The Orchid clone

Last year, this was a real game changer for me.  It seems like it was so long ago but it was less than a year when I first discovered the Orchid clone.  I used it in stock from for a few weeks until I started to mod it/ them.  I will show you the progression in which I started to modify the orchid.  I read a signature of someone on the fasttech forums that the orchid isn't an atomizer, it is a platform or something to that effect.  To me it really is.  There are so many ways to customize it to your liking.

The first thing I did was to drill out the stock air holes to 2.6mm. I have read that others have drilled theirs out to 3mm but I haven't had such luck. Maybe I was letting the drill bit get too hot. I did drop a few drops of e-juice, as lube, in the holes before I drilled but maybe I just need to take it slower and use more lube.

I was getting tired of filling from the bottom which in itself isn't that bad but for fear of losing the screw and having to carry a screwdriver to fill up was getting old. This was when the Kayfun V4 came out and a few people who bought one tried to use the evaporation chamber on the orchid. Success, it fit perfectly and wicked just as good if not better than the stock chimney of the orchid. 

I was using this setup with a bellcap which worked out great, I just had to be careful with my choice of juice because certain juice will crack the tank. I figured since the Kayfun V4 tank only attaches to the evaporation chamber, I said why not. It uses either a SS tank section or glass. So I bought a Kayfun V4 top tank and used a Kayfun top cap.

It worked fine for me for a few months but wanted a more leak proof fast wicking tank. This is where I took the base to the mill I had at my last job. I milled out the vertical and horizontal juice channels. I have read some people have used dremels to do this task but haven't tried myself. As you can see the channels are huge now and you can stuff the thickest pieces of cotton in there so say goodbye to leaking tanks.

This where my orchids are at today. There are plenty of other new rebuildable tanks that have come out since, but I stick to my orchids. It fits my needs and is fairly cheap. I hope you enjoyed this weeks blog post. Enjoy.

-Eric