First vapemail 2014.

[vereybowring]

Yippee !

Tobeco Kayfun Lite number one arrived !

That will keep me occupied for an ickle bit today.



Kayfun Lite number two and kicky thing are somewhere between here and china too !

[markm]

There's probably little point in replying as your bound to playing the coiling game by now.

[vereybowring]

Early days but all cleaned (there was swarf round the centre post), loads of oily nastiness in the ultrasonic cleaner.

First microcoil at 1.4 ohms with cotton and vaping like a train.

Does have a teeny bit of the whistle that some report but not loud, probably would have been worse with the swarf left in though.

Does not appear to be leaking either, but then I took it completely apart and reassembled so everything should be sitting nice and snug.

Good buy, the second one from the boxing day sale will have been an even better buy !

[vereybowring]

Doesn't look to bad either (not the drip tip that came with it though).

[vereybowring]

I got vapemail, it's not spam !

[stitch]

Where you get that cotton from buddy , looks interesting aint been around the forums for a while are many people using that

[vereybowring]

Jan 18, 2014 13:14:07 GMT stitch said:

Where you get that cotton from buddy , looks interesting aint been around the forums for a while are many people using that

The cotton came from ebay, 100% cotton naturally.  Just search in the knitting section.
Its the latest thing. People have been using cotton for wicks and only recently did hifistud get hold of knitting cotton to try out since it is already nicely processed and shaped for easy coil building.  He talked about it on VTTV and it works a treat so I thought I'd give it a bash.

He got Rico Essentials stuff in a couple of sizes from hobbycraft if you have one near you and the two types he's played with are - www.hobbycraft.co.uk/rico-fashion-summer-white/585331-1000 and www.hobbycraft.co.uk/rico-essentials-dk-yarn-white/585333-1000
I bought from ebay since I don't have a hobbycraft in my town.

[stitch]

Sweet cheerz , ive been using cotton wool but its irritating when it snaps in half as you pull it though
Might have to give that stuff a try

[vereybowring]

A note about the tobeco Kayfun Lite.
Yup their factory must have been banging these out in a hurry to fill the christmas bubble in sales.
It has not been quite as well finished and has a fair bit of swarf in the airflow system so anybody getting one needs to completely disassemble and check it and remove all the swarf and smooth edges. The build is still solid though, identical to the first I got except for the colour of the o-rings and since this was the one I got in the sale for half price I aint complaining.

[Deleted]

Anyone tried wicking with a bootlace yet .... give it time

[Deleted]

vereybowring if you ain't too worried about an airy draw, remove the air flow grub screw completely and the whistle goes with it.

[vereybowring]

I found 100% organic hemp yarn which I might try too.
Hemp The Wonder Material !

[vereybowring]

Jan 18, 2014 13:41:58 GMT @freefromsmoking said:

vereybowring if you ain't too worried about an airy draw, remove the air flow grub screw completely and the whistle goes with it.

My first one didn't whistle much at all after I removed the swarf, but the second I'm going to do some light work on to neaten it up a bit since I know it will whistle coz the centre post holes are not very neatly done.

[vereybowring]

Interestingly the cotton yarn seems to be better for flavour than the straight cotton wool. . .

[melitahams]

Is there a specific size (in mm) to buy the knitting cotton to make a 2 mm coil ?