Well, judging from the results of the pupil, we shall have to rectify that!He brought all his new toys for rebuilding and I even scored a Trident out of the deal. Great weekend and great braai. Spent the whole afternoon building coils.
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Maybe not a coil master yet (no medal) but definitely coil marathon builder.
I had the night off and decided to try something I've been dying to do for a while. An inception coil mounted in chimney format on my KFL+. I used 28G Kanthal. Inner coil is 6 wraps around the needle of a needle bottle, then 6 wraps using some ingenuity
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Can't really tell, but the coil is slightly tilted in this pic. The wraps lined up perfectly when looking head-on.
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Firing her up.
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Top view.
I will have to take pics of the wicking when I redo it. I basically pulled some cotton through in between the two coils and folded it back down towards the deck.
It takes a while to heat up, but when it does, it kicks like a mule! Excellent throat hit and vapour production. The flavour starts out great from cold and then becomes a little muted once the coil reaches temperature. Subsequent hits while the coil is still warm retains the flavour much better.
Cool thanks bro I will give it a spin when I get a gap. That sounds like it could work, maybe I will try run dual cotton threads, merged into one as it approaches the deck, thereby trying to create maximum wick and coil contact. Dig that coil, there is just something cool about that design and so nice to make. Thanks for help, super amped to try this now.@Chop007 Unfortunately I had to pull apart my Kayfun over the weekend to fix the centre pin and did a new coil for it then. I never took any pics of wick at the end of the day.
The process that worked for me was to take quite a broad fluffy piece of cotton, roll one end to a point between your fingers. It will look roughly like a hand fan at this point. Feed the point through in between the inner and outer coils. I usually had to grab the point with a pair of tweezers at the bottom. As you pull it further down, the broader fluffy part will spread out. Clip the tip off so the bottom of the wick is sitting flush with the deck. Trim the fluff at the top so that it will fold over the outer coil and overlap by about 1mm. Repeat on the other side.
I found that it threatened to flood from time to time. When this happens, I would press the firing button a little before starting to pull and keep it depressed a little after ending the puff. If time allows I'll do another build like this over the weekend and take pics of the wick.
Hope this helps
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Awesome stuff! Glad you sorted the Aquafun out.Regarding the 4 channeled Kayfun:
I don't know how many forumites are still struggling with leaking and gurgling issues but here is a once-and-for-all solution.
Take the white spare silicon seal you get with Kayfun and stretch it over the 4 juice channels like in the picture. This seals each juice channel about halfway and thus allows you to wick this Kayfun like a normal 2 channeled Kayfun Lite Plus, or a Kayfun 3.1, or a Russian 91%.
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Real simple easy solution to eliminate gurgling and leaking completely.
Ps. I filled this from the bottom without blocking the air hole with my finger.
This is what I was talking about today @Gizmo.
I suggest we monitor this idea for a week and if a few of us can confirm the result we publish it as a fact. The resellers can then inform future 4 channeled Kayfunners of this.
Honestly friends this is amazing! I've never been able to enjoy the Kayfun so thoroughly. No dry hits, no gurgling or leaking whatsoever and no diminished flavour, throat hit or vapour.
Let us rejoice!
