on me for a while, from .6 to 1.3, but I got it steadied out after a while. Probably the best flavor I've gotten from my kayfun (clone), but I was too paranoid about having this metal wick touching the chimney sides and bottom. I didn't want to trust using it on a mech (I'm not totally sure just how accurate my multimeter is sometimes and I only have 10 amp batteries, so I took it out. I might just try using a small piece of mesh under the coil wrapped around either a silica or cotton "feeder" wick.
That has to be one sick build I can't imagine how to get ss to sit right in the russian I can't wait to see pics so I can give it a shot myself
I got mesh in my KFL. Cut it diagonally so it's easy to bend without getting kinks. I rolled the mesh around a 26awg kanthal wire to give it some rigidity.
I think it's better than my KFL ever has been. I'm no fan of silica or cotton in the first place, tho. At least, I've never tasted such pristine flavors from a KFL before.
I do believe I used 500 mesh and only gave it a couple of juice burns like I do for my gennies. I'm very surprised it worked so well, shows no sign of wick drying out... and wasn't nearly as difficult as I thought it would be. Took a while to pulse out hotspots since I didn't want to risk melting the insulators.
Heck yeah! Guess whose doing this build tonight!!! Super excited. I can't really recall seeing any other threads where someone did a pure mesh build on a kayfun style atty. I did the mesh sleeve with the cotton feeders, but it was a tiny length of mesh. Maybe 1/8" wider than the microcoil I built. Worked great, but I always yearn for the pure flavor of my RSST which is a crazy 500 mesh build 2.4 ohms and I built that one such that I can vape it at 5.3-5.8 volts. Whoah!
Totally doing this tonight. I feel like my prior cotton builds plagued me with dry hits and flooding, something that my trusty steel mesh won't do to me =].
Anybody tried an SS rope build on a kayfun style atty?