My Tobeco Kayfun Mini V2.1 arrived yesterday. The machining was very good, no complaints there. I set it up and got enough Kayfun quality hits off of it to see that it can be great. I soon ran into the typical problem with this clone, dry hits and burnt taste, and knew right away I had to deal with that too-tight gap between the lower tank and the chimney. No surprise there either; reviews had warned me. Bad design detail of the Tobeco. So I ground two flats on the OD of the chimney (each ~.012" deep) above the two juice channels, took the rest of the chimney OD down by ~.004" and smoothed it all out. Problem fixed. Vapes like a Kayfun but so skinny.
That said, I wouldn't recommend the Tobeco. Though I expect to have to do finish work on clones I buy, and I tweak practically everything anyway to get it the way I want it, this is a bit much for the general user to have to do to make the thing function smoothly. I will likely want to get another Kayfun mini clone and have boiled my choices down to a few.
1) Get the cheapest Fasttech clone and put the same effort into it. I expect I would get the same performance for half the price of the Tobeco. And replacement parts will be equally cheap.
2) Get the Ivogo clone with the wider clear tank section which solves the flow problem. I understand those work well right out of the box for about the same price of the Tobeco.
3) Get the 1:1 Fasttech clone, which also has the wider clear tank section, but perhaps more significantly has a 15mm diameter body vs the 14mm of the Tobeco, Ivogo and others. (That is what the FT specs. say. I'm waiting to receive one to see for myself. )The extra mm could be just the difference for superior performance. Though if you break the tank it seem that it will be much harder and more expensive to source a replacement.
If any of you have experience with either of these three please chime in. I'm psyched by this skinny little thing and suspect it will soon replace my Aerotank Minis in my stealth rigs. With a little practice, we all can build better coils than we can buy, even in this diminutive form factor!
That said, I wouldn't recommend the Tobeco. Though I expect to have to do finish work on clones I buy, and I tweak practically everything anyway to get it the way I want it, this is a bit much for the general user to have to do to make the thing function smoothly. I will likely want to get another Kayfun mini clone and have boiled my choices down to a few.
1) Get the cheapest Fasttech clone and put the same effort into it. I expect I would get the same performance for half the price of the Tobeco. And replacement parts will be equally cheap.
2) Get the Ivogo clone with the wider clear tank section which solves the flow problem. I understand those work well right out of the box for about the same price of the Tobeco.
3) Get the 1:1 Fasttech clone, which also has the wider clear tank section, but perhaps more significantly has a 15mm diameter body vs the 14mm of the Tobeco, Ivogo and others. (That is what the FT specs. say. I'm waiting to receive one to see for myself. )The extra mm could be just the difference for superior performance. Though if you break the tank it seem that it will be much harder and more expensive to source a replacement.
If any of you have experience with either of these three please chime in. I'm psyched by this skinny little thing and suspect it will soon replace my Aerotank Minis in my stealth rigs. With a little practice, we all can build better coils than we can buy, even in this diminutive form factor!
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