Okay, I wanted this for my collection, not because it's a great genny, but because I'm a genny freak, it's a part of genny vaping history, and a big name in that arena. I'd seen videos of this Zen guy, who came off like an arrogant control-freak with hard-baked ideas about how it should be done, and he'd made a name for himself, somewhat. Pbusardo reviewed his stuff and gave him big thumbs up. Biggie wow....
I got this genny at The Vapor Store on Del Prado today here in sunny Cape Coma. They had it marked $180, and I got it for $50. Gennies aren't selling like hotcakes as we all know, and theirs have been sitting there for quite a while. They called corporate, and I got a decent price.
I got it home, unboxed (untubed) it, and looked it over. It was already built with a wick and coil that I frankly found laughable. There was a tiny thin spindle of SS mesh wick wrapped with 32 kanthal in it, and as it turned out that pathetic little wick was all that would fit in the wick hole of the atty, because it had a plastic insulator in it, making the wick hole pretty effing small. Then, saints preserve us, provided with the atty is a couple plastic bags of his pre-oxidized wicks, as if you as a genny user wouldn't know how to produce them yourself, and might have to come begging to him when you ran out.
To top it off, effing 32 kanthal???? Really? In a GENNY? REALLY???? Thoughtfully provided is more 32 kanthal on a sewing bobbin as though you'd be stupid enough to use it.
This was the brainchild of Zen, the bearded muppet who engineered the Z atty's, and a flaming control-freaking autocrat about vaping, which in his view we should all be doing as he tells us. I do understand why he says that, and of course it's because he's wrong. Let's be clear, anyone who adopts the name Zen and goes out there like he did has an ego issue.
The Z Atty's are the material manifestation of his vaping philosophy, in which he has invested his ego quite totally, and I quickly set about violating that in quite brutal terms. I paid for it, it's mine, I'll do what I want with it to make it vape the way I want. Go change your Depends Mr. Zen, I'm busy. I drilled out the air hole to 5/64ths, then punched that stupid insulator out of the wick hole. It's a plastic tube that you don't need if you have the brain cells to oxidize your wicks so they don't ground out on the deck.
I wound a coil from 26 kanthal at .8 ohm to fit one of my own decently sized wicks rolled from 400 mesh and installed those on the Z Atty U, stuck it on one of my Poldiacs, quickly tweaked the coil into an even glow, and juiced it up. In a few vapes it was cooking decently. Not that it can hold a candle to the DID or the Origenny, but still decent. It was not a waste of money, I have filled that blank spot in my collection and with a working genny, but hey, it's not all it was promoted to be, by a long shot, and neither is Mr. Zen.
Inspired by this experience I went to MM Vapors and ordered a second DID.
I got this genny at The Vapor Store on Del Prado today here in sunny Cape Coma. They had it marked $180, and I got it for $50. Gennies aren't selling like hotcakes as we all know, and theirs have been sitting there for quite a while. They called corporate, and I got a decent price.
I got it home, unboxed (untubed) it, and looked it over. It was already built with a wick and coil that I frankly found laughable. There was a tiny thin spindle of SS mesh wick wrapped with 32 kanthal in it, and as it turned out that pathetic little wick was all that would fit in the wick hole of the atty, because it had a plastic insulator in it, making the wick hole pretty effing small. Then, saints preserve us, provided with the atty is a couple plastic bags of his pre-oxidized wicks, as if you as a genny user wouldn't know how to produce them yourself, and might have to come begging to him when you ran out.
To top it off, effing 32 kanthal???? Really? In a GENNY? REALLY???? Thoughtfully provided is more 32 kanthal on a sewing bobbin as though you'd be stupid enough to use it.
This was the brainchild of Zen, the bearded muppet who engineered the Z atty's, and a flaming control-freaking autocrat about vaping, which in his view we should all be doing as he tells us. I do understand why he says that, and of course it's because he's wrong. Let's be clear, anyone who adopts the name Zen and goes out there like he did has an ego issue.
The Z Atty's are the material manifestation of his vaping philosophy, in which he has invested his ego quite totally, and I quickly set about violating that in quite brutal terms. I paid for it, it's mine, I'll do what I want with it to make it vape the way I want. Go change your Depends Mr. Zen, I'm busy. I drilled out the air hole to 5/64ths, then punched that stupid insulator out of the wick hole. It's a plastic tube that you don't need if you have the brain cells to oxidize your wicks so they don't ground out on the deck.
I wound a coil from 26 kanthal at .8 ohm to fit one of my own decently sized wicks rolled from 400 mesh and installed those on the Z Atty U, stuck it on one of my Poldiacs, quickly tweaked the coil into an even glow, and juiced it up. In a few vapes it was cooking decently. Not that it can hold a candle to the DID or the Origenny, but still decent. It was not a waste of money, I have filled that blank spot in my collection and with a working genny, but hey, it's not all it was promoted to be, by a long shot, and neither is Mr. Zen.
Inspired by this experience I went to MM Vapors and ordered a second DID.
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Come on dude! Great write up, but no pics?!?! 
