Hello from Surrey!

[POSitality]

Hi guys!

Not a new vaper, been on UK Vapers for the last few months, a few may recognise the username

Given up analogue since November '13 and so far I've tried (in roughly chronological order) the following devices:

Tanks

CE4 (haven't we all!)
Nova and Mini-Novas
AGA-T2 with silica, mesh, rope, cotton, single and dual coils
X6 Top coil
RG200 Mini-Protank Clone
Puritank Protank Clone
Original Mini-Davide
GS-H2 EVOD clone
AGA-R DCT tank
Generic LR Cartos
CE3 XL "The Phoenix"
306 drippers
Smok Vase
510-T atomisers
510-X atomisers
Panarai Long Barrel drippers
Trident dripper
Ithaka
A7-oid

VapeOnly Mini-BCC

Kayfun 3.1
Davide King 'ell
Aspire BDC

Aspire Nautilus
Squape


Mods

EGOs (obviously)
EGO VVs (the first cheapos with the bar-graph capacity gauge)
SMOK Winder
Vamo V2 (with V3 board, gold bottom spring and V5 head upgrades)
Sentinel M16
Smok ePipe
Swig 14500 VV

Bolt (kicked)

Some weird, telescoping ePipe that Has No Name
MVP v2

SD Keyring
Coolfire 1

Maraxus (can mods get any more stupid)
CompliMod (home made 14500 VV mod based on an Aldi mint tin)
Various 510 sized manual and auto batteries

I also do some IT stuff, electronics and embedded systems work in between the vaping

So if anyone wants any advice on the above let me know


Best Regards,

Andy

[Chrissie]

Hello & welcome Andy

Lol, that's quite a collection you have there

[Perpetua]

Welcome to you Andy.

[POSitality]

Half the stuff I've given away to friends and family to get them started so I'm not totally overflowing with stuff. I think the Vamo and the MVP are my most cherished items and the only one's I'd truly miss if they broke.

[djs]

Whoa... steady boy.

Welcome POSitality

You may have come across my witty, helpful grumpy posts on UKV.

I probably also passed comment on the simply incredible e-cig company that offers value and quality by the wheelbarrow-load based in the ever-so-wonderful principality of Guildford. I love those guys. Such style, such cheapness.... such.... shiny satisfaction. If ever there was an e-cig brand that knew how to undersell themselves with a fair sense of modesty, this is it. I salute them. NOT.

[Chrissie]

Mar 31, 2014 21:09:40 GMT POSitality said:

Half the stuff I've given away to friends and family to get them started so I'm not totally overflowing with stuff. I think the Vamo and the MVP are my most cherished items and the only one's I'd truly miss if they broke.

Got to admit, though I've got a few (very few compared to others) expensive mods, I also mainly use my Vamo these days.

[charon]

greetings and to aaec POSitality

Kick back,enjoy and no one is going to be on your case if you want to talk "Clones"

[POSitality]

Mar 31, 2014 21:10:17 GMT djs said:

Whoa... steady boy.

Welcome POSitality

You may have come across my witty, helpful grumpy posts on UKV.

I probably also passed comment on the simply incredible e-cig company that offers value and quality by the wheelbarrow-load based in the ever-so-wonderful principality of Guildford. I love those guys. Such style, such cheapness.... such.... shiny satisfaction. If ever there was an e-cig brand that knew how to undersell themselves with a fair sense of modesty, this is it. I salute them. NOT.

Jeez! I must have missed that rant informed discussion! You'll have to PM the name so I can check 'em out and have a laugh I have a few clients in Guildford so I'm down there every so often.

[Phoenixflame (Julie)]

Hi Andy and to AAEC. You already know me from the London meets.

[Bob]

Hi Andy, I only came in here before you, looks like you have been shopping a lot the same as me

How have you been getting on with the T², I've had multiple failures with SS rope and mesh boot, a fair attempt with ekowool and my last go with just mesh worked but the draw was very tight (air hole may need enlarging). At the moment am just using things like Aerotank, Aspire & iClears among others. I also have quite a few Mods with more in the pipeline from FT

[POSitality]

Hey Bob,

AGA-T2... let's be frank: it's a b'stard of a device. Still, if you can get it working you can do anything!

TBH, I gave the SS rope one go but the effort to cut the bleedin' stuff is too much hassle. Mesh you just need scissors

Regarding Silica: just try standard, Ekowool, VoodooWool, etc. see which one gives the best performance. The only thing I'd say you can get wrong with silica is strangling the wick (easily solvable using a pin.) I don't think the vertical nature of gennies suits micro-coils although plenty have done it. The Kayfun-style, bottom-coil devices are so much easier to work with in this respect.

With mesh the best performance was from making mesh over silica: a thin silica core wrapped in mesh, with a tail to soak up all the juice; waste not want not If you stick with mesh-only then try not to roll it too tight; you want a little "staw-style" centre. A perfect, loose spiral would be the ideal but difficult to make!

With the air hole I found mine to be fine but these not being some Greek or Russian thing with serial numbers the quality varies. Don't be scared of enlarging the hole if you feel you need to. Hell, some people dual-coil and end up drilling a second!

I too am vaping on some Aspire BDC devices, my favourite is a Davide King to which I've added the Aerotank airflow ring: The Davide King 'ell (Obscure homage to Terry Pratchett!)

I dunno what you have in the pipe-line but all I can suggest is stay away from the Squape clones for now. I got one of the first ones and it was terrible. Having said that, if, and it's a big if, you can get it working, micro-coil and cotton it and it's awesome.

[Bob]

Mar 31, 2014 22:44:46 GMT POSitality said:

AGA-T2... let's be frank: it's a b'stard of a device. Still, if you can get it working you can do anything!

        Someone else said exactly the same on ECF


TBH, I gave the SS rope one go but the effort to cut the bleedin' stuff is too much hassle. Mesh you just need scissors

        I got a 1m length and used my wire cutters on it to make some 4mm lengths, but might give up if I can't get them to work

I too am vaping on some Aspire BDC devices, my favourite is a Davide King to which I've added the Aerotank airflow ring: The Davide King 'ell (Obscure homage to Terry Pratchett!)

        Davide King has the all in one top which I don't like (I think the Protank I was the same), I prefer straight tips mainly, although I also like the 30s tips

I dunno what you have in the pipe-line but all I can suggest is stay away from the Squape clones for now. I got one of the first ones and it was terrible. Having said that, if, and it's a big if, you can get it working, micro-coil and cotton it and it's awesome.

        Fogger, KFL, KF 3.1 and a 91%, just to test my skills, oh and a Fogatti Hybrid, that may be fun
        have also been looking at the Quasar Gold (need something to go with my Brass mods) and the Squape, but not the clones, if all else fails, I'll just some plated by m-vapes

[POSitality]

Apr 1, 2014 15:43:19 GMT Bob said:

Mar 31, 2014 22:44:46 GMT POSitality said:

AGA-T2... let's be frank: it's a b'stard of a device. Still, if you can get it working you can do anything!

        Someone else said exactly the same on ECF


TBH, I gave the SS rope one go but the effort to cut the bleedin' stuff is too much hassle. Mesh you just need scissors

        I got a 1m length and used my wire cutters on it to make some 4mm lengths, but might give up if I can't get them to work

I too am vaping on some Aspire BDC devices, my favourite is a Davide King to which I've added the Aerotank airflow ring: The Davide King 'ell (Obscure homage to Terry Pratchett!)

        Davide King has the all in one top which I don't like (I think the Protank I was the same), I prefer straight tips mainly, although I also like the 30s tips

I dunno what you have in the pipe-line but all I can suggest is stay away from the Squape clones for now. I got one of the first ones and it was terrible. Having said that, if, and it's a big if, you can get it working, micro-coil and cotton it and it's awesome.

        Fogger, KFL, KF 3.1 and a 91%, just to test my skills, oh and a Fogatti Hybrid, that may be fun
        have also been looking at the Quasar Gold (need something to go with my Brass mods) and the Squape, but not the clones, if all else fails, I'll just some plated by m-vapes

Yeah, I know what you mean with the Davide drip-tip but you can actually use any drip tip you like, just need the original to open the top for filling. As it is I prefer curvy tips to straight ones anyway so I'm quite happy with it.

KFL, KF3.1 and 91% are all basically the same base with respect to wicks and coils. Most ppl prefer the simpler KFL (3.1s have the issue of the fill valve jamming occasionally.) Fogger would be something different to all the rest and the Foggatti looks to be a tidy piece of kit

The Quasar just looks like yet another Trident style dripper, not that that's a bad thing! Bust the centre pin on mine somehow but before that, with dual micro-coils, awesome vapes