Newbie RBA Recomendation Please.

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phatfil You make it sound like my approval might count for something, bless you for that ;-) The rubber vape band for air restriction is a blinding idea and I happen to have two here that were sent to me by a juice vendor - top stuff and sure beats using masking tape, thank you!

GeoffUK I have seen you commenting positively about this tank before and it certainly looks very interesting and right up my alley in the tinkering dept'. Do you think it will be as good for low watt, high ohm MTL though? If it is I could be very tempted to get one, although I have seen comments that it can be quite thirsty?

nanotm Cheers mate. I have spent a fair bit of money over the past 8 weeks but I feel I have a right little production line going on here now. I have at least a years supply of wire and cotton. I have a working tank, a test tank, 3 various backup tanks. Scribbled notes everywhere of wire type, diameter, wicking tecnique and resulting vape lol. All good fun! I had never thought about mixing juices in the tank that way - I'm always very good at washing everything when I rewick - I'll certainly try that though when I'm next in an adventurous mood. I got some cookie Dough with extra Ice from DripDrop last week (first time I've tried Drip Drop juices)- I haven't tried it yet as it's steeping but boy it smells nice every day I shake that bottle and air it (you just reminded me of it when you mentioned menthol as I'm guessing that's what they use for the ice?).

[nanotm]

Dec 16, 2015 17:34:12 GMT @hondo said:

nanotm Cheers mate. I have spent a fair bit of money over the past 8 weeks but I feel I have a right little production line going on here now. I have at least a years supply of wire and cotton. I have a working tank, a test tank, 3 various backup tanks. Scribbled notes everywhere of wire type, diameter, wicking tecnique and resulting vape lol. All good fun! I had never thought about mixing juices in the tank that way - I'm always very good at washing everything when I rewick - I'll certainly try that though when I'm next in an adventurous mood. I got some cookie Dough with extra Ice from DripDrop last week (first time I've tried Drip Drop juices)- I haven't tried it yet as it's steeping but boy it smells nice every day I shake that bottle and air it (you just reminded me of it when you mentioned menthol as I'm guessing that's what they use for the ice?).

glad to hear it, I have got a couple of nautilus mini tanks and invested in a few rba decks for it, I just belatedly purchased a coil maker though since I thought I had one but found it wasn't where It should of been in my electronics toolkit, although I'm reliably informed the old one was "borrowed" for a child's toolkit where upon it got busted and chucked out....

i'm hoping to self build coils and save a fortune as well, not tried many juice vendors myself, I got a couple from re-juiced some from medusa, some from truevape onepoundliquid and bluestar I think I have enough mainstream flavours to see me through the best part of a year, maybe I will increase the number of places I buy from although to be honest I tend towards the more budget side of suppliers especially in light of how much I spent on hardware as I am starting out, I suspect its rather more than I would of spent on tobacco in a comparable time frame /

I might also have scuppered myself to a degree having purchased enough spares to keep the tanks on the road for the best part of a year without the rba decks lol....

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glad to hear it, I have got a couple of nautilus mini tanks and invested in a few rba decks for it, I just belatedly purchased a coil maker though since I thought I had one but found it wasn't where It should of been in my electronics toolkit, although I'm reliably informed the old one was "borrowed" for a child's toolkit where upon it got busted and chucked out....

i'm hoping to self build coils and save a fortune as well, not tried many juice vendors myself, I got a couple from re-juiced some from medusa, some from truevape onepoundliquid and bluestar I think I have enough mainstream flavours to see me through the best part of a year, maybe I will increase the number of places I buy from although to be honest I tend towards the more budget side of suppliers especially in light of how much I spent on hardware as I am starting out, I suspect its rather more than I would of spent on tobacco in a comparable time frame /

I might also have scuppered myself to a degree having purchased enough spares to keep the tanks on the road for the best part of a year without the rba decks lol....

I saw that an RBA deck has been released for the Nautilus Mini - I'm keeping one eye on that as everyone raves about that tank for MTL. I simply won't buy a tank now unless it has an RBA - cost aside, let's just say my experience with manufacturers stock coils has not been a good one, with two big manufacturers now over the past few weeks. I refuse to waste any more money on that lottery.

For me making coils is the easy part and I am sure you'll find the same. I didn't even have any trouble making them by hand with a rod and then just pulse heating them on the deck to gently compress into micro coils, but the coil master tool is a major boon which I now have as well - it makes awesome coils in an instant. Effective and consistent wicking has always been the tricky part to master for me and although I now can't remember the last time I had leaking, flooding or dry hits, I still feel there's some strange voodoo magic to the whole wicking thing ;-)

If you don't know about it already, this site will assist with making coils (Wraps, ohms etc): www.steam-engine.org/coil.asp

For cotton, Gearbest (EU Warehouse) sell 140 sheets of Muji for about £6 + free business postage. Delivered within 3 days for £6 and should keep you stocked for months. Add another £7 for 37 meters of Kanthal and you are set for a year. That's why I wont pay £10 for just 5 stock coils, which may or may not be any good on arrival.

As for juice, I can't comment on Drip Drop as I haven't tried the juice yet, but Isle Of Custard have blown me away recently. Their "Son of a Biscuit Eater" Custard Cream is simply delicious, and at a fair price too of £23 for 100ml.

Let me know how you get on what that Nautilus RBA please, I'm very interested to hear about that.

[phatfil]

Dec 16, 2015 17:34:12 GMT @hondo said:

phatfil You make it sound like my approval might count for something, bless you for that ;-) The rubber vape band for air restriction is a blinding idea and I happen to have two here that were sent to me by a juice vendor - top stuff and sure beats using masking tape, thank you!

Ha, i was more relieved that the tank works for you after making positive noises about it earlier in the thread

[GeoffUK]

@hondo "I have seen you commenting positively about this tank before and it certainly looks very interesting and right up my alley in the tinkering dept'. Do you think it will be as good for low watt, high ohm MTL though? If it is I could be very tempted to get one, although I have seen comments that it can be quite thirsty?"

At sub ohm levels, most tanks tend to chug back the sauce I don't find the FX to be any thirstier than my Uwell Crown or Triton for example, but you can build any resistance you like with the Aqua FX. At high ohms, I don't see any reason why your "chuffs per gallon" should be crazy low.