I always suffer from the Nautilus coils last about 8-10ml of juice problem. I tried everything suggested to me - refilling before it was low / always run at 4.6v or more / suck and blow / various dry and wet burns....nope nothing fixed it. My buddy gets weeks of use from his - I even tried running the same juice as him he he. Long story shortened I gave up on them. Plus I now know his iStick 30W does him 2 days on one charge with a subtank..so I guess he don't really hit it much
I know I am not alone as Aspire forums are full of people moaning about the new coil version either flooding, gurgling, no flavour, only lasting for 1 tank ha ha I see one guy said he was going through several coils a day, a lot of people asking them to supply the old ceramic weave ones again. So because I like my Nautilus Mini when I saw the rebuildable heads I thought ...why not? Worst can happen is they are poop and I wasted less than the price of a 5 pack of coils that I know will be poop anyway
Vape mail arrived - I put the tank together wrongly like the guy in the video so there was a huge ass gap under the tank like in the video. But it still sealed and worked. I left a bit longer tails than he did though, a couple of mm over the top of the chamber before cutting and stuffing down. Vaped great, no leaks, no gurgles. Used a coil and the cotton that came in the baggy - all good. Well all good apart from its made for hobbits, midget hobbits...but an RBA head that can fit in a Nautilus is gonna be tiny right.
What you get in the bag....
After I had filled it and put it back together it dawned on me what the seal in the bag was for....doh! So after first tank of juice I took it apart and added the extra seal, now it fits down to the bottom and there is a small gap under the top metal part but it hardly notices unless you look from exactly level with it...so no big deal.
So far I have already gone way past the 8-10ml of juice on the one coil but it is now kindof irrelevant anyway. As long as I have a tiny bit of cotton around if it gets a bit off tasting I can rewick on the fly - boom! As far as the coil goes, well microcoils last a while don't they - most people can go a month on one if they can't be bothered to re-coil an atty.
Good idea to form a coil before you try to install ...
Pros - Build it how you want it..you only have yourself to blame when you fog out
- Cost of a new coil and wick = pennies
- Kudos for tiniest RBA deck ownership
- Dryburn + rewick in seconds
- Subohm your nauty
- 1 more toy to play with
- It is cheaper than 1 pack of stock coils
Cons - Obviously it is a tiny deck
- It can now be a fog machine, I dont like to fog it up inside of the house. Clowdz belong outside
What it looks like when put together and seal is in the right place
Will you get a 6 wrap Alien wire coil in there? Hell no! It is pretty challenging to get over 1.3 ohm build in there as your coil will be nearly touching the sides and not have much room for the wick by then. I got a 1.6 with 29AWG but it took some faffing around. Over 28 AWG you will have a problem trapping the wire - and your build is gonna be low just to fit in. If you are happy to use 32AWG then you can probably get where the stock coils are at 1.7 and still be OK but 32 AWG is easy to deform so I didnt try it. Faffing with 32 is not my favourite sport.
As you can see getting the wires trapped well is not a simple task with even 28 AWG but it can be done if you can be patient enough.
I did try a vertical coil in there but it leaked like a leaky thing after about five minutes, you would need to get the density of the wick exactly right to make it work nice. As it is considerably easier not to get it right and it vapes good with a horizontal coil I didn't experiment further.
