Taifun + READYxWICK

I've got a Taifun GT and i love using the XC-116, but it seems like it's real hit-or-miss making a coil with the fat ceramic wick for the Taifun. It looks like it'd be the perfect size but i always either get dry hits or gurgling. I wrap my coils "loosely snug" - snug, but not tight enough to choke the wick. I leave maybe 1mm sticking out of the, uh... silo thing (whatever the hell it's called haha). It rubs up against the tank but not tightly (or i cut it down). I can't remember what gauge kanthal i used last (probably 28 or 30), but i have 32, 30, 28, and 27 AWG. I also have a small amount of variously-sized Ekowool, and XC-132

Does anybody else use XC-116 in a Taifun and have any tips or tricks? Thanks in advance!

I just use cotton, tried the silly wick stuff never had any luck with it on a kayfun. Cotton seems to always work and I never get dry hits. normally vape a 28 gauge 1.4 ohm tight coil on a 3/32 drill bit at 11 to 12 watts.

I tried cotton once but i guess i have zero idea how anybody quantifies how much to use. In my case the holes weren't stuffed enough or something because it was just completely flooded.

Yes I use it, i use it with the fact I know it will over wick if I lay it down. So when I do use it I know I have to play the tilt game, tilt a few take a Vape no dry hit continue to Vape until flavor changes to hey that was almost dry tilt again. It reminds me of those old attys that came with a syringe to fill and every few hits u need to turn upside down to re soak the coil. Or practice with cotton until u master it

Aw man. Not The Tilt Game!

Crap. Guess i better find something to dump my juice into, and start practicing with freakin' cotton.

The cotton should go though the coil, and down to the deck on each side you don't need alot of it. Dont put it in the juice wells.Stuffing it in there will block the juce coming up. When you inhale on a Kayfun the drawn in air causes negative pressure in the chimney causing the juice to climb the channels to the wick you are using. this is also the reason they piss out juice from the air holes after filling if you don't do it right.

Check this out helped me alot

Thanks bwent. I got my Kayfun down, but it's the Taifun i'm having problems with.

ahh hell, gotta stop getting on here at 3 am. good luck with it. Kinda looks like a interesting design.......Nope I must resist, too much good stuff I don't use much now.

I loved using the ceramic silica in genny's, but since i've made the switch to Taifun's (I absolutely love these tanks, I keep 4 of them in rotation, and let the girlfriend use my Kayfun.. haha) i've stuck to using exclusively cotton and hemp. I did one cotton build with a piece of ceramic silica sleeving on top as a flavor wick (with Pluid), and man did it give off some incredible flavor.. There's certainly something about the flavor of ceramic that no other wick material can match IMO. Unfortunately, i've had trouble finding the XS-18 ceramic silica sleeving lately (I always got it from KidneyPuncher). I haven't tried the readywick yet, but it doesn't sound very promising considering the problems you've been having with it.
As far as getting a leakless build going without dry hits, i've had great luck with a microcoil wrapped around a 14ga blunt syringe tip with just enough cotton that when you pull it through the coil it doesn't move the coil itself. I also like to leave the cotton nice and fluffy, it seems if you roll it tightly it doesn't wick as well and doesn't fill the wick channels. But if you leave both ends nice and fluffy (roll it loosely so it looks like a wick, and just twist the tip tight enough to get through the coil, then cut that end off) you get no leaks, and even chain vaping on a mech at .7ohm, no dry hits. It seems that when the cotton saturates with juice it expands and fills the wick holes nicely. Wrapping a coil around a 16ga blunt tip with 5-8 strands of hemp on top seems to work pretty well too, if you prefer a smaller diameter coil.

I use cotton yarn in my Taifun and KFL's. With the Taifun I do a 2.4mm micro coil with a piece of doubled over yarn fed through. I lay the wick across the channel and then slowly raise the chamber. Put on the cap, making sure to hold the chamber tight while screwing it on as to not turn it and upset the wick. Snip the wick about 2mm out from the sides.

If I do run into flooding I will take it back apart and lay a few stands of separated yarn right on top of the coil and out the sides the same length as the main wick.

And one big key with the Taifun. Make sure your coil is pretty close to the center air hole. Like around 1mm up. Too much and it will flood.