I was just sayin, if you were talking about a different “tug” new emotions may surface as well…nah mean!!
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you’re a riot man™
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skeet skeet skeet!!!
ummmm
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I have my tfv4 for about a month now and the triple coil had a machining dimple on it wich made the contacts loose from coil to tank resulting in overheating and blackening of the bottom of the coil. The rba works fine (thank god) but be sure to check those out it made just like on @DarthVapor 's nautilus mini check yours out!
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I don’t have a naut mini bro, just 2 full size nautilus 
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Does anyone know where to get seals for the TFV4?
Never mind I found some on ebay!
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The only tank I’ve ever had is the one that came with my 15W Itaste VTR…I had a cheapo pen before that, but the vtr was my first real vaping device. The I got a black copper vanilla mod with a mag switch and a plume veil RDA with a huge chimney and never looked back. A year later the enamel is wearing off my mech mod and I stumble onto the cube II and the TFV4. I’ve just used 5ml of my John Wayne clone juice and I think I’m going to make sex to this thing. I am absolutely floored at 70W with the triple coil. I’m comparing directly to the PV hemp wick with a 0.15ohmbuild of “artisinal” coils…just as good, but uses so much more juice.
I may have to tone down the sweetness of my juices, cause it’s a bit cloying, but I definitely recommend this thing…in black, of course
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Built in frother!?, I’m getting one of those hats that holds two beers and filling them with mixed juice. I’ve literally used 10ml reading this thread. Luckily I have 100ml more, so I can read a few more threads.
Damn, I love this thing. It’s like when I first started vaping, then when I first hit a dripper. Can’t decide whether to wind up some Ti on the single RBA or wait for my dual deck to arrive from china.
A tip (maybe) for those with oring problems. I’ve always used a dab of silicone plumbers grease on every oring I’ve encountered vaping. Some may think it’s a contaminant, so use it or dont, but it seems to work.
Looks like the Stainless TC coils finally hit the market for the TF4V. I know most build, but some of us are lazy…
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Haha my TFV4 is #8609! This is my first tank and I know yall are going to think I’m crazy but I traded an Authentic Brass Oil Rig and an Authentic Kennedy V1 with a Demon Cap for this TFV4, a pack of coils and a LE SnowWolf V1.5 but hey I got the rig on sale for $80 and the kennedy on sale for $70 so I’m all good.
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Damn! Got anything else you want to trade? I have a black Xcube II with your name on it. Lol.
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Just got this tank and it’s awesome! Just using the coils that came with it. But the.15 coil eats the juice! Ha. Is the.2 just as bad?
Welcome to Juice Guzzler’s club! Yes, pretty much everything the TFV4 takes will drink juice. But that’s based mostly on what I’ve read. My personal experience is with the triple and quad coil Kanthal heads, along with the single and dual coil RBAs. But from what I’ve read they all suck it down.
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I have had a great experience with my full size TFV4, but the mini I think I just solved. I had wicking issues, leaks at first, sealed it with Teflon tape just below the RBA2 coil oring, then dry hits, no wicking. All of this in Ti TC mode, so no crazy dry hit moments like with kanthal.
I did figure out the problem last night with the wicking. I had ran out of Shiseido Japanese Facial Cotton before I came to Hawaii this summer, what I normally use. So I had to use the SMOK cotton off the bat, which, in the full TFV4 works, but not in the Mini.
So finally reordered some from Macy’s, and it came in this week. Back in the Mainland, you can go to the beauty counter in JC Penney or Macy’s and get the Shiseido Facial cotton for $10, enough to last 6 months to a year. This stuff wicks like crazy and I never dry hit on it.
I rebuild the coil RBA2 in the Mini last night and rewicked with Shiseido, man what a difference. The technique is simple:
Take a sheet of Shiseido, peel the layers in half so you have 2 sheets now of half thickness. Take one half and cut that in half across. [ | ] Take one half, stretch and fluff thin, and then Scottish roll like a J. Then I roll one end smaller to fit the 2.5 ID on my coils and pull through. You will use both halves of one Half thickness sheet for 2 coils. the other half thickness sheet is for another 2 coil build.
From having the RBA2 mounted in the AFB, cut the cotton flush with the edge of the AFB.
Take a ceramic tweezer, blue screwdriver, whatever has a point and open and fluff the ends of the cotton wick. The ends should look like a Cinnabun when you are done, with fluffy strands everywhere.
Put some juice on the wick and coil, I was able to get about 1.5 ml just in the wick and coil from my syringe, fully saturated for Ti cooling for first fires.
Fit the RBA top on the coil and tuck the cotton under the top, screw on, and then use tweezers or a pokey to ensure the cotton cinnabuns are over the deck covering but not in the juice channels. With this method, you will have so much juice in the wick but no flooding and no dry hits.
Finally, take about 1.5 to 2 inches of Teflon tape, cut in half down the length. You should have 2 strips of equal width and longer length. Take one strip and you should have one wraps worth at the coil threads just below the coil oring.
Since we all know the orings are fudgy on the TFV4, this allows you to cover the oring and threads without covering the air holes since you have a half width strip. This method ensures protection against the dreaded leak through AFC holes, provided your chimney oring is in good working order. This also allows for better vacuum in the tank.
I go everywhere with these tanks in Hawaii, no fear of leaks with these methods, and its 85*F here in the winter now.
I use both vape bands to secure the tank, the bottom black one, covers the Bottom glass oring and just above the AFC ring. The top red one I use to seal the top fill seal, flush with the top of the top fill deck. See the Pic below for example.
I know this was long winded but I post this in hopes that someone with these issues can have a place to look for solutions.
Phil
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Thank you Phil. I had never thought about using teflon tape. Brilliant.
I can provide more detailed pics this afternoon (HST mind you) when I rewick my full size TFV4. I will try to get pics of the cuts, process and the Teflon Tape tips. Thanks for the interest, share the knowledge.
Phil
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Thanks for sharing Phil. I picked up 2 TFV4’s about a month ago, and, yes they are awesome. Haven’t touched my drippers since.
I’ve been fighting the leak on the RBA also, that Teflon idea sounds like shear brilliance !!
I’ll hitch a ride with the wife next trip to Macy’s for some cotton.
Thank you.
Please do let us know if you try the Teflon tape. I think it’s a brilliant idea as well.
WTH am I doing wrong here. I have to get this off my chest 
2yrs ago daughter graduated High School as Valedictorian, We bought her a week in Waikiki.
I was in Iowa building Windmill towers thru the winter.
This year Son graduated with honors, we sent him and his “Rat Pack” to Maui for a week.
I was fighting snow storms with a big load thru the mid west.
My Dad always said “every dog has his day”…again WTH!!.. (mike drop) rant over…
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