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Seems to me that clearos have been getting a lot better - dual coil, bottom coil, leak-free - and have a vape approaching the quality of rbas. Probably not of a kayfun with cotton & microcoil, but we didn't have that few months back either.

If you are listing game changers for the 'vaping masses' then I nominate putting an ego, charger & CE4 in a blister pack and selling it for less than a tenner.

zerosphere

I can't see that the X6 would have anything to do with the leaking, unless maybe it is making you suck on it too hard - is it really hard work to draw on?

You could try a different head in the protank, but I suspect you have a bad protank.

These days I think people would suggest some form of Iclear 30 rather than a Nova. I used to use (& abuse) Novas a lot. They didn't leak unless you turned them upside down, in which case they often did.

I don't know what your dripper is richardb2 but I imagine cotton wool would work fine. I use cotton wool & microcoil in my Igo-L.

I bought organic cotton wool pads from Boots, they work fine.

The Golden Greek doesn't use res/no-res wire in his videos, but I think most other people do. The construction is the same as my Nautilus. I actually have all res in that atm, but I double-twist the wire, and it is .28, for the microcoil, so it is not that high res in the first place. And it is still a faff compared to the kayfun. I haven't used the Nautilus recently - it has started tasting a bit burnt and I haven't bothered to rewick it.

One thought if you are going for a kayfun, which is personally I'd avoid the Rocket clone (or anything else with a brass deck). It's one of those things that people argue about the danger of, but it isn't that much cheaper.

richardb2

First, type of wick - (main) types are silica, cotton wool, mesh. Silica you know. I don't think that cotton wool tastes very different to silica, but some prefer it.

Cotton wool draws better than silica - will deliver more juice to your coil - which makes it good for setups with a lot of wire compared to the resistance, like dual coil and microcoil. It is also cheap (just buy balls from Boots), and has the advantage that if it gets a bit burnt it is easy to pull out of your coil, rinse & dry-burn the coil, and put in some new cotton wool - you don't have to build a new coil often. You can't dry-burn the cotton wool itself. Some prefer the taste to silica, but I don't think it is very different.

Mesh (mostly used in Aga-type atys, but can be used in anything) has a distinctive effect on the taste which has its fans. Not all that pricey. A bit more of a faff than cotton wool or silica, but not much. I now only use it in a hybrid with cotton wool on a fruity juice.

I think there are 4 main types of RBA - Penny/nautilus, aga/oddy, kayfun/russian, and spheroid.

Penny/nautilus are usually a bit more expensive and need res/no/res connections, and in general are more of a faff to build.

Aga/oddy are cheap & easy to use, but if you turn them upside down the juice falls out.

Kayfun/russian in my opinion give the best vape and are easy to recoil and leak-free. But originals are expensive and clones mostly seem to need work after you get them - cleaning swarf out of the tubes, maybe pfte tape on the filling screw, maybe redrill or some other trick to get rid if the whistle. But once that is done they are great.

I don't have a spheroid.

I recommend a tobeco kayfun clone and cotton wool in micro-coil.

Enjoy!

It could be the coiling - neighbouring loops sometimes touching, sometimes not - but ohms will change a little depending on how hot the wire is and how gunked up it is. Using variable watts it shouldn't matter much.