Jumped in at the deep end?

[Crackerman]

New to rebuilding. Got a nice wee win at the bookies so thought I would treat myself. So purchased a kayfun lite plus and a mech mod. Got settled down with a cuppa and watched endless setup videos for kayfun. Feeling upbeat I got on the job using .20 kanthal and 2mm silica folded over with 4 wraps showing 1.6ohms good to go. Filled it up with my fave juice and wow plenty of flavour and nice thick vapour, surely it cant be this easy? Wrong after about 20 mins of vaping lost all flavour, all a got was a nasty burnt taste. Now on my 5th attempt and same as the 1st build, where am I going wrong?

 

[Shaggy]

Tell me boit it. Loads of bad results for me b I t might have finaly got it last night. I followed todds tutorial but instead of putting boths legs of silica down on the same side. I split them and place one each side. Then do the same wirh other end of wick. Pat them down lightly so each time, your patting them down level with the air hole under the coil ). Finding temperature change will give me a dry hit so put finger over airhole and take a vape without firing mod to get liquid into the chamber and should be good to go. If you constantly get dry hits youve done same as I do and stuffed rhe wick down too much and blocked rhe juice feed holes. Get a dentist pick and its good to get under rhe wicks and lift them up a little away from the feeds.

 

[RicModMaker]

If you've coiled it too tightly, this could reduce flow. Maybe try coiling around something slightly bigger and then thread it through. Stick with it, it'll get better. Maybe a bigger airhole would cool down the coils too. Ive drilled out every Atty Ive bought as the come small as standard.

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[Tubbyengineer]

The main problem with dry hits on the Kayfun is to much or too little wick on the feed deck, your wicks should tuck in tight against the coil posts and should touch the feed deck without going near the juice channels, you must leave a gap by the juice channels so that juice can come up and pool on the feed deck to be absorbed by the wick, if you have to keep covering the air hole thats the problem. I use a microcoil and cotton wick, not too much and trimmed so that it just touches the deck, then plastered against the post sides with a little juice before screwing the chimney back on...

 

[Crackerman]

Shaggy basically set it as you have noticed when dismantling the wick is totally burnt and dry, so pissed the thing could end up in the f---ing bin?

 

[Shaggy]

Your wick, as tubby says, is touching bottom and blocking feeds. You have to get under the wick legs and lift them a little. You can also try what tubby says in wetting wicks. Plaster tham against the side and rhen put the chimney on. Once on check theyve stayed in place and if needed. Try a cocktail stick to move them so you can see the juice inlets.