Nice tutorial Face Meat. I had seen your thread earlier, and it's one of the reasons I wanted to get some Kanager BCC devices.
Let me rephrase the question. How long are the legs, or approximate distance of the exposed resistance wire on these Kangers, and do you think they would they benefit from use of NR legs?
I just recoiled all of my heads so I do not have one to take apart and measure. The next one I rebuild, I will take apart and measure if you do not get a reply. However it is roughly 3/8"....
I really do not think adding NR legs would be of much benefit, or at least with one builds.. I started using Nichrome 60 32g wire this last week and love it. It seems much more responsive and I can pump more power into it without juice burning or maybe I'm just getting really good at building these coils. Anyways, with the nichrome, I get 1.5 ohm with 4/5 wraps and 2.0 ohm with 5/6 wraps so all the work of adding NR legs would bring down the ohms to low for what I'm doing. Only benefit I see is that I do see little burn marks on the gasket the holds the wire and eventually I would imagine that this will cause a problem with that gasket, but just pulling it in and out over and over will probably kill the gasket as well. I only buy heads for spare parts and they are really cheap so even if I have to throw one away every month or two it is not really a cost factor.
I've also tried hemp wicks.. I bought a spool of 2mm hemp cord and it wicks really well, but you have to pump a tank or two of juice through the head to get rid of the earthy taste.. I have boiled the chord several times and it hasn't helped.
Another think is that this week when I got the nichrome, I started building the coils like the come from the factory... 2 or 3 tight wraps and then a space in the middle and then 2 or 3 more tight wraps and this seems to work much better as well.
I was really discouraged when I first got this thing it took me a couple of weeks to find all the little issues that come up that would cause gurgling and leaking but now in the last week I absolutely love it.
Now my only issue is that I am getting SO MUCH vapor that condensation builds up in the tube very quickly and I am pushing a qtip down it frequently to clear the liquid.. I have to pull some of the cotton off the end of the qtip so it fits all the way down..
The condensation goes away if I remember to continue to draw after releasing the fire button or if I blow into the mouth piece after the exhale so I know it is condensation and not leaking. My habit in the past has been not to do that since I started vaping and I am still trying to break that habit...
I have a Protank coming this week and I expect some of the same issues and probably some new ones for the first couple of weeks, but in the end I know it will be worth it. The only non-fiddly device I've seen is a cartomizer, but they do not produce the vapor or flavor of these bottom coil devices.
