Why don't we have a Kayfun (any version, originals and clones) owners group?

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Where did you get that juice?

I have a box of Cohiba Siglo V Robustos in my humidor and last weekend I cut one of my lesser cigars —a Mexican Valle de la Iguana made of select leaves from San Andrés Tuxtla Mexico, Nicaragua and Dominicam Republic. Quite good but no Cohibas.

Is that a true Cuban juice? The Valle de la Iguana juice came quite good, I'm tempted to slice cut the tips of two Siglo V's and extract some 100ml.

It's just a juice that I make myself. The only flavoring that I have found that actually has a strong cigar smell to it is sold by RTS Vapes and is a house brand they call Chinese Tobacco Blends. The flavor of this Chinese Tobacco Blends is called "Cohiba Cigar.

I flavor the DIY juice using a total amount of 20% flavoring in the mix .... The flavoring is made from a mix of 50% "Cohiba Cigar" and 50% FlavourArt brand "7 Leaves Ultimate". After the juice is completed, I add just a little "Cotton Candy" to mellow it out.

BTW ... RTS Vapes is out of the Cohiba Cigar flavoring right now, but will be getting more of it pretty soon.

Those Cohiba labels I had made by a company here in the US. Bought a sheet of them (there vinyl):

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BTW ... I tried extracting a couple of good Honduran cigars once, but had no luck ... bought some NET cigar flavoring on-line a couple of times too, but didn't think much of it.

This Chinese Tobacco Blends brand "Cohiba Cigar" flavoring from RTS Vapes is the best thing I have ever found to flavor cigar tobacco type juice ... FACT!
 

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29 (0.3) is quite easy to get here (maybe because it's metric, don't know). Anyway, how much is 7/64 in mm? I ask because 7 wraps give me 1.37 Ohms on a 2.5 mm rod.

About the erlkoenigin... It looks nice and beautiful especially in nano mode but I've ready some people having wicking problems with it so it probably isn't that easy fool proof as a kayfun but I might be wrong. I also haven't seen a setup yet that uses Ekowool or silica.. M always cotton or rayon which, somehow don't appeal to me because of the higher maintainance

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I looked it up in the calculator someone gave me the link to, 7/64 is equivalent to 2.778mm.

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I always have one of my kayfuns set up in dual coil and by far, it's my favorite. I set mine up slightly different in that my coils run perpendicular to the juice channels, opposite to the video. This allows for bigger diameter coils, also it wicks better imo. because of this coil orientation, both wick tails from each coil has its own juice well, the tails come from the coil and form sort of a circle. With duals in the kayfun, you have to be careful because if you use to thick of a gauge wire, or have to many wraps or resistance is to high, (especially if you don't have the power), it can be sluggish. I have found the best balance with twisted 32g (2 strands), 1.8mm diameter coil with 9 wraps to each coil. Total resistance is about .9 ohms and run it on a mech or dna.

Excellent tip! What would you judge your twisted 32 equivalent to be? I'm lazy to go and check the resistance by length of different gauges. :)
 

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The evic 510 thread. I measured the gap it's just 0.5mm. Haven't carried it out tho; out of town on a long dive weekend. ;)
Are you sure? Because to me it looks like the kayfun's connector is too long and doesn't thread completely inside the 510 adapter. If you shave off 0.5 it won't solve the problem I think... The kayfun connector should be the one to be shorter?

Here is a pic of mine without the top cap. You can see there is a gap with the kayfun fully threaded in
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I'm in love although it does suck up the juice. lol Would love to know where to get spare o rings and such too? Great group idea for me.

For spare orings try FastTech.

SKU 1581301 for the body sections.
SKU 1536600 for the top cap to chimney seal.

Anywhere else the shipping fees will come higher than a new atty. Alternative is your local hardware store.
 

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Thanks for the reply. I doubt my local walgreens has those. If you find any love to have the link. Hey if anyone knows this I'd love some info. I just washed my glass bottles out in Isopropyl Alcohol because that is what Wizard recommended but man do they smell. How do you all clean your bottles?

Water with a few drops of liquid dish soap. Fill to half the volume and shake vigorously for a few secs. Repeat three times then use plain tap water in the same fashion and repeat three to five times. I used to wash my darkroom bottles that way. By the third rinse in plain water the parts per million of the soap solution is PND (proportion not detectable). :)
 

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It's just a juice that I make myself. The only flavoring that I have found that actually has a strong cigar smell to it is sold by RTS Vapes and is a house brand they call Chinese Tobacco Blends. The flavor of this Chinese Tobacco Blends is called "Cohiba Cigar.

I flavor the DIY juice using a total amount of 20% flavoring in the mix .... The flavoring is made from a mix of 50% "Cohiba Cigar" and 50% FlavourArt brand "7 Leaves Ultimate". After the juice is completed, I add just a little "Cotton Candy" to mellow it out.

BTW ... RTS Vapes is out of the Cohiba Cigar flavoring right now, but will be getting more of it pretty soon.

Those Cohiba labels I had made by a company here in the US. Bought a sheet of them (there vinyl):

Label2.jpg


BTW ... I tried extracting a couple of good Honduran cigars once, but had no luck ... bought some NET cigar flavoring on-line a couple of times too, but didn't think much of it.

This Chinese Tobacco Blends brand "Cohiba Cigar" flavoring from RTS Vapes is the best thing I have ever found to flavor cigar tobacco type juice ... FACT!

Flight, many thanks for the pointer to RTS Vapes. I have some synthetic flavorings and I'll try boosting my NETs with that. Special thanks 'cuz you saved one Cohiba from a fate worse than death! ;)
 
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Are you sure? Because to me it looks like the kayfun's connector is too long and doesn't thread completely inside the 510 adapter. If you shave off 0.5 it won't solve the problem I think... The kayfun connector should be the one to be shorter?

Here is a pic of mine without the top cap. You can see there is a gap with the kayfun fully threaded in
6ad876195e45fb1d3ef3a7819991ff65.jpg



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Tony thanks for the heads up, I'll get the caliper out tonight and recheck. Actually, some clones fit flush while others don't. I'll see.
 

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Checked some ten different attys (not all of them Kayfuns). Some sit flush some are long in the thread and some I need to adjust the atty center screw. No solution but a 22x1mm washer between the atty and evic (or a 22x21x1mm o-ring between control head and beauty ring).
 
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Update : it didn't work. The spacer was 22mm and I enlarged the hole just enough for the 510 thread to pass but the kf would loose connection to the evic. The spacer was 0.8mm which was too much. I tried to file it down but it was too hard to get a perfect width... Too thick and atty would not be detected, too thin and the spacer would start to rotate /rattle when mounted. In a moment of fury, I just sanded down the kf connector 0.4mm and all is good.

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Who has the same problem and wants to go down my route, one warning... Go slowly and test it every few minutes... 0.02mm too much and your atty is ruined as it will hit the top cap and not connect to the positive brass pin.

If somehow this happens, you could correct it by lifting the brass pin just a tiny bit or putting a drop of solder on it but then other atty would have some problems. Better be careful when you sand it down :)


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