Taifun GT Discusion!

[chanelvaps]

I had good service with them too until about two years ago then it became a nightmare.

 

[excalibur-x]

On Saturday I received Taifun GT3 clone from Gearbest. While checking what is happening with shipment of Rose3 I saw Taifun flash sale for 10$ and I pressed the button. Taifun came in 15 days and I was really surprised when post office guy rang the doorbell on Saturday morning. Rose3 is still lost somewhere in the universe.

I always wash new tank and Taifun got a 3 hour bath in water with detergent. After bath it looked clean but taste was just disgusting. Mix of machine oil and rubber. Boiled the nasty thing for 10 minutes, another bath in vinegar plus scrubbed everything with toothbrush. Taste little less disgusting, but I could still taste machine oil and rubber. Then I used vodka and left the tank soaking for whole night. In the morning another brush, tucking paper into all screw holes, and another 10 minute boil. After all this fuss, tank is spotless and odorless.

Machining is on par with my original Avocado 22 and Zephyrus V2. O'rings could be better, but it was 10 bucks, so no problem. In case something happens I can use replacement o'rings from Avocado. Wish they were not black.

Now I'm running Tayfun with 7 spaced wraps 2.5mm SS3016L and taste is good. I expected taste would be spectacular and much better than on my trusty Zephyrus V2. Maybe 3mm coil would do a better job or maybe I'm just suffering from mild taste of vaper's tongue because after vaping on machine oil and rubber nothing tastes the same.

I checked many pages of this thread but I didn't find any good suggestions on build recommendation.

1. Any suggestions what kind of coil should I build with SS316L 26 gauge to make Tayfun GT3 really shine?
2. Is it possible to buy quality replacement o'ring set for Tayfun GT3?

 

[dwcraig1]

I am (was) having another occasional problem, I think I got all the bugs out now.
When unscrewing the "fill"cap sometimes it would unscrew the tank top with it resulting in juice every where if unnoticed.
What I did was to put a larger o-ring on the piece that seals against the top of the glass. It had a good feel to it when tightening. The one that I removed was a 16 x 1 mm and I put on a 17 x 1 mm.
The fill cap also has a 16 x 1 mm and if I had some 15 x 1 mm I would have changed that one too.
Below is a list of the o-ring sizes for an authentic TGT III, I will get a list for the clones in my blog soon I hope, I'm waiting on a couple more from different manufacturers.

The O-ring sizes used for the Authentic Taifun GT III.
5 x 1.5 mm (drip tip, upper part of chimney (2))
17 x 1 mm (AFC ring)
15 x 1 mm (top cap, winding deck)
20 x 1 mm (glass insert at the bottom)
19 x 1 mm (glass top cover)
EDIT:
With the exception of adding perhaps a slightly larger o-ring at the chimney's top (the lower one) these sizes also fit the clone that I have. I changed every one except the one under the AFC ring, pretty sure they put a 16 x 1 on there.

Perhaps this will be of some use to ya
I try to keep the coil entirely in the air stream, short, contact and 2.7 - 3 mm id

 

[Angela0111]

I have also a GTIII clone which tasted like dogh****.

Cleaned it with soap and ammonia, but about the boiling do you guys do this with the rubber o-rings?
And if the tanks is pc or accrylic? also no problem with boiling?

 

[kiba]

Yeah we all had that problem. Mine tasted like a dumpster, but after I got it clean, the thing is actually better than my authentic. lol

 

[kiba]

Oh and this nano gt3, it's worth the countless hours spent scrubbing it bc it probably the best tank I have, if smoker store had an authentic nano id of probably bought that and called it quits w/ the scrubbing but unfortunately they don't. there's other, like the rose 3, or hussar in single coil, that are better on flavor but still a pita, when you put everything together though, this tank wins.

 

[chanelvaps]

seems the strong arming worked! Now I will buy the $20 one with the metal box. Thanks all

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[Falco78]

This is kind of service I have seen over the past year out of them and is also a reason I will no longer use any Chinese company to purchase from, the excuses are endless

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[excalibur-x]

Perhaps this will be of some use to ya
I try to keep the coil entirely in the air stream, short, contact and 2.7 - 3 mm id

Thanks.

I made contact 3mm coil reading at 0.63ohm. It fits into air stream perfectly. Shame I can't comment on flavor because seems I developed vapor's tongue.

Currently vaping on some "cuban cigar" that tastes like Tabasco sauce. Usually I love Tabasco sauce on pizza, but vaping it is just discussing. Well, at the moment this strange juice is OK. Shame I used half bottle of really nice Coconut Coca... trying to fix problem with coils before I realized I have vapors tongue.

I have also a GTIII clone which tasted like dogh****.

Cleaned it with soap and ammonia, but about the boiling do you guys do this with the rubber o-rings?
And if the tanks is pc or accrylic? also no problem with boiling?

I removed o'rings prior to boiling and boiled just metal pieces.

After boiling I dipped everything in vodka for whole night.

 

[kiba]

I found most of the offensive smell to be coming from the o-rings, but the rest was easy to clean just take it all apart and scrub it with a toothbrush and dish soap, roll up a paper towel, soak it in soap and run it through the screw holes/air channels.

Most of the crap I found were hidden in random places, dug out a bunch of garbage-smelling black stuff from inside where the negative screw threads into and a whole bunch of crap underneath all the insulators on the positive pole.

 

[Angela0111]

Yeah the o-rings are most of the time really smelly.
I tried a lot to get rid of it but nothing works actually except let time pass and use the damn thing.
Maybe i have to try some spare o rings from another manufacture.

 

[kiba]

I soaked them in dish soap and scrubbed them over and over, eventually the dumpster smell came off.

 

[Angela0111]

Did that to but soaked them only few days.... but when you want to try that new ...........patience is nowhere to be found.

Next one with that dog **** i will soak it over and over, because atm i have enough good stuff to get me tru the week.

 

[excalibur-x]

After almost 1 week I can still smell some rubber garbage, but now I know eventually it will completely go away.

For now I'm not impressed with Tayfun GT3. Flavor is not so intense as Avocado 22 or Zephyrus V2 but getting better with every new wick, and the tank can leak if left in pocket with JFC opened. Maybe when I perfect build and wicking it will be in the same league, but for now I can say "high end tanks" don't perform better than cheaper Chinese counterparts.

But I must admit airflow is something I like better than on my other tanks. For MTL it can be closed really tight and even fully open it offers just right resistance for enjoyable vape.

 

[Angela0111]

I also like the airflow, but personally i want just a little bit more.
The flavour to me is in the same league as the kayfun v5, but don't know the Avocado or Zephyrus but i do know the bellus and to me the bellus is just not as sweet as the Kf5 or the GT3 but overall a very good contender and it strenghts are a big airflow and lot's of vapor!

 

[kiba]

Rebuild day, SS 430 is great, previous build lasted almost a month.

 

[chanelvaps]

Took the glass from another Taifun I bought and never figured out how to use. Put it in the one that came with the broken glass. It fits. I am trying to use it until my new one gets here. I have cleaned it several times and put it together once. Used it for a minute and liked it and then tried to open the juice channel and something went wrong and juice everywhere. Took it apart and it is back to soaking again. I think it needs better Orings but not sure where. When I put the top cap on it turns the chimney/well that opens/closes the juice channel. I also cannot figure out how to get the top fill part to work. I should have got something simpler like the Merlin I was considering

 

[kiba]

The first thing I did when I got mine was put the spare O rings from the authentic in my nano one. As you know the authentic uses two different size o rings at the top of the chimney, at least with those o rings, I have not had that problem, but I can say that if it's leaking when you open the juice control, that's probably not an o ring issue, it's probably a not enough cotton issue.

 

[dwcraig1]

The first thing I did when I got mine was put the spare O rings from the authentic in my nano one. As you know the authentic uses two different size o rings at the top of the chimney, at least with those o rings, I have not had that problem, but I can say that if it's leaking when you open the juice control, that's probably not an o ring issue, it's probably a not enough cotton issue.

OK, after much thought about whether to say something or not I decided to go ahead with this post.
Here is a snip from the TGT III manual:

as you can see the orings for the chimney stem are shown as being the same size.
Only on the clone from FT that came in the metal box was the groove for the lower o-ring cut not as deep. I assume that is how SmokerStore did theirs as well but I didn't buy an original of the TGT III.

 

[kiba]

OK, after much thought about whether to say something or not I decided to go ahead with this post.
Here is a snip from the TGT III manual:

as you can see the orings for the chimney stem are shown as being the same size.
Only on the clone from FT that came in the metal box was the groove for the lower o-ring cut not as deep. I assume that is how SmokerStore did theirs as well but I didn't buy an original of the TGT III.

On tgt3 that I have, it uses a smaller o ring on top. It's not like you'd not ice when it's on but when take it off, its def a bit smaller. ofc that could have been put on by the previous owner but it makes sense imo. The top channel could be deeper too, didn't ever notice that though.

It will still turn though, like after cleaning when you first put it together but as you use it a bit the O rings get sloppy and you can take it off without the jc moving.

I wonder, for you people who have the jc turn with top cap, can you use the top cap to adjust jc? I a hate the metal drip tip but I only use if for ooening/closing jc