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Hahaha, I actually broke down and bought some last night
Thanks for the offer, really is appreciated
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Hahaha, I actually broke down and bought some last night
Thanks for the offer, really is appreciated
I started rayon pretty recently. I'm loving it, not having to rewick as often as cotton. It is a learning curve so I appreciate your post on tips & your experience! Thanks!It takes me longer than most to get things right, but I'm a stubborn S.O.B. and just keep at it. It took me about 10 months to get Rayon down when others only took a few days or a week to get it. I think I was OVER thinking it too much, or I'm just "Special".
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Ditto.
I'm loving the Merlin so much I really want to maximize everything I love about it.
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I finally got a Merlin came a few days ago from STS. I got the black one, I love the blacked out look, with the black glass & all black innards.
I built it with a single coil. I like every thing about it, build quality, easy to build deck & wicking. I read a lot of reviews about the tight draw & was a little worried
But it's not too tight, it's good for direct lung hit Good Purchase
came a few days ago from STS. I got the black one, I love the blacked out look, with the black glass & all black innards.I built it with a single coil. I like every thing about it, build quality, easy to build deck & wicking. I read a lot of reviews about the tight draw & was a little worried
But it's not too tight, it's good for direct lung hit
Good Purchase 
I got my Rayon (500 feet also) over a year ago, and really worked with it Hard for about a solid month, with No luck at getting the right amount in at all, either too much or too little, so I just put it away and went back to KGD. I revisited Rayon about 3 weeks ago and for some strange reason, it just worked. That was my First choice to go into my Merlin and now that I have it broke in it vapes real nice. It took me about a ml to get it to vape like I know Rayon can just because I put a little too much in the coil and had to vape thru that ml of juice to get it all calmed down and running good. The Merlin vapes Great with Rayon and my 3mm 7-8 wrap Twisted 30g Kanthal coil.
I have a notch coil in both of mine (Demon Killer 5x9mm B version).
Easy wicking with Rayon for density, just pull the whole strand through and trim the tails.
A good vape from the notch coils under TC 450F/45W, I like it!
Easy wicking with Rayon for density, just pull the whole strand through and trim the tails.
A good vape from the notch coils under TC 450F/45W, I like it!
I'm liking rayon in mine now too. Seems to move more juice quicker than KGD and it's giving me the saturated vape I like. It's so wet I've had to up the power a bit.
I stuff about as much slightly wet rayon into the coil as I can and not destroy a 27 gauge Kanthal coil. I've found if I use less after a few tanks it gets smaller inside the coil and I lose performance really early. Any clean coil will vape different for a while until it's a bit broken in. What I try to do is set things up so the majority of the time I like what it's doing. Most times I set the watts a bit lower to start with then once things break in increase it to the norm. Once I feel like increasing it again after a while I know the coil is getting gunked and I need to clean it soon.
I put dual twisted 31g K at 0.7 ohms in the Boreas last night and it's working well. Used rayon in that too since I had it out and it also needs a bit more power than I thought it would. Guess I'll have to start taking wick material into account when designing coils.
Hah, someone else with rayon for life ... if you got the 500' box that is
. I've actually been thinking I should try to find other uses for mine lately since I had not used any in a while.Thanks for the offer, really is appreciated
You're very welcome!
Juice, skin and the remains of a ham sandwich were on mine
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fishtank filters ,,the green onse ..brings back memories !!
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Fully agree with that. Anytime I've seen someone complain, it's the first thing I mention.
The day I joined here was my last post there. I'd say a majority of the members here were there at one time, or still go. I go for an occasional pm.
Keep in touch with them about it. I emailed him twice. Not slamming them, I think they got overwhelmed.
I agree with that completely. Granted, it's pretty late, but right now....
THAT'S VU
That's ECF.
That Funny taste that some get from Rayon can be from dirty fingers, YES, since it wicks like Crazy, but, if too much is put into the coil then you get a "Woody or Earthy" flavor for a bit, then just goes away after it breaks in. I learned that right off the bat (after I scratched my butt then did a re-wick JK)
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That Funny taste that some get from Rayon can be from dirty fingers, YES, since it wicks like Crazy, but, if too much is put into the coil then you get a "Woody or Earthy" flavor for a bit, then just goes away after it breaks in. I learned that right off the bat (after I scratched my butt then did a re-wick
Dude, I hate to break it to you but I don't think that was woody you were tasting last night
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Bummer. Forum X is beating VU in Bots
I did notice that things over there seemed to slow down a bit lately (though not sure when that all started). I noticed it because I stay up just about till the sun rises and am online for most of it. I'm a Night Owl of sorts.
Hey Ryedan, now that you said that, I have been noticing that I don't have the moist vape that I used to, in any of my RTA's. Could my coil be too high above the air slot ??
I asked to have my account cancelled and the spiteful idiots over there actually blocked me. We were talking about politics and vaping. Lets just say I wasn't feeling the Bern and I was warned by a mod to stop or I would be banned. I cancelled my account and never looked back. I refuse to be part of any forum that provides safe spaces and does not encourage free speech and the expression of ideas and differing opinions.
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Damn. The more I see and hear, the more confused I get about what they are trying to get accomplished over there. I find myself asking "Why" an awful lot of the time.
My opinion is that the board is run by a bunch of little fools eating hot pockets in their parents basement. The kind of people that were brought up with participation medals and 8th place trophies. These people are foreign to me and did not grow up in the America I grew up in.
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That is TOO funny
, but sadly enough, I do think that this is the America that we live in today.
IMO it's because there is not enough juice on the coil for the power used. If it gets a bit worse you'll start to hear a bit of a sizzle after you let off the button. Before I got my first Aromamizer RDTA last year I had been vaping dripers for a couple of years and that never happened unless I let one get too dry. Took me a while to get the AR right, but it became a very dependable vape once I got it and that was with KGD. I tried rayon with dripers first, but they didn't seem to benefit from it and I find cotton a little easier to work with.
I was having occasional problems with the Merlin until I tried rayon yesterday ... problem solved so far. Rayon isn't perfect but it does seem to move juice faster. It could also be that I'm so used to the easy wicking of RDAs and I don't yet have good enough feel for doing tanks.
I really don't think coil position has anything to do with this.
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Well the higher the coil the farther the juice has to travel to get to it.
Edit: I might as well add my next post here, I'm just itching to do some modifying on my Merlin.
What I have in mind is elongating the juice holes like on the newer model and cutting or drilling through the cups which holds the wick tails against the holes. I'll leave enough there that the tails will want to stay put.
The problem is though I have zero complaints with it's performance.
So I don't have any way of judging my work (that part isn't exactly true)......DUH
Edit: I might as well add my next post here, I'm just itching to do some modifying on my Merlin.
What I have in mind is elongating the juice holes like on the newer model and cutting or drilling through the cups which holds the wick tails against the holes. I'll leave enough there that the tails will want to stay put.
The problem is though I have zero complaints with it's performance.
So I don't have any way of judging my work (that part isn't exactly true)......DUH
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Rayon is usually less densely packed than cotton, so I feel like the juice can move more freely on rtas. There are some rtas where cotton is the best choice, but for most, for me, rayon is the way to go. Obviously for an rda this matters far less since juice movement isn't as big of a factor
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I went to work thurs evening on call and didnt get home until Sat morning just wondered if anyone had heard
I emailed them yesterday and they did receive the bases.
Thanks Ian91
I emailed Thur and requested a new base to replace my leaky one and he said then I would get an email when they got then in with a tracking number he said he might not get them Friday
Didn't get an email so didn't know if they got them in or not
For several years now my opinion of the general public has not been very favorable...I have a hard time dealing with ignorant people. If I was a bit younger and had more resources I'd have already taken off for exotic lands...(love asian women anyway) in SE Asia......
The sea change in the general populations common sense and critical thinking skills have fallen from 75% to nearly zero from my younger days. Nowaday's it appears to me that we are living in a mental ward and the inmates are in charge........................
Yeah. Society is sooooo removed from current issues that it's appalling to me. Here in central Minnesota, all people care about (and talk about) is fishing and hunting. These same people are then aghast when things come down the pike (rights taken away or strict regulations). Then they wonder how this stuff came to be.
Its not really ignorance the people in the great U.S.A are looking for a utopia that doesn't exist
They look for a place that no one can fail and all food and necessities are suppled
Where they dont have worries about anything but what they personally want or need
Kids in school now dont fail they get consolation grades so why should they work hard or care if they get something right
Thats the premise of no child left behind keep other kids back so the one not willing to work hard can pass
Keep in mind 2+2 does not equal 5 now
This wont last long as time is counted socialism or communism do not last because it is based on govt that supply all needs and the weight of society in itself will cause a crash
Read up on the Roman,Greek and other democratic socialist societies they all came to an abrupt end
They look for a place that no one can fail and all food and necessities are suppled
Where they dont have worries about anything but what they personally want or need
Kids in school now dont fail they get consolation grades so why should they work hard or care if they get something right
Thats the premise of no child left behind keep other kids back so the one not willing to work hard can pass
Keep in mind 2+2 does not equal 5 now
This wont last long as time is counted socialism or communism do not last because it is based on govt that supply all needs and the weight of society in itself will cause a crash
Read up on the Roman,Greek and other democratic socialist societies they all came to an abrupt end
I've got my Merlin totally dialed in. 4.75mm ID on this N80 braid twisted with 24g ss316l. Running it in temp control at 200 Celsius (welcome to Canada ;-) ) and 40 watts on a RX200. Air flow half open is the densest and most flavorful vape of my life.
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Looks like the wicking on this is as easy as an RDA. The boreas was giving me trouble lol
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I've got my Merlin totally dialed in. 4.75mm ID on this N80 braid twisted with 24g ss316l. Running it in temp control at 200 Celsius (welcome to Canada ;-) ) and 40 watts on a RX200. Air flow half open is the densest and most flavorful vape if my life.
thank you , my friend, really sexy build .the more pics of merlin you post here or FB and IG,pls let me know , then you can get much more chance to get a free augvape procduct ,congratulations again.
I've got my Merlin totally dialed in. 4.75mm ID on this N80 braid twisted with 24g ss316l. Running it in temp control at 200 Celsius (welcome to Canada ;-) ) and 40 watts on a RX200. Air flow half open is the densest and most flavorful vape if my life.
That Sir, is one Hell of a build. How long did it take just to wrap that up ?
Leon I will be building both here and IG exclusively on the Merlin from here on out. Feel free to repost, but only use my watermarked images please. I can always provide you one watermarked that you see here and isn't. Just dm me on IG.
I got a e-mail notice in my inbox at 7:50 P.M. stating that the new bases were in and once a comparison was done to see if the new bases were better (tighter air flow) than the older bases then they would notify me.
Edit: on my base with the airflow completely closed off, I get what feels like a 3-3.5mm air draw. I've done a sort of fix with sliding a vape band down over the air slot to tighten it up some.
Edit: on my base with the airflow completely closed off, I get what feels like a 3-3.5mm air draw. I've done a sort of fix with sliding a vape band down over the air slot to tighten it up some.
Braid took 45 min to knot. Twisting with the 24g 2 min. Wrap, install, take photos through the color range 45 min. Photos make it take so long hahaha.