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I still have two SD Mk2's, one black and one silver, both are still used pretty regularly.

The black one may have to go back to Matt for a visit to have the 901 connection replaced (maybe with a 510, if that is possible) before too much longer as it intermittently fails to operate and the same thing proved necessary for someone else I know - his too went through an irritating intermittent phase before ceasing to function completely. In fairness the black one has seen more use than the silver as I simply prefer the look of it.

I've been doing battle with eGo Tank kit recently - sometimes successfully, sometimes less so but will quite probably be back to using the SDs with a variable assortment of atties and cartos again before too very much longer.

I rather like Perpetua's analogy of the SD being the Little Black Dress equivalent in e-cig terms - current issues aside, for the most part "they just simply work" . I suspect I will probably return to them time after time once I've got over whichever new toy has temporarily distracted me. Once armed with a suitable collection of adapters they will work with pretty much anything you care to throw at them and this still has much to be said for it.

I also possess a GGTB which I nabbed second-hand and periodically agonise over whether I should liberate this to someone who might treasure it more than I do. I still occasionally use it but find it's weight and resemblance to a pipe-bomb a bit of a discouragement to taking it out with me...! I wouldn't care to be pulled over by the bizzies while driving with it, let's put it that way.

I don't feel any similar concern about the SD's though, as you can in fact be quite subtle about vaping with one as it can be so cosily enclosed within your fist. The button operation becomes quite natural after a short while although it did feel odd at first. The dangling button cover still sometimes annoys, but I wouldn't want to be without it, after all.

(Apologies for being late to the party, ...as usual!! )

There's another good reason for e-cig associations with crochet - my preferred tool for removing the cap from a cartomizer since early attempts to refill them has always been... a crochet hook! I still possess several purchased for just that very purpose and find they do the job very nicely indeed.

This goes back to the time prior to the manufacturers resigning themselves to the fact that vapers being a determined bunch were going to do this anyway, and making it more difficult was not going to stop them. Still no bad thing as it did result in cartos being made more user friendly and caps much easier to remove.

I'm still curious though; what do other users find is the best tool for this little task if you don't happen to have fingernails? As it happens I do possess fingernails myself but still know plenty of people who don't...

No apologies necessary Netty, as long as I'm allowed to pinch (or at least borrow) your brilliant phrase: "a bit hard of thinking at the moment".

I know exactly what you mean and suffer from the same thing myself - frequently!!

Been and had a look around, very minimal site! They appear to be located in Croatia so presumably English is not their first language. How on earth did you come across them, MrL? I don't think I've ever heard of them before, has anyone here had any experience of this juice? I would agree they do have quite an interesting list of flavours.

They seem to be offering several different 'grades' of e-liquid but I couldn't tell what the difference (apart from price) might be between the different types!

Despite the minimal information, from what IS supplied it looks as if some effort has been made to provide reassurance of their products' quality. There are some PDF Certificates which mainly appear to be Data Sheets from manufacturers for their PG, VG and some of the flavourings.

If they took PayPal I'd be more tempted to try a small order and see for myself what the liquid is like but I'm not quite so sure about giving my credit card details to a Croatian bank...

I believe there are many hundreds of different kinds of plastics, Scylla, and no doubt some are much more inert than others. The precise one used for a given product is defined by which characteristics are considered necessary for both utility and appearance. If the use is novel then that is what Research & Development departments are there for - to find out and test candidate materials.

For instance, the plastic used for cartridges hasn't been mentioned as degrading like the clearomizers seem to have done but whether it comes in clear or translucent I've no idea. Failing that, glass would certainly do the job - and if a juice started eating THAT we would definitely have something to worry about!!

I still think this could actually prove to be a useful reminder that back when I started looking at flavouring, oils and sugars were something you were advised to steer well clear of - I remember Kate producing great long lists on ECF of which Lorann and Bickfords flavour essences were oil & sugar-free and therefore considered probably OK for vaping. I'd always assumed this was to avoid unwanted deposits in atties but may also have had safety considerations which I wasn't aware of too.

One of the many posts I came across yesterday pointed out that juice is almost certainly a product best made with nature-identical artificial flavours rather than natural extracts in order to keep residues and deposits to an absolute minimum. Having grown up being taught that artificial flavour in food & drink were things to avoid, in this particular case I think I agree with that poster. (Sorry, cannot recollect who/where this was to give proper credit)

You know, I'd actually forgotten that there was 'smiting' as well as 'exalting' with the karma thing. :-[ I only remembered adding karma points on when people had made interesting posts or even just made me smile! (and of course to Isaac, Chrissie's beautiful and wise boy, just because...)

Given the 'bad experience' I can totally understand you deciding to ditch it, and agree retrospectively too. Forums should indeed be places where we are all as 'equal' as we're likely to get anywhere in this sad old world, in the sense that your reputation and any respect you are accorded are things earned solely on merit and as such, totally in your own hands...
...and anything which was disturbing the equilibrium here definitely had to go.

((((Scylla)))) - grand to 'see' you, even if you do still seem to be engaged in open war with your hardware, as ever! Do you have any non-TW 901 atties kicking around? The TW ones are 4075s to the best of my recollection, so it is just vaguely possible you might have better luck with Sailebao 901s - they're the ones with 'SLB' plus a laser-etched serial number at the bottom.