Back In The Day ...

[raff67]

So I was having a wee clear out of my cellar this morning and found some of my old gear, thought I'd share it...

We did not have fancy variable voltage, variable wattage big huge tube battery holders.We did not have large capacity tanks that could last a whole day. We made do with tiny cartridges with a tiny bit of foam in them which lasted 10 puffs and needed filled up again.



Left to right..A Janty Stick, the first mass produced chinese 'mod'. It took an 801 atomizer and was pretty fussy from which manufacturer. It takes a 10440 battery and can be used as a passthrough. Cost about 50 quid if I remember right when first released. It was the wee gripper done wrong.

A Screwdriver, most will know what this is. This is an early experimental version which has a different connection set up. Takes a 901 atty and cost 100 quid ! Takes a 16430 battery. The switch was very easy to break but you could replace them yourself no problem, 2 for a tenner in a choice of black or red buttons, bargain !

A mini pipe, another early chinese 'mod'. This has a 801 atomizer and takes a 14250 battery. This was a cracking wee thing at the time, though you could empty a battery 30 mins. Cost about 40 quid for a set.

A Little Cow, a Garry Dibbley torch mod. Has a 510 connection and takes either a 14500 or 18500 battery, it came with an insert tube if you were using 14500's. Cost, I can't remember. Probably the first device I had that could last nearly all day if moderate vaping.

Not a mod, a battery. 5v vaping was a big trend back then, just before low resistance attys came about. It's a specially made 4 cell nihm 14650 400 mah battery that lasted no more than 30 mins and took an age to charge: The v1 charger that came with it was an absolute brick, about the same as an xbox power brick, which you connected up with crocodile leads to the battery holder.*shudders*

They all still work !

Anyway, who says progress is not a good thing ?

[Bluefish]

When you say old, how old we talking, 3 years -5?

[Roscopecotrain]

The janty has a what connection and takes a what battery? Rofl.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2

[raff67]

Apr 27, 2013 13:06:45 GMT Bluefish said:

When you say old, how old we talking, 3 years -5?

Janty stick, bought in june 2009, screwdriver may 2009, mini pipe easter 2009, little cow-dunno, that battery was bought with a mako set from smokejuice (the maker of the megalodon, a year later taking a guess.

[Karma]

The cow mod is cute

[raff67]

Apr 27, 2013 13:10:57 GMT Roscopecotrain said:

The janty has a what connection and takes a what battery? Rofl.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2

heh, just like the console wars there was connection wars, 801 and 901 were the most popular then along in late nov 2008 came the upstart 510. The 801 and 901 gave far better flavour than the 510 but the 510 had a lot better throat hit.

[womble]

The Ecig biz must be one of the fastest moving markets in the world. I've been vaping since Aug 2011 and the changes even I've seen have been huge.
I came in at just the right time actually, just before the Lavatube came out and everything suddenly changed for the better in a huge way.

Interesting pics thanks. This is a good time to start thinking about preserving some of the older stuff we have. Once it's thrown out and gone, we won't be able to look at it anymore. I'm not sure about vintage ecig stuff ever being collectable, but you never know.

[OneDay]

Apr 27, 2013 13:18:20 GMT raff67 said:

Apr 27, 2013 13:10:57 GMT Roscopecotrain said:

The janty has a what connection and takes a what battery? Rofl.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2

heh, just like the console wars there was connection wars, 801 and 901 were the most popular then along in late nov 2008 came the upstart 510. The 801 and 901 gave far better flavour than the 510 but the 510 had a lot better throat hit.

Out of interest, do you know why that was? I thought 801, 901 and 510 were just different thread types?

[sleepyduck]

That's a cool little museum you got there

[raff67]

Apr 27, 2013 13:30:02 GMT OneDay said:

Apr 27, 2013 13:18:20 GMT raff67 said:

heh, just like the console wars there was connection wars, 801 and 901 were the most popular then along in late nov 2008 came the upstart 510. The 801 and 901 gave far better flavour than the 510 but the 510 had a lot better throat hit.

Out of interest, do you know why that was? I thought 801, 901 and 510 were just different thread types?

I can only say they were certainly all different in the build up inside the atomizer as well as the threads and each had a different vape..

401/m40xx...these were common in cig-a-like start kits, pretty good vapour and throat hit from them but tiny tiny catridges

801..Very good flavour and vapour. Huge minus for me was they were a very airy draw and lacked in throat hit.

901, Good allround atty that lacked a bit of throat hit compared to the 510, later made up when the early low resistance attys came around. Far better flavour than the hot as hell 510's as well. I dunno why this did not remain popular.

[Perpetua]

Apr 27, 2013 13:47:10 GMT raff67 said:

901, Good allround atty that lacked a bit of throat hit compared to the 510, later made up when the early low resistance attys came around. Far better flavour than the hot as hell 510's as well. I dunno why this did not remain popular.

I've still got loads of 901 atomisers . . . and use them, plus a Mako Maksi and GGTB with 901 connections.

Couldn't get enough of them when we used to do our group buys a couple of years ago. How times have changed indeed Raff. 

[raff67]

Apr 27, 2013 16:40:17 GMT Perpetua said:

Apr 27, 2013 13:47:10 GMT raff67 said:

901, Good allround atty that lacked a bit of throat hit compared to the 510, later made up when the early low resistance attys came around. Far better flavour than the hot as hell 510's as well. I dunno why this did not remain popular.

I've still got loads of 901 atomisers . . . and use them, plus a Mako Maksi and GGTB with 901 connections.

Couldn't get enough of them when we used to do our group buys a couple of years ago. How times have changed indeed Raff. 

The mako was a great little mod, i had all 3 tubes. Imo it 'inspired' the switch on a lot of mods, inter-changeable connection heads were also a good idea. I still wonder about if flavour has improved from the days of 801 and 901's, be it either whatever form of cartomizer or rebuildable. I also found an early 901-510 adapter earler made by GD, if I remember rightly it cost me 20 quid !

Edit: Imo it was Janty that changed mainstream vaping with the ego, 510 connection and 650 mah battery which was a huge step up from the ciggie-likes. Even though they also had 801 penstyle ecigs at the time they went for the 510, the rest they say is history...

[raff67]

Sorry double post but I had one other pulled from room 101...A real weird one, it's a ploom model one beta - unused, yes back then they actually had the balls to put 'beta' on something rather than hiding behind revision numbers..hello CE cartomizers !



This was not a real e-cig as it was butane driven, so more a vapouriser in the pen style of the e-cigs of the day. You fed it with tobacco pods, though I've never used it and don't have the manual.