RBA deck for Nautilus & Nautilus Mini

[phtumshk]

Bad review im afraid.
Put a supplied coil in it save messing about.
Wicked it up.
Juiced the tank.
Screwed it on.
EPIC FAIL.
The RBA top section is loo long and you cant screw the tank fully home.

Unfortunately I cant verify if my nauti is genuine as I picked it up in a trade so it might be ok with an original but who knows.
The next niggle is because the chamber screws right onto the RBA and locks on the shoulder when you unscrew the tank the RBA comes out with it.

Will email the seller with the bad news.

Im just going to file the chamber down in the tank so it works as it should but its a bad buy if you want it to work straight out the box.

On the plus side its a cracking vape in the nauti.

[Pepperty]

the gap!! the gap!!! I just couldnt cope even if it wasnt leaking

[nanotm]

this is what my genuine article (mini nautilus) looks like with a stock coil in so I don't think your gap is that bad although i'd agree it might not be an authentic unit  

[Pepperty]

...I might be able to live with that..... wonder if its less in a full sized nauti? I have two of them (and 4 minis) I do use them so much which is why I'd be interested in rebuildable coils -even if they are tiny and fiddly. If I can do protank rebuilds and atmistique divers I'm sure these will seem big enough!

[phtumshk]

Dec 1, 2015 19:50:15 GMT Pepperty said:

...I might be able to live with that..... wonder if its less in a full sized nauti? I have two of them (and 4 minis) I do use them so much which is why I'd be interested in rebuildable coils -even if they are tiny and fiddly. If I can do protank rebuilds and atmistique divers I'm sure these will seem big enough!

The vape of it is outstanding for a tiny unit, Im well impressed with it.
Theres no negative feedback for them on his ebay profile so maybe its just the luck im having today.

[silvasurfa]

Dec 1, 2015 19:50:15 GMT Pepperty said:

...I might be able to live with that..... wonder if its less in a full sized nauti? I have two of them (and 4 minis) I do use them so much which is why I'd be interested in rebuildable coils -even if they are tiny and fiddly. If I can do protank rebuilds and atmistique divers I'm sure these will seem big enough!

no, its not, mine looked worse on the full size version so I have filed a couple of mm off the bottom of the nautilus chimney and it looks fine now, plus, the rba is now stopping in the bottom section when removed for filling and not stuck down the chimney like before...........
Silva

[nanotm]

Dec 1, 2015 19:50:15 GMT Pepperty said:

...I might be able to live with that..... wonder if its less in a full sized nauti? I have two of them (and 4 minis) I do use them so much which is why I'd be interested in rebuildable coils -even if they are tiny and fiddly. If I can do protank rebuilds and atmistique divers I'm sure these will seem big enough!

being totally honest my opinion when I ordered it was its cheaper than a pack of genuine coils and out of the 3 packs of them I've had 5 bad ones, so it really didn't matter if this turned out to be useless either from my point of view, and if it worked then I would probably get another one to go with the second tank and save myself having to source new coils all the time.

also some of the juice I use really gunges the coil assembly up, and I see the ohms climb until the coil burns out so I'm not exactly going through them slowly either, if the damn stuff didn't taste so good I wouldn't use it but its just so nice in the mouth that I'm seriously considering ordering another 8 bottles .......then again the wife will murder me if she sees I have about 4 litres of different juices in the cupboard and use maybe 10ml a week ..... having said that some of it I just don't like so will probably chuck in the bin after all it was only a quid a shot and no point labouring through something you just don't like

[phtumshk]

The guy messaged me and said it will have a gap on the originals as well.
He gave me a face book link (https://www.facebook.com/VVTFcom ) with the fix they have come up with which is to put an extra seal in the upper cap which pushes the glass tank down.
It says they will be including the seal in future orders.
So thats that then.

[nanotm]

well sitting the rba next to one of the original coils its shorter than the original by about 2mm

[nanotm]

further to my last, the chimney threads are the problem, the vvtf rda has a larger shouldered shank that the thread runs into the create a dead stop whereas the "original authentic coils" have no shoulder and can easily be overtightened,

the RBA though whilst annoyingly tiny and fiddly to work with does the job and after half a tank without any leaks so far, like phtumshk I also used one of the pre wound coils provided although since its 0.3ohm lower res I had to spin the watts up to get rid of the spitting and low vape quality,

would be interested to know if people think ni200 or kanthal a1 would be better for this head ?

[phtumshk]

Dec 2, 2015 13:48:20 GMT nanotm said:

further to my last, the chimney threads are the problem, the vvtf rda has a larger shouldered shank that the thread runs into the create a dead stop whereas the "original authentic coils" have no shoulder and can easily be overtightened,

the RBA though whilst annoyingly tiny and fiddly to work with does the job and after half a tank without any leaks so far, like phtumshk I also used one of the pre wound coils provided although since its 0.3ohm lower res I had to spin the watts up to get rid of the spitting and low vape quality,

would be interested to know if people think ni200 or kanthal a1 would be better for this head ?

if you are only getting it as .3 you could be shorting somewhere as my supplied coil was nearer .9 ohms.
 though i did bring  the legs over to add extra resistance to the coil if that makes sense(6 wraps of .3mm A1 is what I normally vape).
Its been my finding with a lot of theses small RBAs that the pos section only has to move a gnats B-----k and they short out.

[arron]

Dec 2, 2015 14:35:50 GMT phtumshk said:

Dec 2, 2015 13:48:20 GMT nanotm said:

further to my last, the chimney threads are the problem, the vvtf rda has a larger shouldered shank that the thread runs into the create a dead stop whereas the "original authentic coils" have no shoulder and can easily be overtightened,

the RBA though whilst annoyingly tiny and fiddly to work with does the job and after half a tank without any leaks so far, like phtumshk I also used one of the pre wound coils provided although since its 0.3ohm lower res I had to spin the watts up to get rid of the spitting and low vape quality,

would be interested to know if people think ni200 or kanthal a1 would be better for this head ?

if you are only getting it as .3 you could be shorting somewhere as my supplied coil was nearer .9 ohms.
 though i did bring  the legs over to add extra resistance to the coil if that makes sense(6 wraps of .3mm A1 is what I normally vape).
Its been my finding with a lot of theses small RBAs that the pos section only has to move a gnats B-----k and they short out.

I think nanotm means .3 Ohms lower than what he normally uses as oppose to being actually 0.3 Ohms

[nanotm]

Dec 2, 2015 15:18:35 GMT arron said:

Dec 2, 2015 14:35:50 GMT phtumshk said:

if you are only getting it as .3 you could be shorting somewhere as my supplied coil was nearer .9 ohms.
 though i did bring  the legs over to add extra resistance to the coil if that makes sense(6 wraps of .3mm A1 is what I normally vape).
Its been my finding with a lot of theses small RBAs that the pos section only has to move a gnats B-----k and they short out.

I think nanotm means .3 Ohms lower than what he normally uses as oppose to being actually 0.3 Ohms

yeah being dyslexic I rely on the computers autocorrect to suggest correct words but it was failing to understand how I was typing resistance so I shortened it to res... sorry for the confusion (also doesn't help that without closing my eyes I cant spell anyway and then I cant see where the keys are moving to......)

after a full tnak of custard through the RBA I can say i'm quite impressed, even when I was caning it at 25watts (didn't notice the istick had swapped to volts mode....) all I got was a sour taste rather than the more usual coil burning out but damn it sucks a tank down fast, just over half a day, normally I refill it once every 12 hours not every 6 ...., I used the cotton they supplied with the RBA for the wick and I'm pretty sure I didn't do it right but hey it worked like a charm so who cares

[aaront903]

if anyone wants rid i would love to try it in the kabuki lol (worth a shot)

[nanotm]

there less than a tenner on ebay if you just want one for a punt, I don't have kabuki although someone has posted they don't fit them on Facebook and that's been reposted in other places as well, I think if you want to go down the RBA root you'll need to change tanks /